The TG Folding@Home team needs your help and your otherwise wasted cpu cycles!
The
TG folding teams is currently ranked 581 out of 167427 with only 10 active members. We would love to crack into the top 500 teams by the start of 2010. That's where you come in.
This is a perfect opportunity to spread our name around in the outside world, and help a cause that's right up our alley and obviously deserving of all the support we can give it, especially if it's otherwise wasted computer cycles.
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 their goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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. They aim to solve these problems with distributed computing.
Both PC and PS3 owners are able to contribute to the team by
downloading the Folding @ Home software, and putting the
TG team's number (
#78445) in the configuration panel of the client software.
If you're really looking to rack up the points,
click here to download a GPU client!
Thanks Spyder228 for the article.
