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Sir Finkus [soylentnews.org] writes:

---EDITORS: THE STANFORD SITE APPEARS TO BE DOWN AT THE MOMENT, I'D RECOMMEND HOLDING OFF ON RUNNING UNTIL THE SITE IS OPERATIONAL--
Our SoylentNews Folding@Home team [stanford.edu] shows little sign of slowing down. We've now passed 400th place [extremeoverclocking.com] and are on pace to pass #300 in just under two months. UC Berkley (387 at time of writing) is one of the next big names on our hit list, and by the time this story goes live, we may have already passed them.

In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project [stanford.edu] 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. ---EDITORS PLEASE UPDATE THIS NUMBER WHEN STANFORD SITE IS BACK UP---

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.

Again, thanks to all that have participated, especially our Top 10 folders:

1. malloc_free
2. cmn32480
3. Runaway1956
4. Booga1
5. AnotherMindbomb
6. NCommander
7. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
8. NotSanguine
9. Frojack
10. wArlOrd

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

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