Folding@home
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Folding@home

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Overview

Help scientists fight diseases, such as cancer, by donating your unused computing power by running Folding@home in a browser window.

Our goal is to solve massive computational problems related to protein folding research. The problems require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to help us crunch some of the numbers. Servers at Stanford University deliver individual “work units” to thousands of computers around the world. Each of these work units is a small piece of a massive problem. When a computer finishes a work unit, it sends the results back to Stanford and gets a new work unit. Stanford’s computers then stitch together all the results to solve bigger problems. Proteins are the elementary machines inside every cell that we rely on to keep us alive and healthy. They assemble themselves by “folding.” When proteins misfold, there can be serious health consequences. If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs and therapies to combat these illnesses.

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Michael GMay 5, 2021

Love F@H. Also love BANANO

1 person found this review to be unhelpful
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Tony BrownNov 23, 2020

Shutdown in June 2019. Once installed - don't bother - you get a web page that states: "NaCl Web Client Shutdown Notice Folding@home is alive and well but our NaCl Web client has been shutdown permanently as of June, 2019. The NaCl client made it possible to run Folding@home in a Chrome Web browser. Development of this software was performed by Joseph Coffland of Cauldron Development LLC and was funded by the Hong Kong University Science & Technology. During it's 6 year lifespan, the NaCl ... Show more

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Jonathan LangevinApr 8, 2020

Discontinued, app should be removed from the chrome store...

8 out of 8 people found this helpful

Details

  • Version
    1.0.1
  • Updated
    February 24, 2014
  • Size
    24.58KiB
  • Languages
    English (United States)
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