Not folding; around.
Motherfolders!
Folding@Home is a medical research cooperative run by researchers at Stanford University where people donate the unused clock cycles of their computers. The work units simulate the way proteins fold when they replicate. Calculations are done at the atomic level.
The software runs in the background and does NOT interfere with your use of your computer. It doesn't even slow down some of my intensive games. The distributed nature of the work allows simulations that might take days or weeks on a high end supercomputer to be done in days without the expense of the supercomputer. Different home computer hardware is better for different projects. The WUs you get are best run on your rig.
“Folding” in our community refers to running simulations of
proteins, the molecular machines that perform most of the
active processes we associate with life, from muscle
contraction to sensing light and digesting food. We exploit the
biological insight these simulations provide to inform drug
discovery and other efforts to combat global health threats.
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