Really proud to have contributed to Folding@home for nearly ten years. For 2020 and the arrival of SARS-CoV2 my four enterprise servers were brought fully into play, at times giving me issues with shifting the heat, and several conversations with my electricity provider. My contribution is a microscopic dot but I am really happy to have played a part. Well done for supporting the science, providing the clues for the vaccines, and for the lives they save. Good job done here.
Why doesn’t everyone know about this software, students, gamers, content creators, and why doesn’t this software have a mobile app version, chrome os version, ps5, xbox, nintendo switch, and any other computing device platform, so all be used to contribute to this cause?
@@ncard00 where to start? Why don't people know about this? I found it while searching for distributed computing projects. It's out there if you look. Why not target all computational platforms? F@H is very computationally intensive. You need good hardware with good cooling. The best results are achieved using GPU folding on graphics cards rather than using CPU power, because it requires a lot of parallel threads. There was a time when F@H targeted, I think, the Play Station as it's chip set suited the cause. I think that has finished now. I was folding a lot in the past but sadly very little now, simply due to the energy crisis and the cost of electricity. Mobile phones. I think it is possible to run F@H on a mobile but this isn't practical. Mobiles throttle their processor cores to save the battery. This is completely opposite to F@H needs, which require full throttle computation. The battery will soon delete and your pocket will likely get toasty. My servers are twin processor (24 logical cores) running at a sustained 3Ghz. These are on high performance architecture machines. Even the Ram had heat sinks. The noise of the six fans is probably a risk to hearing. The heat output requires management. The power consumption is in kilowatts. Totally opposite to that of a mobile.
Thank you so much for the update ☺️ I actually love to fold for you guys more than i can but unfortunately i can't I do it with a laptop and it takes time but i think any power can help you guys
... this allowed me to stop chewing my hat in an impotent rage last year. I folded fabric the PC folded protein, much folding happened, and it was good. Ya'll are more than welcome to continue to use my PC when I leave it on plugged in and ignored for hours upon hours at a time ;)
I have known friends to use this type of software since 1995. It got me wondering, what is it REALLY doing? Is there a list of projects anywhere to get shut of all the conspiracy theory type suggestions?
There are three reasons why I won’t help folding@home. The first reason is that solid-state drives (SSD) have a limited number of write operations before their memory cell loses its function. I would like to run folding@home continuously but am unwilling to compromise my SSD’s functionality. I purchased a hybrid hard drive (HHD) that combines a conventional hard disk drive (HDD) and a NAND flash module. While the NAND flash module will fail it will not compromise other data that is stored on SSDs. Unfortunately, this workaround did not work because the data created by folding@home is stored on the boot drive not where the folding@home is stored. The second reason low-medium-high control controls both the CPU and GPU so if I want to use the GPU on high and the CPU on low I cannot do it. To avoid the CPU and case fans coming on which are noisy and draw dust into the computer. The low setting would have to be about 10% or lower but even the low setting turns on the fans. This would mean disconnecting the computer and hauling it outside every month to blow the dust away. The third reason is related to my second reason. I would like to use the finish up and quit option on the CPU only, but alias, like the speed control works on both CPU and GPU.
