hi all, doing this small scale for a while now, and i have to say that i don't see any point in continuing. Is there any real point to what i'm doing? what the hell are the credits for? i'm getting a bit fed up looking at them and thinking; OoOoO!!! look at all da pwetty numbas.....Will there be any actual monetary or physical benefits to this work?

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Welcome to research. The following page shows what this group is working on (and by way of their software, dozens of more research labs around the world). Big news could come tomorrow or years from now. I'd be interested where you heard about monetary benefits, have you seen the clothes most college researchers can afford? :)

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_medical_relevance.php

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hi all, doing this small scale for a while now, and i have to say that i don't see any point in continuing. Is there any real point to what i'm doing? what the hell are the credits for? i'm getting a bit fed up looking at them and thinking; OoOoO!!! look at all da pwetty numbas.....Will there be any actual monetary or physical benefits to this work?

Will you see any monetary benefit for doing this? No.

Will you see any benefit for doing this? Very probably. The number of diseases that this research directly relates to is quite staggering. HIV, Malaria, Alzheimer's to name but three.

In calendar year 2003, 25% of deaths in England and Wales were caused by Cancer. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=18155 . Quite an interesting statistic to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to continue help with this research.

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Einstein has been going down rather frequently lately, so I have attached to Rosetta to have a running project that appears, to me, at least, a worthy end result. I noticed that my first WU is 7 hrs. Don't know yet why so long, but OK. some Einstein WU were 15 minutes or less. But, Einstein is down again, so I turned to this project. Happy to be crunching numbers here....

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Einstein has been going down rather frequently lately, so I have attached to Rosetta to have a running project that appears, to me, at least, a worthy end result. I noticed that my first WU is 7 hrs. Don't know yet why so long, but OK. some Einstein WU were 15 minutes or less. But, Einstein is down again, so I turned to this project. Happy to be crunching numbers here....

Stan, you can set the amount of time to run each work unit depending on how stable your system is. If you go to your account and then click on "View or edit Rosetta@home preferences" you can choose your own target CPU runtime (anywhere from 1 hour per WU to 1 day--Default is 3 hours). If you have a stable system anything longer than 8 hours per WU is great as this would put less stress on the servers.

The Rosetta@home FAQ is an excellent resource to check into though for anyone new to the project. In this case the FAQ can show the difference between a "model" and a "WU" for instance.

Welcome all new crunchers!!

Tim

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Einstein has been going down rather frequently lately, so I have attached to Rosetta to have a running project that appears, to me, at least, a worthy end result. I noticed that my first WU is 7 hrs. Don't know yet why so long, but OK. some Einstein WU were 15 minutes or less. But, Einstein is down again, so I turned to this project. Happy to be crunching numbers here....

Stan, you can set the amount of time to run each work unit depending on how stable your system is. If you go to your account and then click on "View or edit Rosetta@home preferences" you can choose your own target CPU runtime (anywhere from 1 hour per WU to 1 day--Default is 3 hours). If you have a stable system anything longer than 8 hours per WU is great as this would put less stress on the servers.

The Rosetta@home FAQ is an excellent resource to check into though for anyone new to the project. In this case the FAQ can show the difference between a "model" and a "WU" for instance.

Welcome all new crunchers!!

Tim

Tim...Appreciate the Advice.....Stan

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