Originally Posted by 6600Gt1047 im doing a science report on folding. can anyone help me? Its due on Tuesday for my School's science expo, and I have to also write down on the report something i tested and the results. can anyone help me out? |
Originally Posted by 6600Gt1047 i have an intel motherbored so i cant oc. should i make up results or guess? 
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Originally Posted by Evil XP2400 Folding is a team effort type thing. 1 PC by itself would not achieve much no matter how fast it is. I would focus more on that point and then print out the number of websites that fold, rankings page, how many workunits, how many people actually fold. Then explain what a workunit is, how [email protected] works(it uses what ever resources are avaliable from your computer), how the ranking system works, how you get points for each workunit, work units are not all the same that they're all different cores, etc. and then you add some info about the discoveries stanford has done with the help of [email protected], and how we benefit from those . |
Originally Posted by Bindusar That makes for a great paper but then he still needs to meet the "test/result" portion. |
Originally Posted by Waffles borrow 2 computers from the school. put [email protected] on them but make sure they are 2 diff speeds and show how the faster one goes faster. |
Originally Posted by 6600Gt1047 how is this? Summary- Folding is a Windows program created by Stanford University in California. This program takes a computer's extra power that it is not using from the Processor ( The brain of the computer) to study how proteins fold. This program is more of a team effort task. It takes thousands of computers to even get near folding many proteins. One computer alone cannot get much done on folding, regardless of its processing power so folding takes other computers power to all fold together. If we found out how proteins fold (Which is currently a mystery), many diseases that people die from today such as Mad Cow disease and Cancer would be cured. As more and more computers join, the more processing power the software has to study and examine how proteins fold more closely. Currently, about 1,400,000 million computers around the world fold (on occasion) and the numbers are climbing. As listed in the chart above. ( Note that these are an average of CPUs that fold regularly listed in the chart, not on occasion) Below, I also listed 2 screenshots that I took from my computer when its folding. This is what the folding program looks like generally. ( The applications running in the background are seprate applications that have nothing associated with folding) Also, to do Folding, a computer requires a decent amount of power. If a computer has a processor known as a, " Celeron or Pentium 3," or below, the computer will not do a very good job at folding. Folding is reccomended to run on a Pentium 4 or above or a AMD XP or above with 256MB of ram of above to get decent power. ( Even a AMD Duron is good) However, any computer can do folding but the more powerful the computer, the more power goes to help experiment and study Proteins. ( Even a AMD Duron is good) his is how i wrote it so far. rate on a scale from 1-10 |
Originally Posted by Veto1024 This isnt really much of a science project though... unless you were a research, you really dont know what kinda results and procedures and things go on in the labs... but maybe your schools dumb 
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Originally Posted by 6600Gt1047 so get rid of the system requirements and it will be ok? 1-10? I need to get a 90 or up on this report otherwise no tecnolodgy high school |
Originally Posted by 6600Gt1047 can i get a 90 or up on this report? |
