Category: Freeware
Protein Folding
October 4th, 2009Boinc is a software application developed by The University of California in Berkeley. The application reports back to servers housed by individual research teams. The servers gather and delegate information to a super-network of home computers. From the data that the project servers collect, researchers can analyze radio waves, fold proteins, and even predict climate changes at little to no cost. The reason for a home user to install Boinc is freindly competition, bragging rights, CPU benchmarking, and most of all, charitable contribution to research which could benefit universities and institutions around the world.
Our group of friends has started a team for the rosetta@home project (protein folding). We are the "h4xx0rz."
We are currently ranked within the top 200 of Rosetta@home teams for RAC (recent average credit) and we are within the top 400 teams for Rosetta@home total credit. Our team is running a wide range of systems from Athlon XPs to quad core Xeons.
Our long term goal is to be ranked within the top 50 out of all United States Rosetta@Home teams for RAC.

We encourage you to join our team and use Boinc for rosetta@home (protein folding) research.
Years ago, Dave (one of our leading team members) found a final prediction. (Final protein match) He was recognized by David Baker:
We are just finalizing a manuscript describing predictions of protein-protein interactions made using rosetta@home during the recent CAPRI international test of protein-protein docking methods. As with our previous papers, we would like to acknowledge participants who produced models which contributed to our final predictions. If you are on the following list, and would like to be acknowledged by your real name rather than your user name, please let us know.
USERID USERNAME SENDEMAIL TEAMID TEAMNAME
5590 SteveK 1 7 BOINC Synergy
112024 Administrator 1
125433 QuickBeam 1 4232 H4xx0rz
3377 devzero 1 5 Free-DC
64398 raptur 1 219 Ohio State University
36366 cyclistgb 1 887 BOINC@Canada
79579 borekv 0 1964 boinc.cz
78679 yopjpeg 1
111834 orion2598 1
147099 MK_I 1 46 Czech National Team
At some point in the future, I will provide some efficiency calculations based on wattage vs performance for the maximum generation of protein folding for the least amount of $![]()