GUS: Burning and Folding Edition and Openthread

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

Welcome home everyone.

What do I mean by burning and folding? Making music more accessible is the burning part and I'm going to asking for advice. Folding is more important and we go below the fold . . .

This one folds.

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

Welcome home everyone, GUSsacks, folders, and KOSsacks we don't know yet.
Please play nicely and join one or more groups in the Butt can.

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. We avoid discussion of political issues. If you are quitting or even thinking about quitting, please -- join us! GUS Library at dKosopedia is organically evolving, and stocked with free-range information: quit-smoking links, helpful GUS diary writing tips, and the GUS Buddy List.

If anyone knows who came up with the locution

organically evolving, and stocked with free-range information

I salute you.

As most GUSsacks know, my mother is afflicted with Alzheimer's dementia and it might be related to her smoking history.

This diary is an attempt to evangelize Folding@Home.

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

Do you believe in science? Of course you do! Are you the owner of a computer? Heck yes! How about a Ps3, they Fold too?! Do you think that the Freepers should be beating us Kossacks at a friendly science based competition? If you said, "No" then please follow me below the fold to see how you can get involved today. Join the Daily Kos Folding Team! Team 48083

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

So I just got clued in that the Kossacks were starting to Fold recently.
I'm a former member of the #1 team in the world, HardOCP, aka the Horde.. If there's anything the Horde knows (other than how to be mostly a bunch of right-wing rejects) is how to fold. Fair warning: I am a hardcore nerd. I will try and explain as much as possible in any comments that may pop up.

Edit for most: Folding@home uses your computer to help try and possibly find cures for diseases by simulating the folding of proteins. This project is sponsored by the Pande Group at Stanford University.

This is a link to the project's homepage - folding.stanford.edu

DailyKos's team number is 48083

There's some suggestions belizzle the fizzle.

Ashaman

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

If you've been watching diaries carefully, you've seen a few in the last couple of weeks promoting the Folding@Home project, and the Kos team within that project. This is a very worthwhile distributed computing project, where you assist the project by donating CPU power from your own machine(s). I've got a PS3 working hard on protein folding for the guys at Stanford (and the Kos team).

However, I've got another project that I contribute to with my desktop: ClimatePrediction.net

ClimatePrediction.net is run out of Oxford University in the UK, and it's goal is to build and refine computer models of the Earth's climate. Computer climate models are an important tool in understanding and solving global warming, and I'm very proud to be donating CPU cycles to this cause.

LoneStarLefty

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

.... we have a long way to go, FReepers are still in 69th place!

I would like to thank the now about 25 of you who answered the call to join team Daily Kos on Stanford University's protein folding project.

In less than a month Team Daily Kos has climbed from 425 to 402 and have mega-increased our daily output.

I beseech the rest of you to volunteer your idle CPU's and GPU's to the cause!

See below...

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

The Daily Kos Folding@home Team needs your help. What’s "Folding@home" you say? It’s a distributed computing project run by Pande lab, which is part of the Departments of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University and Stanford University Medical Center. Its goal is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases" and help advance medical research in Alzheimer's disease, cancer, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, influenza, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, and ALS. If we could find a way to treat or prevent Alzheimer's, it would have a huge impact. In the U.S. alone, more than 5 million people have Alzheimer's and that number is projected to increase as the baby boom population ages. Currently in the U.S., the estimated direct and indirect annual costs of caring for people with dementia is at least $100 billion. Globally, there are an estimated 30 million people with dementia and by 2050 the number is projected to rise to over 100 million.

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

LoneStarLefty

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

.... we have a long way to go, FReepers are still in 71st place!

I would like to thank the 13-14 of you who answered the call to join team Daily Kos on Stanford University's protein folding project.

In just a few days we have climbed from spot 425 to 422 and have doubled our daily output.

I beseech the rest of you to volunteer your idle CPU's and GPU's to the cause!

See below...

LoneStarLefty

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

***************A CALL TO ~~ARMS~~ PROCESSING UNITS!!***************

In my pursuit of a new graphics card (leading candidate) I have stumbled upon a competition between our blogs that has been ongoing behind the scenes for years, the Folding@home distributed research project from Stanford University in its 9th year.

It involves allowing the project to use the CPU, GPU or both from your home computer as a point on a worldwide internet supercomputer to assist them and affiliated universities in performing complex modeling experiments on how proteins fold in the moments after they have finished being encoded. A multitude of diseases are due to abberations in the folding process.

The amount of work done by any individual (allows multiple computers per log-in) is recorded and points for your work can be dedicated to a cumulative team score then ranked by team totals.

Team FReeper is ranked in the low 70's.
Team DailyKos is ranked in the mid 420's.
Team RedState is ranked in the 1150's.

This is UNACCEPTABLE for a site that boasts so many medicine and science buffs!!!!

Details below...

LoneStarLefty

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

***************A CALL TO ~~ARMS~~ PROCESSING UNITS!!***************

The amount of work done by any individual (allows multiple computers per log-in) is recorded and points for your work can be dedicated to a cumulative team score then ranked by team totals.

Team FReeper is ranked in the low 70's.
Team DailyKos is ranked in the mid 420's.
Team RedState is ranked in the 1150's.

This is UNACCEPTABLE for a site that boasts so many medicine and science buffs!!!!

Details below...

thereisnospoon

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Friday April 08, 2011 · 6:06 PM PDT

2011/04/08 · 18:06

Need something for your computer to do while our brave Senators pull an all-nighter for the troops and the American People? Well, I've got just the thing for you.

About 100 of us intrepid Kossacks have been a part of the DailyKos Folding@Home distributed computing team for over a year now, trying to catch up with the nutcases over at FreeRepublic--but we need more help!

Currently the Freeper team is ranked #56 out of 73,609 teams in terms of work units processed; our own Daily Kos team is only ranked #365.

And there's no way that should be happening. We're bigger, better and smarter than they are. And they hate science, for crying out loud!

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