I'll just post a summary from the official website for those who don't know what F@h is:
"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.
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."
Is anyone here a folder? I installed the program last night and completed 2 WUs in about 10 hours (with nothing else running to eat up the CPU). I'm now running it on my desktop and laptop to see how many I get done today - however both are going very slowly so i may not even get 1. It's a worthy cause, I get a fuzzy feeling knowing I'm potentially helping to cure horrible diseases
"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.
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."
Is anyone here a folder? I installed the program last night and completed 2 WUs in about 10 hours (with nothing else running to eat up the CPU). I'm now running it on my desktop and laptop to see how many I get done today - however both are going very slowly so i may not even get 1. It's a worthy cause, I get a fuzzy feeling knowing I'm potentially helping to cure horrible diseases
