Folding@Home for AllakhazamFollow

Gamers unite!

Do you know someone with a mind-afflicting disease? A body-wrecking Cancer? Feel powerless to help them? Here's your chance...

Since October 2000, Stanford University has an application that you can partake in called Folding@Home. Over one million CPUs throughout the world have participated in this distributed computing project. The goal of this project is to research protein folding and misfolding to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease. See F@H's Executive Summary, in PDF, here.

Targeted diseases include (but are not limited to) such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

It's a small application that runs in the background of your computer (XP/Vista/Linux/MacOSX) or as a stand alone program on your home console, the Playstation 3.

I've started a Team for the members of Allakhazam called Allakhazam's Magical Research Realm (TEAM# 85020). Team Statistics: Please allow 3 to 24 hours to populate.

Simply download Folding@Home and join the team: To join, just put the team's number in the configuration panel (on graphical clients) or enter the team number at the first time you run the client (for text console versions).

Who knows, the life you help save, could be your own.


Edited, Aug 28th 2007 10:33am by Kaelesh

How does allowing this company to use our PC's CPU power help cure a disease? I noticed this is on my PS3 as well.

I guess I will add my PS3 to the team. It has 65 units done right now. To bad those wont count towords the team.

It helps with the research because the data that is computed on all these machines would take a few supercomputers to do. Saving them money and allowing them to get their data for research faster.

I just checked we were up to 116 CPUs. Now to just get my name on top of the ranking. :P