Help fight cancer and disease!

So my friend just showed me this program called folding@home

It basically uses your unused CPU power and replicates protein production.

The program will send data that will help researchers better understand better how some diseases are created.

At the moment, the stable version only uses one core.

There are beta versions which can use multi-cores and graphics cards:

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

SO if you're interested, just download the program and let it run!

There is also a PS3 version for those with a PS3.

-Thanks in advance!

 

Thanks for the Tip mate but i am using Bonic Manager and SETI client for all most 3 yrs i think

 

SETI is a computerized Loch Ness monster hunt... I'm a much bigger fan of Folding@home

There are a number of other distributed computing projects that are much more immediately useful than SETI, such as Rosetta@home, climateprediction.net, and many others. Just for a data point... SETI@home has used up 3.4 MILLION years of computing time as of January 2008 (so more by now) and they have had absolutely nothing by way of meaningful results. Searching for aliens is a waste of resources, especially considering the distance speed of light to the nearest world we might communicate with. The nearest earth-like planet we've discovered is something like 20 light-years away. That's longer than the world-wide web has existed. So that's a 40 year round-trip of communication assuming instant replies... how many diseases could protein folding have cured in that time? How much more could we know about our own world with gravitational and climatic simulations? [/rant]

 

Pitabred , Well Said mate I use Bonic Manager to manage all my subs including Folding@Home

 

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We have been doing this sort of thing for over a decade at The Pirate Fleet. Come join our team and tell 'em Goodspeed sent you. Free prize for everyone who says this in the next 7 days.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=164

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I have had BOINC going for just over 18 months now. Its great software, and it makes me feel good running it. I lost my grandfather to cancer, so every project crunched and completed is one small step closer to saving a life.

K-TRON

 

I have had folding@home for ~3 years now.

 

Been running it for over 6 years.

A word of advice to all that "complaints" about high cpu usage, Folding@Homers believe that "idling cpu is dead cpu", in the same line of unused ram is dead ram motto.

This program is not for faint hearted peoples (or comps), just like it takes courage to face diseases and cancer and fighting them.

cheers ...

 

Sometimes I wonder if they really want to find a cure for Cancer or other diseases. After billions of dollars spent on research they hardly scratched the surface for a cure. Hope it doesn't end up like 'I am legend'!

 

SETI isn't sending out signals, they just break down radio waves received from space. I think it is more competition than anything for most people.

 

The money isn't in the cure. The money is in the treatment. It royally suxors but think about it for a minute. Why would any corporation in business to make their shareholders MONEY want to put a STOP to guaranteed income? The money is in the treatment. The money isn't in the cure.

 

This thread should be separated into 2.

One about Folding@Home; the other "Help fight cancer and disease" and be moved to Off-Topics

cheers ...

 

Just downloaded Folding@home on my desktop, will download it on my lappy once my CM Notepal Infinite shows up (am concerned about how hard it'll stress the P8400/how much temps will shoot up). Great program

 

great idea, but i am using world community grid,

 

Sorry to say that millions of dollars are being funneled for cancer research each year but not even a possibility of a cure is near.. why is that? Pharmaceuticals don't want to lose monies if a cure is found.

 

its a quest...same like time travel and invisibility.

rite now the research is in very early stages.


the main idea is to find prevention and early detection of cancer.

 

Speaking as a biochem student working in a lab that does a segment of cancer research... cancer is EXTREMELY complex, as is all of biochem. There's no one pathway that leads to the onset of the disease. The protein that my professor is studying has been identified as overly active in 30% of cancer and about 70% of pancreatic cancer... and that's considered major! I'm sure that they're all investing money into finding both treatments and cures, as having the reputation of "the company that found the cure for cancer(s)" would be a huge sales booster, but we just don't know how. Add that to the fact that cancer cells mutate faster than normal cells and you have a disease which actively fights you back when you develop drugs for it.

Just throwing it out there...

 

Very good work going on.

 

I currently have the Folding@Home application on my desktop. I too have lost several family members due to cancer. No one should go through it.

 

dbam You are right it's a horrible kind of disease.

 

Keep up the good work.