Join the other Car Audio enthusiasts in the “CarAudio” team. It’s a fun way to help cure disease, and it won’t cost you anything.

Team Number: 44151

Our folding team’s status:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=44151


Q: What is Folding?
A: Folding is the process that proteins go through in order to carry out their function (eg as enzymes or antibodies). When folding goes wrong, the results are syndromes, diseases, and cancers.

Q: What is Folding at Home?
A: Folding at Home is a tiny, little program that sits in the background of your computer and calculates bits of folding process information. When it’s done it uploads the results to scientists at Stanford.

Q: Are there performance/bandwidth issue?
A: Almost none. The way the program is designed, it only uses spare computer cycles. When surfing the internet, typing in Word, even playing games, you aren’t even using a fraction of your computer’s processing power. I can run half-life 2 with F@H running (default usage level) and I won’t drop even a single frame per second. Bandwidth is the equivalent of only about 1 webpage per day. You will never know it’s there.

If you would like to download the application and join the CarAudio team, go here: http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Here is some additional information on the Folding at Home project.

Folding@Home Website:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

Folding@Home FAQs:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...lding/faq.html

Folding@Home News:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...ding/news.html

Detailed information on folding:
http://www.faseb.org/opar/protfold/protein.html


I'm thinking about having a competition amongst the forums, if your forum wishes to perticipate let me know and I will add it to the list, in the meantime here are some off the top of my head:
CarAudioForum
SoundIllusions
SoundDomain
ICIX
EliteCarAudio
SecondSkinForums
CanadianCarAudio

Please feel free to ask questions [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

Sounds like a worthy project....I have been running the SETI@Home screensaver myself for several years and can't understand why anyone who has a computer running all the time wouldn't use all that spare computing power to do something useful...like looking at the flying toasters is going to help anyone or anything.... [img]graemlins/jack.gif[/img]

Good luck with this, I hope you get lots of help with it... [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

Just joined. I didn't even realize things like these existed or I would've put something like it on my comp a long time ago.