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This is the official hostgator announcement posted by GatorFord on 20 April 2008

As some of you may know, the Folding@Home project by Stanford University is a distributed computing project used to create one of the largest supercomputers in the world. The client has long been used used as both a metric to measure processors and machines efficiency and also to help the cause. The project is distributed much in the way Seti@Home was, however, with a more direct human goal.

The Folding@Home project simulates complex mathematical formulas about how these proteins fold, unfold, and misfold with the goal to hopefully one day learn better how many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes actually work and occur. The project has already come up with many notable scientific results, and is definitely going somewhere tangible as you can see at :

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

As for how this all came about; I was first introduced to the project when I was looking for something better to do with my Spare CPU cycles than let them idle. The beauty of this software is it scales and renices it self so well, so you can be running it and it will use a defined amount of CPU at all times, but when any other process needs the CPU it will throttle itself. You can literally play high end games with the client running, as it will just scale back.

I really began to get involved in the project when I picked up my very own PS3. I wanted to put the powerful Cell processor through it’s paces so I immediately downloaded the client and started running work units. Now, as an administrator here began thinking how helpful it could be if some of the machines we have that idle certain days of the week at HostGator were to fold in the background while the machine was not in use.

So, drumroll please….

We’ve recently launched a hostgator.com folding@home team! Since starting our hostgator.com folding@home team just a few days ago at ( team # 122600 ) we’ve already hit a ranking of 5,698 out of 117,620 teams with more than 115,000 folding points and nearly 2,000 work units completed. More information on our statistics can be found here :

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/…teamnum=122600

Keep in mind the above page is on an interval while stanford processes a huge amount of statistics data. If it shows as being unavailable you can also check a third party tracker that I also like here :

http://kakaostats.com/tsum.php?t=122600

We’re eclipsing and overtaking teams at an amazing pace, with around 30,000 points being completed a day by our NAS boxes, and our employees personal machines. We’re aiming to get in the top 50 and are even surpassing NAVY teams, Civilian Air Patrol teams, Universities and so forth. (not just passing them, crushing them).

We’ve already informed any HostGator.com employees that have any free computer, or PS3 to download the folding@home client from Stanford at http://folding.stanford.edu

There are clients for every operating system and this also runs on PS3’s (If you happen to have a PS3, you can download it directly from your PS3 dashboard, and they are some of the strongest computational units for this project due to the cell architecture, so you will get bonus points).

We’re now asking our customers that would like to run folding@home to do it for a good cause! I’ve spoken with Chad and Brent and there will be some sort of prizes for customers who contribute the most points to the team.

Please make sure when installing the folding@home client that you use team number 122600 and a Donor name (username) of either “hostgator.com” or, your Forum name. This way we can see who’s contributing the most.

Thanks all and lets start doing our part for one of the greatest causes on earth!

Read this announcement in full or sign up with hostgator here

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