CombatACE Grand Opening Recruiting Drive!

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Hello everyone! Well, with this wonderful site now under new ownership, it's time we reinvigerate our litle folding section! If you havn't ever seen it before, way down at the bottom of the forum list is a little forum called "Folding @ CombatACE" (actually, it still says Biohaz, but that should be changing shortly). In that forum we are discussing how the CombatACE folding team is doing.

 

So what is the CombatACE folding team? We are a team that competes with thousands of other teams for something that all benefit from. We run a program called Folding @ Home that uses your computers idle CPU processes to try to figure out how protiens fold. The program was created by scientists over at Stanford University. Here's what they have to say about the program:

 

"What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease.

 

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease."

 

So by joining, you are helping to find information on some deading diseases, and hopefully some cures to this.

 

Does Folding degrade performance? No! Folding's Windo'ws priority is set to the lowest possible, so all other programs get access to the CPU first. Only the leftovers are used by Folding.

 

Join the Fold! It does not degrade performance, it allows for some good hearted competition between members, and, most importantly, helps find cures from some very deadly diseases! Check out the forum for more information.

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