Folding@Home

April 7th, 2003

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project aimed at understanding the process of protein folding. This will allow to find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. If you have ever considered to donate your unusued CPU time, this is obviously one of the best ideas.

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  • 1. vader  |  April 11th, 2003 at 9:42

    The problem I had with this program (some years ago) was that misteriously, when I used to leave it running all the night long, next morning I was finding one of those “blue screens of death” in my computer… but I suppose they have fixed those errors…
    good luck!

  • 2. Rafawan  |  April 11th, 2003 at 11:38

    I once left my computer all night crunching numbers for the Folding@Home project and the next morning some green/flourescent creature came out of the floppy disk unit! It bite me once but finally managed to throw it down the toilet. I hope it doenstsdfgt makerfn anyf ekfeect onmm me!

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