Folding@Home

[peazz]

Hey Guys,

Not sure how many of you know of this awesome little project, I have been folding on my computer for over 10 years.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

This neat little program runs when we are not using our computers, It helps to find cures for afflictions such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.

It is not resource intensive, infact if your on a laptop it only runs when its plugged into the main or limits the amount of cpu power it uses if you are using your computer.

I can set up a Surfing waves team so we can all contribute our computers to a great cause. After all one of the most common things us surfers have to watch out for is skin cancer.

While, the project has not directly cured any of these illnesses there are alot of biochemists out there using this data to create medicines and it has helped them to understand the link between proteins and there counterpart illnesses, rome was not built over night, but with more computers contributing to the worlds biggest super computer, it will only speed up the process.

If you would be interested in helping out, drop a message here and ill get us all a team number set up!

- Andy