Folding@Home

[CarpCharacin]

Anyone else running Folding@Home? It's a very cool project.
https://foldingathome.org/

 

[sourland]

Not me James, but you knew that. Hope that all is good with you.

 

[CarpCharacin]

This is exciting: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
It doesn't do the same thing as Folding@Home, as F@H uses software like Gromacs to simulate molecular dynamics in an attempt to gain a more, well, dynamic understanding of how the proteins work, while what AlphaFold does is predict the final 3D structure from the chemical makeup. There are many different combinations of how proteins can fold, so AlphaFold 2 really is a big breakthrough. There is a distributed computing project called Rosetta@Home that is aimed at predicting the final structure, but predictions made by AlphaFold 2 are much more accurate than those made by Rosetta, at least at the moment. I wonder if there will ever be a distributed computing project that uses AlphaFold, since it does need a lot of computational resources.

 

[Kiki]

Is this the one your team earns points for?

 

[CarpCharacin]

Is this the one your team earns points for?

Folding@Home is, not the other projects.

 

[Kiki]

What's your score now?

 

[CarpCharacin]

 

[Kiki]

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What's it at today?
Did you just start this in 2020?
I wonder how many points you got for one while year.

 

[CarpCharacin]

What's it at today?
Did you just start this in 2020?
I wonder how many points you got for one while year.

I think I started around April.

I think I'm still getting around 1m points per day, but it was lower when I started, around 800k I think. Once I build a better PC, I should be able to get over 5m PPD.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Some of the GPU WUs are worth a lot of points. The majority of my points come from GPU WUs.