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Folding@Home Reports Success
msheppard writes "This Article describes how the folding@home distributed computing project is reporting that they used the data processed on client machines to "predict the folding rate and trajectory of the average molecule." Too bad Seti@Home hasn't had a hit yet."
Did anyone else think this was yet another article about @Home going bankrupt?
I make all sorts of neat origami... Frogs, swans, flowers, all very lovely! I can also make some kick ass paper airplanes.
That's average protein molecule, you insensitive clod!
Maybe next we can use our screensavers to do something cool like search the web for potential stories to post on slashdot.
Too bad Seti@Home hasn't had a hit yet.
Well, here's the thing: "we know molecules exist..."
Sorry, brain no workie this morning.
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*IF* SETI gets a hit, it will be more like:
Earth: Wow, a spike that may have possibly been generated by an intelligent life form millions of years ago...
ET: ???
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
2. use their spare cycles to do my computing
3. ?
4. profit!
sorry, couldn't resist :)
track7.org has all kinds of interesting stuff!
That's right! Will somebody please think about the children?!??!
...I even snickered thinking that someone else besides me found @Home's troubles a "success". ...Although, knowing them, I bet they'd even fail failing.
ZERO
Never mind the folding, why is there no Ironing@Home to do it for me?
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
That's what happens when you fold with P4's and not Durons.
Hi, I'm the administrator for the big ASCI Purple cluster and, do to a lot of budget cutbacks, we have a lot of spare CPUs (like 30,000).
Would anyone mind if I joined their team?
Assuming the Wow! signal is a typical SETI-like transmission, then we can expect valid SETI hits to be very strong, high intermittent signals which appear once (as the transit beam sweeps past Earth), and never repeat again.
So, in other words, they admit that they can never fulfill their own requirements (namely, the repeatability requirement).
Rather daunting, isn't it...
We can only hope that the aliens can actually legally send signals and aren't emcumbered by "Patent 1,345,821,098,836: sending signals encoded in high frequency waves to unknown lifeforms over the aether", and that they think the unknown lifeform receivers have a shot of decoding the signal without getting hit by "IGADCA - Inter-Galactic Age Digital Copyright Act: violations of decrypting the radio encoding".
Hmm, maybe they have 8 arms and tentacles, and they'll just bite the lawyer's head off when they disagree with them.
Well, Seti@Home has a few static images, as well. A friend of mine has a line right across his monitor about 2/3 of the way up from Seti.
"I'm a Protein Folder and I VOTE!"
Kevin Fox
-end lame spam joke- ;)
Seriously, this is cool. Perhaps having success in one area will lead the folding@home team to explore totally new areas, and have a breakthrough on something they never even planned to look at. With the recent end of RC5-64, I've switched to F@H, mainly because I feel that, in some small way, it helps to improve the human race.
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking