Dunno if this is cool or not seeing as it's news from another forum but...well this is of epic proportions.

What is Folding?

In the most basic of terms, Folding at Home is the mimicking andlogging of the way a Protein Folds. A Protein that MIS-FOLDS producesan ab-normal cell which in turn can lead to a cancerous cell. Learninghow a Protein SHOULD fold will lead us to understanding to how itMIS-FOLDS. Hence, Folding at Home.

Here is a link to Stanfords Main Page for more info. http://folding.stanford.edu/

Why I fold?

Cancer has had a big effect on my family, and folding is where I feel I can fight back.

I fight cancer on two fronts, my business and folding.

I own a Home Care Business where I send nurses to homes to care for theelderly AT THEIR homes. One aspect of my business is we take care ofChemo-Therapy patients at home also. We take care of their ailmentswhile on Chemo.

In Miami, my parents own a Hospice Staffing Company, where they sendNurses to take care of patients on their last months of life. Thosedeemed to have less than 6 months to live.

This is where I get my passion for Folding from. Seeing/hearing/talkingand interacting with people who suffer from all these diseases makesyou want to do something about it.

How can I fold too?

Join us in fighting Cancer when you are surfing the internet, Download the program at:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Here is a thread about why members of our Team Fold also:
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...al-i-fold.aspx


Here are pics of the "farm" part of my folding farm.

Sorry they are not as cable friendly as I wanted them. When I have time I will cable manage better:


Lots of boxes (not all of them)


The Command Center.


Top Half of the shelf with 5 Rigs of 20 GPUs


Bottom Half of the shelf with 3 rigs of 12 GPUs


Closeup of Rig #1, 4x Gigabyte 8800GT 256mb / P6N-Diamond


Closeup of Rig #2, 4x MSI 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond


Closeup of Rig #3, 4x Asus 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond


Top 3 rigs into 1 HD Cage



(Middle Shelf) Rig #4, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond


(Middle Shelf) Rig #5, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond


Closeup of Rig #6 (#7, #8 are exactly the same) 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond

I still have 1 more P6N-Diamond + 4x PNY 8800GT to build, when I have the time.


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EDIT: Just to clear the air. I have a total of 16 rigs:

- 4 rigs have 1x GPU

- 1 rig has 3x GPU

and 11 P6N-Diamonds currently:

> 8 have 4x GPUs (pictured below)

> 2 have 3x GPUs (waiting on the other 2 GPUs)

> 1 (un-built) with 4x GPUs, waiting on components
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46/51 GPUs online.

Though I suppose he has put it to a better use then running a game...though to be honest he makes me feel like a despicable human being because having that kind of rig I would just focus on playing games at the highest quality and rendering Cinema4D stuff at high speed and quality.
Though further reading seems to say that the motherboards aren't linked together and therefore aren't working as one omega unit....

I'm not impressed.

Nifty

Kikizo has an unofficial http://folding.stanford.edu/ team.
 
Folding@Home Join " Team Kikizo" ! Our number is 91724
Use your PC and/or PS3

Nvidia finally supports Folding@home and their high end GPUs are monsters at folding, ATI GPUS still fold very well. 

I'll join. I didn't know we'd set one up.

edit:

46/51 GPUs online.

I'll also take the six he's not using.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=91724

I'm getting a .dll issue when I go to install...

BTW, how do I join the team once I get my folding software working Ghost?

You don't really join a team.  When you're folding you'll have the option to enter a team number and that's the team that will be credited for your Work Unit.  Most of my work went to team 60 which is "Team Canada" I started Team Kikizo, but no one joined and I lost interest.  I only submitted 2 work units.  I may pick it up again with my GTX 290.  The PS3 is fast, but a high end GPU is much faster.  Using a CPU is slow and shitty. 

PS3 has a nice interface, everything is easy and pretty, you can actually see a map of the world and spots are lite up where there are large clusters of folders.


 

And half the time the CPU gets errors mid WU and has to restart.  It typically takes days to finish a WU with the CPU.  Having it fuck up is a real piss off.  Using a GPU or PS3 is strongly reccomended.

"What is Folding?

In the most basic of terms, Foldingat Home is the mimicking and logging of the way a Protein Folds. AProtein that MIS-FOLDS produces an ab-normal cell which in turn can leadto a cancerous cell. Learning how a Protein SHOULD fold will lead us tounderstanding to how itMIS-FOLDS. Hence, Folding at Home."

I understand the concept of protein folding and free radicals and how cancerous cells can form on the genetic level. How does this help me understand GPU and overclocking?