Folding @ Home

[Zot09]

I was browsing Club Lexus a few weeks ago, and found this post on how individuals like us can help run cancer research. I thought it was a pretty good idea, so I PM'd the guy and asked if he could post all the information on JW. He PM'd me back and said he was already a member, but just told me to quote what he wrote down. He even made a group number(53072) for us.

Here's what he wrote on CL:

Hey zot, sorry for the late reply. I'm also a member at jabbasworld, don't post often though. Perhaps you could just copy paste the information, making a team is really easy. If you're up for it, I can just create the team for you and give you the team number. Infact I already made it 53072

I just created a team for FerrariChat, X5world, and mbWorld. I'll be creating teams for a lot of other forums as well. I think it'd be cool to have a cross car company competition for saving the world A lot of folks don't know what I'm talking about. Well, here is a summary. I'm talking about Folding@Home. Folding@Home is a project helped out by Stanford to fold proteins. Folding proteins defined by google is .. protein folding: the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape; "understanding protein folding is the next step in deciphering the genetic code" So basically, we're helping scientists to discover new things about our genetic code. This could help cure a large amount of diseases!! It just uses your spare CPU cycles! You can't even tell it's working, I've been involved in distributed computing projects for the last few years now without any negative drawbacks! So, let's get started shall we? I went ahead and created a www.ClubLexus.com Folding@Home team. Now we have to download the client and setup the program so the ClubLexus team gets credit! ClubLexus.com team number is 45435. My next post will be a tutorial on setting up the program.

Here is the tutorial. I had typed up something nice but my computer crashed. If you have any questions, e-mail me or PM me. First thing we need to do is download the installation file. You can do that by going to this link http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html And find your operating systems link. As a quickie, if you use Windows XP and you are not the best at comptuers, I suggest you download at this link. http://www.stanford.edu/group/[email protected] Then run the program and install it. Use all the default settings until you get the the screen that has two options. 1) Run Installed Application (or something like that) 2) Read the readme. There should be a filled in checkbox next to each one. Uncheck the one next to the second option (the readme) and press Finish or Next, whatever it says. Then another page should come up that looks like the attached picture. You'll want to put in your ClubLexus.com username instead of vraa, and instead of 0 put in 45435 so that ClubLexus.com gets the credit. You can check the other tabs for different options, but the stuff we have put in right now are pretty good. After you press okay, it'll look like the screen disappears. Just go to your taskbar, and you'll see a red flower thingy. Double click that, and a really cool screen will come up. That's the proteins being downloaded and processed. You're on your way to helping solve diseases!

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/show...ghlight=cancer



I plan on installing this program once I get back down to school, where I will leave my laptop attached to a LAN line, unlike here at home where I take it around with me a lot. I just thought it might be something JW would be interested in, since practically everyone on here seems to be a kind and giving person.

Of course, just replace "Club Lexus" with "Jabbasworld" and "45435" with "53072" when reading the previous quotes.

Hope a lot of you decide to help!

-Brian