Im shure this is pretty old, but anyway let me explain:
here you can find the info about the Red Rockets Team:
http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?board=30.0
MSI HQ Folding@Home Team Wants Your Computer
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Folding @ Home is a computer simulation of Protein Assembly to discover cures for genetic diseases. Installation is a small download to configure personal settings, add your User Name and Team Number 37766, and then download a human-protein-assembly project to process. The protein assembly simulation 'Folding' works at the lowest priority, is user adjustable, and does not interfere with operations like surfing, word-processing, or gaming (uncheck "Main Title" and "Logos Enabled" in the Configuration).
Folding uses an internet connection only to download a Work Unit Packet and then to Upload the results back to Stanford University. DialUp users should Check the "Ask Before Using Network" box in the Configuration menu, or the connection may be left open.
'Folding' will work in conjunction with SETI@ Home and other distributed-computing projects. The 'Graphical' GUI version download is the most user-friendly, the 'Console' version is for command-line tweakers. There are no server privileges needed, and online access is configurable thru firewalls.
Online-time is only needed to download a project, and then upload the results back to Stanford.
Stanford's EULA is short: ". . Thankyou, . . no strings attached . . ".
Stanford's Folding Mission: What exactly are proteins and what is "Folding"?
Proteins are the nano-machine workhorses of biology. Before proteins can carry out their functions they assemble themselves, or "fold". Protein folding is fundamental to all biology, and the assembly details are slowly being discovered via these computer simulations.
When proteins do not fold correctly there are serious effects, including diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's.
Folding@Home is a distributed-computing project that works on any personal computer. The more processors the better, as the human body makes over 50,000 different proteins in hundreds of thousands of combinations.
Stanford's computational methods (algorighms) and large-scale distributed computing simulates geologic timescales thousands to millions of times longer than current time. Stanford simulates folding with our computer help, and finding cures to protein-assembly related diseases.
Since October 2000, over 1,000,000 CPUs in the world have participated in Folding@Home. Every additional CPU gives an added boost in performance and allows us to tackle harder problems and find better solutions."
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-Proteins are necklaces of amino acids -- long chain molecules -- and the basis of how biology gets its work done.
As enzymes, proteins power our biochemical reactions. As structural elements, they make up our bones, muscles, hair, skin and blood vessels. As antibodies, proteins recognize and destroy invaders. For this, we have sequenced the human genome, which is the blueprint for all of the proteins in human biology.
-Folding's Relationship to the Human Genome Project: The genome is the blueprint for all the proteins -- it contains the DNA code specifying the sequence of the amino acid beads along the protein "necklace."
-Why Proteins "Fold": Knowing the sequence tells us little about what the protein does and how it does it. To carry out their function as enzymes or antibodies or other cellular matter, they must take on a particular shape known as a "fold." Before proteins can do a particular job they must assemble themselves, called "folding".
here there are some links too:
http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=76493.0 http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=62744.0 http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=56077.0
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