The folks at Stanford University have the ambitious goal of understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. "Related diseases" include "...Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes" (from their website).
It takes an incredible amount of processing power to do the research they're trying to do. But you can help! By installing some simple software, you can join your fellow Floridian Ubuntu users who have decided to donate their spare CPU processing power to Stanford. The Ubuntu Florida Folding At Home currently has the 2nd ranked "Ubuntu" team, lagging only behind TeamUbuntu, who has 376 active members. I still think we can catch them. Set your datacenters to team 123168 and we'll be there in no time. Seriously, though. Use those extra CPU cycles for a good cause. Join the Ubuntu Florida Folding at Home team! Details on how you can help are below. Let me know if you have any questions. happy folding, dan ------------------ What is folding at home?: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main Setting up folding at home on Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FoldingAtHome/origami To join the Ubuntu Florida folding at home team, after you install origami (above), run: sudo origami install -t 123168 -u <youralias> (special characters like & or + or % dont work well with the origami installer, so keep it alphanumeric) Team stats can sometimes be found here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=123168 and here: http://kakaostats.com/index.php?col=3&search=ubuntu http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=123168 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-florida Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-florida More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
