Calling all Computer hobbyist

So not sure how many of you already know about this or whether or not there is already one going for this site however there something out there called folding@home. here is a link with some details. http://folding.stanford.edu/

so take sometime to read through the site and if you are interesting let me know i want to get a BP.net team setup and going.

I've been messing with something similar at http://fold.it for some weeks now. I must say, I am not at all good at it.

being good at it just means you have way to much extra hardware and/or a really over powered workstation to do it with.

Either way i still enjoy doing it and run it on my home PC and my work PC. I use to do it all the time and had decent stats however i stopped doing it for a while. Needless to say i am starting back up again.

I'm SO lost. :confused:

I looked at the link...maybe I didn't read deep enough? But it seems to me that you just sign up and volunteer some of your computer's processing power to add to some giant world-linked super-computer that can then solve giant problems???

Where does a "team" come in? What is there to be "good" at? I don't get it.

:oops:

there isnt really anything to be good at other then the amount of work that gets done by your CPU so its completely a per computer thing. but you can create a team(i will handle that) and really its just saying that here is a group of people running this and will group all of our stats together.

additional info
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Awards
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

Sign me up, I have 6 pcs and one server I will be loading it on. But don't know how to setup the group thing.

Ok got the team thing down, all I need is the team number.


Andre.

Since there was none I created the team ball-pythons.net with number 211947.

Please use this number in your client setup.

Andre.

Count me in, let me do inventory and see what I can offer. I should have at least a half dozen computers I can add to the group.

lol i was gonna set it up once i got a few people onboard. but thanks saved me the effort!