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Author:  Angelic [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:47 am ]
Post subject:  Folding.
Can Macs fold?

I've been looking for an excuse to get an apple system for a while, but being drip-fed microsoft all my life I don't reckon i'd ever be able to get one as my main rig. Ergo, would I be able to fold using a Mac?

I really hope I would...
Author:  Linux_User [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
Yep, Macs can run the CPU client, available from the F@H website.

AFAIK, GPU Folding is Windows-only at the moment.
Author:  Nick [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
Only the MacBooks. ;)

Sorry, I'll get my coat. :lol:
Author:  Linux_User [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:08 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
Nick wrote:
Only the MacBooks. ;)

Sorry, I'll get my coat. :lol:


Well, unless you're feeling particularly strong and have something against your iMac. ;)
Author:  rubicon [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
Eh?

I know the meaning of each of the words above, but put together they make no sense to me!
Author:  forquare1 [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
rubicon wrote:
Eh?

I know the meaning of each of the words above, but put together they make no sense to me!


Clicky

From the FAQs:
Quote:
Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding. Protein folding is explained in more detail in the scientific background section.

Quote:
What are proteins?

Proteins are necklaces of amino acids --- long chain molecules. Proteins are the basis of how biology gets things done. As enzymes, they are the driving force behind all of the biochemical reactions which make biology work. As structural elements, they are the main constituent of our bones, muscles, hair, skin and blood vessels. As antibodies, they recognize invading elements and allow the immune system to get rid of the unwanted invaders. For these reasons, scientists have sequenced the human genome -- the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology -- but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work?


It's an interesting phenomena, many PC users will fine tune their rigs and run the folding software and rack up points...It's fascinating requires at least some effort to fine tune and continue tuning to get the best of the hardware, but if you asked the same people to do the something of similar importance in the form of a questionnaire or something, I'm sure many of them might do it once or twice and get fed up...

Angelic wrote:
Can Macs fold?


As has been said: yes :D
If (when!) I get my Mac Pro (Mmmmmm, 8-core goodness), I'll be asking very little of it (I mean how much CPU does Vim take up!?) so I'll be requesting it to fold most of he time.
Author:  rubicon [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
A ha. Thanks. So a bit like that SETI@home thingy I had running on my iMac a while ago? I also had a cancer research one running as well as I thought that was a little more worthwhile.
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
The Mac BOINC controller may be able to use NVIDIA cards for extra power, according to their site.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Author:  saspro [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Folding.
Use vmware player & you can run up to 4x SMP clients on a DP mac pro
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