FOLD for the TFP!!!!! - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

b1m2x3 · 04-19-2003, 07:25 AM

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What are proteins and why do they "fold"?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do?
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

SHOW YOUR TFP PRIDE!!

join team 31697
we are currently in 1158 place

come help your favorite forum out!

http://folding.stanford.edu

genka · 04-19-2003, 07:41 AM

I joined... Is that good?

Macheath · 04-19-2003, 10:41 AM

Wow, this is creepy.

In my pining for the TFP in the final *hours* before its ressurrection, I wandered over to folding to check out the teams and see if TFP had one.

Sure enough, there she was and I proudly punched in my new team number!

Unfortunately, I had only then just started a new workunit so I won't get on the list for some hours.

Triseph · 04-19-2003, 10:43 AM

Ill sign up, 1158 is no place for tfp!

Banginblaz · 04-19-2003, 12:26 PM

We need more people!!!!!!! we lost 2 on the past week, what gives?!?!??!?!

juanvaldes · 04-19-2003, 12:35 PM

And remember to CHANGE YOUR NAME.

Fob_Magi · 04-19-2003, 02:31 PM

I'll try and do it again.. but my mom always fucking uses my comp and shuts it down so no folding ever gets done...

labob · 04-21-2003, 12:30 AM

I'm there...

Let the folding begin !

b1m2x3 · 04-26-2003, 10:36 PM

BUMP.
comeon guys show your pride!

poof · 04-26-2003, 10:43 PM

No. My pride is elsewhere. Family, children, myself. Leaving my 'puter on so someone can access it, well, no way.

But, you have a nice day.

methodtim · 04-27-2003, 04:38 AM

Sorry, my CPU cycles have been claimed by Seti. How about a TFP Seti team? I hear forming a SETI team is like the 5 th Level of Geek Purgatory.

Sionide · 04-27-2003, 06:06 AM

bah it never worked for me

couldn't get the folding client to work, me and a mate tried everything, i guess my comp is just too shitty... ah well

Banginblaz · 04-27-2003, 06:12 AM

Hey, we just broke 1000 (we are 975 currently)out of over 32000, I think that means something (what I am not sure) but to go any further, we need more users!! Not that I really care, I just wanna be in the top 100, but It'll never happen. Although I am sitting in 9463 out of over 150000, so I am proud of something.....

WhenMuffinsAtak · 04-27-2003, 06:20 AM

I feel stupid, how do I join the TFP's team? step by step..

Banginblaz · 04-27-2003, 06:27 AM

d/l the app, then in team # put in 31697, and make sure you change your Name to reflect your board name.

The place to put that info will pop up the first time you use it. After that, left-click the icon in the systray to bring up the prog, and right-click anywhwere in the window to bring up the settings menu. (or you can just right-click the icon, but I like to watch the file working)

portwineboy · 04-30-2003, 06:49 PM

Everytime I log in on my Mandrake laptop it just keeps asking for username/team number over and over again. haven't had time to figure it out. I'll be adding a second processor to the team this weekend regardless tho. Rank is 846, maybe you'll get that 100 Bangin.

bubbaspike · 04-30-2003, 07:40 PM

I just folded some protein up in a tissue. Would you like it?

Halx · 04-30-2003, 09:34 PM

I'll help ya out

SecretMethod70 · 04-30-2003, 09:38 PM

lucky for you foldingathome was in Gentoo portage, otherwise I'd have been too lazy to get it

I'll help out

krazykemist · 05-01-2003, 04:23 AM

If I could only catch up to you b1m2x3. Guess I'll have to put it back on the work machines again

Im doing good to stay ahead of PortWineBoy.

Fallon · 05-01-2003, 06:35 AM

I tried to fold, but it'd crash my computer(linux, and it'd kick me outta my account, and put me back at the login screen)
Sorry. Maybe Flieaway will let me put it on her computer...

chodarama · 05-01-2003, 06:58 AM

okay, i'm in. i've got a spare dual xeon server just sitting around.

Boner · 05-03-2003, 11:23 PM

I had four machines folding last week, but I ended up pulling the faster two (AthlonXP 1800 and 2000). This revealed that my 1800 has inadequate cooling, because my processor was approaching 90 degrees. On top of that, my office temperature was increasing significantly!

My two 300MHz boxes keep plodding along though.

goddfather40 · 05-04-2003, 06:59 PM

I'm in as well with my ever more obsolete Celeron 700 MHz

Team ranking up to 771 by the way.

cheerios · 05-04-2003, 09:57 PM

w00t go guys!

here's a link to our team page, so y'all can see how we're doin':
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=31697

Antagony · 05-05-2003, 01:42 AM

Cool, I'll be adding two computers to this mess soon

cheerios · 05-06-2003, 12:23 AM

thanks Antagony!

b1m2x3 · 05-06-2003, 02:37 AM

wow....banginblaz has about 80 wu's... compared to my 18

good job man... you are insane

Banginblaz · 05-06-2003, 04:33 AM

Ahem 91

It helps that I have 7 computers working. Only 3 pump them out though.... The rest are old slow machcines that only do 1 unit every 7-9 days or so.

clamburglar · 05-07-2003, 07:27 PM

Crap! I suggested this like back in October. All I got was a "Huh?".

Now (then, also) I'm folding for the #15-ish team and I've installed the client stealthily (with Firedaemon) on every PC I've built in the last six months (for that team - 10688, Team Sudhian).

Let me know if you want higher performance tips... Like the "-advmethods" and "-forceasm" tags.

The sweetest fruit is installing it on your PC's at work without anyone noticing - but be sure you're not gonna get into trouble.

One guy on the 10688 team has a farm of about 30 Athlon XP2100's running in a rack system. Crazy.

Boner · 05-07-2003, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by clamburglar
Now (then, also) I'm folding for the #15-ish team and I've installed the client stealthily (with Firedaemon) on every PC I've built in the last six months (for that team - 10688, Team Sudhian).

By doing that you're violating their license agreement on the Folding client.

Restrictions:
You may use this software on a computer system only if you own the system or have the permission of the owner

Be careful, there have been cases when people have gotten into big trouble for installing distributed.net in a similar manner, even getting into legal trouble.

SecretMethod70 · 05-07-2003, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by clamburglar
Crap! I suggested this like back in October. All I got was a "Huh?".

Now (then, also) I'm folding for the #15-ish team and I've installed the client stealthily (with Firedaemon) on every PC I've built in the last six months (for that team - 10688, Team Sudhian).

Let me know if you want higher performance tips... Like the "-advmethods" and "-forceasm" tags.

The sweetest fruit is installing it on your PC's at work without anyone noticing - but be sure you're not gonna get into trouble.

One guy on the 10688 team has a farm of about 30 Athlon XP2100's running in a rack system. Crazy.

Please take notice of Boner's post above. People have gotten into some heftly legal trouble from universities for doing the same with distributed.net

Anyways, please tell us some options to increase performance

clamburglar · 05-08-2003, 02:45 PM

Not on any work PC's, mind you. Just systems I build and fix for free, and I use the graphical client, so they can shut it down. I tell them what it is, and so far, it appears everyone's still running it. I don't think any of my buddies would take me to court, but thanks for the concern

OK, performance tips...

When you create a shortcut (always good to put it in your "Startup" folder) to the graphical client or the text-only console, right-click the icon and go to Properties.

In the "Target" field, you should see something like:

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe"

Add the following tags to the end as shown below - be sure to include the space before each hyphen.

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceasm

The " -advmethods" tag signals the server that you have an advanced system and it will make you eligible to receive the Gromacs core work units, which are usually worth a lot more and fold considerably faster than the default Tinker core work units. The boost is very noticable on Pentium4 systems.

The " -forceasm" tag forces your system to use the SSE instruction set for much more efficient folding. I believe without this tag, sometimes the SSE can become disabled.

To run an almost completely invisible client, check out a program called Firedaemon, which allows you to set up F@H (or any other program) as a service under Windows XP (no-go on 9x).

Antagony · 05-08-2003, 03:08 PM

I am a crazy folding fool.

Got it up and running on both my workstation and server box.

Antagony · 05-08-2003, 03:12 PM

Hey, I have a question. On my Windows machine, I have both the screensaver installed and the stand-alone client.

When my screensaver activates, I should essentially be doing twice as much folding, right?

clamburglar · 05-08-2003, 03:38 PM

No, only one client can run at a time, unless you configure separate clients to run on a multi-processor machine.

Kill one of the two.

Fallon · 05-29-2003, 03:14 PM

Got the folding going on on my moms computer, so hopefully her blazing fast 266 will help a bit. =p

Tanerax · 05-29-2003, 03:17 PM

I will install and join using both my computer later this after noon... I want to see tfp as Number One....

Banginblaz · 06-01-2003, 06:27 AM

CLEAR!!!!

***PUMPH***

Beep-beep

beep-beep

I needed to revive this post, we made it to 514th, and we can do so much better.

What happened to all you people? Ah well......

portwineboy · 06-13-2003, 10:49 PM

When I last checked, team ranking was 475. This is an amazing performance on the part of TFP members.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

Fold you bastards, fold!

04-19-2003, 10:43 AM	#4 (permalink)
Triseph Tilted	Ill sign up, 1158 is no place for tfp! __________________ D Sanchez for president!

04-19-2003, 02:31 PM	#7 (permalink)
Fob_Magi Psycho Location: Texas	I'll try and do it again.. but my mom always fucking uses my comp and shuts it down so no folding ever gets done... __________________ Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven". Such is the Rule of Honor.

04-21-2003, 12:30 AM	#8 (permalink)
labob Tilted Location: Orange County, CA	I'm there... Let the folding begin ! __________________ "A man's only as old as the woman he feels" -Groucho Marx

04-27-2003, 04:38 AM	#11 (permalink)
methodtim Tilted Location: Lake Forest, CA aka Middle of God Damn Nowhere	Sorry, my CPU cycles have been claimed by Seti. How about a TFP Seti team? I hear forming a SETI team is like the 5 th Level of Geek Purgatory. __________________ We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to a place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind and we can dance.

04-27-2003, 06:06 AM	#12 (permalink)
Sionide Upright Location: Country of Rain & Cloud	bah it never worked for me couldn't get the folding client to work, me and a mate tried everything, i guess my comp is just too shitty... ah well __________________ - [ S.I.O.N.I.D.E. ] - [ Synthetic Intelligent Organism Normally for Infiltration and Dangerous Exploration ] -

04-19-2003, 07:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
genka Tilted Location: New Jersey	I joined... Is that good?

04-19-2003, 10:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
Macheath Junkie Location: Sydney, Australia	Wow, this is creepy. In my pining for the TFP in the final hours before its ressurrection, I wandered over to folding to check out the teams and see if TFP had one. Sure enough, there she was and I proudly punched in my new team number! Unfortunately, I had only then just started a new workunit so I won't get on the list for some hours.

04-19-2003, 12:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Banginblaz Dont stop here; This is bat country! Location: North East	We need more people!!!!!!! we lost 2 on the past week, what gives?!?!??!?!

04-19-2003, 12:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
juanvaldes Banned Location: shittown, CA	And remember to CHANGE YOUR NAME.

04-26-2003, 10:36 PM	#9 (permalink)
b1m2x3 Banned	BUMP. comeon guys show your pride!

04-26-2003, 10:43 PM	#10 (permalink)
poof Psycho	No. My pride is elsewhere. Family, children, myself. Leaving my 'puter on so someone can access it, well, no way. But, you have a nice day.

04-27-2003, 06:12 AM	#13 (permalink)
Banginblaz Dont stop here; This is bat country! Location: North East	Hey, we just broke 1000 (we are 975 currently)out of over 32000, I think that means something (what I am not sure) but to go any further, we need more users!! Not that I really care, I just wanna be in the top 100, but It'll never happen. Although I am sitting in 9463 out of over 150000, so I am proud of something.....

04-27-2003, 06:20 AM	#14 (permalink)
WhenMuffinsAtak Banned	I feel stupid, how do I join the TFP's team? step by step..

04-27-2003, 06:27 AM	#15 (permalink)
Banginblaz Dont stop here; This is bat country! Location: North East	d/l the app, then in team # put in 31697, and make sure you change your Name to reflect your board name. The place to put that info will pop up the first time you use it. After that, left-click the icon in the systray to bring up the prog, and right-click anywhwere in the window to bring up the settings menu. (or you can just right-click the icon, but I like to watch the file working)

04-30-2003, 06:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
portwineboy Master of No Domains Location: WEEhawken, New Joisey	Everytime I log in on my Mandrake laptop it just keeps asking for username/team number over and over again. haven't had time to figure it out. I'll be adding a second processor to the team this weekend regardless tho. Rank is 846, maybe you'll get that 100 Bangin. __________________ If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.

04-30-2003, 09:34 PM	#18 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I'll help ya out __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

05-05-2003, 01:42 AM	#26 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Cool, I'll be adding two computers to this mess soon __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

05-06-2003, 12:23 AM	#27 (permalink)
cheerios Banned Location: 'bout 2 feet from my iMac	thanks Antagony!

04-30-2003, 07:40 PM	#17 (permalink)
bubbaspike Psycho Location: neither here, nor there	I just folded some protein up in a tissue. Would you like it? __________________ Y'all watch this.......

04-30-2003, 09:38 PM	#19 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	lucky for you foldingathome was in Gentoo portage, otherwise I'd have been too lazy to get it I'll help out __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

05-01-2003, 04:23 AM	#20 (permalink)
krazykemist Psycho Location: New Orleans	If I could only catch up to you b1m2x3. Guess I'll have to put it back on the work machines again Im doing good to stay ahead of PortWineBoy. __________________ "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Tolstoy

05-01-2003, 06:35 AM	#21 (permalink)
Fallon Junkie Location: RI	I tried to fold, but it'd crash my computer(linux, and it'd kick me outta my account, and put me back at the login screen) Sorry. Maybe Flieaway will let me put it on her computer...

05-01-2003, 06:58 AM	#22 (permalink)
chodarama Insane Location: a van, down by the river	okay, i'm in. i've got a spare dual xeon server just sitting around.

05-03-2003, 11:23 PM	#23 (permalink)
Boner Insane Location: Plugged In	I had four machines folding last week, but I ended up pulling the faster two (AthlonXP 1800 and 2000). This revealed that my 1800 has inadequate cooling, because my processor was approaching 90 degrees. On top of that, my office temperature was increasing significantly! My two 300MHz boxes keep plodding along though.

05-04-2003, 06:59 PM	#24 (permalink)
goddfather40 Llama Location: Cali-for-nye-a	I'm in as well with my ever more obsolete Celeron 700 MHz Team ranking up to 771 by the way. __________________ My name is goddfather40 and I approved this message. I got ho's and I got bitches, In C++ I branch with switches -MC Plus+

05-04-2003, 09:57 PM	#25 (permalink)
cheerios Banned Location: 'bout 2 feet from my iMac	w00t go guys! here's a link to our team page, so y'all can see how we're doin': http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=31697

05-06-2003, 02:37 AM	#28 (permalink)
b1m2x3 Banned	wow....banginblaz has about 80 wu's... compared to my 18 good job man... you are insane

05-06-2003, 04:33 AM	#29 (permalink)
Banginblaz Dont stop here; This is bat country! Location: North East	Ahem 91 It helps that I have 7 computers working. Only 3 pump them out though.... The rest are old slow machcines that only do 1 unit every 7-9 days or so.

05-07-2003, 07:27 PM	#30 (permalink)
clamburglar Loser	Crap! I suggested this like back in October. All I got was a "Huh?". Now (then, also) I'm folding for the #15-ish team and I've installed the client stealthily (with Firedaemon) on every PC I've built in the last six months (for that team - 10688, Team Sudhian). Let me know if you want higher performance tips... Like the "-advmethods" and "-forceasm" tags. The sweetest fruit is installing it on your PC's at work without anyone noticing - but be sure you're not gonna get into trouble. One guy on the 10688 team has a farm of about 30 Athlon XP2100's running in a rack system. Crazy.

05-08-2003, 02:45 PM	#33 (permalink)
clamburglar Loser	Not on any work PC's, mind you. Just systems I build and fix for free, and I use the graphical client, so they can shut it down. I tell them what it is, and so far, it appears everyone's still running it. I don't think any of my buddies would take me to court, but thanks for the concern OK, performance tips... When you create a shortcut (always good to put it in your "Startup" folder) to the graphical client or the text-only console, right-click the icon and go to Properties. In the "Target" field, you should see something like: "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" Add the following tags to the end as shown below - be sure to include the space before each hyphen. "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceasm The " -advmethods" tag signals the server that you have an advanced system and it will make you eligible to receive the Gromacs core work units, which are usually worth a lot more and fold considerably faster than the default Tinker core work units. The boost is very noticable on Pentium4 systems. The " -forceasm" tag forces your system to use the SSE instruction set for much more efficient folding. I believe without this tag, sometimes the SSE can become disabled. To run an almost completely invisible client, check out a program called Firedaemon, which allows you to set up F@H (or any other program) as a service under Windows XP (no-go on 9x).

05-08-2003, 03:08 PM	#34 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	I am a crazy folding fool. Got it up and running on both my workstation and server box. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

05-08-2003, 03:12 PM	#35 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Hey, I have a question. On my Windows machine, I have both the screensaver installed and the stand-alone client. When my screensaver activates, I should essentially be doing twice as much folding, right? __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

05-08-2003, 03:38 PM	#36 (permalink)
clamburglar Loser	No, only one client can run at a time, unless you configure separate clients to run on a multi-processor machine. Kill one of the two.

05-29-2003, 03:14 PM	#37 (permalink)
Fallon Junkie Location: RI	Got the folding going on on my moms computer, so hopefully her blazing fast 266 will help a bit. =p

05-29-2003, 03:17 PM	#38 (permalink)
Tanerax Upright	I will install and join using both my computer later this after noon... I want to see tfp as Number One....

06-01-2003, 06:27 AM	#39 (permalink)
Banginblaz Dont stop here; This is bat country! Location: North East	CLEAR!!!! *PUMPH* Beep-beep beep-beep I needed to revive this post, we made it to 514th, and we can do so much better. What happened to all you people? Ah well......

06-13-2003, 10:49 PM	#40 (permalink)
portwineboy Master of No Domains Location: WEEhawken, New Joisey	When I last checked, team ranking was 475. This is an amazing performance on the part of TFP members. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Fold you bastards, fold! __________________ If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.