Folding at home is a project by Stanford University that uses our computing power to help study the process of protein folding so as to aid research on various diseases, including many forms of cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's. Right now they're focusing on Covid-19/Coronavirus as well.
You can install a small program on your computer and it downloads a small amount of data that it analyses, then returning the results to the Stanford researchers. You can even choose what disease research to base the bulk of your computing power on (be it cancer or any the others mentioned above), or just let it fold them all!
Everyone, no matter the hardware they possess, has a chance to help the research for, and, perhaps, make a big difference in the life of other people. Who knows if we ourselves, or our children won't benefit from these researches? Every little bit can help! It's effectively making it so scientists get faster access to information
You can either have it just be on your taskbar and not bother you at all unless you click it, all the way to seeing a graphic representation of the protein you're helping research (that can also be used as a screensaver) or even read about the specific research you're helping, in real-time!
Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.
JOINING IS EASY AND TAKES 3 MINUTES!
- Install the software, and everything is very self-explanatory.
- If you don't want to, you don't even need to choose usernames, verify e-mails or anything of the sort! It's that easy.
- You can, if you want, choose a username (which doesn't need to be unique and that you can change at any time!), select to be part of a team (we have a PCMR team. To join just input 225605 at the initial screen or later on in the software settings)
- In the initial config screen, you can also have a passkey e-mailed to you by Stanford University. This is a string that you can add here and that will give you extra folding points if you finish your work units before scheduled (which is quite common on higher-end hardware)!
And that's it. You're ready to go! You can start up the software and choose to have it start automatically when you boot up, or manually at your discretion!
You can install a small program on your computer and it downloads a small amount of data that it analyses, then returning the results to the Stanford researchers. You can even choose what disease research to base the bulk of your computing power on (be it cancer or any the others mentioned above), or just let it fold them all!
Everyone, no matter the hardware they possess, has a chance to help the research for, and, perhaps, make a big difference in the life of other people. Who knows if we ourselves, or our children won't benefit from these researches? Every little bit can help! It's effectively making it so scientists get faster access to information
You can either have it just be on your taskbar and not bother you at all unless you click it, all the way to seeing a graphic representation of the protein you're helping research (that can also be used as a screensaver) or even read about the specific research you're helping, in real-time!
Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.
JOINING IS EASY AND TAKES 3 MINUTES!
- Install the software, and everything is very self-explanatory.
- If you don't want to, you don't even need to choose usernames, verify e-mails or anything of the sort! It's that easy.
- You can, if you want, choose a username (which doesn't need to be unique and that you can change at any time!), select to be part of a team (we have a PCMR team. To join just input 225605 at the initial screen or later on in the software settings)
- In the initial config screen, you can also have a passkey e-mailed to you by Stanford University. This is a string that you can add here and that will give you extra folding points if you finish your work units before scheduled (which is quite common on higher-end hardware)!
And that's it. You're ready to go! You can start up the software and choose to have it start automatically when you boot up, or manually at your discretion!