ACCES Services Inc. Folding@Home Team
The ASI Folding@Home team was founded on the 25th of August 2009. We are forever expanding our efforts to utilise our organisation's un-used computing power to run and operate more and more Folding processes and help Stanford and the other Folding@Home teams and members of the world to achieve their goal. Check out our team's progress on Our Folding@Home Team Page!
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Team Info:
We're currently ranked in the top 5,164 of 168,606 Folding teams and have folded 938 Work Units and obtained 348,683 points with 23 active CPUs, a result we're quite proud of.
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What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins
can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or
"fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental
to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Protein folding is linked to disease, such as
Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there
can be serious consequences, including many well known
diseases,
such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's
disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help scientists studying these diseases by
simply running a piece of software.
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.