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12/28/2011 01:14:13 PM · #1 |
I have been a member of the folding home website for a while now and I think they are really doing a good thing. I will give you a little background of this site. The main site is run by Stanford University so it is a safe site. They are working on protiens that can possibly cure certain disorders or disease...For example, they have made big breakthroughs in Altzeimers disease. Anyway they essentially use the computing power of remote machines to simulate the folding of protien. They already have over 1 million computers on this and it is increasing. For the cost of a little electricity (keeping your computer on) it is helping the scientists discover cures to horrible things. Anyway I think it is a good thing and thought that I would post this...Here is the site. If it doesn't work google it and I will repost it later.
Folding @ Home
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12/28/2011 01:15:03 PM · #2 |
Oh they also have alot of stats on their homepage.
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12/28/2011 01:32:29 PM · #3 |
| I think heard about this a few weeks ago ... it is another example of "distributed computing" where large numbers of users processing small portions of the data take the place of a supercomputer; another is SETI@home (analyzing signals from radio telescopes for intelligent communications). |
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12/28/2011 01:34:59 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I think heard about this a few weeks ago ... it is another example of "distributed computing" where large numbers of users processing small portions of the data take the place of a supercomputer; another is SETI@home (analyzing signals from radio telescopes for intelligent communications). |
Yeah there was 1 project that it took a cray computer 4 months and the same took 7 days on this thing
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12/28/2011 06:08:26 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by cowboy221977:
The main site is run by Stanford University so it is a safe site. They are working on protiens that can possibly cure certain disorders or disease...For example, they have made big breakthroughs in Altzeimers disease. |
I saw a documentary about this project. |
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