Beyond3D Folding Team 1,000,000 points :)

[pascal]

CONGRATULATIONS ALL FOR THE INCREDIBLE LANDMARK 8)

Today friday (2004-05-14) the Beyond3D Team (32377) totalized 1,000,000 points. Many people is contributing or contributed to this project. All great people who silently are doing an oustanding job

Some statistics: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=32377

THIS IS TIME FOR CELEBRATION

And new technologies are coming using GPUs to fold : http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=12278&forum=9



Now some propaganda
The Beyond3D Folding Team (number 32377) needs the donation of more CPU time.

The goal is help the Folding@Home project ( http://folding.stanford.edu/ ) and this is a very good cause.
Quick synopsis:

Proteins are "nanomachines" that assemble themselves (or fold) before carrying out their biochemical functions. The process of protein folding, critical to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Many well known diseases are result of protein "misfold". For instance Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project using novel computational methods which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. You can help the project by downloading and running the client software. It use the free time of your CPU with no perceptible impact.

If you want to help/participate then:
a) download the client software here: http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
b) The Windows instalation software will ask your name. My sugestion is to use your Beyond3D username.
c) After the instalation the software Control Panel should be configured to Team 32377.
d) In the control panel configure the advanced->client_type-> Folding@home
e) You may want to minimize the impact of the graphics. Set advanced->Graphics->molecule_draw_rate to minimum

Here at B3D we are used to discuss about many things, but folding distributed project is something many agree and hope that will benefit future generations of B3D members
Whatever is your race, sex, religion, nationality, party, political view, console, cpu, videocard or game this Team is for you

Join now

Some stoped, for these people I ask your help again.
If you can restart and give one more donation we all thank you,
for those who cant thank you for all you have done

Please any comment/advise are also wellcome

 

[Simon F]

Re: Beyond3D Folding Team 1,000,000 points in 5 days

Some stoped, for these people I ask your help again

... and others just have their jobs time out again and again just as they are approaching completion... arghhh.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

BOOOOO! HISSSSSS!

I demand you all search for aliens.

 

[Gollum]

Re: Beyond3D Folding Team 1,000,000 points in 5 days

 

[Bambers]

Re: Beyond3D Folding Team 1,000,000 points in 4 days

e) You may want to minimize the impact of the graphics. Set advanced->Graphics->molecule_draw_rate to minimum

or better yet, be hardcore and use the console version.

 

[Eronarn]

Does the person who gets #1,000,000 get a prize?

 

[pascal]

Good Morning

The 1,000,000 points winer will receive a congratulations card

 

[pascal]

Re: Beyond3D Folding Team 1,000,000 points in 5 days

Some stoped, for these people I ask your help again

... and others just have their jobs time out again and again just as they are approaching completion... arghhh.

Maybe you should consider the Ultimate sacrifice.

 

[pascal]

BOOOOO! HISSSSSS!

I demand you all search for aliens.

No need people. We have already found one

 

[pascal]

Good morning

Less than 48hs to 1,000,000 points

 

[pascal]

Hello

In a few hours (maybe 8hs) the Team will totalize 1,000,000 points

Again congratulations all and have a good night

 

[Deepak]

Hurrah! We did it.

Congrats! All!

 

[RussSchultz]

Of course, we slipped to 72.

I'm doing my part. Of course, only to make it to #1 before joe overtakes me.