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What: The Great Chimp Challenge of 2012, a Team folding race to benefit Folding @ Home
When: May 15th** through May 25th. (officially) Pacific Daylight Savings Time
Purpose: Officially: Fun, and more exposure for Folding@Home.
21111 Unofficially: Melt the servers, of course!
Who: Racing teams will be :
EVGA, OCN, TSC! OCAU, Tech Power Up!, Hardware Canucks/NCIX, and Custom PC & Bit Tech, and us.
How To Take Part:
1. Download and install folding at home from Stanford HERE by clicking "Windows All Versions"
2. Use the following info to join the race with us:
Our racing username is: T32monkeys
Our team number is: 32
Our public passkey is: 3311d92fd7ee331bd66dfe6eea01708b
<< The racing name, team number, and passkey must be as above, in order to race! >>
(or a qualified passkey)
Truth is, we're one of the smaller teams in the race, so we need to recruit in this last week before the race. AND, this is great for F@Home's exposure to new folders. Know a friend or two with a computer? Invite them to race with us!
We're a small team, but we're definitely NOT a weak team!
The folding program is available free from Stanford University, where Folding@Home is directed by Professor Vijay Pande. Our work units come from Professor Pande, and his associate researchers, at Universities all over the world.
Get the folding program here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage
Folding@Home is the largest distributed computer project in the world, with thousands of teams and hundreds of thousands of computers. All running these simulations to help us understand how our critical proteins prepare themselves to work, and how it can go wrong. Diseases studied range from Cancer, to Influenza, Alzheimer's to Huntingtons and Mad Cow/CJ disease.
Results are freely available to medical researchers worldwide, and have already been used to increase the effectiveness of a breast cancer drug, while decreasing the toxicity of that drug.
We're having fun, but it's fun with a definite purpose - to help discover cures and better treatments.
The army of folders against disease and ignorance of our own proteins, is forming -- new hardware is coming on-line, old hardware is being re-commissioned for this task. Operating systems are being changed, VM's set into place. Recruiting is proceeding at an unparalleled pace.
We're going to turn in so many work units that those servers will melt into a little puddle of bubbling goo!
We have one week left - recruit your friends and associates, and get ready to race!
**Start racing on the 14th so you have work units ready to turn in, on the 15th.
* Race Info *
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What: The Great Chimp Challenge of 2012, a Team folding race to benefit Folding @ Home
When: May 15th** through May 25th. (officially) Pacific Daylight Savings Time
Purpose: Officially: Fun, and more exposure for Folding@Home.
21111 Unofficially: Melt the servers, of course!
Who: Racing teams will be :
EVGA, OCN, TSC! OCAU, Tech Power Up!, Hardware Canucks/NCIX, and Custom PC & Bit Tech, and us.
How To Take Part:
1. Download and install folding at home from Stanford HERE by clicking "Windows All Versions"
2. Use the following info to join the race with us:
Our racing username is: T32monkeys
Our team number is: 32
Our public passkey is: 3311d92fd7ee331bd66dfe6eea01708b
<< The racing name, team number, and passkey must be as above, in order to race! >>
(or a qualified passkey)
Truth is, we're one of the smaller teams in the race, so we need to recruit in this last week before the race. AND, this is great for F@Home's exposure to new folders. Know a friend or two with a computer? Invite them to race with us!
We're a small team, but we're definitely NOT a weak team!
The folding program is available free from Stanford University, where Folding@Home is directed by Professor Vijay Pande. Our work units come from Professor Pande, and his associate researchers, at Universities all over the world.
Get the folding program here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage
Folding@Home is the largest distributed computer project in the world, with thousands of teams and hundreds of thousands of computers. All running these simulations to help us understand how our critical proteins prepare themselves to work, and how it can go wrong. Diseases studied range from Cancer, to Influenza, Alzheimer's to Huntingtons and Mad Cow/CJ disease.
Results are freely available to medical researchers worldwide, and have already been used to increase the effectiveness of a breast cancer drug, while decreasing the toxicity of that drug.
We're having fun, but it's fun with a definite purpose - to help discover cures and better treatments.
The army of folders against disease and ignorance of our own proteins, is forming -- new hardware is coming on-line, old hardware is being re-commissioned for this task. Operating systems are being changed, VM's set into place. Recruiting is proceeding at an unparalleled pace.
Team 32 is on the move!
There is a rumor that we're trying to turn in so many work units, that F@Home's servers will overheat.
That is a lie.
We're going to turn in so many work units that those servers will melt into a little puddle of bubbling goo!
We have one week left - recruit your friends and associates, and get ready to race!
**Start racing on the 14th so you have work units ready to turn in, on the 15th.
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for the last day before we start folding for the Chimp Challenge.
to the race! ![[H]pututu](/forums/data/avatars/s/241/241673.jpg?1704411343){kind=avatar}
