I did a search for this, and was surprised nothing came up.

Does anyone here use Folding@Home? For those who don't know about it, it's a project that studies the way that proteins fold (or misfold), and the way misfolded proteins attribute to diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and cancer.

Protein folding is incredibly complex, so complex that it would take years of computing time to simulate one protein's folding process on a single machine. The founders of the project have come up with a way for people like you and me to donate our idle processor power to solving these calculations, creating a virtual supercomputer that vastly speeds up the process.

The program (Available for Windows, MAC OS X and Linux) can be found here, along with all kinds of info on the project:

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

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afghooey Reviewed by afghooey on . Lend your spare CPU power to a good cause! I did a search for this, and was surprised nothing came up. Does anyone here use Folding@Home? For those who don't know about it, it's a project that studies the way that proteins fold (or misfold), and the way misfolded proteins attribute to diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and cancer. Protein folding is incredibly complex, so complex that it would take years of computing time to simulate one protein's folding process on a single machine. The founders of the project have come Rating: 5