Archive for the ‘folding@home’ Category

13 September 2007 @ 17:20Folding@home installers

If you haven’t heard of Folding@home, it is a distributed computing effort organized by Stanford University to aid in the study of how proteins fold. From Stanford’s site: What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology’s workhorses — its “nanomachines.” Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, [...]

by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in apple, folding@home, mac

12 July 2007 @ 23:33Folding in the “off hours”

I’ve been participating in the Folding@home project for a while now. It gives me a sense of helping out while also providing a sense of competition. While Folding@home pretty much gets out of your way while you do “real” work, it also causes some computers’ fans to run more than normal. This is nothing to [...]

by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in apple, folding@home, mac, shell script, ssh

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