Join the DU folding@home Team.

Join the DU folding@home Team. It is an easy way to help your fellow man. All it takes is to download and install a client to your hard drive. All you need to do then is to make it a service (Windows) or a login item (Mac) and it will quietly run in the background. It will not degrade performance, and it secure. The only times it makes contact with the Stanford servers is when uploading data and downloading new data for processing.

For more info go to their home page at:
http://folding.stanford.edu /

Read the info. If you want to take part download the software here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

If you want, join our team. when you set up your Folding@home client you will see where you can join a team. Type in the number 48157 and that will enroll you. This is not a requirement. You may want to go it solo, or you may want to be part of a team. Your choice. Taking part in this worthy project is what is important.

Here's our team page:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

Please join us and help find the cure for a host of ills that plague the human species.


Thanks.

but I don't understand what folding is.

What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

:evilgrin:

;)

:spray:

I downloaded installed and joined 48157, system panel tells me 'Folding@home running (auto-start) after that is a button of Enable and Disable, Disable is showing now.

Does this mean it's all working now as it should be? No progress bars or anything to be seen?

edit to include: I'm on a Mac OS 10.6.4

I use the console version. That's a throwback to my old Linux days when I used the terminal a lot.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/fhwudget.html

I have the dashboard widget now, I think it's working as progress % is going up - everything indicates it's working properly.

I put in a name and plugged in the group number in your OP - but don't see anything in Team section.

I am guessing that the Stanford group is somehow using computers from all over the internet to help process information for their protein experiments, but I really can't tell that from your post. What exactly is happening here? Why do they want folks to join? What exactly would your computer be doing to help the experiments?

Thanks for explaining more about what is involved.

the power of the internet.


Sometimes proteins fold improperly, and that is the root of some of human disease. An improperly folded protein cannot be addressed with our immune system.

Egg whites turning white during frying is from proteins unfolding.


http://www.nature.com/horizon/proteinfolding/background/importance.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBO3TqJ6FE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNEUTn9Atg&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. A computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed program, and distributed programming is the process of writing such programs.

Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational problems. In distributed computing, a problem is divided into many tasks, each of which is solved by one or more computers.

So your computer is one of those autonomous computers in the network.