Since my seti@home is approaching 1000 work units, I thought I'd donate my computer time to another cause for a while. The criteria had to be that the project had support for Linux, and a good cause is always nice.
I found this... http://folding.stanford.edu/ Folding@home is basically protein folding simulation software, and the research group is trying to understand how proteins self-assemble. Because it takes lots of computational power, this is a good project for distributed computing. One of the frequently asked questions... Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a non-profit institution dedicated to science research and education. The results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, here on this web site. I created a EUGLUG group if anyone else is interested in donating spare computer time to this project. 'Team EUGLUG', Team #668. I downloaded the client, put it in it's own directory and started it up. If you run this, be sure to put team: 668 in when it asks. Team EUGLUG: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=668 -- Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++);
