Folding @ Home is a program that uses your computer's unused cpu time to simulate protien folding. For protiens to be effective, thousands of them have to assemble, or fold. Sometimes this process goes wrong and causes diseases "such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes".
The program is a very basic, simple, and newbie friendly program. It is available for download here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...04-Console.exe
When it asks you to configure it the first time you launch it, use these settings:
User Name (if you want to be nice and give me some free credit, use hat, otherwise, use your own)
Team Number 50711
Launch Automatically no
ask before sending/fetching work no
use internet explorer settings no
use proxy no
allow work units <5 MB no
change advanced options yes
core priority low
cpu useage requested 80
disable highly optomized code no
pause if battery power is being used yes (if on a laptop) no (if on a desktop)
interval between checkpoints 15
memory in MB to allocate 100
request work units without deadlines no
set -advmethods flag no
ignore any dealine information no
machine id 1
Any questions you may have, go ahead and ask...
The program is a very basic, simple, and newbie friendly program. It is available for download here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...04-Console.exe
When it asks you to configure it the first time you launch it, use these settings:
User Name (if you want to be nice and give me some free credit, use hat, otherwise, use your own)
Team Number 50711
Launch Automatically no
ask before sending/fetching work no
use internet explorer settings no
use proxy no
allow work units <5 MB no
change advanced options yes
core priority low
cpu useage requested 80
disable highly optomized code no
pause if battery power is being used yes (if on a laptop) no (if on a desktop)
interval between checkpoints 15
memory in MB to allocate 100
request work units without deadlines no
set -advmethods flag no
ignore any dealine information no
machine id 1
Any questions you may have, go ahead and ask...
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