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Hey how close do you think we are to compeleteing our ultimate goal? (as far our computers compeleting all projects.)

The first treatment may be a few years away yet, but for only one disease. The rest will take many more years, even with Moore's law.

The project doesn't end until we cure them all, or the money runs out, or the ice age/asteroid comes.

The answer is 42

I think the need for Grid Computing for scientific purposes will never end =D

Btw, i wonder how often stanford adds new projects to the database (are the processors smashing thru them fast enuff?)

Trivolve wrote:Btw, i wonder how often stanford adds new projects to the database (are the processors smashing thru them fast enuff?)

New ones appear almost every week, though many are variations of the same protein so they don't publish that many papers. (See the list of papers which is impressive)

No. More processors are always needed.

It's kinda like exploring space. Even after making major steps forward (eg going to the Moon, Mars, etc), there's still a lot left to do.

VijayPande wrote:It's kinda like exploring space. Even after making major steps forward (eg going to the Moon, Mars, etc), there's still a lot left to do.

Well, I don't think it's like that but I do believe it will take ten years.

bruce wrote:

Trivolve wrote:Btw, i wonder how often stanford adds new projects to the database (are the processors smashing thru them fast enuff?)

New ones appear almost every week, though many are variations of the same protein so they don't publish that many papers. (See the list of papers which is impressive)

No. More processors are always needed.

If only the client is 100% reliable for some partnership + install, like google toolbar =D

Yeh i'd like to see some sort of partnership again for Folding@Home, try and prepel the idea of 'distributed computing' into the mainstream. Google would be perfect but Yahoo maybe, even a partnership with someone like Apple who could maybe include a default installation of Folding@Home on Macs and then as part of the install process, people can choose to either enable or disable the program or setup scheduling?

Anything to get the program onto more computers is a good idea.

science man wrote:

VijayPande wrote:It's kinda like exploring space. Even after making major steps forward (eg going to the Moon, Mars, etc), there's still a lot left to do.

Well, I don't think it's like that but I do believe it will take ten years.

No offence, but why contradict the head of the project? We've only studied tiny parts of this field of research... After 8 years we've barely broken the surface, so I think 50 would be an underestimate... (I hope so anyway... would be cool to be able to say I've run the project for 50 years :P)

smASHer88 wrote:Yeh i'd like to see some sort of partnership again for Folding@Home, try and prepel the idea of 'distributed computing' into the mainstream. Google would be perfect but Yahoo maybe, even a partnership with someone like Apple who could maybe include a default installation of Folding@Home on Macs and then as part of the install process, people can choose to either enable or disable the program or setup scheduling?

Anything to get the program onto more computers is a good idea.

What i meant was for it to be as widespread as Google Toolbar, which is embedded in the installation of many softwares (Would you like to install Google Toolbar? Yes/No?)

Trivolve wrote:
What i meant was for it to be as widespread as Google Toolbar, which is embedded in the installation of many softwares (Would you like to install Google Toolbar? Yes/No?)

Been there, done that. It was called the Google Compute program. It ended a few years back, but introduced FAH to a lot of new people.