I came across an article on Engadget regarding their "Engadget Folding@home team" group for Folding@Home Distributed Computing. Since our server doesn’t really do much with it’s brain, I decided to put it to use working out protein folds.
If you want to join in as well, here’s their team details:
Team Engadget’s F@H team ID is: 39227
From Engadget: "First Team Engadget folder to get 10,000 F@H points gets a Tokyo Flash watch on us". Cool
Blake has just been picked up by his grandfather (nunu) to have a weekend of fun away up north. I’ve got to go pick up Bec from her break, soon.
I’ve been taking Sienna out the last couple of days. We checked out the new Westfield shopping centre in Helensvale a couple of times. Today, I set up three ‘insect bombs’ cans and took Sienna down to the Robina shopping centre to get a few things we were out of. I’ve also been keeping busy helping around the house.. vacuuming, washing, cooking. Something different from my norm. I even finally tidied up my closet and actually folded some clothes
We’ve had some storms and lots of thunder and lightning around lately. Last night was pretty wild with lots of flashy lights outside. You’d think there was an alien spaceship hovering over the house .. there was so much light.
Today, I picked up a CD from Coles which has 101 kid’s brainy games on it. I only just managed to get it installed on his PC and give him a quick go before he had to leave.
He seemed very pleased with it, I’m glad to say
He was very well behaved this afternoon when I picked him up so I thought a surprise might go a long way.
I also picked up a surprise DVD for Bec.. "Ladyhawke".. only $9.95 from Coles. Sweet!





October 30th, 2005 at 2:04 pm - Edit
Zgeek does this folding stuff..should check it out..
http://www.zgeek.com
October 31st, 2005 at 11:20 pm - Edit
Try this team out http://www.boinc-australia.net
They are currently the top ranking Aussie BOINC (boinc.berkeley.edu) team and about 37th globally. BOINC currently has at least 6 “@Home” type projects ranging from climate prediction, gravity wave hunting, particle accelerator fine tuning/simulation, ET hunting & protein folding with a lot more in the works including PlanetQuest (www.planetquest.org) & Orbit@Home (near-Earth asteroid hunting).
I’m doing predictor@home, rosetta@home & the old fave seti@home (plus the beta seti-enhanced) all on the one PC. The newest version of BOINC (5.2.5) seems to run just fine & they have versions for Windows, Mac, Linux & Solaris/Sparc. I think BOINC and Seti are open source too for you coders…:-).
November 1st, 2005 at 7:47 pm - Edit
I never thought Beno was so technical!
November 1st, 2005 at 7:50 pm - Edit
I did Seti@ when it was cool to, but it’s old hat now. It used to be the @home du jour.