The Pande group at Stanford University is running a computer simulation that has been contributing greatly to our understanding of some of the world's most wretched diseases.
Their novel effort needs more processing power than any supercomputer offers, though--it requires the wasted cycles, the idle processing power, on my computer and yours.
Please visit http://folding.stanford.edu/ to see what it's about. Should you decide to put your computer's wasted power to work on this project,
The software can be set up in five minutes, is painless and transparent, and is taking no observable toll on system performance.
Every single computer added to the network speeds the cures. Let's share pride in our industry and camaraderie among metal finishers as we contribute to this important work.
News flash: Oct. 19, 2005: Accurate Anodizing of Compton, Calif. leads the metal finishing industry with 11 completed protein folding projects; finishing.com has completed 12 between our three computers. The Metal Finishing Industry has made it into the top 20% of all teams in the world. But we need your help!
Please join us; it costs you nothing but it helps the world. And if one in a hundred of our visitors would join in, the metal finishing industry would be one of the giant points of light on this map.