Author Topic: Got a kick ass computer? (Read 30633 times)

greenkabbage · « **on:** October 08, 2004, 04:04:25 am »

Yes? Great!
No? Great!

If you have your computer on 24/7 because you are an internet/anime/chat/pr0n junkie or because you can't find the OFF button anymore, please read on.

I have been donating my computer's spare cycles to a good cause. I'm having my compute crunch millions of numbers while I sleep, eat, shower, walk about, watch anime, translate anime, think about sex, chat on IRC/AIM/ICQ etc.
I think you get my drift. Anyways, I'm having my computer fold proteins. What's the point you ask? Well by doing thing we might find cures for all sorts of diseases that are not curable right now. It's for a good cause, and my computer stays on all night anyways. The software that does all this for me sits next to my clock in the system bar and crunches numbers silently, always yielding to other programs so that they may take me to the WWW super information highway or show me anime.

If you are interested in helping science leap ahead, please go to http://folding.stanford.edu/ and download the appropiate client for you. You can read more about the project there as well.

If you want, you can join the team I started with my friend. Join if you <3 food, just like we do.
Our team ID is 38287, that's what you have to put in your client if you wish to <3 food with us. We fold proteins because we <3 food.

Impressive fact: the power of distributed computing is larger than that of any supercomputer in the whole world.

Go LE Forum junkies!

hidefan · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:10:47 am »

*reply to the topic name* no...no i dont... cable is all i have *huggles the cable connection cord that makes his computa all speedy like*

crypticgimp · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2004, 12:51:16 pm »

i hate to say it but my dell has been faithful to me for quite some time and still performs as well as any other pc..and it hasnt been upgraded yet! (translation: it has survived me trying to kill it!) but i do like my sony vaio laptop..mm..sexy....

KillJoy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2004, 10:49:06 pm »

how come when I do a topic about distributed processing and what everyone uses or thinks.. NADA?

I'm planning on starting the protien folding after I get done with my 50 or what ever model cycle of the world's weather. I'm at a lack luster 28% after 250 hours. It would help if I didn't run so much crap on my server along with that.

like my new fav joke distrib. processing page. requires Java though

http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html

Honestly you don't have to keep it open, but it is worth the read.

crypticgimp · « **Reply #4 on:** October 09, 2004, 07:51:43 pm »

ahahaha 'cause kabbage has that certain je ne sais quoi.....

KillJoy · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2004, 07:24:19 am »

Nobody loves me everybody hates me. Guess I'll go eat worms.

ooh well I'm over it.

crypticgimp · « **Reply #6 on:** October 10, 2004, 08:34:42 am »

did you ever read that book about the group of kids that bet who would eat worms? and everyday they made a new way of eating them? and my so called kickass dell gave me the blue screen of death!

Vash · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2004, 04:39:25 am »

Ya my computer is sweet but I waste all my friends bw cause I dont have my own internet.

KillJoy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 14, 2004, 09:39:12 pm »

Someone should run their school's server doing this.

Just a thought.

DashRattleWRX · « **Reply #9 on:** October 15, 2004, 03:14:24 am »

All the mac labs here at school run seti @ home.. I'll try and talk to them about running this on some of the computers too.

greenkabbage · « **Reply #10 on:** October 15, 2004, 03:29:13 am »

DashRattle, sweet! =]

KillJoy · « **Reply #11 on:** October 16, 2004, 10:53:54 am »

hey give credit. I suggested it.
hummmm..... *clickity click click* I'll have to see if someone can let me borrow time.. I might even ask after I've installed it.

DeadAlready911 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2004, 10:23:44 pm »

With a name like that, of coursed I joined. And you should to!

greenkabbage · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2004, 11:52:15 pm »

Yes, food rocks!

KillJoy · « **Reply #14 on:** October 19, 2004, 05:50:06 pm »

I know kung Food?

greenkabbage · « **Reply #15 on:** October 19, 2004, 09:23:10 pm »

and I've got a black spoon im my yogurt

Akirasuto · « **Reply #16 on:** October 20, 2004, 03:17:50 am »

Spoon? Why not with your hands

greenkabbage · « **Reply #17 on:** October 20, 2004, 09:41:51 pm »

because there is no spoon. yeah, what's up now, tough guy?

KillJoy · « **Reply #18 on:** October 20, 2004, 11:55:14 pm »

I always wanted to prove to the kid there was a spoon by shoving it up ... well anyways the kid would have been screaming "There is definately a spoon!"

Akirasuto · « **Reply #19 on:** October 21, 2004, 12:33:04 am »

Somehow that reminded me the metal underpant in Naked Gun

crypticgimp · « **Reply #20 on:** October 21, 2004, 10:55:23 pm »

i am now officially confused...

KillJoy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 22, 2004, 07:42:48 am »

nice to be offical and all though isn't it?

KillJoy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 22, 2004, 10:50:45 pm »

laptop folding is not good. Well it is just slow. But seeing as I have turned off most of the other computers in the house except for one that is running a project for climateprediction.net It will be a while before I can shut that thing down. 405hours at the current count.

by the folding I should be done in about 6 days? kind of pathetic but hey it is an OLD laptop.

KillJoy · « **Reply #23 on:** October 29, 2004, 11:58:56 pm »

first folding done. not really bad since I'm using the laptop as a main computer all the time. Watching Anime really slows down the folding. ooh well I never offered to be fast at folding, just offered to let it do folding.

so that is one more Unit done for the team. Cheers.

greenkabbage · « **Reply #24 on:** October 31, 2004, 04:01:52 pm »

yay! i have my computer at work crunching numbers too. too bad its only got 600 or 800 mhz. and 384 mb ram >_< it's completed a few units though. weee

KillJoy · « **Reply #25 on:** October 31, 2004, 07:28:20 pm »

mine would be doing better if it wasn't my main computer while I'm in the middle of moving. I might have to get some others set up to do crunching.

KillJoy · « **Reply #26 on:** November 04, 2004, 08:11:41 pm »

I got my second unit done and am on the 3rd one. if I would check progress I would know this stuff sooner.. I've passed DeadAlready911.

I must be working really fat work units because I only did 2 of them and i have a higher rating than people with 3?
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=38287

serenekaos · « **Reply #27 on:** November 05, 2004, 12:08:18 pm »

weeeee

KillJoy · « **Reply #28 on:** November 06, 2004, 04:17:18 am »

cool you got 12 units done. humm. now I have a goal.. to catch up with you I guess? well stop folding things for 2 months and then I'll be there I guess.

greenkabbage · « **Reply #29 on:** November 09, 2004, 04:25:42 am »

hehe, or you can get more computers and have the run under your name =]

KillJoy · « **Reply #30 on:** November 09, 2004, 04:34:39 pm »

I gave away all of my other computers. I'm down to a craptop computer.

I gave away 4 others that I had running. one of them was a dual proc in fact. ooh well.

I'll see what I can swing.

angelan · « **Reply #31 on:** November 23, 2004, 07:29:51 am »

um....question. how many...frames do these units normally have?

i got one that has 2500 frames....and will take a giant 52 days!!!! that takes me to....January!!! >.<
*scared*
or do i just have a really crappy computer? i know i got a crappy computer...but not 52 days crappy >.<

angelan · « **Reply #32 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:07:39 am »

never mind....false alarm

it quieted down to 6 days =) whew

teh_tarik · « **Reply #33 on:** December 31, 2004, 02:59:25 pm »

i decided to fold proteins with we <3 food because me <3 initial d...

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