Folding@Home - Helping Cure Cancer
Posted:
Wed Jan 15, 2003 11:28 pm
by aviationwiz
Folding@Home is a distributed computing program the simulates protein folding which helps discover cures for cancer and many other diseases. The URL is:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
You can fold on teams. Maybe Ian will even make a cdrlabs team, right now I am folding for the MonkeyReview team.
Posted:
Thu Jan 16, 2003 3:15 pm
by Matt
I would wager everyone who's interested in doing such a thing is probably on one of the more prominent teams like anandtech, etc.
Posted:
Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:44 pm
by dhc014
Yeah, I'm already on Team #64, rage3d.com
Posted:
Thu Jan 16, 2003 10:02 pm
by aviationwiz
I guess there isn't going to be a cdrlabs team. If you want to fold for a team you can join the MonkeyReview forums (
http://www.monkeyreview.com) and fold for the MonkeyReview team. Our Team # is: 13098
Posted:
Thu Jan 16, 2003 10:56 pm
by dodecahedron
exuse my ignorance, but what's with this "teams" thing?
what's the difference between joining one of the teams and just doing it alone?
Posted:
Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:31 am
by dhc014
Well, teams just help in the competition. I really enjoy rage3d.com so I give something back for folding for them. Maybe another site that you like has a folding team... I know that any team would love more members so join up and help a team compete!