ollie989898
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Any TFF'ers involved in folding at home?
Is it worth forming a TFF team?
Anyone got an old Nvidia GPU they can donate me and I will put it alongside my own in my case? I fold a lot whilst doing academic work as it has no impact on what I am doing.
For that don't know what FAH is, here, from wiki:
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Its main purpose is to determine the mechanisms of protein folding, which is the process by which proteins reach their final three-dimensional structure, and to examine the causes of protein misfolding. This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases.
Is it worth forming a TFF team?
Anyone got an old Nvidia GPU they can donate me and I will put it alongside my own in my case? I fold a lot whilst doing academic work as it has no impact on what I am doing.
For that don't know what FAH is, here, from wiki:
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Its main purpose is to determine the mechanisms of protein folding, which is the process by which proteins reach their final three-dimensional structure, and to examine the causes of protein misfolding. This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases.
. jokes aside there are a few good causes out there like these, remember it doesn't effect you when you are not using but it will effect the lifespan of your GPU long term.