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[MERGED] So what is Folding.....

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Folding is a form of 'Distributed-Computing'. This means that a whole load of computers receive jobs from a mainframe. and send data back. This reduces the amount of hardware a group of researchers need, and allows tasks to get completed faster

In the case of Folding@home, Your computer uses it's Idle time for folding Proteins, Your computer researches what proteins do, and it predicts how proteins are going to 'fold' and sends this back to the labs.

It researches if the proteins have anything to do with some serious diseases, for example Cancer, Alzheimer or Parkinson.

That is one of the main reasons people fold with the computer power they are not using,

My personal second reason is that it gives me a pretty cool screensaver.

thumbs up for the screensaver thing lol

The Internet is invented by cats. Why? Why else would it have so much cat videos?

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