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sarracenia88
March 30th, 2007, 08:54 AM
This is a really cool project and I think everyone should participate.

http://folding.stanford.edu/index.html

you can use your computer's processing power to help this program do protein folding models. it also has programs modified for both x86_64 abd x86.

InuyashaDuelist
March 30th, 2007, 09:07 AM
I lol'd when I saw that the downloadable installation file for the Linux version was a .exe file.

jariku
March 30th, 2007, 09:48 AM
There's a Folding@Home team for Ubuntu users, see more info here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102313

blueturtl
March 30th, 2007, 10:21 AM
Lost my grandma to a disease that had something to do with protein folding. :(

Now my main system runs this thing as a service in the background, which is good since we usually only use the system for listening to music or browsing every once in a while. Responsiveness is good all around, but things take a bit longer to open up, especially Amarok for reasons unkown to me. Wouldn't game with this thing running, even though it says it's only using spare clock cycles.

Thank you for the link.

rolando2424
March 30th, 2007, 02:27 PM
I have been using it for about a year now :D (I already used it on Windows).

sarracenia88
March 30th, 2007, 07:21 PM
it may be a .exe file but it runs fine in linux. all i do in the terminal is ./FAH502-Linux.exe

it works just fine

thank you for looking at the link and please send it on to your friends