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posted by cmn32480 on Friday February 12 2016, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the oragami-it-ain't dept.

I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. 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.

There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.

Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!

That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.

On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.

tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by CoolHand on Friday February 12 2016, @05:00PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Friday February 12 2016, @05:00PM (#303303) Journal
    I really wish we were doing Boinc instead, as I've been running on projects there a long time, and running two separate distributed computing clients doesn't make a lot of sense to me..
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by paulej72 on Friday February 12 2016, @05:13PM

    by paulej72 (58) on Friday February 12 2016, @05:13PM (#303310) Journal

    Not to belittle your suggestion, but our last vote went over sooooo well we decided that we do not need to vote ever again :)

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday February 12 2016, @08:44PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 12 2016, @08:44PM (#303407)

    Is there anything to stop you from making a group (even if unofficial)? I'd join it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:48AM (#303586)

    I think these make wonderful candidates

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_BOINC_projects [wikipedia.org]