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CUCUG Folding@Home Team #3154
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which
studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. The project uses novel
computational methods and large scale distributed computing to simulate timescales thousands to
millions of times longer than previously acheived. This has allowed the project to simulate folding
for the first time, and to examine folding related diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS.
You can join the thousands of people from around the globe participating in this computing project by simply downloading a small program to your Windows, Linux or Mac OS X computer and running it in the background. The Folding@Home software runs at the lowest priority possible and you should never notice that it's even running. It downloads projects to work on (called work units or WUs) from the Internet and when finished sends the results to Stanford University where they are analyzed. A nice 3D display showing the current molecule being worked on is available.
CUCUG currently has a team of members participating in the Folding@Home project. If you decide to help this good cause please join the CUCUG team! Simply enter Team Number 3154 into the configuration of the Folding@Home client. See our team stats here.
We encourage all CUCUG members to participate in this great project. You'll be helping the scientific community find treatments for deadly diseases and using your computer for something worthwhile.