Team guru3d has number 69411
Team Guru3D Folding@Home is our Distributed Computing team. Let's all use our spare CPU cycles to help Research Organizations attempt to find solutions to some of today’s major illnesses.
Stanford has started the project Folding@Home, basically you donate CPU or GPU time to the cause by running a client, which is configured to Team Guru3D -> number 69411 Stanford's goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases.
What will your computer be computing ?
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, 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.
What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. Stanford uses 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 Stanford's approach to examine folding related disease.
How can you help? You can help Stanford's project by downloading and running their client software. Stanford's algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, Stanford gets a commensurate increase in simulation speed. Current projects and progression to date:
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How do I join ?
Simple.. go here:
- download a software client of choice and install it with the number 69411
- Download the latest GPU (graphics card clients) right here.
We have created a FAQ in our forums with all possible information right here.
What are the different types of clients? The Consoles run in the background and are launched from a terminal, to which they output text messages about the simulation's progress. The Graphical client runs in the background and has a graphics window available that allows you to see the protein being simulated. The screensaver runs just like any other screensaver, except that it also runs our calculation in the background.
Beta clients: We often release clients early for donors to beta test. These beta versions likely have some rough edges, but we expect that they should work reasonably well for all donors. See the respective installation instructions for more details of known bugs for each of the beta versions.
* Putting your PC at work means that it'll consume power. Please always bare this in mind.
Please be a true Guru and join the cause ! We have a discussion forum open on this project right here where you can ask questions and seek help, also it is a great place to hang out with fellow folders.
We thank you for your help and support.
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