Dogforum folding team in top 15% worldwide!

[skunkstripe]

Well almost! :p
We are currently at 9289 out of 61097! :applaud: :applaud:
Go team!

[PomeranianCrazy]

Congrats DogForum.Org!!

[KatzNK9]

Congratulations Dogforum.org! What do we need to do to get in the top 10%? Hehehehe ... Katz ponders while awaiting the answer.

[sheplovr]

Congratulations and just Great Dog Forum your the Best!!!:D

[xcolbi]

Congratulations! :drunken:

[skunkstripe]

Congratulations Dogforum.org! What do we need to do to get in the top 10%? Hehehehe ... Katz ponders while awaiting the answer.

Gee, I was hoping you would ask!
If you really want to know, check out this thread (http://www.dogforum.org/showthread.php?t=743)! :)

[djlen]

I just wanted to say that it gives me a very satisfying feeling that I can make a contribution to a worth while cause. I'm glad to help and that I started doing it.
It runs in the back ground and really doesn't slow my computer down at all.
I would recommend signing up!! :):);)

Len

[GreyhoundGirl]

Ohhh, Congrats everybody!

[Monkey]

I dont get it.. Ive been looking at it more than once, reading about it and I dont understand..
What do I contribute with when I do this?
*confused*
if it is something good Id like to help out...
but it kind of confusing me... and please try to explain in a bit less advanced english due to my lack of language..
Thanks!
Sorry for being a little bit :offtopic:

[skunkstripe]

What you are contributing is the time on oyur computer that you are not using. I happen to have one at work that I leave on all the time. So I downloaded the program and got the info from here (http://www.dogforum.org/showthread.php?t=743).
Now this PC does calculations when I am not using it, and when it finishes a "work unit" it send the results back in. I think Taeric can explain it much better though.

[vagreys]

Hi Monkey. Our computers are usually able to do more work than we ask them to. For example, when you are looking at the forum, your computer isn't doing very much work, at all. When you leave your computer to answer the phone or do other things, if your computer is running, it is sitting idle.

Folding @ home puts a piece of software on your computer that works only when your computer isn't doing anything more important. In runs all the time, but only does work when you don't need it for something else.

So, what you are donating is your computer's free time. In this case, Stanford University uses your computer's free time to help with medical research on proteins. You could help find a cure for any of a number of diseases. The Stanford project sends you a piece of work for your computer to work on, called a "work unit". Your computer uses the program to do calculations on that work unit, whenever your computer isn't being used for anything else. When the calculations are done, the program asks for permission to send the results back to the University, and get another work unit.

Individually, we earn points for each work unit we complete for the project. As a team, our points add up, and our score is compared to other teams who are doing the same thing. It's just a friendly competition.

[borzoimom]

I must be really stupid, but I still do not understand what folding is.. I have read it over and over.. and get lost so quick.. Can someone put it in " simple terms" ? ( like okay lets say i have a dog and uh walking him daily step by step uh it makes uh points.. yes I am making that up.. but can someone help understand what this is? :confused:

[skunkstripe]

I must be really stupid, but I still do not understand what folding is.. I have read it over and over.. and get lost so quick.. Can someone put it in " simple terms" ? ( like okay lets say i have a dog and uh walking him daily step by step uh it makes uh points.. yes I am making that up.. but can someone help understand what this is? :confused:

Think of it as a cyber quilting bee. Remember when people got together and wokred on different parts of the quilt and assembled it to make one big quilt? (Ok you don't remember personally, but you know what I am talking about I;m sure ;) ) The quilt they ended up with was much bigger than anyone of them could have made. So your computer does one little bit of a calculation that fits into a big picture. The result is something that one single computer would not have been able to handle.

How is that?

PS Sorry I should have known that vagreys knows this stuff very well too!

[vagreys]

I must be really stupid, but I still do not understand what folding is.. I have read it over and over.. and get lost so quick.. Can someone put it in " simple terms" ? ( like okay lets say i have a dog and uh walking him daily step by step uh it makes uh points.. yes I am making that up.. but can someone help understand what this is? :confused:

OK. Proteins are the workhorses of the body. To do their jobs, they have to assemble into groups. This is called "folding". If they don't fold correctly, they can cause diseases like Kreutzfeld-Jacob disease or Mad Cow or many other diseases including some cancers.

Stanford University is trying to learn more about the folding process. To do this, they are using a mathematical model to study what happens when a protein folds. They are studying the folding behavior of many different proteins.

This research requires a lot of computing power. More computing power than the University has available on campus. The folding @ home project divides the work up among many thousands of personal computers. Each computer does a little piece of the work. The results of all the work goes to the researchers, who study the results we send them.

[KatzNK9]

Gee, I was hoping you would ask!
If you really want to know, check out this thread (http://www.dogforum.org/showthread.php?t=743)! :)

I've been considering it!:)

[Monkey]

What you are contributing is the time on oyur computer that you are not using. I happen to have one at work that I leave on all the time. So I downloaded the program and got the info from here (http://www.dogforum.org/showthread.php?t=743).
Now this PC does calculations when I am not using it, and when it finishes a "work unit" it send the results back in. I think Taeric can explain it much better though.

but... what does it go to?? what does the program do? what does the university do? how does the public benefit from it?
I dont understand what folding is period..
*confused* sorry for being stupido..

aha!!!!

NOW I SEE!!
I WILL DOWNLOAD IT!!
IM IN!!!!
*jumps around*


It is now installed and running on my computer..
Wonder how long time it will take before it crashes..
Since I download approx 8 emails/minute, talk on skype, run MSN, three browsers and and a few others too on windows Vista.. *lol*

[KatzNK9]

OK ... I've installed it ... put in Team Member Name & Team Number ... all systems are go (I think).

[borzoimom]

I joined last night. It was fun to watch! lol..