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Fight disease and keep OCAU #1!
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Monday, 24-January-2005 16:28:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Time for a reminder about Folding@Home. If you haven't heard of it, it's a distributed-computing project that simulates protein behaviour. This research can be used to help find cures for many diseases, including cancer, alzheimers and "mad cow" disease. Installing a background task on your PC allows Folding@Home to use your idle CPU cycles - the ones you're not using - to process this data. There is a worldwide race to produce the most data, and currently OCAU's team is the #1 team in the world.
However, there are lots of other teams with their eye on the crown. Team OCAU is being hugely outproduced by several of these teams and at the current rate we'll lose the #1 spot in less than 2 months. To see how you can help, look at our Join OCAU's Team page. To find out more, check out our Folding Page and our Team OCAU DC Forum. That forum is one of our busiest sub-communities, all working hard for some really worthwhile causes.
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