After opening the Folding@Home client, enter this as your team # name and you will now be contributing to the gamesas team: 199316

You can also see the team stats here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=199316

You can help by downloading the client for computers here (works on Windows, Linux, and Mac).
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

For high end computers, you can also download multiple High Performance Clients here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download#ntoc5

You can also contribute with your PlayStation 3 console, just install the "Life With Playstation" app under the Network tab, then you can run the Life With Playstation app and find Folding@Home embedded within it! The Playstation 3's Cell Processor is especially good at cranking out the demanding folding that needs to be done to help find a cure for disease, so put it to proper use!

Together, we can help find a cure for diseases.

Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software.
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.

Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
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.

What is protein folding?
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.

What have we done so far?
We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page.

Yes I would! Do and I would act!

Great.

I'll show my support. - Black_Angel reporting for duty.

"They won't even know what hit 'em"

I'm in.

Im going to bump this and let it sit a bit longer before I create a gamesas team.

I have created a new Folding@Home team, team gamesas. Join the effort, make sure you read the original post to understand more about what it is and how to contribute, and there are tons of FAQ's on the stanford website if you have any questions I have not answered yet. I am hoping that this can be stickied so that people are more inclined to contribute and that this gets the attention it needs for the team to be successful and move up ranks.

After opening the Folding@Home client, enter this as your team # name and you will now be contributing to the gamesas team: 199316

You can also see the team stats here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=199316

Thank you for the effort to help cure disease's that unfortunately affect many unlucky people on a daily basis! This is better than a monetary donation, this is a first hand experience that you can use to help benefit the unfortunate!

I joined, Very intresting never have I heard my computer fans rev up so loudly..

I joined, Very intresting never have I heard my computer fans rev up so loudly..

You can throttle down the usage that your F@H client from your PC (like 50% CPU, 30% GPU, etc). If you leave it at 100% you should be keeping an eye on your temperatures because it has been known to overheat computers with inadequate cooling before... as long as you don't run it at 100% or have a couple case fans you should be fine, just like running a game 24/7 with inadequate cooling will also overheat your computer.

I have been running it on my PlayStation 3 practically 24/7 since I don't use it at all otherwise, they have a great processor for this kind of work. I have not put my computer up to the task yet, although I expect that when I do, my GTX 570 should eat apart that GPU client they have made, and my hexacore should tear apart the CPU sectre.

We need additional people to sign up! Many of you who said you would sign up have not done so yet. Our team rank is now 43286 of 193118, we need more members to push that rank down even lower!

***Do not forget that to join our team, you need to enter our team number of 199316, otherwise you will not be contributing to the gamesas team and just to the default "no team" area.***

Damn, it slowed MW2 by 10 frames D:

Damn, it slowed MW2 by 10 frames D:

I am suprised it did not lower the framrate any more. You can pause the current Work Unit by right clicking the CPU F@H taskbar and clicking "pause work", and then you can resume at any point. You can also configure it to use less of your CPU power so you don't get as much bandwith issues if you are running it and playing at the same time.

I have this running on my PC and PS3 now, but we need more people to sign up! Unfortunately I am only running the CPU client on my hexacore, the GPU3 client was not working properly for me (i dont think it is updated yet for the 5xx series drivers) and neither was the SMP beta client, so I am stuck to the standard CPU client on the PC for now and the PS3 client of course.

Still, all the help we can get would be great! Team #199316.