I'd like to take some names for the WiiLoaded Folding@Home team.

If you wish to join, then 77734 is our team number
TEAM STATS

Folding@home is a small program you download to your computer or Playstation 3, which donates unused CPU clock cycles across your internet connection to Stanford University's medical sector. The idea is that instead of Stanford buying huge supercomputers to do work for them, they just use the combined unused clock cycles of millions of donators worldwide and test their results.

So what's in it for you?

Well, you can help to aid the understanding of how proteins "fold" for medical science. Every day, more and more is being discovered about this process, thanks to so many people who take part worldwide. From understanding how proteins fold, it is possible we could be able to prevent and better treat diseases such as Cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis (which my uncle has) and many more terrible diseases.

And that's not all.

Many people like to form teams of contributors, so that all of the team's combined unused clock cycles can be entered in to one giant pool and donated.

But there must be something else, another reason why so many are involved. Yes there is.

These teams basically compete to see who can donate the most clock cycles. Each team gets a leaderboard and gets points for each thing they do, as standard.

A common question that is asked is:
Donating my processor's clock cycles? Wouldn't that make my computer slower?

The answer is: no.
The reason is because the folding@home application only donates unused clocks from your CPU. It first determines how much processing power your other applications need and then takes the rest for itself and donating them. So essentially, the more things you are running on your computer at once e.g. internet browser, iTunes, MSN etc. the less you are donating, because the folding@home application knows that your computer comes first!


I think it would be fun if a few people on WiiLoaded were to download this app for their PCs and we could see who, essentially, uses their computer the most!


To download this small, simple program go to

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

This post was last modified: 01-15-2008 02:40 PM by TheCosmicFrog.

I'm in!

What, no one else?
*glares at everyone else*

*is in*

Hooray. We are now fighting cancer.

And in the great words of South Park:
"I couldn't find Cancer, but I found this guy with Cancer."
"Lets beat the crap out of him!"

Was that with that Australian that beat the crap out of everything?

*didn't really narrow it down*

well im in

Huzzah. 4 members!

Uncalled for Rawrmander.

-5 respect points.

His name is Russel Crowe though.

I think he was walking about the South Park.

IM DEFINITLEY IN PIKA PI!

Remember, after everyone downloads the program, right click the small red circle in your "System Tray" at the bottom-right of your screen and then click "Configure...". Change your "Team Number" to 77734.

I don't know why before it said that a WU would be done in September, but now it says that it'll be done by July. Which is much better.

Yay!

O:
*is sorry for any feeling he disturbed*

Hey guys. I had to bump this when I saw the following:



69 WUs? Go LMX! What kind of CPU do you run?


Also, just for fun:



Also, anyone who wished to join and help out, fire ahead!

Bump much?

I know I did, but I'm hardly harming anyone? This is a quiet forum, and also this piece of software is beneficial to the world

I'm asking for it to be made an important thread so that I won't have to bump it, and to attract new members to help out.

A magical one.

I just added your team number to my folding@home program.