folding for cancer?

[Thermal]

Check this out...... (http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=3818F0E9-D488-45FA-89D4-B178BAB1350D)

[gsxr750]

They have no CPU time tho.
Just sing up and quit. hehehe =):burn:

[gsxr750]

I probably going with that folding for cancer.
but I really want to know what folding@home fold for....
Please.... some one tell me.
so I could decide.

[Thermal]

Originally posted by gsxr750
I probably going with that folding for cancer.
but I really want to know what folding@home fold for....
Please.... some one tell me.
so I could decide.
I replied to your other thread....go click the link.:)

[Ploaf]

That's the UD project also being pimped by Intel. It's a good project with a good motive.

Folding@Home is folding Alzheimers proteins. They both have merit although I am more interested in the Folding@Home project because I believe that there is going to be greater benefit to the scientific community as a whole.

[gsxr750]

Thank Ploaf :beer:
That what I'm looking for. simple and short answer.

I have make up my mind. I'll go with cancer folding.
Sorry OC team.

Hear out my point. Alzheimers doesn't kill. But cancer do kill people and many people have die. I'm sure every one of us know or heard about some one die because cancer. I don't have a close experience but you'll never know. The closetest I have is a friend parent.

Fold on people.
:burn:

[Ebola]

if i had Alzheimers i would pray to die. imagine not knowing who your kids are. imagine visiting a parent who doesnt know who you are. i want my brain to be as clear as possible until the day i croak.

[muddocktor]

Plus, Alzheimers is not necessarily a disease just for old people. It has been known to start in people in their 30's and 40's also, albeit a very low percentage of the cases. I don't want to have someone changing my diapers in my old age because I forgot how to use a toilet. I had a Grandma that died when she was 87 from a heart attack and believe it or not, it was a blessing. Alzheimers was just starting to kick in pretty good on her for the last 2 years of her life and you could see her progressively getting worse. My other Grandma died when she was 93 and she was totally out of it by the time she passed away. She didn't even recognize her own kids at the end, much less her grandkids. So you see, I have a vested interest in finding a cure as I've had grandparents on both sides of my family get struck by this terrible disease.

[gsxr750]

I already install and start folding for cancer last night.
I only have one computer but going to put togather another one.
so I probably going to start folding@home.
hummm better yet I'll setup my G-Friend CPU for folding@home.
LOL :D

:beer:

[Ploaf]

They are both good projects. I believe that the Stanford project, while working specifically on Alzheimer's proteins, is mostly concerned with getting the whole protein folding thing down and testing various models. That appears to be the goal. This project will prove helpful to IBM who is building the Blue Gene which will end up doing the same work in a couple of months that we will do in the coming years. That's how powerful it is, but the folks in this project have worked with IBM to help develop a model that will be effective in running through the protein folding sequences. We can't compete with them but we can sure help. Anything that we do here will be freely published on the web for anyone to see, which I also like. While IBM is looking for a profit from their supercomputer we can at least try to get as much free information out there as we can. We have a few years to do it. Hopefully the project lasts that long.

[lennytiger]

Originally posted by Ploaf
They are both good projects. I believe that the Stanford project, while working specifically on Alzheimer's proteins, is mostly concerned with getting the whole protein folding thing down and testing various models. That appears to be the goal. This project will prove helpful to IBM who is building the Blue Gene which will end up doing the same work in a couple of months that we will do in the coming years. That's how powerful it is, but the folks in this project have worked with IBM to help develop a model that will be effective in running through the protein folding sequences. We can't compete with them but we can sure help. Anything that we do here will be freely published on the web for anyone to see, which I also like. While IBM is looking for a profit from their supercomputer we can at least try to get as much free information out there as we can. We have a few years to do it. Hopefully the project lasts that long.

Well Said Ploaf...

I believe that folding with stanford is a better option as they take the information we produce, and let us see whats happening, and what we have acheived.

Right now our team is doing well, we fold for the cause.
We can do better, if people would stop leaving the team!! :D

[Trap]

Originally posted by Ebola
if i had Alzheimers i would pray to die. imagine not knowing who your kids are. imagine visiting a parent who doesnt know who you are. i want my brain to be as clear as possible until the day i croak.
True but try to imagine the cancer thing...

[res0r9lm]

If all these different projects could combine them effort things would happen alot quicker.