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Folding@home
As gamers most of us have got reasonable CPUs and a lot of us leave our machines on idle cause we're lazy or because we're downloading something completely legal over a p2p network.
Well, folding@Home is a way to do something worthwhile with all that spare power sitting around doing nothing. Basically it's a distributed computing network that's used for simulating protein folding, this kind of research has all kinds of potential medical benefits.
Costs you nothing, and really isn't much of a resource hog when you run it in the background.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
You can also get it for your PS3. Which might be pretty cool. One day we might tell our grandkids that we cured cancer with our games consoles.
Well, folding@Home is a way to do something worthwhile with all that spare power sitting around doing nothing. Basically it's a distributed computing network that's used for simulating protein folding, this kind of research has all kinds of potential medical benefits.
Costs you nothing, and really isn't much of a resource hog when you run it in the background.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
You can also get it for your PS3. Which might be pretty cool. One day we might tell our grandkids that we cured cancer with our games consoles.
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I remember leaving my laptop on when I was bored and finished processing 200/200 for Alzheimer Disease Protein Folding. It is a good cause. They also research different types of cancer, and diseases.
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Made a Folding@Home team, mIKe's-ReVeNGe with team id # 207138
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