Please join DU's team - Democratic Underground

mia

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Mon Aug-31-09 09:21 PM
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Please join DU's team

Edited on Mon Aug-31-09 09:23 PM by mia

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x406955

Join Folding@home and help find the cure. Yes, DU has a team.
Want to help find a cure for these ailments?

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Cancer
• Huntington's Disease
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Parkinson's Disease
• Ribosome & antibiotics

Join Folding@home.

Some of the new people at DU may not know of a team effort by the folks here. We have joined a distributed computing project called Folding@home. It's a worthy project. All you need to do is allow the client to use spare cycles on your computer. It will not affect your machine. I've been taking part in this project for many years. I started off on the Macnn.com team. I wont try to explain the project because the site does a much better job of explaining the project.

Go here and learn about Folding@home:
http://folding.stanford.edu /

If you feel you'd like to help, download the client here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

After you've done that, join the Democratic Underground team number 48157

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampa...

Thank you.

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mia

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Mon Aug-31-09 09:31 PM
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1. Out of 6000 worldwide teams, DU ranks 232.

Edited on Mon Aug-31-09 09:33 PM by mia

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=3

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marybourg

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Mon Aug-31-09 10:46 PM
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2. Downloaded, and joined DU team. Does it just work on my computer

automatically whenever its on? I didn't see any explanation on this point.

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unhappycamper

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Mon Aug-31-09 10:49 PM
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3. It uses 'extra' CPU cycles.

Not enough to slow you down, but enough to get some work done.

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