Allmar Technologies Creates Folding@Home Team
Allmar Technologies, December 19th 2006
As part of Allmar Technologies' commitment to making charitable contributions, we have created a Folding@Home team. F@H is a distributed computing project created by Stanford University in an effort to find cures for cancers and and cancer-related syndromes.
The folks at Stanford University have been studying protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases for several years now. The overwhelming amount of data that they need to process has grown beyond what their resources can handle. This is where Allmar Technologies and you can help them out by joining the Allmar Technologies team and participating in their F@H distributed computing project.
What is distributed computing? Distributed computing is an environment where you can harness idle CPU cycles and storage space of tens, hundreds, or thousands of networked systems to work together on a particularly processing-intensive problem. The F@H network is currently has approximately 200,000 active computers. Companies and agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Google, Dell, Apple, and Intel all support F@H.
Instead of letting all of those cycles go to waste let the F@H client use them for something productive. Go and download the F@H client (links provided below) and don't forget to enter the Allmar Technologies team number, 53368, when you are configuring the software. If you need help installing and/or configuring the client, feel free to contact us and we will be glad to help out.
