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Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
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Currently I am on folding team with tech-forums.net.
I started out in december of 2009 on a phenom tri-core 8450.
Depending on the workload and my system setup, usually my phenom II 1055 takes less than 21 hours to fold per work unit.
Sometimes its 9 hours or for big anchalada's it will take it 2 or 3 days.
The reason why I fold is for my past away grandmother who died in 1984 of colon cancer.
Since then, I wanted to find someway of speeding up a cure for this type of cancer and other types of disease such as alheizmers and HIV.
Yes, you can also do this with your gpui card if some of you do this, which is nvidia based or certain ATI cards that will fold.
Currently these are my stats over the past months, yes folding will raise the electric bill during certain parts of the year. 
Just have to be smart and when to know fold during the cold and luke warm temps, and not to ever fold during the summer or risk a 500.00 electril bill.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=492445
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 | We actually did have a team for this somewhere - unfortunately, I can't seem to find the old thread for it anymore.
Reminds me I should try it again, though. Unfortunately, I can't chew through units on a PS3 anymore - but I do have a somewhat reasonably useful processor in my PC (a Core 2 Duo, as opposed to a P4-based Celeron), so perhaps I can actually fold some things again.
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Hmm, in that case have a look at my team mates guide for folding and setting up.
http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f109/new-tech-forums-folding-home-guide-241225/
You should be able to find some more new updated info on folding.
Hell even with a core2duo, pentium 4 ht with 2gb or 4gb of ram and proper setup, your client should download the a3 core once your ready to fold again.
If you would like, I will provide my log from my client later on and let you follow it to see what I did to help you set it up again.
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5538 | I used to do this with the team (was very far ahead at one point since I ran it 24/7), but then I eventually stopped. I've also done GIMPS before (with the Mersenne primes), this is very similar 
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Yeah, it can be fun at times but good god it will wear out your system especially the cpu if you have it folding like mad like my pyschotic team leader "paton". 
Currently I am giving my phenom II a break until I get some more tuniq-x2 and apply some new paste to it.
Just had to replace a mobo this saturday for it, because one of the ram modules went berserk and knocked out my system and 6 year old 400watt dynex psu.
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We actually did have a team for this somewhere - unfortunately, I can't seem to find the old thread for it anymore.
http://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=7698
I've actually done seti@home before,
because aliens are much more important than silly diseases cures
but yeah, it's fairly impractical on my current setup
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That maybe true in someways terra, but do realize you have to tell the client directly what kind of work unit and cpu limit usage you want it to handle.
Here ia an example of what I do when I setup my smp client for my phenom ii 1055T
MikeFuryXP
Team:12864
Passkey:******
Now follow what Mike says:
it will ask you how much system ram you have and how much you the client should need.
If your running on 2048mb of DDR2 or DDR3 please adjust it to 1600mb
Next it will ask you for for cpu usage, if you have a dual core and a good one at that I recommend 85% cpu percent, if not try lower for a single core cpu.
If you have a multicore such as mine and can handle some tasks, go with flow and increase it to 90% or higher.
Do not disable highly optimized code, thats the good S*** that will get a3 core to download and bring in some new projects.
Yes, you want BIG "WU's" tell that thing no and you will get nothing but sorry *** work for the next few weeks until you redo the setup again.
At the end it will ask for additonal paramaters, add the ones you see at the top of my log.
--- Opening Log file [February 7 06:08:35 UTC]
# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
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Folding@Home Client Version 6.30
http://folding.stanford.edu
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Launch directory: C:\SMP
Executable: C:\SMP\Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe
Arguments: -smp 5 -verbosity 9
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and a 320GB (Playstation move bundle that was bought on the launch day for that.)
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I used to use this on my old crappy dual core system. I should redownload it and run it again.
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I used to run F@H, but stopped when it interfered with my normal processes (RAM issue, I think).
Might try running it again sometime.
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Redownloaded it this morning. It's done 55/250 already
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Set up the GPU3 and SMP F@H clients - let's see just how much muscle my system has~
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I tried running it on my iMac a while back, but the implementation was really bad so it felt like it was running even when the computer wasn't idle.
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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
My computer COULD run these, and quickly too, but the additional stress doesn't seem worth it to me. Maybe if it were a computer I didn't rely on so much--don't want to have another computer just die cold on me from being used to death.
Then you fix the problem by making a choice, either you fold hard with your cpu all day or at night from 8pm to 7am.
Or you can go the route of GPU folding which easier on your pc, especially with nvidia geforce 8200 and up.
As long as you don't game or do graphics intensive work you won't inccur problems.
Also if you want fold with your cpu quad-core and use have 1 or 2 cores to use, set the flag to -smp 2 or smp 3 and set the cpu usage at 75% or 80% versbosity 9.
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