Stanford Fold@Home recruitment time !

[Anonymous No.4149725]

Hello again, friends ! I'm here to teach you about the existence of the Stanford distributed computing Fold @ Home project, in hope that you will join us.

Here's the link to the website: http://folding.stanford.edu/


So what's the Stanford distributed computing project ? Well essentially, the project is to allow anybody with a computer and an internet connection to help in piercing the mysteries of protein folding.


It is a project with enormous potential, because a supercluster of computers will always beat a supercomputer, no matter how powerful the thing is. As long as people join, our computers shared power is the most powerful computational force in the service of science.


The Stanford distributed computing project is, by the way, non-profit. It is for science and the benefit of all only.


So, what is protein folding ? I'll quote them for this, they're way more eloquent than I am.

[Anonymous No.4149734]

So there you have it. I learned it from the longevity meme website, that advocate rejuvenating technologies and a longer life, healthier life and whatnot, starting from the most common diseases from aging like Alzheimer.

For the little story, I take care of my grandmother who's got Alzheimer, and, ah, well, it ain't always nice. She fall all the time, she forget everything, she calls me names that aren't mine. That's how I got spooked and started learning about technologies to, well, age well. And not turn out like my grandma.

So yeah, s'why I'm trying to make some advertisement for the Stanford project, since it's intention is to tackle such illnesses, I tell you you don't feel concerned about it until it hits you, and by then it's too late. My grandmother can't even wash herself anymore for christ's sake these kind of illnesses need to be wiped off the earth.


So yeah, advertising ! For science !


Oh, by the way, how about joining the team of the longevity meme ? Their agenda is all about fighting the diseases of aging, so, it's kind on topic.

Here's the number: 32461

Join ussss

[Anonymous No.4149731]

Proteins are necklaces of amino acids – long chain molecules. Proteins are the basis of how biology
gets things done. As enzymes, they are the driving force behind all of the biochemical reactions
which makes biology work. As structural elements, they are the main constituent of our bones,
muscles, hair, skin and blood vessels.

As antibodies, they recognize invading elements and allow the
immune system to get rid of the unwanted invaders. For these reasons, scientists have sequenced
the human genome — the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology — but how can we understand
what these proteins do and how they work?


However, only knowing this sequence tells us little about what the protein does and how it does it. In
order to carryout their function (eg as enzymes or antibodies), they must take on a particular shape,
also known as a "fold." Thus, proteins are truly amazing machines: before they do their work, they
assemble themselves! This self-assembly is called "folding."


What happens if proteins don't fold correctly? Diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis,
BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to
result from protein misfolding. When proteins misfold, then can clump together ("aggregate"). These
clumps can often gather in the brain, where it is believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or
Alzheimer's disease.

[Anonymous No.4149735]

Just wanted to say fuck you.

[Anonymous No.4149737]

So, what else is there to say ?


Ah, you can run the program on your PS3 ! And there's two kind of program, the standard one that's pretty damn slow, and the GPU one. Get the GPU one if your computer is recent. Otherwise just get the standard one, you CAN run the program, it's a 10 year old project.


Don't use it when playing video games because there's lag risks, otherwise, I, for one, use it all the damn time. Right now, I'm on Firefox with a 182 tabs open, while running uTorrent, and the GPU F@H program. No lag whatsoever.


That's pretty much it. Thanks for reading. And for those joining us, thank you very much. Please, convert your friends as well. It doesn't cost anything to run this program, it can only do good to run it.


Thanks everybody.

[Anonymous No.4149739]

>biology
>science

pick one

[Anonymous No.4149744]

>>4149735

Yeah, screw science. What the fuck did it ever do for me ?

Better start a thread about Theists vs Atheists than waste time promoting tangible science.

[Anonymous No.4149750]

>>4149739

[Anonymous No.4149839]

Righteous bump in the name of science

[Anonymous No.4150006]

Come on, /sci/

[Anonymous No.4151396]

Bamp.

[Anonymous No.4151882]

bump

[Anonymous No.4152295]

bump
just did it. remembered hearing about it once and thought it sounded cool.

[Anonymous No.4152332]

>>4149737

>And there's two kind of program, the standard one that's pretty damn slow, and the GPU one

Way to oversimplify it. The SMP client rapes if you have anything with more than 4 cores, including hyperthreaded processors.

[Anonymous No.4152422]

Just joined

>hd 6970 x2
>i7 2600k @ 4.9ghz
>12 gb ram

its on

[Anonymous No.4152996]

>>4152332

Really ? Well sorry about that. I didn't dwell on that, I admit.

>>4151882
>>4152295
>>4152422

For god's sake, thank you. I thought I posted on /b/ with all the penises and insults thrown at me. Perhaps it was the hour.

Thank you

[Anonymous No.4153811]

Bumping, for science !

[Anonymous No.4153956]

OP, would you happen to know if prions have been studied with this system? Can people make their own protein folding networks if they have a special project in mind? This sounds pretty interesting, but if I want to get deeper into it I would need a better knowledge of biology.

[Anonymous No.4154071]

BUMP FOR SCIENCE

Stuff like this is why I want to get into computer science. Business jobs are for losers, research all the way!

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.4154086]

I'm going to join this now that I've realized SETI@home is not going to achieve anything.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.4154111]

Ohhh, it looks like it's working now, on the "Abeta 16 fragment".

<3 GROMACS

[Anonymous No.4154175]

>>4153956

Sorry friend, I got no idea.

There WERE discussions in a longevity meme forum on whether or not we could contribute to specific simulations of protein folding that would enhance our knowledge in such a way that it would help longevity research.

Essentially, the answer was no, we cannot. The program itself is made to make "general" simulations of protein folding.

Of course, we COULD make a more specific program to simulate specific protein folding. But that would be a pretty damn heavy program to code.

The general consensus was that, since we cannot do such a thing, then we'll just hope general research and hope it'll fall in our research interests. If it doesn't that's fine. Because we do it for SCIENCE before all ! Ahahah


>>4154071

Thank you friend ! You guys a giving me hope in /sci/ again.

Good luck if you want to code for science though, you'll need to be knowledgeable in both subjects ! You got all my wishes of success.


>>4154086

Well welcome ! I'm pretty damn happy that people are joining, ahahah !


However, can someone explain to me why some people here say biology is not science ? I thought it was chemistry that was considered so.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.4154179]

>>4154175

>can someone explain to me why some people here say biology is not science

Trolls, or, alternatively, ten years olds who laughed at it the first time then forced it into a meme, like the whole "engineers are all gay" thing and what not.

>There WERE discussions in a longevity meme forum on whether or not we could contribute to specific simulations of protein folding that would enhance our knowledge in such a way that it would help longevity research.

Longecity?

[Anonymous No.4154186]

*Help

*Are

Man, I should reread myself before posting.

[Anonymous No.4154189]

>>4154179

Indeed.

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[Anonymous No.4154416]

bump

[Anonymous No.4154428]

Finally another gridfag here :)
Do you know about BOINC?

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

[Anonymous No.4154874]

>>4154428

Yes I do ! If I had a second computer, I'd use it to help the Lattice & Spinhenge projects !

Man, if only I was rich, I'd invest into a supercomputer to help out projects like those instead of buying a third yacht, ahahah


By the way, if I were to suddenly win a few thousand dollars at the lottery, know of a way to generate good computational power at low cost to help such projects ?

If I were to suddenly have this kind of spare money, I may as well help science. I just have no idea of a way to maximize the efficiency/cost ratio.

Perhaps you know of a place to learn more about this ? Ahahah, I should probably ask /g/ for this !

[Anonymous No.4154957]

Bump

[Anonymous No.4157097]

Another bamp

[Anonymous No.4157098]

>>4154957
>mfw someone took the time to actually compute this

[Anonymous No.4157115]

>>4154957

[Anonymous No.4157210]

Yet another.

[Anonymous No.4157213]

>>4157115
>writing the speed instead of the gamma factor or 1 - beta

[Anonymous No.4157216]

>>4154957
>mfw no general relativity
Should have computed how much mass it would have relative to stationary observer.

[Anonymous No.4157555]

If anybody want to help science by throwing a few coins at it, check this thread !

>>>/g/21698956

[Anonymous No.4158518]

Another righteous bump.