Countdown to 1 billion points by MacRumors on FAH

[madsilencerr]

Does this folding really help somehow?

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Unlikely folding will help you direct tomorrow. Folding is one (early) part of the overall research and development process which can eventually lead to therapies and new drugs; which can be a lengthy process.

As such it supports the scientists to basically understand how proteins changing their shape in 3-dimensions causing diseases.

Folding@home is not the only project for distributed computing; but a pioneer in this area. More you can get from here http://folding.stanford.edu/home/

and much more details on published papers: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers

This said: there is already lots of science done with folding. Oh, and the early fathers of the methodology got last year the Nobel Prize: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/congratulations-to-michael-levitt/

 

[madsilencerr]

Countdown to 1 billion points by MacRumors on FAH

Well that sounds quite important so possibly when I get a new Mac (I hope soon) I'll use my current for folding probably!

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Team #3446 would be glad to welcome you ! 🙂

 

[twoodcc]

we now have 1,750,411,459 points! we should hopefully hit 2 billion later this year!

 

[ChristianVirtual]

That's terrible news. Soon the MacRumors front page will be cluttered with news stories: "Folding Team Reaches 2 Billion Points", "Folding Team Reaches 3 Billion Points", etc. There'll be no more room for Apple news! 😱

2'000'000'000 in 3 to 6 hours ... 😎 Next goal Quad-billion

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Thanks for all your contributions and here's looking forward to your 10bn milestone!

Sorry Vijay, we are slow. Second billion in 13month not bad though. But we keep increase the speed 😀

 

[Doctor Q]

2'000'000'000 in 3 to 6 hours ... 😎 Next goal Quad-billion

Our team score is now 2 000 003 556, although the certificate doesn't yet reflect it.

Correction: The certificate is now up-to-date.