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notaussiefloyd Folding@home Team |
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Written by Nick
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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Proteins are biology's workhorses - its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." When proteins do not fold correctly, 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.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project based at Stanford University. People from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to its goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
You can join the notaussiefloyd Folding@home team by downloading the client software and entering team number 132987 when you set it up. After that, the spare CPU capacity on your PC will be used for valuable medical research, and your stats will be seen on the notaussiefloyd team page.
For more information please see the Folding topic on our forum.
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