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A reminder about saving people's lives... -doobie - May 11 04:37pm |
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Just a quick reminder to those of you who may have extra CPU cycles to spare... The JA has a Folding @ Home team that is doing well but we'd love more of you to donate your CPU cycles. What does that entail? Well, whenever your CPU is at rest or not completely maxed out (playing a game or something), the Folding @ Home program will work on decoding a "Work Unit" that consists of a protein structure that needs to be analyzed. It's kind of like SETI @ Home, which some of you may be familiar with. Anyway, we'd love your help, so head on over to the F@H site, dowload the program, and sign up using team number 31419. Edit: Ulic Belouve, who set up our team, reminded me of this forum post about F@H when the team was first put together. |
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aph3x - Retired 
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ok its running  |
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Shadow Warrior - Student 
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Ok, now it's a little bit more clearer to m... <notices massa is using his favourite demoralizing poster as his tag>...e... I'll have it running by tomorrow if I can, unless I screw it up on the way... _______________ - Shadow Warrior |
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Hector Thrawn - Ex-Student 
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if you need to know about what folding at home "really does" and how safe it is (i havent had any problems) just go to the web site. |
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doobie - Jedi Council 
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icco, that's the point... check your cpu usage when it's off, it probably won't be full... when it's on of course it's full, it's using the extra cycles! _______________ -Academy Leader/Dictator/Defeater of DJ Sith and JACen Solo in the JAK+ Tournament -I do think it (the JA) will help convert dozens, maybe hundreds, to the dork nation... --me |
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SITHDUKE={FeTT}=JC= - Ex-Student 
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Ok i started it and its going  lets hope i save lifes _______________ "And when he gets to heven...To sir Peter he will tell...Another solder reporting sir...I've served my time in hell..." |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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There is a Forum on this, so I will link to it. If someone could put the link into the actual news poset, that would be great. http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=1979 _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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Well, I started the team, so I looked into a lot more items. There are no security vulnerabilities, in reality, as it only connects to GET the work unit, and to SUBMIT the work unit. Once you HAVE the unit that you are working on, you work on it offline, so there are no vulnerabilities through the internet, no more than what you might already be vulnerable to. IN terms of the CPU always being at 100%, that's what the program is SUPPOSED to do. It works out like this: (What you are doing)+(What F@H is doing)=100% If you are using 95% of your CPU, then F@H decides to only use 5%, and it doesn't disturb what you are doing. If, however, you are only using 20% of your CPU, then F@H can use 80%, making the grand total....100% In addition, if you don't like your CPU being at 100% all the time, you can set a limit on the total CPU used. I have mine set at 95%, so that no matter what, I have a 5% buffer there. This does help, as if I open a program suddenly, I have a bit easier time getting my CPU back from F@H. Although it is really simple. It runs idly, and it really doesn't affect any programs. I have played Splinter Cell, surfed the web, used Kazaa, Winamp, played JKII, and checked e-mail, all in one short perios of time, with absolutely no effect on anything. I had F@H on the entire time. So go get it. I don't care if you set the ceiling at 50% instead of 100%, or like me, 95%. It's just a way of showing that we are concerned with helping out disease research, and using our CPUs for something other than playing video games. "If a man has two coats, he should give one to his neighbor who has none." So, if you have extra CPU cycles, give them to research. You'll save some lives, maybe even your own, down the road. _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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Icco - Student 
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i dont think the thing about it only working while im idle, because when i had it installed my cpu usage was always on full  _______________ "this is Icco. Icco is old. Icco is lost. Icco is cool, but Icco doesn't know what the meaning of 'macrophageal sex'." - Vaughn /Icco |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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From the F@H website: 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. The short story is Stanford is using the spare cpu cycles of various voulnteers to run protien folding simulations. It does this because it requires a LOT of computer horsepower to something like this, and Stanford's system's can't calculate that kind of stuff fast enough, so it sends data via the Internet to your computer.. you calculate stuff.. and then you send it back to standford. It's all done annonymously, and only when you're not using your computer (so you can leave it up and not se your FPS shoot down). I haven't heard of any security vulnerabilities w/ F@H yet. Give it a whirl. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Nemesis Nova - Student 
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Whats is folding all about can someone explain it to me please _______________ Stop with the stupid sigs would you? Yea sure, why not, i'll stop asking myself things too... |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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not to be paranoid, but is this a safe thing to do? is it a secure connection when u start it, meaning it isnt gonna make it nice and easy for a hacker to get my comp control? _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are 
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doobie - Jedi Council
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it doesn't help the JA, it's just something nice to do that we can all do as a team _______________ -Academy Leader/Dictator/Defeater of DJ Sith and JACen Solo in the JAK+ Tournament -I do think it (the JA) will help convert dozens, maybe hundreds, to the dork nation... --me |
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Loaf - Ex-Student 
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It doesn't... _______________ The Notorious Conversation Killer |
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Shadow Warrior - Student
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Meh... My computer's idlea for at least 13 hours a day, as I have to sleep and go to school, but how exactly does that thing help the JA? _______________ - Shadow Warrior |
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