I've seen a few other sites and forums start their own Folding@Home team and though it would be nice to start one for Computer Hope as well. For anyone not familiar with Folding@Home it's a project started by Stanford University to help understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. 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 through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
For anyone familiar with SETI, it's much like SETI except it's searching for cures for diseases instead of other intelligent life. Although being setup late, I think it's a great cause to help and plan on running it here on computers I'm using and don't plan on formatting any time soon. I've setup a Computer Hope team, which will allow any member who is participating or users with PS3's to join and help Computer Hope compete against other teams for ranking.
Computer Hope is team # 67290
Team URL:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=67290Detailed stats:
http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=67290The main Folding@Home site is at:
http://folding.stanford.edu/Users who're participating (completed 1 unit) on the Folding@Home Computer Hope team will be marked with a
icon in their profile.