Folding@Home is a project where you can turn your computer into a disease fighting workhorse. If you leave your system running on all day - whether it's surfing, emailing, downloading goat porn, etc - you can put your system to use if you don't do any cpu intensive tasks.
The site explains things a little better about what the goals/achievements of the project.
Without infringing on what Nick and company have built here over the years...I thought it would be cool if we established a team of folders who let our computers work on folding proteins. If you're interested, let's do some good, download the program and install it...enter your own personal name/username (if it isn't taken). During the install process it'll ask for a team number specific to this site/messageboard. It is:
50817
Whatever work your computer does - the credit will go to this site - maybe we'll rise up in the ranks.
Most of us sit around all day in front of the computer's anyway. Why not have the program running in the background. The program is easy to setup, configure, the menu's explain themselves, and if you have to you can turn the program off if you need to do more cpu intensive tasks like video/photo editing.
You can find more info at the folding at home site - they have a FAQ as well as downloads for whatever operating system your computer runs.
see you on the boards,
roy
The site explains things a little better about what the goals/achievements of the project.
Quote:
| Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including 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. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. |
50817
Whatever work your computer does - the credit will go to this site - maybe we'll rise up in the ranks.
Most of us sit around all day in front of the computer's anyway. Why not have the program running in the background. The program is easy to setup, configure, the menu's explain themselves, and if you have to you can turn the program off if you need to do more cpu intensive tasks like video/photo editing.
You can find more info at the folding at home site - they have a FAQ as well as downloads for whatever operating system your computer runs.
see you on the boards,
roy
