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
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday February 12 2016, @07:22PM
I don't manage to download the client. Is there a source which uses a plain old link instead of JavaScript?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Friday February 12 2016, @07:26PM
https://folding.stanford.edu/releases/public/release/fah-installer/osx-10.6.4-64bit/v7.4/fah-installer_7.4.4_x86_64.mpkg.zip [stanford.edu] OSX
https://folding.stanford.edu/releases/public/release/fah-installer/windows-xp-32bit/v7.4/fah-installer_7.4.4_x86.exe [stanford.edu] Windows
With linux distributions, I'd recommend checking your package manager.
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday February 12 2016, @08:02PM
Thanks; unfortunately I need the Linux version and I can't find it in the package manager (that's where I looked first, before I even tried downloading it from the web site).
Anyway, I now managed to download it using Chromium.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.