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!

I am in and running on 1 of my machines, we will see how it goes. The graphic is fun to watch :)

they have downloads to run it on just about anything from Windows PCs, MACs, Linux, PS3s, and even ones that use your Video cardes.

and guys keep in mind if you are running a multi core system you can either run multipule instances of the app or get the CLI SMP version. If you need any help using 100% of your CPU on a multi-core system let me know and I will lend a hand.

PS the one that runs using your GPUs is very effective at turning in work packages so I suggest running that as well as the standard one as well.

AS A NOTE:
Please besure you can monitor your CPU Temps when doing this and have reasonable cooling if you are doing this especially if you are Overclocking!!!!!!!

It will work your machine to its limits for sure. I am testing it on an old machine to see how it performs and the temp and usage levels are higher than I have ever seen. Fun to watch though, and we are getting some stats on our page.

Heh....I think I'll leave this sort of thing to you computer gurus. My machine doesn't need any extra strain anyhow. :oops:

you can also run it on your PS3s there is a client for those, and they are the best Computing power per Dollar right now.

We got 3 of us thus far in the group anyone else willing to jump into it? again if you have questions whether it would be ok on your system or how to set it up i would be glad to assist.