Why aren't you curing cancer/HIV/etc? You can.

[Asher]

I see my fellow polytubbys are SLACKING!

We have a worldcommunitygrid.org team: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/te...Id=635XNJBR9N1

Download and install this program, then join the Poly team.

The project is now much more mature since the last time I advertised for this.

Here's the current projects you can participate in. By default, it's all of them, but you can opt out of any of them:

FightAIDS@Home (Launched November 21, 2005)
FightAIDS@Home is a project focused on using computation methods to identify candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease. This approach is called "Structure-Based Drug Design", and according to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, it has already had a dramatic effect on the lives of people living with AIDS. Read More.

Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 (Launched June 23, 2006)
Human Proteome Folding Phase 2 (HPF2) continues where the first phase left off. The two main objectives of the project are to: 1) obtain higher resolution structures for specific human proteins and pathogen proteins and 2) further explore the limits of protein structure prediction by further developing Rosetta software structure prediction. Read More.

Help Defeat Cancer (Launched July 20, 2006)
World Community Grid and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University and UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will be examining Tissue Microarrays to determine how to improve the treatment of cancer with earlier and more targeted diagnostic tools.
Read More.

Fiocruz Genome Comparison (Launched November 21, 2006)
World Community Grid and the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, will be comparing genomic information to improve the quality and interpretation of biological data and our understanding of biological systems, host-pathogen and environmental interactions. This information can play a critical role in the development of better drugs and vaccines, and improved diagnostic procedures. Read More.

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (Launched December 19, 2006)
World Community Grid and researchers supported by Decrypthon, a partnership between AFM (French Muscular Dystrophy Association), CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and IBM are investigating protein-protein interactions for 40,000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases. The database of information produced will help researchers design molecules to inhibit or enhance binding of particular macromolecules, hopefully leading to better treatments for muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases. Read More.

Download and join the Apolyton team today!

[Verto]

What did MDA ever do to you?

[Asher]

MDMA?

[Kuciwalker]

I forgot to install that on my new computer. I remember hearing that they'd gotten it to run on some video cards - do you know which ones are supported?

[Asher]

I think you're thinking of Folding@Home -- and in that case it only runs on the ATI X1600, X1800, and X1900. Nvidia cards can't handle the threading requirements.

[Kuciwalker]

Not even with Vista (with the GPU scheduling)? That sucks

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Not even with Vista (with the GPU scheduling)? That sucks

G80 chips may be able to support it, but they don't right now. The Folding@Home team is looking into them.

[Asmodean]

Yup - I had forgotten about this one. Just re downloaded and am on again.

Asmodean

[Asher]

What kind of CPUs are you guys adding to the pool?

[Kuciwalker]

Core 2 Duo E6600.

[Asher]

I wish they'd hurry up with SMP clients.

[Kuciwalker]

They need an option for it to use both cores only in screensaver mode, though - right now it's using one of the cores at 100%.

[Spiffor]

Installed it back, on my parents' machine. It won't be up all day, but as long as it contributes...

[Ecthy]

Doues this stuff distribute tasks properly IE my machine is not folding the same sh!t as some guy in Montana? That would be inefficient.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
They need an option for it to use both cores only in screensaver mode, though - right now it's using one of the cores at 100%.

Have you checked out the device profile options on the account page?

Doues this stuff distribute tasks properly IE my machine is not folding the same sh!t as some guy in Montana? That would be inefficient.

Yes.