BOINC: Grid Computing for help medical research

[IIO]

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research

So begins the introduction to the BOINC distributed computing for the University of Berkley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDcMAePKYY
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Operation is simple, you download the program and participate in projects that you want, after you have registered.
BOINC will download the strings to be elaborate, and when they are ready to be returned to the server of your project.

http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html

I use it since 2007 (except for a few months where i had the pc k.o.), and participate in World Community Grid in the following projects

Help Fight Childhood Cancer
Influenza Antiviral Drug Search
FightAIDS @ Home
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2
Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together
Help Conquer Cancer
Nutritious Rice for the World
The Clean Energy Project

also contribute with Rosetta @ home.

[slayerdrango]

I have been in this program since 1990's in the SETI program which is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
there are a lot of different causes so you to choose from. By using your computer for processing date while you are not using it. So you should not have dialup to use this because it would dial out at times to send process results back.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

[IIO]

I have been in this program since 1990's in the SETI program which is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
there are a lot of different causes so you to choose from. By using your computer for processing date while you are not using it. So you should not have dialup to use this because it would dial out at times to send process results back.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

Is only one of my opininon, eh, but i feel much more useful to help medical research, rather than scour the space looking for signals from extraterrestrial life forms (thinking)

cheers mmm

[Archangel]

I was using the folding program for several years for University of Stanford in regards to medical research. There are even ways to utilize your video card processors for folding ie. Nvidia Cuda and ATI/AMD video drivers. Good Stuff for a great cause.