CastleCops® - FOLDING@HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

seafsee writes "FOLDING@HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

It's that time of the year again! Hauling out the decorations from the attic or basement; buying or even cutting your own tree; last minute shopping, and maybe one last turkey in the oven!
Meanwhile, millions of computers worldwide are running complex computations in the background.
There's office parties on the agenda, dreams of sugar-plums dancing in heads, and dreams of a White Christmas for some; it's the time of year we call the Season Of Giving.
Thousands of computers have made a connection to a central location and received further work.

A growing number of Castle Cops members' computers are participating in this running of complex computations and connecting to servers, but this is not the action of a Hijack in progress. These members have found a way to continue giving past December and January. In fact they do it all the time, sometimes twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week! They have all joined the F@H Team.

In six short months, the team has completed over Five Thousand Work Units, accumulating over Five Hundred Thousand Points. Less than Two Hundred Fifty teams can say that. Many of the top One Hundred teams have ten times as many members. One of the things that makes this team unique is the high level of active participants, and the fact that those active participants average a little over two computers doing work.

What is even more exciting is knowing that what we do is starting to make a difference. Dog Genome Findings May Benefit Human Health was one of the recent items to make news, but the last one was even more exciting; The war against cancer focuses on a key gene
In addition, within the past three months Stanford University, which runs the Folding program under the direction of Vijay Pande had this news about the program.

Quote:

9/9/2004 FAH breaks the 1,000,000 CPU and 100 TFLOP barrier
We've pased the 1,000,000 total CPU mark. See the OS stats.

OS stats wrote:

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	172.676	143897	936088
Mac OS X	7.004	8755	65485
Linux	12.257	14409	103656
Other	0.0	0	0
Total	191.937	167061	1105229

Total number of donators = 397824
Last updated at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:38:23
Active CPUS have returned WUs within 50 days.
TFLOPS is actual flops from MD, not the peak values from CPU specs.

We also have included new stats on the number of TeraFlops (Trillion FLoating point Per Second) done by FAH. At the moment, FAH is one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) supercomputer in the world (most supercomputers are at the single TFLOP level and FAH can do ~200 TFLOPS). How can we reach this level? Lots of CPUs (over 150,000) and very highly optimized code using CPUs to their fullest (eg SSE).

To see a short "movie" about Folding@Home, visit this link.
F@H Flash Movie!
http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

To learn more about F@H and information about joining our team,
Click here for all the important links

The Folding Forum is open for non-members to post questions in, or to say hi! Either myself, another staff or team member will help with your questions to the best of our ability.
If you consider becoming a member of Castle Cops, you can head on down to the CCSP Tavern and help us with our special rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas (Sing Loud Exclamation

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On the 12th day of Christmas my CC buddy gave to me

12 golden MICE!!!!!
Eleven search bars searching
Ten Spammers Spamming
Nine brand new teammates
Eight Team Stat Tables
Seven 1st Responders
Six hackers hacking!!!
Fi-i-i-i-ve FireFox extensions
4 systems to fold with
3 killer spyware removal apps
Two shots of Crown
and A Keg of Beer in the Tavern


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