Folding@home team?

Posted by Alex on 2011/9/28 12:24:31

I am realizing that I am probably becoming very annoying with all my suggestions as of late but this is "probably" the last one (there might be more ideas). Does the ALA have a Folding@home team? If not I would like to set up a team. Folding@home is where you donate your computer's spare time (where it would otherwise be off or asleep) to help find cures for all sorts of diseases by using your processor and graphics processor to fold and unfold proteins. Some of the advances that have been made with this were unheard of 10 years ago because of the amount of computing power it would have required. There are competitions to see how many points you can get in a certain time frame (a weekend, a week or even a season). I think that this would give us a good name and help make us a little more known. This is a link to the program: http://folding.stanford.edu/