whats a protein, and why do you want to fold it? I'm sure this must sound humorous....heh
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whats a protein, and why do you want to fold it? I'm sure this must sound humorous....heh
http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.htmlQuote:
Originally posted by zeroth
whats a protein, and why do you want to fold it? I'm sure this must sound humorous....heh
125000 frames?! How many procs do you have? Cause 7500 frames took my single proc like two whole days to complete using the whole 2.2 GHz... That would mean that if you did anything with those procs at the same time, you're looking at well over... 20 days?Quote:
Originally posted by acid45
I have on folding 125000 frames right now, it's 40% done :D
Can that be right? I just finished up a 250 frame one and I have a 125 frame one. 125000 seems like an incredible lot... I'm just thinking that if I am ever given so many frames I'll uninstall the program cause my proc would run too hot too long (it's a laptop with an AMD 64) :D
Happy Folding!
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EDIT-
It's 125000 steps which is different... I also just started one with 125000 steps, but it'll be done tomorrow morning (in about 7 hours). It's confusing trying to find out the sizes of these things... They give 12 days for my current one (125000 steps of 125 frames) and they gave 32 days for the one before (7500000 steps 7500 frames). go figure :D
Every project is different...if you'll notice, sometimes the job runs using tinker, other times gromacs. These are tools for molecular dynamics.
To answer your question about why do we care about protein folding...
Remeber a few years ago when the human genome was sequenced? Well that's all fine and good, we can tell the ORDER in which amino acids are incorporated into proteins, but we still don't have a basic set of rules to predict what the STRUCTURE will be. And STRUCTURE == FUNCTION.
Hope that helps..
We all still folding? :D
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...s=&t=36480&p=2
We're at number 181.
Yep, actually just passed freakmn for the 13th spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by ions
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23607 foldinga 39 19 121m 101m 1028 R 95.0 5.1 118:46.04 FahCore_78.exe
23605 foldinga 39 19 70712 10m 728 R 95.4 0.5 112:22.36 FahCore_65.exe
Yeah hoping for 15th place real soon, (not bad since April hey) The gaps are getting bigger now, its tough at the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by ions
Yeah, but my workstation is chewing on a 5'000 frame WU for quite a while already. With a 500MHz proc, that doesn't really make me look like still contribute anything. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ions
I have a question. I have a really sucky dial-up. Can I still fold some or does it work better with broadband? I am connected a lot at night. I can connect during the day if needed. If it doesn't take to long to download whatever it is processing.
I do have a genetic disorder and am disabled from it. I sure would like them to start finding cures for some of this crap even if it is to late to do me any good.
What you think?
Later
:D :D :D :D
You can set your config file for folding in a way that it only works WU that are maximally 5MB big - I guess your dialup would still be able to handle that. :)
Actually, you have to tell it to accept WU's larger then 5MB. Default is to grab the small work units.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parcival
Grr. I guessed it would happen, because many of the computers in my house are turned off during the summer, on account of the heat. I'll catch back up when the summer is over, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daedrus
Up to 176!
(and we assume that the Extreme Overclocking people have accurate data.)
I left Parcival in the dust a couple of days ago! :D
And passed blackbelt_jones the other day.
(hehe... ok, it's not a competition, but it is nice to see a little movement along the way. The difference is, for me, I added my slackware machine with the P-III 866Mhz processor into the mix.)