Have any of you heard of Folding@Home? For those of you who are not familiar with Folding@Home or distributed computing, click:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@HomeBasically, it boils down to this: You download a small program to your computer. This program downloads data to work on from a central server, and uses spare processing power to simulate protein folding and molecular interactions. Then the data is reported back for analysis. Scientists use this data to better understand the development and progression of many diseases. The download is at:
http://folding.stanford.edu/This program does not contain any spyware, adware, or trojans. It
only uses idle processing time, so when even though it causes the processor to run at nearly full capacity the entire time, there is virtually no slowdown in the computer.
