Folding at Home
Mar. 13th, 2009 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
richlayersSo Chris got me started on Folding at home, which I think is really awesome. Basically it's one of those distributed computing programs that runs in the background... Michael used to run something like SETI at home I think. This one is about protein folding, and the research could help with curing/understanding diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and others.
For a way more coherent and full explanation, check it out here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main
A kind of neat aspect of this project is that you can team up with friends, and semi-compete with other people running the program. Here is my team:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=159490
Although I haven't actually submitted any work yet, so my name isn't on there. But IT WILL BE. OH IT WILL. And... I think you can join it, too? I'll have to look into that though.
For a way more coherent and full explanation, check it out here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main
A kind of neat aspect of this project is that you can team up with friends, and semi-compete with other people running the program. Here is my team:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=159490
Although I haven't actually submitted any work yet, so my name isn't on there. But IT WILL BE. OH IT WILL. And... I think you can join it, too? I'll have to look into that though.
