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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 fritsd on Friday February 12 2016, @09:25PM
That's strange, isn't it?
Especially since the underlying software is mostly open source or public domain or "your scientific article must quote our software" kind of licenses.
ISTR that folding@home used GROMACS [wikipedia.org], from the University of Groningen, for some of their molecular modelling.
Can't be bothered to find its primary download site now, so I quote from the Wikipedia (BE WARNED! verify for yourself):
Maybe the found that GROMACS was lacking a screen-saver, and tacked a proprietary screen-saver on?
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Friday February 12 2016, @09:29PM
(replying to meself)
I said, "that's strange", because it implies that folding@home utilizes about 25 years of Dutch Government coffee, cigarettes, and mainframe CPU time subsidies, and PhD salaries (what I estimate was the cost to construct GROMACS). And then they make it proprietary:-( What do the Grunningers think of this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @09:38PM
What do the Grunningers think of this?
Folding@home has been granted a non-commercial, non-GPL license for Gromacs,
I don't think they care.