What is Folding?

Folding at Home is a distributed client program, similar to SETI, in that it uses your free CPU cycles to help understand how proteins are assembled, or folded. The project is put on by Stanford University whose goal is to find out how proteins assemble themselves and why they sometime misfold. This misfolding is related to many serious diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

By donating your spare CPU cycles to the Sudhian Folding team you are pitching in to help find out how this process works and eventually to find a cure. Not only will you be doing a good deed for humanity but you will enjoy participating in our team and promoting the healthy competition among team members to crank out the most work units.

How do I pitch in?

First you will need to go to the Stanford Folding site and download the latest client. Their are three primary downloads for the PC which include: Graphical Client, Graphical Client (screensaver only), and the command line version. There are also downloads for Linux and the Mac OS X.

After downloading any of the above clients, simply run the program and enter the name you would like to be identified by and the Sudhian Media team number which is: 10688. You may choose to scale down the % of the CPU used, for example 85% if you use your computer throughout the day. The default setting will run at 100%

Message from the Staff:

We hope you join us in and help not only the Stanford Folding project but also to help build camaraderie within the Sudhian Media team and help us reach our goal of a top 10 team.

Useful Links:

Stanford Folding Main Page

Stanford Folding Download Page

Stanford Folding FAQ

Sudhian Media Team Page

Forum Folding Section

 

For more information or questions feel free to e-mail folding@sudhian.com