I have started running some software on my home computer that benefits everyone, Stanford University in USA have studying Folding Proteins, this projects means significant benefits in curing diseases, all by running a small item of software on your home computers. I would encourage you to do this, the software only consumes the power of your computer while you are not using the processor, for example cpu cycles between keyboard strokes. The power of modern CPU's means you will hardly notice the difference in performance and help cure some diseases that are killers.
You can join my team of users by entering the number 165502 in the team field in the client.......
Download the software for Windows XP, Vista, Mac OSX and linux here and read more at
http://folding.stanford.edu/As you know my father (Ernie) beat cancer, running this software can help others get a cure.
Some more info on this from the website above and the link to the popular windows client. Also you may find your kids love this windows software as you can see in 3d the protein your computer is studying by clicking on the system tray icon.
XP & Vista Windows Client =
download by clicking here
Some more information on curing disease.
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
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.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
