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This was the key line for me... "The Army software system... is designed to test and identify biological agents in circumstances where commanders might have no idea what sort of threat they face." It sounds somewhat like Chromatography for proteins. It's used as an identification tool for...

The line in the article below that caused me to make the connection (not that hard) was:

"using a new software system developed by the military for analyzing proteins, ..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html

Discovered the folding@home typepad blog a wk or 2 ago. This http://folding.typepad.com/ led me here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers#ntoc2 A kinetic 'hub'. That's an interesting idea but what does it mean? Did the folding@home researchers use an existing term of art? Googled around and I...

Didn't get that answered but that's OK because I researched my question more online and found such things as the differing computing capabilities of a fragment program vs. a vertex program http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGem ... ter32.html (it seems this was written by Ian Buck) 'Program' here m...

I could have bought the paper online and while it may seem more troublesome we're not far from the Berkeley campus and what I prefer to do is to save up a list of papers I want and then one day drive to Berkeley and print out free online versions of the papers at Doe library. (Berkeley's library, li...

Hi Adrien - so what you're saying is that you'd like one of the software monitoring tools modified to include dropped frames? I may not be interpreting what you've said correctly. It would seem to me that dropped frames would meant that one was pushing on one's GPU (not CPU) too hard. Or is it a mat...

thanx - pat

I read here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-main#ntoc64 that the Graphical Client should show the potential energy of the current fold. The molecule drawn is the current atomic configuration ("fold") of the protein being simulated on your computer and the graph on the bottom shows...

I'll check out EVGA Precision but for the moment GPU-Z seems to do the trick. I can't put up its link because there's a first-day prohibition on new users posting links which is understandable. GPU is pegged at 98%. Is there some way of throttling GPU usage? I'm not having problems but it seems to m...

My first WU finished last night (PST aka GMT-8). I'd clicked "Pause when done" so I could upgrade from GPU2 to GPU3. The upgrade seems to have been successful and GPU3 is chugging away on 582 p2750_N68H_AM03 How do I monitor GPU usage? Obviously, standard Windows tools, whether something a...

how do I translate the above?

As best I can make out, the timestamp seems to be GMT-1 when I'm in fact in GMT-8.

Giving Russians Opium May Alter Current Situation = GROMACS. Ah, I see. Thanx.

But I'm still curious. Is there any way for me to figure out what actual protein-related task my machine is working on?

Downloaded and installed Folding@Home for the first time.

My current work unit name seems to be "Giving Russians Opium May Alter Current Situation".

Um, this seems slightly louche to me?

pat