Matt Geiman has set up our labs to participate in an important distributed computing project; Folding@Home is a project run by Stanford University that is studying how proteins fold. This research has the possibility of helping us understand how protein folding affects many diseases. You can read more at folding.stanford.edu.
Our big news is that, of 157,000 participating teams, our team has broken into the top 1000! We are currently 905th! Check our progress with up-to-date statistics.
However, we can do better than that! If you'd like to set up your machine to be a part of our team, it's really easy:
There are folding clients available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS's, as well as Playstation 3's. So even if some people don't leave their computer on but they have a PS3, its easy enough to let the game console fold.
Our team name is Shippensburg University Computer Science Department
Our team number is 163348
The Folding@Home site is here: http://folding.stanford.edu/
It can be a little hard to navigate, so here are some useful links that can take a while to find:
To register your username so that no one else claims your work as their own, you can get a passkey emailed to you here:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getpasskey.py
You can check if your desired username is in use here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download#ntoc2
I'll keep you posted on our progress!
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