Join Overclockers Australia Folding@Home Team
What is Folding@Home ?
The Folding@Home is a project run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a non-profit institution dedicated to science research and education.

PROJECT GOALS: Solving the protein folding problem: Understanding how proteins self-assemble ("protein folding") is a holy grail of modern molecular biophysics. What makes it such a great challenge is its complexity, which renders simulations of folding extremely computationally demanding and difficult to understand. (See Scientific Background for more details about what are proteins, why do they fold, why this is so difficult, and why do we care).

It's amazing that not only do proteins self-assemble -- fold -- but they do so amazingly quickly: some as fast as a millionth of a second. While this time is very fast on a person's timescale, it's remarkably long for computers to simulate. In fact there is a 1000 fold gap between the simulation timescales (nanoseconds) and the times at which the fastest proteins fold (microseconds).

To solve the protein folding problem, we need to break the microsecond barrier. The Pande Group has developed a new way to simulate protein folding which can break the microsecond barrier by dividing the work between multiple processors in a new way -- with a near linear speed up in the number of processors. Thus, with 1000's of processors, we can break the microsecond barrier and help unlock the mystery of how proteins fold.

 
To join the Overclockers Australia Folding@Home team follow these steps below and help a great cause.

Our Team Number is 24
Download the client software: This is the official release Folding@Home Downloads.

OCAU client setup guide: FAH5 setup guide.

Stanford guides: Console User Guide  or the Graphical User Guide.

If you want to monitor your folding use : EM3 or LogStats

Need to read a FAQ check this out: FAQ

Check your progress through the stats with these pages: Stanford : Extreme : fahstats

Don't forget to check out all our clubs that you can join along the way: Folding Club : Milestone Club

Have a look at the OCAU Forum FAQ for some commonly asked questions.
 

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