Driven by the desire to heat up the room on a cold winter night, the NGEmu folding team was born. Being started by a small but fanatic team, it soon attracted members from all corners of the Emuforums, offering their idle CPU cycles and unused GPU power. As the months progressed, team
161326 soared to great heights. Before we knew it, we hit the top 5000, and as of yet we are still steadily climbing towards the top 1000 of the world.
As I write, what was started as a way for heating the room in a geeky way, the determination of the team has lead us to rank 1347 (out of more than 150.000 teams), having completed over 2600 work units we have accumulated a score of more than one and a half million points!
Hereby a big thanks to all our current contributors:
Masta.G.85.
D.D.
Ahielia
Dax
Samor
Runawayprisoner
ChainGuy
Skoreanime
Schumi_4EVER
Thanakil
Phil
BlueAmethyst
AEN-85
BobTheGoldfish
Squall-Leonhart
Prafull
Nosound.97
shaunhoare
As you see, with only 18 members we have been able to reach the top percent of the folding community. Our next milestone will be breaking into the top 1000, only to pound onwards towards the top 500 and possibly even higher. For that, we need all the help you can offer! It doesn’t matter if you’re running the latest i7 with 2 GTX295 cards, or simply an Athlon X2 with an ATi HD 3870, all idle cycles can contribute.
So, what is it you can do, and how do you join? And why should you join us?
First, a little explanation from the
Official F@H FAQ:
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What is Folding@home? What is protein folding?
Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding. Protein folding is explained in more detail in the scientific background section.
What is distributed computing?
Distributed Computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program, or different portions of data, are processing simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network or through the Internet.
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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, they can clump together ("aggregate"). These clumps can often gather in the brain, where they are believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer's disease.
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So what we're doing is we're combining our CPU/GPU power for the cause of aiding in the search for an answer to Alzheimer, Creutzfeldt Jakob and Cancer.
How can I participate?
Simple, all you have to do is to go to
this page to download the regular client, or to
this page to download the
high performance client. The difference here is that the standard one runs on the background and gives you the least amount of interference to worry about. However they don't get you as much result as the high performance clients after all. Additionally, the high performance clients allow you to do the calculations on your
GPU or even
Playstation 3.
So which is the fastest?
In terms of raw calculations, the scale is as follows:
GPU > > Playstation 3 > > CPU
On the other hand, when it comes to flexibility, the order is reversed. The CPU can do a much wider range of calculations than GPUs are capable of at this moment. In the end, all work has to be done, so we would appreciate every type of processor you can invest in the project!
Anything else I need to know?
Well there's deadlines for the WU's (Work Units) to be handed in/uploaded.
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Originally Posted by Masta.G
Under the standard client, you usually have 45 days.
Under the SMP client, you usually have 15 - 30 days.
Under the GPU client, you usually have 15 days.
These deadlines aren't something to get overly worried about, especially with the GPU client as it can complete WUs in a very timely manner. Running your GPU client while you are surfing the internet, checking your email, etc. for just a few hours each day will have the WU completed in about 5 days or less.
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Okay, I signed up, now how do I join [NGEmu]?
All you have to do is enter our Team ID in the client's settings, which is:
161326. Have fun, and feel free to join us in the forums to chat about! Also, if you have any questions, or would just like some general advice on how to optimize performance, feel free to ask.
Additional information
Daily updates team statistics
Chainguy on running two GPU instances on one nVidia card
If you have any suggestions for the additional information, please send a PM
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