Simon
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Post by Simon on Mar 2, 2009 10:22:16 GMT 1
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 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. Join team 35947 (Custom PC Magazine) and if you complete a full work unit in a month, you will be entered into a prize draw to win an ATI Radeon HD3850. Visit the link below to download folding@home. folding.stanford.edu/
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Post by El Capitan on Mar 4, 2009 9:29:07 GMT 1
so they want to eat my processor via my internet?
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Simon
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Post by Simon on Mar 6, 2009 8:22:34 GMT 1
Kind of - it should only use up any excess CPU power, so say you're writing a document you could have it on then...
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Post by El Capitan on Mar 9, 2009 0:30:36 GMT 1
. . . but any alerts are sudden need for a large amount of CPU use and its big trouble for oneself?
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Simon
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Post by Simon on Mar 9, 2009 0:35:45 GMT 1
Not really, it goes into background mode pretty much as soon as your CPU power is needed elsewhere...
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