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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: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday February 12 2016, @11:08PM
Gentoo here. Instructions for Gentoo: Do emerge --ask foldingathome which will also unmask the package for your architecture and unmask the license if you proceed. For crazy Paludis users like me (assuming amd64 arch and you're not being picky about licenses):
echo sci-biology/foldingathome ~amd64 >> /etc/paludis/keywords.conf && cave resolve foldingathome -cx
Optionally, Paludis users can run cave config foldingathome or just edit the config file.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday February 13 2016, @12:01AM
Additional note for Gentoo users. In order to run as the foldingathome user, that user must be in the video group:
gpasswd -a foldingathome video