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Distributed Computing Should Keep You Warm This Winter

Autumn is now upon us in the UK and in my opinion it's cold. Some people might remedy the problem by turning on the central heating but not I. I've turned on more computers and set them running folding@home or World…

Folding@home hits 5 petaflops

Another milestone reached! Folding@home is now processing at over 5 petaflops! For anyone who doesn't participate in folding@home please have a look and see if you can donate computer processing time by running one of…

Folding@home - Possible new Alzheimer's Drug

Folding@home announced Thursday (18th December 2008) that they are "very excited that it looks like we may have multiple small molecules which appear to inhibit toxicity of Abeta, the protein which is the toxic element…

Folding@Home hits 4 petaflops

The official Folding@Home stats page is now reporting a total of 4021 teraflops. This has seen a big increase recently after Sony released the Life with…