Have they achieved anything?

DaSilva

Have any of these @home projects achieved anything yet? I run the console version of folding@home anonymously on my pc. But id like to know have they actually done anything with all this data yet, or am I really inadvertently really just wasting power, bandwidth and actually causing a problem.

I'm a bit of a pragmatist and so after reading the "progress" report on the folding@home page, I'm a little disillusioned with the whole thing. Has anything practical been achieved? With all this computing power going on, are all they doing is producing papers that win awards?

I will continue it, but if one of these @home actually produces some results I will swap to that one, or worse if it turns out this really is all just a statistics competition.

Anti

I know folding@home has caused some beakthroughs in how different medicines can be used for various diseases.

Its best to read these two links:

http://folding.stanford.edu/papers.html

and

http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html


I dont fully understand the exact science behind most of what is being said, but it looks good

DonkeyStyle \o/

DaSilva wrote:

I run the console version of folding@home anonymously on my pc.

You should fold anonymously for team 39432
As pointless a stat-whoring contest as it is, it keeps it at least a little bit interesting to those of us without lab coats.
The stats give me something I can stroke my chin and nod my head at.