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ZeroFreedom
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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject: The Doom Community's Folding@Home Team |
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Quoted from eBaum's World Forum http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?t=55953
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This is something I would really like to get going. It's simple to set up, simple to operate and helps save lives.
I see many people make threads about friends and family members who have struggled with cancer and other awful things. This is our chance at ebaums to help scientists unravel codes and understand many of these diseases such as cancer, HIV, Alzheimer’s etc...
Basically it is a small program you download that receives codes from scientist’s, works on them and sends it back to the scientists. Millions of people are folding making a massive difference. Breakthroughs have already happened because of normal pc’s users folding information.
Running this program does not affect the performance of your computer CPU speed or bandwidth.
Here is a flash movie that gives you a bit more information. http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html
If you decide you want to take part and help here is the program.
NT/2000/XP http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home503.EXE
Windows 98/ME http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home4.EXE
Linux Console(x86) http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH502-Linux.exe
Mac OS X http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH4-GUI.dmg
Once the program is running, right click the icon in systray go to configure and enter team number 42864 (45070 for The Doom Community) and your name hit ok, and that’s it!
You don't have to do anything else.
While you’re sat on your lazy asses you're helping to cure cancer and other nasty things.
Let’s see how much data we can crunch, we have enough members to do extremely well!
Click here: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=42864 for our statistics. (it will grow as we get more people folding!) The member’s part will update and list everyone who finished a task and uploads the info back. This happens automatically.
For more info on Folding go to http://folding.stanford.edu/
Issues -
* Some games will boot you back to desktop if you don't pause then quit the folding program.
* WU Finishing times can get silly, some will say it will take months to complete. Ignore it, the time will go down eventually. If after a few days it doesn't reboot the prog.
* You will only appear on the team table once a work unit has been completed. (Give it a few hours once a WU is done to appear)
Fin.
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I think the Doom Community could boost this a lot too, which is why I made a team called “The Doom Community”
Our team number is 45070, and our statistics page is here.
Let’s show the world what Doomers United can do :p |
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Ralphis
That blue hedgehog again of all places!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm definitely in. I suggest the rest of the community takes a serious look at this. |
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int28
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Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Location: N.E. WI
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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I have been doing the Seti@home for almost 6 years.
Once they switch over to Boinc then I will start up some form of medical research.
int333@sbcglobal.net
Your credit:
Name (and URL) int33
Results Received 4017
Total CPU Time 1.842 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 4 hr 01 min 01.5 sec
Average results received per day 1.93
Last result returned: Wed Jun 15 09:32:24 2005 UTC
Registered on: Fri Oct 1 05:08:32 1999 UTC
View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 5.714 years
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
You are not currently the founder of any teams.
Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 5435249 total users is: 86285th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 18
You have completed more work units than 98.412% of our users. |
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Joesomebody
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Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| im in man. |
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Gollum
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm definitely in. I formatted the main post a bit better because I hope this thing gets serious.
stickied. |
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ZeroFreedom
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the Sticky and the formatting corrections, plus all the support! I also hope this turns into a big thing, because I know some people who died of cancer, and I don't want that to happen to anyone else. |
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HumanBones
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Im definately in. But yeah, I have alot of family members with deadly cancer, and some have even died quite recently, and I really dont want anymore to :/ |
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Punaxe
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Can't. My pc can't even run notepad and properly run ZDaemon at the same time... |
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urhash
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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i'm in. lets rock  |
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killingblair
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm game. |
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Fred512
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| well it's worth a shot |
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nitroglycerin
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
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i'm definitely in
sry for not joining the zdaemon team tho |
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jstb4udie
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| This is a fantastic idea and urge all doomers to get behind this! Having my dad die of cancer and watching 2 other family members go through cancer treatment makes this an issue I have very strong connections with. Watching someone you love going through cancer treatment is the toughest times you will ever experience, something I would not wish on anyone. If this research one day leads to the cure of cancer, and other such diseases, could only make the world a better place to live in. |
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Ant P
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Already in one. 39299. |
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axems_kingdom
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I'm in
Curious - can someone explain to me how this works/what it does in more detail? |
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HumanBones
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| I thought that this (as in the first post) gave me all the information I needed. |
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Exl
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Joined: 13 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| I don't see how the Doom community has Doomworld.com as the homepage. Regardless, it's running now. |
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excelblue
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Joined: 07 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:16 am Post subject: |
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I know I'm gonna be in it.
Even though I don't directly support the cause, I do very much support the idea of donating extra processing power to organizations as long as they're not against my beliefs. |
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Slasher
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| axems_kingdom wrote: | I'm in
Curious - can someone explain to me how this works/what it does in more detail? |
yeah, that information its not enough for me to trust a program that downloads codes, works on them and sends em back, without me even noticing, Id rather download large files on my other computer, turn the program on so that it works on them and send em later. |
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ZeroFreedom
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: Explanation |
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| When protiens are made, they fold to make other ones. When they mess up, you get diseases like Cancer. This program simulates a fold (which fold you get is determined by the Standford University Server), and sends the results to Standford University. They use that data to do research on many, many, diseases and their cures. It really DOES help, and by running that small program, you save lives =d |
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