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lorinda
10-28-2003, 06:25 PM
The zoo team has hit 589th at Folding @ Home, great work everyone, especially those who helped start the team.

Lori
thomastem
10-28-2003, 06:30 PM
What is folding@home?
rusty JEDI
10-28-2003, 06:43 PM
It is a program that runs on your computer towards advanced protein folding technology.

It will help us all eat tastier more nutritious chicken protein one day.
Jim Easton
10-28-2003, 07:27 PM
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
LondonBroil
10-28-2003, 11:35 PM
My work units are worth a lot of points for some reason...
RiverMel
10-30-2003, 12:01 AM
Either that or it will cure some of the most devastating diseases known to man. No exageration.
Jim Easton
10-30-2003, 12:35 AM
Thanks, River

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. . . 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.


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http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/


My Grandfather died from Parkinson's.
ChipWrecked
10-30-2003, 02:25 PM
So did mine.

I'd also like the reason behind the points. I figured it had something to do with finishes in the KotZ tourney or something.
lorinda
10-30-2003, 02:49 PM
How do you decide how much credit a work unit is worth?

How do you determine how many points a work unit is worth? Before putting out any new work unit, we benchmark it on a dedicated 500MHz Celeron machine (this machine does not have SSE/3DNow). We plug the results of this into the following formula:

points = 3.5 * multiplier * (daysPerWU)

where daysPerWU is -- no surprise -- the number of days it took to complete the unit.
Jim Easton
10-30-2003, 04:13 PM
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I'd also like the reason behind the points. I figured it had something to do with finishes in the KotZ tourney or something.

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It has nothing to do with KotZ. The points are based upon the value of the work units (WU's) you complete. See Lorinda's post for more info on that.
Robbe
10-30-2003, 10:32 PM
My father-in-law died of PSP (think Parkinson's on steroids) just last week. My mom has Alzheimer's... Getting old can suck, sometimes.