[spapsinee]

has it uncovered any new cures yet ?

also has SETI found any intelligent life ?

just dud a Google but found nothing on new cures discovered by F&H.

or new Alien races

[Dynasty]

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

[mashabox]

i run F@H [thumbup]

[spapsinee]

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

So erm my question still stands, what tangible cures has this whole exercise produced ?

[illiderob]

SETI potentially found an extra-terrestrial signal back in the 70s, but it was before SETI @HOME was up and running (obviously).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

It gives a little hope that something else may be found again someday.

[Dynasty]

So erm my question still stands, what tangible cures has this whole exercise produced ?

They invented a laser that will scratch your arse from space.

[lorryuncori]

So erm my question still stands, what tangible cures has this whole exercise produced ?

Finding a cure for what F@H does isn't going to happen ASAP. F@H is a fairly new simulation. All the things that it has been working on, we have been trying to find a cure since we found out about these diseases which has been decades upon decades. These are the kinds of things that F@H works on.

Though, if you read around, F@H has helped with minor breakthroughs in the search for cures and has also helped us understand certain things better then we do now.

[spapsinee]

Finding a cure for what F@H does isn't going to happen ASAP. F@H is a fairly new simulation. All the things that it has been working on, we have been trying to find a cure since we found out about these diseases which has been decades upon decades. These are the kinds of things that F@H works on.

Though, if you read around, F@H has helped with minor breakthroughs in the search for cures and has also helped us understand certain things better then we do now.

to me that's like arguing with the arch bishop of Canterbury about the existence of god,or asking the labour party about the validity their parties policy's

so basically nowt has happened since 2000 when it all started,but people are touting its possibility for a breakthrough.

don't get me wrong I'm all for it but surely there should have been a major break through by now.

[illerlytoindy]

Maybe in 10 years time when CPU's / GPU's are much much faster we will find something.

[lorryuncori]

lol, yeah.

I remember debating about folding on my 233MHz MXM AMD K6. lol. Back way back when, little progress was made. Now it seems to just be flying.

I would love to still fold, just for some reason I have never had any luck recently. SMP doesn't want to work, and then the normal clients never want to send in their completed WU's or never wanted to finish WU's and is just too much trouble keeping up with it.