Someone Explain This "folding@home " Thing.

[Marius24]

i run the program when I am asleep or my bandwidth is eaten from downloading B)

[hobbes]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchman+14 March 2004 - 22:00--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlyingDutchman @ 14 March 2004 - 22:00)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-hobbes@14 March 2004 - 20:47
So we are just offering our computers to help give them more resources to run their program, is that the essence of it? We are their bandwidth bitches?

Bandwidth needed can be neglected.
Only a few KB every 10 hours or so.

What you offer is CPU-power. Power your CPU can deliver, but does&#39;t as there is no work to be done.

Together the folders use CPU-power a manyfold of the most powerful super computer there is. Our PC&#39;s simulate in 10 hours only a fraction of a second in the lifecycle of a proteien.
Instead of offering your body to a universitiy when you are dead, you can offer the empty CPU-cycles your CPU has anyway.

Your choice, you can let them go wasted, or use them to further science.

Fold on B) [/b][/quote]
Thanks for the answers guys, now I get it.

@Dutchman, I was just joking about being a "bitch". I&#39;m kind of handicapped when it comes to computers and computer terminology, but what you said is what I was trying to.

[thewizeard]

Hobbes, why not join the team?

[hobbes]

Originally posted by nigel123@14 March 2004 - 23:59
Hobbes, why not join the team?

Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri and standing at 7&#39;6" is your all star center #11 Hobbes rabbit&#33;

[thewizeard]

Ermmm...not that one... :fugley:

[BigBoo]

it all sounds a bit useless to me

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by BigBoo@14 March 2004 - 23:19
it all sounds a bit useless to me

Well...if we manage to save one life...it would be worth it...If one does nothing it certainly wont be much of a help...

[hobbes]

How come I don&#39;t show up in the team statistics?

[BigBoo]

i mean, why do they take info send it to your pc, your pc plays with it, then you send it back. what is it that they cant do?

[thewizeard]

Well you will show up after you have completed your first work unit....it takes a little time before your work unit will be included in the team&#39;s results....