Folding Forum

It also makes more sense to buy 3 good Quad Core machines with a good Graphics cards to run GPU client on it also.
Rather than one machine.

I looked around for the most powerful desktop and settled on the Mac Pro. Here are the specs (i configured a few): Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2GB (2x1GB) NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or 4 x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB Whats the power guys? Two ridiculously powerful processors and nice graphic c...

Update:

The school will be trying this out over the summer. If they like the results they will try this out in middle school and if the results are good there then the whole school district.

I have a PS3 and I really like the Folding@home on the PS3 better than the GUI on my computer. I am trying to get my friends to run it and i think many of them dont find it "attractive". Folding@home on the computer is really really boring. PS3 has the cool globe feature to go with it. And...

Thank you guys.

I am eagerly waiting for a reply from the school.

Today I talked to the tech guy in our school and principal. They didnt ask too many questions about it. They did ask how much bandwidth it takes since our school network is bad. So, How much bandwidth does Folding@home take? And they said that they are awaiting a reply from the head of the tech depa...

Hi, I just found out about FAH and I am asking my school whether they can run it. Just a few questions: 1. Would it require any config to run on a windows domain (such as getting the screensaver to run when people are logged off) 2. Would it have any adverse effects on the performance of the comput...

The principal ask me to make an appointment with his assistant to talk to me sometime next week.
Looking good so far.

I agree to what you wrote (theMass) But i dont see the kids doing it very much All the kids in our school are spoiled rich kids which iPhones and what not. Most of them dont even care about school and thier life. And maybe out of like 1000+ kids in our school maybe 10 of them will be serious about i...

Thanks for all the compliments.

I think the Tech Department wont be saying yes to this cuz they are over worked already.
But i will request them to try it on a few computers. Like 10 computers since every little helps.

Is Folding@home sorta like a non-profit thing?
I do know that those who do take care of Folding@home and work for F@H do need to get paid.

Are more and more scientists switching to Folding@home?

Also most computers are kept in two states. The first is logged off, when students are not using them. Sitting at a login screen would do nothing, so figure out a work around. Furthermore you'll need to talk to the tech guy, because the computers are wiped clean every night. I did ask the people on...

My biology teacher who has a Phd said that one problem would be: Not many scientists use the data from Folding@home. So this will only help the small number of scientists

wow i am shocked

Thank you for finding it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

uncle fuzzy wrote:

The project is developed by the Pande Group/Harvard University

uhhhhhh is that not good?