> I hope they come out with a version that can
work without the screensaver.
yea, you're not alone and we do have one (for linux and windows): check out the Folding@home site and go to the
download page, sign up, and then download.
Why do you think Blue Gene has a better chance? With enough users, we'll have more CPU power. What they do have is fast communication between processors. However, for many applications (including our method of simulating folding dynamics), this is not needed.
I think that both methods will be useful and complementary. No doubt, computational biology is definitely getting very exciting...
I agree it's good to be sceptical of everything. However, IMHO the situation is *much* better than SIGFPE's comments. Computation chemistry has been useful in quantitative analysis of many different areas in molecular biology and chemistry.
We (the Folding@home team) have been able to in fact run folding simulations which agree *quantitatively* with experiment, in terms of rates, thermodynamics, structure, etc.
Yea, we haven't released the linux screen saver, but the windows version has been out there for quite a while. Also, most linux users have asked for a console version.
Anyway, hopefully it will be released in a week or so.
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> I hope they come out with a version that can work without the screensaver.
yea, you're not alone and we do have one (for linux and windows): check out the Folding@home site and go to the download page, sign up, and then download.
Why do you think Blue Gene has a better chance? With enough users, we'll have more CPU power. What they do have is fast communication between processors. However, for many applications (including our method of simulating folding dynamics), this is not needed. I think that both methods will be useful and complementary. No doubt, computational biology is definitely getting very exciting ...
I agree it's good to be sceptical of everything. However, IMHO the situation is *much* better than SIGFPE's comments. Computation chemistry has been useful in quantitative analysis of many different areas in molecular biology and chemistry. We (the Folding@home team) have been able to in fact run folding simulations which agree *quantitatively* with experiment, in terms of rates, thermodynamics, structure, etc.
Yea, we haven't released the linux screen saver, but the windows version has been out there for quite a while. Also, most linux users have asked for a console version. Anyway, hopefully it will be released in a week or so.