how is this? Summary- Folding is a Windows program created by Stanford University in California. This program takes a computer's extra power that it is not using from the Processor ( The main engine of the computer) to study how proteins fold. This program is more of a team effort task. It takes thousands of computers to even get near folding many proteins. One computer alone cannot get much done on folding, regardless of its power so folding takes other computers power to all fold together. If we found out how proteins fold (Which is currently a mystery), many diseases that people die from today such as Mad Cow disease and Cancer would be cured. As more and more computers join, the more power the software has to study and examine how proteins fold more closely. Currently, about 1,400,000 million computers around the world fold (on occasion) and the numbers are climbing. As listed in the chart above. ( Note that these are an average of CPUs that fold regularly listed in the chart, not on occasion) Below, I also listed 2 screenshots that I took from my computer when its folding.
This is what the folding program looks like generally. ( The applications running in the background are seprate applications that have nothing associated with folding) Also, to do Folding, a computer requires a decent amount of power. If a computer has a processor known as a, " Celeron or Pentium 3," or below, the computer will not do a very good job at folding. Folding is reccomended to run on a Pentium 4 or above or a AMD XP or above with 256MB of ram of above to get decent power. ( Even a AMD Duron is good) However, any computer can do folding but the more powerful the computer, the more power goes to help experiment and study Proteins. ( Even a AMD Duron is good) his is how i wrote it so far. rate on a scale from 1-10