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w.meri · May 21, 2021, 2:26pm

Yep, there’s a even a L1T folding team

Hey guys, @wendell made us a Level1 Techs Folding@Home Team! I know we had an old TS one that pretty much died, so this one is new and improved and bearing the L1T name! Details: Team Number: 232084 Team Stats Fast Stats (updated every hour) Team Rankings Client Download (Windows, Mac, and Linux clients available. Browser-only client available as well.) What is Folding@Home? Folding@Home is a software that you can run to help simulate portions of protein folding. The results are sent back to the centralized hub at Stanford and are used in research projects all over the country. Protein misfolding has been implicated in many diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, cancer, mad cow disease, and more. Because proteins are such incredibly complex structures, and modeling all their potential interactions, foldings, and misfoldings would require such a massive amount of computing power, it’s virtually impossible to do, especially among smaller labs that don’t focus specifically in computer modeling. However, Folding@Home is able to link together tons of smaller contributors (like us) and use our computers to help run these simulations. Researchers can submit specific scenarios they would like to test, and the F@H client will run those simulations. Will this slow down my PC? It doesn’t need to. You can set limits on the resource usage of Folding@Home, and you can also set it only to run when your PC is idle. If you tried F@H in the past and were annoyed by constantly having to disable it every time you wanted to use your PC, the new idle feature is a lifesaver. There’s been many updates to the client, improving it a lot, so I highly recommend checking it out again if you have in the past. Will this use lots of electricity? From their website: Roughly, a CPU uses about as much power (watts) as a typical light bulb. Although power supplies on most computers are rated at 400 watts, average usage is lower. On average, a P…