Talk:Folding@home/Archive 2
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Results (and better summarisation of them)
I believe it's important that results be better summarized in lay language or in such a manner that they explain better what the results are all about and what they may lead to. -Mardus (talk) 15:15, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Agreeing with the above. I came here to see what had been achieved by the project, but this long string of scientific manuscripts with names of authors etc isn't really helping. Presumably someone associated with the project could provide a brief synopsis of the most significant developments in research that this project has helped to bring about. Ubertoaster (talk) 08:24, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
See this http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ and particularly this http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Diseases. I'm participating in the project, and am pretty passionate about it. There are many others out there, but I can certainly help you. On the suggestion, I'm considering moving the list of publications to a separate article. Also, the cores need to be dealt with, perhaps in a similar manner. Thoughts? Jessemv (talk) 00:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Second biggest
Folding@home has now been surpassed in terms of cumputer power by bitcoin. According to bitcoinwatch.com, bitcoin has a total power of about 19 Petaflop/s. The article's claim of being the biggest distributed computing cluster is thus false. 213.66.122.5 (talk) 10:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
- Is it even a distributed computing project? According to the website, it's simply a currency transaction/trading application.
- 194.80.64.113 (talk) 15:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- It's a glorified pyramid scheme from where I see it 122.57.186.20 (talk) 09:25, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think BitCoin is a distributed-computing project. Its just a money exchanger thing, and the petaFLOPS don't really mean anything other than that stuff is moving around. If I recall right, you have to do some brief calculations to perform a trade, or something like that. So its purpose is trading, not computing. The computing is a side effect. Besides, the article has been changed by someone else to no longer claim that it is the largest. IMHO, it is though. Jessemv (talk) 00:25, 21 August 2011 (UTC)