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Fur Affinity has a Folding@Home team dedicated to helping Stanford University process proteins. By uniting our combined efforts, as a team we can help lead to breakthrough cures for many of the diseases which will affect us for generations to come. Join today, and help Furry put an end to cancer!
Join the Team
The FA Folding@Home team was founded by Silver R. Wolfe, a former FA admin, and continues continues to this day. We need more folders to join our ranks and help push the FA team to the top! Join the Fur Affinity team (#60091) and help fold for the cure today. As a community, you helped improve Fur Affinity through donations... now help the entire world by putting your computers and PlayStation 3 at work to fight cancer and other diseases.
FA Team ID: 60091
FA F@H Site Homepage: Fur Affinity Folding@Home
What is Folding?
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Folding@home is a distributed client computing effort by Stanford University. It is intended to help analyze the nature of which proteins fold (cell replication) or misfold (leading to mutations, etc.).
Many serious diseases are related to the mis-folding of proteins, where our body's biological system begins to break down. These breakdowns can cause diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cystic fibrosis, mad cow and more. By donating your spare CPU cycles, you are contributing to an effort to understand how proteins fold, which is the first step to understanding how basic proteins work and how we might treat these diseases. When you are not using your computer, the processor will run simulations of different proteins and the way they assemble to better help scientists understand why they do what they do.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
Learn more about Folding@home from the Stanford University website: http://folding.stanford.edu/
What You Need
Folding can be done by a CPU (Intel or AMD), high performance graphics cards or on the PlayStation 3.
CPU Folding@Home
The CPU client is meant to be run on standard home desktops and workstations. It's compatible with all modern day processors such as Intel's Core2Duo and Core2Quad series and AMD's Athlon X2 and Phenom cores. It's not very powerful, but will run on just about anything and everything.
File:Download.gif Folding@Home CPU Client
GPU Folding@Home
Although the GPU Folding@Home client is still in beta, the client offers extremely high performance. The client works by running on the graphics card's GPU, the processor of a graphics card.
File:Download.gif Folding@Home High Performance GPU Client
Requirements
- Nvidia Compatible: Any 8X00, 9X00 and GTX 2X0 series graphics cards that is capable of running CUDA.
- ATI Compatible: Any graphics card from the 1000 series or higher. Radeon 3000 series and higher are highly recommended.
Nvidia GeForce Drivers
Folding@Home requires up-to-date Geforce drivers (v177.XX or higher) to run. The drivers available from the Nvidia website.
File:Download.gif 177.92 Windows XP 32-bit drivers. File:Download.gif Windows Vista 32-bit drivers File:Download.gif 177.79 Windows Vista 64-bit drivers
ATI Radeon Drivers
Folding@Home requires up-to-date ATI Radeon drivers to run. They can be found from the AMD website.
File:Download.gif ATI Radeon drivers
PS3 Folding@Home
The Folding client is built into the Playstation 3. Before you can begin you will need to download the latest system update (refer to Sony's guide here). Once you have the latest system update, you can install the Folding@Home client from the Network menu. Simply follow the instructions, enter FA's Team ID #60091 and your name, and you're good to go.
