It has only been six short months since SoylentNews' Folding@Home team was founded, and we've made a major milestone: our team is now one of the top 500 teams in the world! We've already surpassed some heavy hitters like /. and several universities, including MIT. (But now is not the time to rest on our laurels. A certain Redmond-based software producer currently occupies #442.)
In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's and thereby help to find a cure. To that end, SoylentNews' team has completed nearly 16,000 work units.
If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started here. There are clients available for Linux, Windows, and OSX. Once you have installed the software, enter the TeamID 230319 to join us.
Feel free to join #folding on our IRC channel if you need any help, or just want to chat.
Thank you to all that have participated, and a special thanks to our top 10 folders:
Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 27 2016, @05:15PM
There are several things you can do.
Not join our team, and stay with your current team, if any.
Join our team, and bring your points with you.
Join our team under an alias - all you need do is use a different donor name, and generate a new passkey.
I'm happy that a fellow Soylentil is doing something for science. You may or may not contribute to our team, and that is perfectly fine. They ARE your computers, after all.
I believe that if I were in the top 1%, I'd be very reluctant to change anything about my status.