Why don't we make a CAG team for Folding@Home?

[Capitalizt]

I'm sure a lot of people have decent gaming PC's, and I noticed a lot of other tech and gaming-related sites have official teams that work together using the spare processing power of their computers for Folding@Home.  For those who don't know, this is basically a distributed computing project where users dedicate their spare computing power to running simulations of protein folding to help find cures for things like Alzheimers, cancer, and other diseases.  It essentially combines thousands of individual PC's to create an epic supercomputer to do research that would otherwise be impossible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7sJx9z1uB9k

You can learn more about it here:

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ

Any CPU since the Core 2 Duo era has been great for folding, and the newer video cards are absolutely amazing at it.  I think it would be cool if we set up a team for CAG's to join and use their processing power for a good cause.  The program awards points for every work unit completed as a way of inspiring friendly competition.  I know IGN and some other sites already have teams, so it would be cool if CAG can get in on the action.  Is anyone else interested in this? 

 

[guyver2077]

Wow this takes me back. People still fold? We used to have a cag group back in the day when ps3 first came out.

 

[Gden]

Ah, my Selexia (selective dyslexia, yeah, I know it's not dyslexia, my brain just likes to completely misread things at random)kicks in again, I read that as Foster's home, which made me think of Bloo, which made me think of http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/099/e/f/pinkie_pie__amp__bloo_by_danspy1994-d6121du.png
 

 

[Capitalizt]

Wow this takes me back. People still fold? We used to have a cag group back in the day when ps3 first came out.

Yup people still do it. Unfortunately the PS3 Folding app was discontinued. While it was very powerful back in 2007, it can't compete with PCs now. They developers have been updating and optimizing Folding@Home for PC use, so right now even a midrange $100 video card will do 10-20x what the PS3 was capable of. And if you have a more high end card, you can do around 50X+ more work per day than the PS3 could. It is definitely a good time to be folding.

 

[pacifickarma]

The CAG Folding Group is #56566.