Folding@Home - Help Find A Cure For Cancer
02-20-2007, 08:48 PM
#1
Out Of Control!!
Thread Starter
Folding@Home - Help Find A Cure For Cancer
Top of the morning to everyone!
There is this program by Stanford University that you can run on your computer which can aid in finding cures for cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons, huntingtons, and a number of others as well.
It's really simple to get started.
Download the correct client from here.
The Windows 5.03 version if you're running Windows (shortcut here).
The MacOSX SMP one if you have a Intel Mac (shortcut here).
Once you install it, enter in whatever username you want (I use vraa) and the team number (45431 for mbworld.org)
It literally takes about 2 minutes from the start of this thread to the end of install and you're already contributing to the effort.
The way it works in a nutshell is every few days it downloads a "workunit" from Stanford, processes it and then uploads the results. It's really compact and it runs in the background, I run it on all my computers and all the computers at the office I work at.
Go ahead and ask questions if you have them, I've been contributing to this project for more than five years. It has the support of many big name companies such as Intel and Microsoft as well as support from other well-known universities such as Oxford and Berkeley.
Tell your friends and family too, it's for a great cause.
If you want to see how much you've contributed to the effort, you can check here
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=45431
As you can see, team mbworld.org is doing relatively well, but we could always use more help.
There is this program by Stanford University that you can run on your computer which can aid in finding cures for cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons, huntingtons, and a number of others as well.
It's really simple to get started.
Download the correct client from here.
The Windows 5.03 version if you're running Windows (shortcut here).
The MacOSX SMP one if you have a Intel Mac (shortcut here).
Once you install it, enter in whatever username you want (I use vraa) and the team number (45431 for mbworld.org)
It literally takes about 2 minutes from the start of this thread to the end of install and you're already contributing to the effort.
The way it works in a nutshell is every few days it downloads a "workunit" from Stanford, processes it and then uploads the results. It's really compact and it runs in the background, I run it on all my computers and all the computers at the office I work at.
Go ahead and ask questions if you have them, I've been contributing to this project for more than five years. It has the support of many big name companies such as Intel and Microsoft as well as support from other well-known universities such as Oxford and Berkeley.
Tell your friends and family too, it's for a great cause.
If you want to see how much you've contributed to the effort, you can check here
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=45431
As you can see, team mbworld.org is doing relatively well, but we could always use more help.
02-21-2007, 09:39 PM
#3
Out Of Control!!
Thread Starter
Think of it like a brotherhood.
I'll unsticky all the threads once the everyone has seen the forums and decided if they want to join or not, not everyone visits the OT forum.
