[geeks] Folding Proj Comaprison

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Yuri K wrote:
> How did you come to picking one folding project over others?
> Any considerations besides portability? I have been running a Stanford
> branch for about a year now, and at that time Toronto was keeping the
> results proprietary. Unless I misunderstood.

   Well, for one thing, they're doing completely different things.  In 
the words of one of distributed folding's top people:

   " There are many differences between us and folding at home but 
basically, we are interested in raw structure prediction while they are 
focussing on the dynamics of protein folding."

>  Most were running
> SETI at that time anyway.

   Heh, *I* sure wasn't.  I abandoned them as soon as they did that 
resending old blocks without telling anyone trick because they couldn't 
get their shit together, and their continued x86-centric attitude has 
continually irritated me.  As much as I like the concept, that project 
is a fucking joke.

       -Dave

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