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Jarhead 恋の♡アカサタナ

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As you may already know, NBR is holding a contest called the Amazing Content Contest (title implies what it's all about). One of the awesome perks for voting in this pole is that each every one of you who vote have the chance to win free money! Seriously, who doesn't want that?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/roundup/641438-nbr-amazing-content-contest.html

I think that the Thinkpad subforum lurkers should help out our Folding team's thread, located here. In a nut shell, F@H allows you to contribute your spare computing power to Stanford's efforts to fold proteins and to make medical breakthroughs.

From Wikipedia:

Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to use spare processing power on personal computers to perform simulations of disease-relevant protein folding and other molecular dynamics, and to improve on the methods of doing so. Also referred to as FAH or F@h, much of its work attempts to determine how proteins reach their final structure, which is of significant academic interest and has implications to both disease research and nanotechnology. To a lesser degree Folding@home also tries to predict that final structure from only the initial amino acid sequence, which has applications in drug design. Folding@home is developed and operated by the Pande Laboratory at Stanford University, under the direction of Vijay Pande.[8] The goal of the project is to "understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases".

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Folding@home's simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anaemia, HIV, Chagas disease, influenza, osteogenesis imperfecta, autism,[10] and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, among others. More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how proteins assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. The Pande lab has produced ninety-five scientific research papers as a direct result of the project, and Folding@home has caused paradigm shifts in protein folding theory.

In January 2010 the Folding@home project successfully simulated protein folding in the 1.5 millisecond range — a simulation thousands of times longer than ever previously achieved. Folding@home has pioneered the uses of GPUs, multi-core processors, and PlayStation 3s for distributed computing. It remains one of the world's fastest computing systems, and is more powerful than all distributed computing projects under BOINC combined. Folding@home's distributed simulations remain accurate compared to results from laboratory research, a "grand challenge" in computational biology. The Pande lab's goal is to refine Folding@home's methods to the level where it will become an essential tool for molecular medical research, and they collaborate with various scientific institutions and laboratories across the world.

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"For those who do" is the Lenovo-created rally cry for Thinkpad owners, and F@H represents one of the most useful ways to use today's massive computing power. In case you're interested in contributing, follow this guide here.

We'd appreciate it if you guys could should your support for NBR's contributions to F@H by voting for the NBR Folding@home Team thread in the Amazing Content Contest.

Jarhead, Feb 13, 2012

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sniper_sung Notebook Evangelist

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When I finish 350K points of F@H for EVGA this month (worth €10) I'll see if I can move some of my GTX580s or GTX590 for NBR

sniper_sung, Feb 13, 2012

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DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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sniper_sung said: ↑

When I finish 350K points of F@H for EVGA this month (worth €10) I'll see if I can move some of my GTX580s or GTX590 for NBR

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Awesome! Can't wait to have you! Were trying to take NBR as high as we can go. We'd love to get some more Lenovos on the team!

DR650SE, Feb 13, 2012

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interesting, but unfortunately all my laptop (except the X220) are at home.

lead_org, Feb 13, 2012

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Jarhead 恋の♡アカサタナ

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Only one day left!! We're currently only 20 votes away from the #1 spot (currently held by the eGPU thread).

F@H needs the Lenovo/IBM forum's support!

Jarhead, Feb 16, 2012

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