The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer Options

[John Pozadzides]

One month ago I announced the formation of the new Folding@HTMLHelp team (# 51056), in support of the distributed computing program at Stanford University. Researchers at Stanford have devised a unique program which allows individuals to help by running a small application on their PCs at home that runs unobtrusively in the background.

There are nearly 45,000 teams participating in this project with over 1,000,000 PCs processing data. I'm proud to announce that in the past month the Folding@HTMLHelp team has gone from last place to the top 10% of contributing teams.

Here are some links to current projects and progress to date:

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Cancer
• Huntington's Disease
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Parkinson's Disease
• Ribosome & Antibiotics

Please take a few minutes to learn more about Folding@Home and then install the tiny application which will quietly run in the background when you aren't using your machine. There are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac and you can even set the application to run as a screensaver so you can see it at work.

I believe that the HTMLHelp team can make a greater impact towards finding a cure than any other team! And to help us get started we are going to have some custom team T-shirts created.

The first 500 team members to submit 20 Work Units will receive a team T-shirt! The shirts have not yet been designed, but as soon as we have a prototype we'll post photos for all to drool over. (If you want to submit a design for consideration, please do!) In order to claim your shirt you only need to do two things (other than using team #51056 of course):

• Please make sure that your HTMLHelp Forum user name is the same name you use in the Folding program! If your name is already taken and you choose another name you must reply to this thread to document the user name you've chosen. That will allow us to ensure that someone else doesn't claim your work and also your free shirt!
• Please enter your mailing address into your profile here on the forums. Don't worry, it is only visible to WDG staff, and we will never sell it, give it away or do anything to betray your trust. We just want to send you a shirt!

Thanks for your support! Now lets get Folding!

[Frederiek]

I get the feeling that the team page of folding@home already adds the points before a unit has finished. I looked at the number of total points I had yesterday, with a unit for 1210 points still working. Today, when that unit finished, I got a unit for 1760 points. I then checked the team page again and the difference with yesterday's total was… 1760 points.
Maybe that's how I get this high total of points on so little units. As I lost assigned units when I switched Mac's.

[John Pozadzides]

Me too! That is awesome! and yes, sometimes it can take a little time for the stats to update... and sometimes it even drops WU's.

But I find it really hard to complain to a volunteer organization about not getting my "points". ;-) (Even though I secretly want to.)

John

[Frederiek]

Personally, I don't care about the points. This is not and should not be a competition, the subject of health being too important for that.

[Dr Z]

Aquick note to John...

Recently I bought a laptop also. And finally got a wireless modem (speed is claimed to be equal to DSL). Just downloaded and and installed Version 5.3 on the laptop also. Now I have two computers "folding". By the way the laptop will also be on 24/7 except when in transit, or if a thunder storm is ecpected.