Folding at Home
For those of you not familiar with Folding@Home it is a distributed computing project that simulations protein folding. The results of the simulations are then sent back to Standford and used to help find cures for diseases. From an average user’s point of view you just run a small application on your computer that will run simulations when you are not using the system for anything else. The program is very small and easy to install. Once installed it will run in the background and whenever it sees that the computer is not active it will start processing its calculations. Sounds pretty boring, right? Well, it would be if it were not for the fact that they keep track of how much each computer contributes to the overall project and then allow users to form teams. These teams are then ranked by how many calculations they do.
How does this relate to gaming?
Shortly after the Playstation 3 was released one of the updates added the option to perform Folding@Home calculations on it. So, when you’re not playing games on your $600 toy you can use it to fight disease. If you’d like more info about Folding@Home on your PS3 you can find it here. If you decide to help fight disease, if nothing else than for the karma points, feel free to join the AGE team. We are team number 58110. Currently, we are ranked 3389 of 67224 and we’re still moving up. If you have a computer that you leave on most of the time Folding@Home is a great way to help your fellow man.
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