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I've seen a bunch of stuff on the forums about folding month and folding teams and I'm wondering just what exactly folding is.

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https://foldingathome.org/

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You provide your PC hardware (cpu & gpu) for science project. Researchers will run research projects on your hardware as long as their software is running.

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3 minutes ago, kucharczykt said:

I've seen a bunch of stuff on the forums about folding month and folding teams and I'm wondering just what exactly folding is.

Short answer: you donate your PC‘s power to help science 

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Folding@Home is a distributed computing network, which simulate the folding of proteins (the building blocks of the human body). Proteins fold in our bodies, but if they misfold, different horrible diseases like Parkinson, Cancer and Alzheimer can occur.

By simulating how these proteins can fold, researchers can take this data and base their studies on it to hopefully one day find a cure to these. They also added a SARS-COV target earlier this year, to hopefully aid the research in the COVID-19 virus.

 

The way Folding works, people can install a little piece of software on their computer to run these simulations, which will then get reported back to F@H.

That is the 'distributed' part of the computing network, as it isn't one super-computer doing the crunching, but thousands of CPU's and GPU's around the world.

 

People can make their own F@H team, which LTT of course has one too (223518). By folding for this team and racking up points, people can earn different badges. The team also has different events, starting in 2018 with the first folding month. We're currently in the third folding month.

By participating in these events, people can also get different badges.

 

Here is some more info on F@H and how to set it up: https://linustechtips.com/topic/876-foldinghome-install-guide-and-links-linustechtips_team-223518/

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