NationStates Jolt Archive

This idea very recently popped into my head, so I went to the Folding@Home site and discovered that there was no NationStates team for Folding@Home, a program that uses your computer when idle to process scientific data on proteins in the human body. I was looking through my user statistics and realized that it would be a nice PR move for NationStates if an official team was established.

It sounds like a pretty decent idea to me, and it's a way to both donate your idle computer to science and get the word out about NationStates.

I'd like to get some input and maybe even some permission from the mods before I go and create a (somewhat) official team bearing the NationStates name.

Is anyone up for it? Yay? Nay?

Folding@Home - folding.stanford.edu

so what it does is steal bandwidth?

I've been running this program for quite a while too. It is easily adjustable to whatever amount of CPU power you wish to set it to, and so long as I'm not playing a game that demands a lot of resources like Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, I can leave it running all the time.

So, I'd love to see a NationStates team.

Is this similar to the program SETI uses to take advantage of processing on idle home computers?

Is this similar to the program SETI uses to take advantage of processing on idle home computers?

Yes, but unlike SETI it actually accomplishes something of value.

I thought this was kinda cool, but I've never actually done it.

I'm just trying to bump non-suicide threads

Yes, but unlike SETI it actually accomplishes something of value.

:p I will keep my Seti thingy thanks.

I've got you all pwned. I run these on my comp during idle times:

Folding@Home
Rosetta@Home
QMC@Home
Seti@Home
World Community Grid
SIMAP

Yes, but unlike SETI it actually accomplishes something of value.

SETI>Protein folding nonsense

The whole thing looks kinda fishy, if you ask me.

SETI>Protein folding nonsense

SETI+Protein Folding= Two great tastes that taste great together

The whole thing looks kinda fishy, if you ask me.

Nope, it's legit. Actually, Folding@Home has produced a pretty decent amount of valuable research and has only gotten more and more powerful as computing power increases and more computers are crunching it.

I'll be running FAH on my PS3 this summer, and if Microsoft gets involved all the Xbox 360 owners can do so too.

Yes, but unlike SETI it actually accomplishes something of value.

When we actually do find alien life, they'll remember who cared about finding them...

I'd like to help both, but this laptop is barely holding together as it is. It's good to see medical research tapping into communal resources like this, though.

I've got you all pwned. I run these on my comp during idle times:

Folding@Home
Rosetta@Home
QMC@Home
Seti@Home
World Community Grid
SIMAP
What's Rosetta, QMC, and WCG and SIMAP? I'm thinking Rosetta has to do with languages, just as a random guess?

Nope, it's legit. Actually, Folding@Home has produced a pretty decent amount of valuable research and has only gotten more and more powerful as computing power increases and more computers are crunching it.

I'll be running FAH on my PS3 this summer, and if Microsoft gets involved all the Xbox 360 owners can do so too.

Sounds like some kind of pyramid scheme, but I suppose if enough people sign on without having their data stolen or something like that, I'd give it a shot.

When we actually do find alien life, they'll remember who cared about finding them...

I'd like to help both, but this laptop is barely holding together as it is. It's good to see medical research tapping into communal resources like this, though.

Well, see, the way I see it, I've got to set whatever program I use to full computational power, since it doesn't utilize both cores of my CPU.

So, whatever I choose is the only one I can have running. And out of SETI or medical research, I think I'd pick medical research time and again.

Thumbless: It's run by the bloody University of Stanford, which is one of THE premire universities in the United States.

I run this on my PS3 most of the day when I'm at work.

Sounds like some kind of pyramid scheme, but I suppose if enough people sign on without having their data stolen or something like that, I'd give it a shot.

I don't think Stanford University is trying to rip us off.

What's Rosetta, QMC, and WCG and SIMAP? I'm thinking Rosetta has to do with languages, just as a random guess?

-Rosetta@home runs protein folding simulations to develop the Rosetta algorithm. It's the computing side of these projects; the idea is to develop the Rosetta code so that protein folding can be accelerated and made even more accurate and effective.

-QMC is a quantum chemistry program currently in its beta testing stage.

-World Community Grid is IBM's program that does work in protein folding, drug testing and work on muscular dystrophy, AIDS, and Alzheimer's.

-SIMAP is a program that calculates singularity matrices for proteins, which helps researchers find common structures and predict folding patterns. These databases are made public for researchers to use, and help work through the backlog of calculations that research institutes aren't able to do.

did anyone else think this was going to be a thread about competitive origami??

-Rosetta@home runs protein folding simulations to develop the Rosetta algorithm. It's the computing side of these projects; the idea is to develop the Rosetta code so that protein folding can be accelerated and made even more accurate and effective.

-QMC is a quantum chemistry program currently in its beta testing stage.

-World Community Grid is IBM's program that does work in protein folding, drug testing and work on muscular dystrophy, AIDS, and Alzheimer's.

-SIMAP is a program that calculates singularity matrices for proteins, which helps researchers find common structures and predict folding patterns. These databases are made public for researchers to use, and help work through the backlog of calculations that research institutes aren't able to do.

Ah. So, all medical research, then. I might want to check them all out, if I can have them all running at once.

Thumbless: It's run by the bloody University of Stanford, which is one of THE premire universities in the United States.

Yes. And Enron was one of THE most important energy companies in the U.S., until recently. ;)

Not that I'm skeptical of Stanford itself, but rather am concerned over who might access the information. That's the tricky part.

did anyone else think this was going to be a thread about competitive origami??

Does that exist? :p

I think I can still make a swan. Maybe I'll hit the pro circuit.

Does that exist? :p

well i don't know, i was all prepared to be incredulous and then it turned out to be something about science.

I think I can still make a swan. Maybe I'll hit the pro circuit.

i used to be able to make a mean "perfect glider", never done any traditional origami though.

well i don't know, i was all prepared to be incredulous and then it turned out to be something about science.


That is, IF it really is about science. It's always about "science" until you get $2000 charged on your credit card after it's stolen over the internet. Or spyware. That's also bad.

That is, IF it really is about science. It's always about "science" until you get $2000 charged on your credit card after it's stolen over the internet. Or spyware. That's also bad.

Okay, mister paranoid, I've got the security of Fort freaking Knox on my computer, and nothing that is regularly running has ever--EVER--detected anything bad from Folding@Home.

Satisfied?

Okay, mister paranoid, I've got the security of Fort freaking Knox on my computer, and nothing that is regularly running has ever--EVER--detected anything bad from Folding@Home.

Satisfied?

Boy, will you be feeling sheepish when you read the headline about some grad students stealing all the info and selling it on the black market. :p Though you might be one of the lucky ones if you're running good security software. Me, I'm running Windows, so I'd just be plain asking for it. My old school just "lost" account info on 20,000 alumni, including SS#s, and let's not forget the incident involving the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs.

Boy, will you be feeling sheepish when you read the headline about some grad students stealing all the info and selling it on the black market. :p Though you might be one of the lucky ones if you're running good security software. Me, I'm running Windows, so I'd just be plain asking for it. My old school just "lost" account info on 20,000 alumni, including SS#s, and let's not forget the incident involving the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs.
I'm running Windows too, since this is mainly a gaming machine, hence the heavy security precisely for this reason.

Ah well...I'm sure once you investigate this enough you'll find it's safe. Just be sure to actually investigate, me says.

O...kay...

So, whoever's up for the team, it's team number 73253. Now we just need a logo and a website. :P

O...kay...

So, whoever's up for the team, it's team number 73253. Now we just need a logo and a website. :P

Team number set, chief.

As for logo and website...methinks we already have them? There's a NationStates General logo floating around this forum somewhere, and this forum could easily subsist as the website. No need for a separate one, yah?