Folding@Home

[InbetweenDreams]

Although this isn't technically a game, but this is about the best place to put this.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that Stanford University does, the goal of the project is to help develop cures for diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.

In a nutshell you download, install and run the client program. The client is CPU intensive (or GPU intensive) so this is something you probably don't want to run all the time. The client donloads "jobs" to process and once your computer finishes a job you get a certain number of point and yes the faster your computer is the more points you get. Currently GPU folding is much faster than CPU (GPU = Graphics Card and CPU = Processor).

For folks who really want to get involved you can build computers dedicated to folding, there are people who take it as a challenge to rack up as many points as possible and mind you it is for a good cause.

However, you don't have to have a high end gaming computer or server farm to contribute, any computer is useful.

What I'd like to do, if there's enough folks interested I'd like to get a folding team going.. Ask questions, I'll be happy to explain how everything works.

You can read more here https://folding.stanford.edu/

You can also see my stats here http://fah-web2.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai...e=axle2152