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Title    SoylentNews' Folding@Home Team is Now in the Top 500 in the World
Date    Saturday August 27 2016, @03:38PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the Can-we-make-the-Top-400-by-Halloween? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/08/27/1232255

Sir Finkus writes:

It has only been six short months since SoylentNews' Folding@Home team was founded, and we've made a major milestone: our team is now one of the top 500 teams in the world! We've already surpassed some heavy hitters like /. and several universities, including MIT. (But now is not the time to rest on our laurels. A certain Redmond-based software producer currently occupies #442.)

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 completed nearly 16,000 work units.

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started here. 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.

Thank you to all that have participated, and a special thanks to our top 10 folders:

  1. cmn32480
  2. Runaway1956
  3. Beldin65
  4. tibman
  5. LTKKane
  6. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
  7. Kymation
  8. meisterister
  9. kurenai.tsubasa
  10. NotSanguine

Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319

Original Submission

Links
  1. "Sir Finkus" - https://soylentnews.org/~Sir+Finkus/
  2. "top 500 teams in the world!" - http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=230319
  3. "Redmond-based software producer" - http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=999
  4. "distributed computing project" - http://folding.stanford.edu/
  5. "here." - http://folding.stanford.edu/
  6. "http://folding.stanford.edu" - http://folding.stanford.edu/
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=15537
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