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    Default Folding@Home, help cure cancer today.

    Hi,

    I know this project isn't exactly new but I just wanted to share this with the community anyway.

    Using this program you can help cure various diseases.
    You can run this program on a computer.
    Now If you have a PS3 it is roughly 10 times faster to fold proteins so It is very advisable to use a PS3 if you have one.


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    What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
    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.

    Moreover, 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.

    You can help by simply running a piece of software.
    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 our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.


    Site Link: http://folding.stanford.edu/

    Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkaVMQcSyk

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    Yes, good idea

    Everyone should do this, and join team "SRL-Forums", Team number 151939.
    http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download


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    Note that if you have a NVidia 8, 9 or 2xx series graphics card, you can download the CUDA version and fold MANY times faster while barely utilizing your CPU.
    Interested in C# and Electrical Engineering? This might interest you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartzkid View Post
    Note that if you have a NVidia 8, 9 or 2xx series graphics card, you can download the CUDA version and fold MANY times faster while barely utilizing your CPU.
    link pl0x?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wizzup? View Post
    Oh thanks, didn't notice the beta version, I'll give it a try some time ^_^.

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