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MacRumors Folding@home Team Reaches One Billion Points

Way to go everyone. Folding with a small computer for 20 points or multiple super computers for 20 million. Every little bit helps and counts for the main reason for folding. We're all doing it for the greater purpose of finding a cure.

Who knows, that one protein that you help fold a few years ago could end up saving your life 15 years from now.
 
But NO!! mac GPU client http://cdn.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/mad.gif

Thats amazing considering all the other OS's have clients that can use the GPU.
OSX users and the MacRumors team are severely handicapped in the work produced because of this. Now that OpenGL 4.X is out, lets get a Mac GPU version!!!
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ticotoo said:
Thats amazing considering all the other OS's have clients that can use the GPU.
OSX users and the MacRumors team are severely handicapped in the work produced because of this. Now that OpenGL 4.X is out, lets get a Mac GPU version!!!
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Just because we fold for MacRumors doesn't mean we fold with Macs. ;)
 
Congratulations to everyone who contributed.. feeling good to be part of this community..
btw I just checked and MacRumors Team is quite ahead of Apple :)
 
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The MacRumors Folding@home team has accumulated over one billion points for the distributed computing medical research project. The MacRumors team, currently ranked #55 out of over two hundred thousand Folding@home teams, reached the milestone point total on October 27.

Folding@home participants receive work units as computation assignments. Completed work units are assigned points based on their value to the project's scientific purposes. Extra points can be earned for speed, reliability, and the use of multiple machines. Led by top contributors rwh202, twoodcc, and whiterabbit, Team MacRumors has completed over 1.1 million work units since the team formation in May 2002 by MacRumors owner Arnold Kim. The team currently averages over 4000 work units and over 2 million points per month. Forum members have been watching for this milestone for months.

Additional team statistics and graphs can be viewed at Extreme Overclocking.

We congratulate the currently active MacRumors Folding@home team members and the thousands of others who have participated over the years. We invite everyone who is interested to join our team!

Folding@home, run by Stanford University since October 2000, is a distributed computing project under which computers run protein folding simulation software in their idle time, helping researchers search for cures for Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, AIDS, influenza, and many forms of cancer. The software simulates how proteins, RNA, and nanoscale synthetic polymers fold, both to gain understanding of how proteins fold into their three-dimensional structure and to study the causes of the abnormal folding that leads to disease. To date, over 100 scientific research papers have resulted from Folding@home.

Article Link: MacRumors Folding@home Team Reaches One Billion Points
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No idea how this works, or what it entails, other than what I just read here, but it sounds like a great opportunity to contribute to society for the common good.
 
DeSnousa said:
It is really great to see so many new folders from this thread :)
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I'm not a folder per se. It's one project I signed up for ages ago. I'm also working on things such as cancer/muscular dystrophy/malaria, among other things.
 
nagromme said:
Congrats to Team MR from Team Mac OS X :) I bet the new Mac Pro will boost all Mac teams soon.... especially thanks to OpenCL.
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Yes, congrats! And, I'm finally getting back into the game with just my lowly home iMac. I used to fold with a small set of server-room Macs for Team Mac OS X. (Back when I think I broke the top 20 and the team was in the top 10... if memory serves.) :)

I folded a bit with my PS3 over the years, but have otherwise been relatively absent since around 2007. All I had were laptops, and found F@H was a bit hard on them (apart from being mobile and folding not being the best combo).

All the best no matter what team everyone is folding for. It doesn't really matter towards the ultimate goal, but the friendly competition can be fun too.

I'd LOVE to add a Mac Pro to the mix... maybe one day.
 
hybroid said:
Because it means and has achieved absolutely nothing except reduced hardware lifespan and wasted electricity.
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I wouldn't say it has achieved absolutely nothing... they have learned a lot. That said, I'm expecting better results now that the silly notion of 'Junk DNA' is FINALLY going the way of the dinosaur. It's just sad that the assumptions of a bad world-view can hijack science for so long. Think of where we could be by now.

As for hardware life-span, one does have to be a bit careful. I think I did some damage to one of my laptops with F@H. I just don't think they are built to run 100%, 24x7. The little fans go full-tilt, but just can't keep up, especially in certain environments. I'm pretty confident about my new iMac though, as it's running in a very cool home office (too cool!) and doesn't seem to run hard at all (I've done tons of video processing with it, and it doesn't seem phased).

As for wasted electricity... that's a pretty small trade-off for the potential upside of such research. Even if I were hyper-concerned about global warming, it's a trade-off I'd make any day.
 
Update

The MacRumors team is now ranked #47 and has passed 1.5 billion points and over 1.25 million work units.
 
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