Hello?

[cured]

What's folding? :S

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by sbohdan

and I missed you guys also

Gonna have to call BS on that one. Besides they have internet in Europe, so if you really missed us you could have popped in and dropped a post.

[sbohdan]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Gonna have to call BS on that one. Besides they have internet in Europe, so if you really missed us you could have popped in and dropped a post.

and I did too sometimes. I had to go to an internet cafe for that and I usually went there to just check my e-mail. there was no sense taking part in the forum because if I do the next time I could of check the responses would of been maybe a week or two later. now that would be BS

[screwballl]

Originally Posted by cured

What's folding? :S

Technical explanation:
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, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

Simple explanation:
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Taken from Folding@home - Main

You install a simple small program onto your computer and once setup, it will run your system at a higher CPU usage as long as it is running. Anytime another program needs more CPU power, the folding client steps back and give the program whatever speed it needs so you never see a slowdown in any of your program.
The overall goal is to use this program to find out why proteins do not fold properly causing all sorts of diseases. This simulation helps determine WHY they do and how scientists can help cure stuff.

One thing that has kept me on board this entire time is the results. No other distributed computing project has produced results like this one has. No other project has released papers based on their findings that could make such a difference to mankind within our lifetime (or at least mine).
A list of many of the computing projects out there can be found here

List of distributed computing projects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia