Folding@Home

Welcome Folders!
This is the home of the Mutaku Folding at Home team.

Team ID Number: 102855
Team Name: mutaku

Team Stats : F@H page
Team Stats : Kakao Stats page

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From Wikipedia:
"Folding@Home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.""

We started the Mutaku team when we finally got a PS3 and started folding again. Originally we did some folding under no particular team and then under a few other teams. With our PS3 folding we decided it would be fun to create a Mutaku team for us and our readers to use. We previously used the Linux CLI client on a bunch of our LAN machines and look forward to possibly setting up a small cluster to get folding once again. The PS3 has a great folding client bundled out of the box with music, usage map, molecule viewer, and more. I have been really impressed with the efficiency, design, and power of the folding on the PS3, and with it being close to silent, simply let it run 24x7 (whenever we are not gaming on it).

More from Wikipedia on the PS3 client:
"Stanford announced in August 2006 that a folding client was available to run on the Sony PlayStation 3. The intent was that gamers would be able to contribute to the project by merely "contributing electricity," leaving their PlayStation 3 consoles running the client while not playing games. PS3 firmware version 1.6 (released on Thursday, March 22, 2007) allows for Folding@home software, a 50 MB download, to be used on the PS3. A peak output of the project at 990 teraFLOPS was achieved on 25 March, 2007, at which time the number of FLOPS from each PS3 as reported by Stanford fell, reducing the overall speed rating of those machines by 50%. This had the effect of bumping down the overall project speed to the mid 700 range and increasing the number of active PS3s required to achieve a petaFLOPS level to around 60,000. Lately, the console accounts for about 60% of all teraFLOPS. On April 25, 2007, Sony announced that a new version of Folding@home would be released the next day. The new version would improve folding performance beyond the current capacity, far beyond even the 400 teraFLOPS previously reached by PS3 users. The release led to the breaking of the petaFLOPS barrier for the first time by any computing system in history on September 15, 2007. Guinness World Record will recognize Folding@Home as the most powerful distributed computing network, in large part thanks to the PS3. On December 19, 2007, Sony again updated the Folding@Home client to version 1.3 to allow users to run music stored on their hard drives while contributing. Another feature of the 1.3 update allows users to automatically shut down their console after current work is done or after a limited period of time (for example 3 or 4 hours). Also, the software update added the Generalized Born implicit solvent model, so the FAH PS3 client gained more broad computing capabilities."



Stanford F@H

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