LA_MERC_LaTech
May 11th, 2005, 09:56 AM
Greetings and all that other salutatory stuff,
I've recently joined the [H]orde, and you should too! What is the [H]orde, and why should you care? Both fine questions.
The [H]orde is a group of guys that frequent the hardocp forums that are all helping Stanford University work on the distributed computing project that they have going called "Folding". All told, there are almost 500 members in the [H]orde working toward the goal of finding solutions to many of the world's helath related issues. People all over the world are competing, trying to find solutions.
Why should you care?
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease. In other words, we are trying to find why things happen to every day people. This could be you or someone you care about (some members of the [H]orde do it in memory of a lost loved one).
For more information about folding, go here (folding.stanford.edu)
For information about joining the [H]orde, go here (http://www.hardfolding.com/index.php?go=1) and be sure to put 33 in for the team (that's for the [H]orde) when you install the client.
And, when you do download the client and join the [H]orde, post here (http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32) so that everyone can meet you.
Thanks for your time.
LaTech
http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/7760 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=7760)
I've recently joined the [H]orde, and you should too! What is the [H]orde, and why should you care? Both fine questions.
The [H]orde is a group of guys that frequent the hardocp forums that are all helping Stanford University work on the distributed computing project that they have going called "Folding". All told, there are almost 500 members in the [H]orde working toward the goal of finding solutions to many of the world's helath related issues. People all over the world are competing, trying to find solutions.
Why should you care?
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease. In other words, we are trying to find why things happen to every day people. This could be you or someone you care about (some members of the [H]orde do it in memory of a lost loved one).
For more information about folding, go here (folding.stanford.edu)
For information about joining the [H]orde, go here (http://www.hardfolding.com/index.php?go=1) and be sure to put 33 in for the team (that's for the [H]orde) when you install the client.
And, when you do download the client and join the [H]orde, post here (http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32) so that everyone can meet you.
Thanks for your time.
LaTech
http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/7760 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=7760)