irefay Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 So a while ago I stumbled upon this website:http://folding.stanford.edu/From the site:You can help by simply running a piece of software.Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- 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 our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. 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. Ive been running it for a few weeks now and I was wondering if anyone wanted to start an Nsane Team... Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidea, they all have teams why not add another big name to the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Why not, it's a great initiative :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NIGM4 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 If you start this team let me know. I used to participate in some kind of research grid, and i got a friend who donate computer time to SETI too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted January 25, 2009 Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2009 Anyone else? This is a very good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessjirval Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Great idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 just dont hve comcast and other cable isp that have monthly caps.btw, they try this with kazaa and it didnt work then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Been running it on my PS3 for almost a year now. I will join the NSane Cancer Solving Team ASAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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