What is this post about? I do not understand what “folding” is.
Folding is when you donate use of your home computer for medical research being performed at Stanford University. My PC runs 24/7 here at home, and about 50% of the CPU time works on crunching numbers for them in a background process. Most of the time I do not notice the burden, but I do shut it down when I do major downloads.
West, Alaska....Folding refers to the way proteins in the body bend and twist. There is a small computer program calling Folding@Home that you can download and it runs quietly in the background. Your computer is sent small chunks of data that the program performs some mathematical functions to and then sends the data back. Data from millions of computers around the world are culled, giving a much better picture of what’s going on chemically inside the body. The results help scientists design better drugs to help fight cancer and other diseases.
Programs of this type are called distributed computing. People donate their unused computer time to essentially make one MASSIVE computer. PPD means points per day. After each time your computer sends a result back, you are given points based on how quickly results were returned and how big the work unit was your computer computed. Hope this helps....C
Link: http://folding.stanford.edu/