Would you like to help cure disease?
Would you like to be a part of the largest supercomputer in the world?
Welcome to Folding@Home.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that helps Stanford scientists understand how protein folding may affect everything from Parkinsons to Alzheimers disease. These processes are very complex and they require a great deal of computing power to analyze. This is where we come in.
Visit http://folding.stanford.edu and download the F@H client to your computer and then when your computer is idle it will help analyze the folding of proteins. Cool huh?
They have wide range of clients that you can use. Windows/Mac/Linux versions as well as a Playstation 3 client and the uber-GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) client. If you have a gamer quality video card (ATI-based 26xx+ or Nvidia-based 8-series+) you should get the GPU client because it is much faster.
You can also join a team and compete against others for the most work units. I’m a member of the DL.TV team (#57391). F@H provides extensive stats and tracking to keep up with your progress.
F@H has achieved the Guinness World Record for the worlds largest supercomputer.
On 16 September 2007, Folding@home, a distributed computing network operating from Stanford University (USA) achieved a computing power of 1 petaflop — or 1 quadrillion floating point operations per second. The project uses the power of peoples’ home com[puters, as well as their PlayStation3s, to simulate the processes inside living cells that cal lead to diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
So download a client and starting Folding@Home.
