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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:
- malloc_free
- cmn32480
- Runaway1956
- Booga1
- AnotherMindbomb
- NCommander
- EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
- NotSanguine
- Frojack
- wArlOrd
Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319
(Score: 1) by Booga1 on Friday October 07 2016, @11:18AM
Indeed, that is why I throw my computing resources behind Folding@Home. Solving serious diseases that affect everyone would be a huge boon. Bacteria and viruses are troublesome, but stuff like Alzheimers can strike anywhere. Finding a way to stop that would be huge.
Degradation of the body is one thing, but losing your mind is a fate I wouldn't want to wish on my enemies.