Majorgeeks Official Folding @ Home thread

DavidGP · Nov 17, 2009

Decided to start a new thread on folding at home and please just leave this thread to information about folding and methods of folding with various clients and tips etc

Leave idle chatter to its own new thread.

So to some info copied from the old thread of Goldfishes

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Firstly, What is Folding?

Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What is Folding@Home, then?
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

Ok, enough of the facts!

If you want to get involved, then you need to at least download the client.
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Myself, I've gone with the console client, because it uses less resources to show you the pretty stuff and more to do the crunching! Plus, I can run it as a service if I want to (more on that in a minute)

Majorgeeks.com is a team on the Folding@Home website, and you can see our stats here:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...e&teamnum=12072
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How to run F@H as a service!

Okay campers, for all you windows freekz who want to have FAH run silently, and quickly, and require no attention whatsoever, I have a solution for you!

1. The easy way
Use FireDaemon to create a service. Nice and friendly, but not very geeky. FireDaemon

2. The harder way!
Ever heard of sc.exe? Probably not. A very useful little tool for creating, deleting and configuring services from the command line. Have a look at this MSKB
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251192

See if you can get it running with that. The command is :
sc create FAH binpath= "c:\path\To\FAH4Console.exe -service" start= boot
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If any of the above is old info as I dont have time to check right now just PM me with the change and a link if applicable. Also if you have any tips do post below.

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