Whoo Hoo, Joined the Millionaires Club. Our Team is ranked 1434 of 220162, in the top 1%. @PLANofMAN; CharlieChan is in the 1M club as well.
I joined. The program jugs along sweetly with no issues. BTW: You can get the stats for everyone here.
I'm in. (at least I think I am) Their seems to be a process called FahCore using about 50% of my processor time showing in the task manager. Update: Yes, I must have gotten the package downloaded and installed properly. I can access the control page and look at the stats just fine. I hope to finish my first task on or before 06:00 tomorrow! This machine has a nice processor, custom copper heat sink and fan on the CPU, and plenty of memory. It's about time I put it to work doing something worthwhile.
I've been running folding on my computer for a while and it doesn't interfere with my computer at all. I don't even miss the cpu cycles. Can you explain to me what folding is? Everywhere I look on the Stanford web site seems to say "we are folding" as if that in in itself explained what "folding" is. I understand we are working with long molecular structures, protein chains, etc. But what I don't understand is the word "folding". Are we taking this long strip of protein and through the computer simulating a physically folding over the protein chain like we do to a napkin? What does the folding part actually do and why is it important?
Sorry for the late reply. The simple version is protein chains fold into a specific three dimensional shape when they interact with various amino acids. Wikipedia has a more complete answer here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
Thanks. I ended up getting a high school biology teacher to explain it to me like I was a three year old. It only took her 6 tries before I understood the concept. I'm still chugging along with FAH. It never bothers my computer & I figure I might just help some people a little.
Oh, good. That wikipedia description started going over my head about two paragraphs in. My short answer above was about as much as I could grasp before my brain started hurting.
Yeah, I know. Take a look at this first paragraph. There were only 10 things I didn't understand. Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. It is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure from random coil.[1] Each protein exists as an unfolded polypeptide or random coil when translated from a sequence of mRNA to a linear chain of amino acids. This polypeptide lacks any stable (long-lasting) three-dimensional structure (the left hand side of the first figure). Amino acids interact with each other to produce a well-defined three-dimensional structure, the folded protein (the right hand side of the figure), known as the native state. The resulting three-dimensional structure is determined by the amino acid sequence (Anfinsen's dogma).[2]Experiments [3]beginning in the 1980s indicate the codon for an amino acid can also influence protein structure.
http://fah-web2.stanford.edu/teamstats/team223480.html It's never stopped. Many people join FaH (folding at home) but don't bother to join a team. I had to drop out when my aging desktop computer finally gave up the ghost. My netbook can't handle large processor loads without heating up, unfortunately. http://folding.stanford.edu/
I like to think it does make a difference. Team members Rank (within team)DonorScoreWU 1Erikredd4510631890 2CharlieChan17486714088 3Luteplayers12547811274 4PLANofMAN535196416 5Norseman448266157 6Markjnewcomb239933702 7JRod2219830099 8Etoyoc133824135 9Dr.Wybert80682134 10DreamerX232446 11KLF332913 12Bristle_Me19237 13Suisse11034 14R.D.Nelson10913 15offroad642381