Folding@home/seti@home

[TeaLeaf]

Anyone mind if I set up a forum section for Folding & SETI as well as Dead Men Walking teams?  Thought it might be nice to get some teamwork going amongst us peeps in a non-CS arena.

Let us know what you think and I'll set up our official forum teams and then start to post details and build some info for the forums.

TL.

[OldBloke]

I've heard of Seti but what's Folding?

[TeaLeaf]

Lifted from the below website:

http://folding.stanford.edu/

What are proteins and why do they "fold"?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do?
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
 
TL.

[OldBloke]

Go for it.

Seems a waste to have all these overclocked CPU cycles laying around doing naff all.

[TeaLeaf]

I am setting up a Folding Team now, I'll leave the SETI until we see how the Folding does.  As for names, I thought 'Deadmen Folding' would work?

TL.