Everyone please read this, an amazing easy effortless way to help scientists defeat cancer, aids,

[francolettieri]

Please go to the wesbite

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

It is a website by computer corporation giant IBM that lets you lend your computers power to help with complex mathmatical calculations by scientists working to find new drugs and treatments for catastrophic diseases. In essence, what you are doing is linking up your computers to help form a supercomputer, one of the 10 most powerful in the world, to help solve mankinds biggest problems.

You will not notice any decrease in your computers performance.

Everyone knows someone with a catastrophic illness, and this is a fantastic way to give hope to people in devastating situations.
Please tell your family, friends, and everyone you know about this very easy way to contribute to scientific advancement!!!!!!!

[francolettieri]

1. common everyone!!

only 1% of computers are being used for this project. Imagine how much faster discoveries can be made if 100% of peoples computers were used. Its up to you to participate and tell everyone you know to do the same. There is no easier way to contribute than this!!!

[REP]

2. This IBM?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Erm. Maybe no.

[krispos42]

3. I do something like this to look for extraterrestrial intelligence...

...and study climate prediction, both via BOINC

[RC]

4. IBM is doing this? I thought they had a few computers of their own?

[francolettieri]

7. They do, but they will always be thirsty for more computing power no matter how much they have

[mia]

5. Looks like a worthy project. DU also has a 'Folding@Home' team.

Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. I was just wondering if DUfolding@home was still going! COOL! n/t

[francolettieri]

8. can you sign up for both?

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Another good questin. I don't see why not. n/t

[applegrove]

10. I did that for years. Then it stopped working for me.