my biology teacher wants to join this thing.

[Lt. Max]

well in her classroom she has 9 imac G3's doing seti@home stuff, and i told her that theres this neat prog that does protein folding instead of the pointless scanning of the sky. so she was delighted and i told her i'd find more info. does anyone know if these things work on imac G3's?
i think i tried to post this but i lost the post so this is the repost.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by Lt. Max
well in her classroom she has 9 imac G3's doing seti@home stuff, and i told her that theres this neat prog that does protein folding instead of the pointless scanning of the sky. so she was delighted and i told her i'd find more info. does anyone know if these things work on imac G3's?
i think i tried to post this but i lost the post so this is the repost.

Try to post this is the FOLDING@HOME board.

They will know more about it.

[Ploaf]

There is no mac client of any kind that I am aware of yet.
I am not sure but I think Lennytiger may know someone else who is interested in using OS 9.x and earlier via emulation. Haven't heard about any successes. Stanford is currently working on an OS X version and I think that they are having trouble with the compiler, either getting a good one or working with the one that they have. This program is written in Fortran and I think that that is where most of the compatability problems arise.

[NedClocker]

Gandalf,

This is the folding @ home board.

[Lt. Max]

okay thnx neway ill tell her that

[NedClocker]

Dude, I wish she could get those to foldin'.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by NedClocker
Gandalf,

This is the folding @ home board.

It was origionally in General Harware.

[Genoide]

Guys, my school has a firewall using mostly windows based os... do you guys know If i can run Folding on the firewalled comps on the network? if it is possible I can get alot of computers to do so... comps on 24/7

[Lt. Max]

we got lots of p3's 800-933 at our school too, at least like 50 (2 labs) but i dont think teachers would allow me to do folding on those

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by Lt. Max
we got lots of p3's 800-933 at our school too, at least like 50 (2 labs) but i dont think teachers would allow me to do folding on those

I am in the process of asking one of hte Computer Teachers at school if I can run F@H on the labs.

You should try to ask.

[muddocktor]

I think all you school people should ask about running the F@H client in the computer labs. It's not like it is doing work for a private company or anything. It's doing work for Stanford University. All they can say is no, I figure.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by muddocktor
I think all you school people should ask about running the F@H client in the computer labs. It's not like it is doing work for a private company or anything. It's doing work for Stanford University. All they can say is no, I figure.

Exactly........it's just that I don't know how to start to ask them........what should I say?

[muddocktor]

You might approach the subject like:
I saw on a website that Stanford is doing a distributed computing project on Alzheimer's and cancer, figuring how proteins are folded. I joined their team and I've been running it on my home computer for (insert how many weeks you've been folding) and haven't had any problems with it running in the background. I was wondering if you and the school officials would let the class participate in this project?
If you get the OK, make sure that they enter 32 for the team.:D

[NedClocker]

Gandalf,

My apologies.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by NedClocker
Gandalf,

My apologies.

Hey, no problem! :D

[NedClocker]

Cool. Thanks.

Let's fold.