Hate to ask, BUT what is SETI?

[harryinny3]

For that matter what is folding? Are these something i should do? Will it hurt my computer? Any answers would be cool.



Harry

[Disco_Stu]

Well...since you asked...I would like to personaly invite you to join our Folding team, Team 32. We would love to have you, and ANY contribution you could make would be greatly appreciated. right now we are hot on the tails of Overclockers Australia, and every little bit helps us catch those Aussies! We also have a contest going on, sign up to have a chance to win a free cpu!

FAH is a distributed computing project, the purpose of which is to learn how proteins fold and misfold. By breaking down the process by which proteins are created we can find out what causes them to miscreate or misfold. The hope is that this will lead to future research that can help scientists come up with better treatments/cures for many of todays common ailments. But the most important part of the project is putting together an effective model of how to fold and unfold proteins with supercomputer power.

This is an extremely complicated process that requires awesome amounts of computing power that was virtually unattainable prior to the start of this project. This project harnesses the power of thousands of individual PC's connected to the internet by breaking down the necessary work and allowing those individual computers to work on small pieces of information and then returning the calculated results to Stanford university. Once the work is done and returned your computer will automatically get fresh data to calculate. The work is then piece back together at Stanford university. There are results and more information posted on the Folding@Home website at http://folding.stanford.edu/.


http://folding.octeams.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=5&categories=Intro&parent_id=0#17

And no, it won't hurt your computer at all!

You can find all the info you ever need, Here (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108580).

And you can join our folding contest, Here (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165240).

Edit: Sorry SETI guys, I just read this on the "new posts" page, I didn't realize I was stepping on your toes until I already posted. Please don't yell!

[Kendan]

Originally posted by harryinny3
For that matter what is folding? Are these something i should do? Will it hurt my computer? Any answers would be cool.



Harry
This is the wrong place to ask about Folding (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108580) . That link will tell you about it.
SETI is a distributed computing project that looks for signs of inteligent life in the universe by scanning the skies listening for radio waves from distant Galaxies. The SETIers will be able to explain it in more detail. As for being safe. Yes distributed computing just uses the computer cycles you are not using. Please do not waste your cycles;)

[TC]

Both are distributed computing projects, which means they use the computing power of volunteers to process large amounts of data that has been cut into manageable pieces. Through this approach the combined computing power of many people becomes similar to that of having a single "super computer" that would be prohibitively expensive to purchase and/or buy time on. The Seti project focuses on the search for intelligent radio signals that would be sent by other intelligent beings in the universe, as well as studying other events like black holes, pulsars, etc. Folding is focused on the process which takes place as proteins fold. Studying this may lead to medical advances in the future.