Mar 18 2009
Get with the Fold!
I saw that Jared was mentioning the Gravitational something or other at home, and wanted to say a few words. I have been a long time contributor to various @home projects. I did 8 or 10,000 Seti@home work units and have done over 4000 folding at home work units.
One of the reasons that I am using 7 computers to do little more then fold protein for Folding@home is that I strongly believe it may yield a very real, very practice result. One day, one of the many machines I have folding could find the protein misfold that results in a cellular mutation that leads to cancer, or worse.
So, join which ever team you want, but please do consider donating your unused computer time.
I was also going to talk tonight about why food that is not processed, has fewer ingredients, and should be simpler to make costs more. But I will save that for tomorrow.
I also thought I would include this:
“The Folding@home computing cluster currently operates at above 5 petaFLOPS at all times, with a large majority of the performance coming from GPU and PlayStation 3 clients.[2] In comparison to this, the fastest standalone supercomputer (non-distributive computing) in the world (as of November 2008, U.S. DOE’s Roadrunner) peaks at approximately 1.46 petaFLOPS.[19]“
Wow!
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