Join the Discussion: How Folding@Home Uses Spare CPU/GPU Power to Fight Diseases

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So does anyone on the site use Folding@Home? In case you do not know, Folding@Home is a way to use your extra CPU/GPU cycles to help solve protein folding to cure diseases. Now that the human genome has been mapped, scientists are trying to figure out how and why proteins fold - and misfold, in order to cure diseases. This software runs on your computer in the background. If you are like me and leave your computer on 24/7, it may be worthwhile to check it out.

If enough people use it or are interested, we could create a Windows7Forums group.

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It's a pretty good stability test too.. If your machine can run SETI without crashing then you know you've got a stable system, it's almost as good as Prime95 for that.

I'm a little unclear on how we would operate as a group though or is it the case that we set up an account and all use the same passwords ect when sending results in?
 
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You create an acct. first and then we would eventually add a group.
 
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Not sure man as I haven't looked at it yet.. If it's anything like SETI then the settings are somewhere.. Check on the website as they should have an FAQ or something..
 
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