Free Republic does more to fight Cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's than DU [View All]

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Folding@Home is a research project run by Stanford which hopes to develop new drugs and/or find a cure for diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. Contributing to this project is simple. All you have to do is download a small program which quietly runs in the background on your computer. It will not degrade performance, and it's secure. The only times it makes contact with the Stanford servers is when uploading data and downloading new data for processing. Since October, 2000 over 1 million computers have participated in the project.

While the DU has made a significant contribution to this program (we currently have over 170 active computers working on the project), the Free Republic has over 1000! This is a friendly competition, but they would say that we're not a very charitable group of people. So, let's prove them wrong!

All it takes is to download and install a client to your hard drive. All you need to do then is to make it a service (Windows) or a login item (Mac) and it will quietly run in the background. As I have said, it will not degrade performance, and it is secure. The only times it makes contact with the Stanford servers is when uploading data and downloading new data for processing.

For more info go to their home page at:
http://folding.stanford.edu /

Read the info. If you want to take part download the software here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

If you want, join our team. when you set up your Folding@home client you will see where you can join a team. Type in the number 48157 and that will enroll you. This is not a requirement. You may want to go it solo, or you may want to be part of a team. Your choice. Taking part in this worthy project is what is important.

Here's our team page:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

Please join us and help find the cure for a host of ills that plague the human species.

P.S. Thank you to Alfredo who has recently been working to get more people at the DU involved in this project. Much of the information in this post can be found at http://journals.democraticunderground.com/alfredo/8