Rook_

As the thread title says, I'm considering folding. I do have a few questions I would like to see answered first though.

What are our computers actually processing? I understand it is for cancer research, but what exactly are they emulating or trying to study?

What kind of resources does folding consume on a computer? Will it lag my laptop in WC3 / CSS? Will is hog my connection? Can I run the daemon on my web server without it lagging my clients?

I leave my computer on 24/7, my housing is paid for by the Military so I don't care about electricity, so I believe between my web server, laptop, and desktop (in my sig) I could contribute a nice chunk to the community.

Please let me know, I want to know if I'm actually helping cancer research, or if this just bandwagon trendy thing to do.

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Inktfish

http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...ifference.html

It uses your CPU/GPU for 100%
No gaming when folding.
However you don't game 24/7 so folding will be worth it when you don't
Quads and Dualcores best client is the VMware apps.
read http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...made-easy.html
and
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...are-w-usb.html

Error10's gives more PPD but Notfred is better for monitoring with Fahmon/Fahspy.
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/71068-...y-folding.html

I trust stanford, if they are lying then I am indeed wasting my PC and electricity for nothing.
Just assume they do not.

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MAD_J

It helps more then just cancer research, what its actually doing is simulating proteins folding, some diseases are related to proteins missfolding or in some cases proteins folding to slowly, so basically it helps scientists produce better medicines and such to prevent these diseases, they have a list of accomplishments on the site as well as many unpublished results, its a really great way to contribute to medical research.

I just recently listed to this podcast where they interviewed Dr. Vijay S. Pande the director of FAH and talked about how FAH works how it helps etc, its defiantly worth a listen if you want to learn more about FAH.
link: http://www.twit.tv/fib41

Cryptedvick

error10's gives more PPD?
they both output about the same PPD ... notfred's client gives me ~6040PPD when i run it at night and ~5800PPD during the day when i used my pc for whatever.
i find that notfred's client is much more reliable and u can proper monitor your PPD
in over 40WU done with notfred's client only one time they both crapped out on me and even that time i think it was a power surge and my pc shut down ruining my WUs compared to error10's client who failed me 2 times out of 4WU before uninstalling it.

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Inktfish

No proof,just
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...ml#post6027473

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MadCatMk2

Rook_ you might want to check out the guide in my sig for more details on folding@home and the clients. On your system you can run 2 vmware clients and a single GPU client (preferably the console one and hide them both with TrayIt! as I describe in the guide).

It is possible to play games with SMP vmware running, but not with the GPU client running; it will most likely cause the gpu client to lose its work unit.

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