When will the folding at home project finish?
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 8:19 pm
Please excuse me for the bone questions, I am completely new to folding, having only recently learned about distributed computing and began folding on my own gaming machine only yesterday.
Since then I have been discussing the project with my father law whom is a (formerly very senior) retired doctor and he is keen to get into the act, only we will build or buy a dedicated monster folding machine for the job.
My only question however, is how long will the folding project continue? It began in 2000 as I understand but it there an end game or end goal in sight? And if so, when do you think this will occur?
My father in law has participated in a similar project many years ago where a collection of people ran their PCs flat out for 6 months, but the project was then completed. I have tried to explain that I don't believe Folding at home is going to be a task that will be completed as rapidly.
I have numerous hardware questions but shall post them in another more relevant section.
Thanks
Since then I have been discussing the project with my father law whom is a (formerly very senior) retired doctor and he is keen to get into the act, only we will build or buy a dedicated monster folding machine for the job.
My only question however, is how long will the folding project continue? It began in 2000 as I understand but it there an end game or end goal in sight? And if so, when do you think this will occur?
My father in law has participated in a similar project many years ago where a collection of people ran their PCs flat out for 6 months, but the project was then completed. I have tried to explain that I don't believe Folding at home is going to be a task that will be completed as rapidly.
I have numerous hardware questions but shall post them in another more relevant section.
Thanks