DU computers of the world, UNITE!

[ny_liberal]

See the following thread for a cool DU team project:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5672092

[lildreamer316]

1. WHAT the hell is a home team/whateveritis?

I am completely lost.Please educate.

[ny_liberal]

2. here is how it works

Folding@home is a distributed computing effort by the Stanford University to compute protein folding to understand how to combat many of the worlds diseases, like Cancer, Mad Cow (CDJ, human form), Alzheimer's, ALS and Parkinson's disease.

Over 2,00,000 Mac and PC users run this small application on their computers to put their spare CPU cycles to use and help contribute to this worldwide project that requires hundreds of thousands, if not millions of processors to complete. No effort on your part is required, the program loads a work unit, finishes it and gets another automatically, all with high encryption back and forth from Stanford's servers. No personal information is required, just a nickname and a team number.

It doesn't interfere with your normal usage, it runs at the same time as other applications, utilizing your spare CPU cycles, you just set it and forget it. All Folding@home versions will self scale down if you require more CPU, instantly; meaning it will get out of your way if your running other applications at the same time.

Points are generated for every finished work unit that goes towards your score and towards the teams.

[ny_liberal]

3. bttt

bump

[ny_liberal]

4. More FAQs

here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5672092

[mcscajun]

5. Kickin' for Team DU!

On my third WU here. :)