The link above contains contact information for each of these trials. If you are in the Dallas area and are interested in advancing medical research by donating your body before death, please take a look at these to see if you can help.
If you are in other parts of the country then ping us and I will find medical research in which you may participate.
You can also donate a computer or a Playstation 3 to run a snippet of code that "folds" proteins in your computer, then returns the result to Stanford University for merger into many research projects. About 200 FReepers currently donate around 1,100 computers to the project under the FReeper team 36120, with the number of donated systems rising to over 1,400 when school restarts.
Pinging out the the Folding team. Please come on over to participate!
New FReeper Folding@home thread. Not your usual thread. Please come on over to participate.
Please ping if you want on or off the list.
How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired user-name.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
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Other Useful Stuff - Links
How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40
Your first work unit completed and you are now on the board!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120
And many thanks to whomever PS3 is. Don’t know the FReeper name but we are glad to have you on the team.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me or follow the links below.
Available features include:
Links
Please Freepmail me with any questions.
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