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Some of you may have heard about SETI@xxxx, a program you can run on your
computer that analyzes radio signals from the Arecebo dish looking for
signals that may be from extra-terrestrial life. SETI@xxxx has 10's maybe
100's of thousands of users. I have been running their software on all of
my machines since the program went live over 2 years ago and I have
completed over 5,000 work units.
Recently, I removed the SETI@xxxx software and installed software from a
Stanford project called Folding@xxxxx The goal of the project is to
understand how complex proteins fold into their final shapes and understand
how mutations in the genes that create the proteins create mutations in the
resulting proteins which affects their final shape and causes diseases like
Cystic Fibrosis, Alzhiemer's, CJD, etc. Stanford also has a companion
project called Genome@xxxx which is attempting to create new proteins.
The Folding@xxxx software is easy to install, very unobtrusive, and works
with clients that are behind proxies. It runs at Idle priority on Windows
so that your foreground applications are unaffected. I run this software 24
hours on all my machines, even the machines that I use all day, and I never
notice it. There are 2 versions for Windows: one that works as a screen
saver and one that runs as a console application. I run the console version
which is much faster because it doesn't have to waste CPU cycles drawing the
molecules on the screen. I have not tried the Genome@xxxx software.
If you have one or more machines that have some spare cycles, I encourage
you to look at these applications. You can help advance science by
literally doing nothing.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/
Kent
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