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BigFelix

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: Folding@Home

I have noticed the term "Folding@Home" and a group associated with it. Just what is it, etc.? _________________ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:41 am Post subject:

I don't know the details, but it's one of the BOINC projects, like SETI@home See http://folding.stanford.edu/ for details.

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:42 am Post subject:

Hi BigFelix, I'm glad you asked. Notice the "Green Spinny Thingy" under my uname? That is the coveted emblem of the Team CastleCops Distributed Computing Folding@Home Team. One of many scientific ventures using the unused computing power of friends of CastleCops. Read here about what it is: http://folding.stanford.edu/ For more information, read these (now closed - long story) forum threads. /t77408-FOLDING_Who_what_where_and_how_and_why_Links_News.html /t166560-How_to_Join_Folding_Home.html All of Team CastleCops Distributed Computing forums are closed right now, but that doesn't mean that we aren't still folding away for the good causes. We are hoping that one day they will be open again. If you have any more questions, I will be happy to try to answer them. _________________ "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

... waiting with baited breath it should be added. Smile

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BigFelix

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:10 am Post subject:

Oh! Of course I've heard of this project. To me, the "green spinny thing", as you put it, always looked like the 3-D model of a molecule (with all of the atoms colored green). And, by golly, it is! Neat, cool, rad ... _________________ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:20 am Post subject:

Howdy, patience is a virtue! So be virtuous! or is that virtual? _________________ "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." L. Long

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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

BigFelix wrote:

Neat, cool, rad ...

Exactly!

"Green Spinny Thingy" is the official scientific name for that molecule. Wink

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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

Just as "New $435 million lottery winner email" is the new scientific name for spam _________________

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