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posted by martyb on Friday October 07 2016, @05:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the doing-what-we-can-to-fight-disease dept.

Our SoylentNews' Folding@Home team shows little sign of slowing down. We've now passed 400th place and barring any surprises, we might pass #300 just before the year's end. UC Berkley (387 at time of writing) is one of the next big names on our overtake list, and by the time this story goes live, we may have already passed them.

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 — as of a query at 2016-10-07 02:10:00 (UTC) — completed just shy of 21,000 work units!

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started at Stanford's Folding at Home web site. 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.

Again, thanks to all that have participated, especially our Top 10 folders:

  1. malloc_free
  2. cmn32480
  3. Runaway1956
  4. Booga1
  5. AnotherMindbomb
  6. NCommander
  7. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
  8. NotSanguine
  9. Frojack
  10. wArlOrd

Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Friday October 07 2016, @10:49AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Friday October 07 2016, @10:49AM (#411422)

    a conundrum indeed...
    exactly why i had compunctions about my organ donor indication on my driver's license: not like my organs go to the most needy and deserving who couldn't otherwise afford a new cornea/kidney/penis (like new condition!)/whatever... nope, organ harvesters get a big cut, and -more than likely- some rich puke has gamed the organ donation system such that greedy mcgreedtard gets to jump the line ahead of humble shoeshine boy...
    is *everything* gamed to benefit the 1% ? ? ?
    (you know the answer: yes)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @05:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @05:27PM (#411550)

    Wow! That's the best apples and oranges argument I think I've ever seen. You get the inaugural Fruity - the highly respected and just created award for taking someone's legitimate question that others are curious about... and shitting all over it with a nonsense comparison! We'll even award the T.P. cluster to your Fruity for that one. Now, which orifice would you like me to pin it to?