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[DarkMatterClock]

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL CLOCK CREW CHARITY

Note: Originally posted in the computer forum hence the way I address readers

Hello fellow tech junkies and users who have come to this particular forum seeking help, welcome.

While this thread will not aid you in your quest for computer hax it is semi important, to me at least and i would appreciate any help.

As many of you know there is a program called "Folding at Home" which studies the folding and mis-folding of proteins in the human body to further research diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. This application uses your idle cpu cycles to process these proteins and basically has no effect on your everyday computing.  However some of the latest projects require full time work and extremely high resources and as such cannot be run on older machines or machines which cannot afford to give 100% of multiple cores to work on them.  Now here comes the reason for this post.  I have lost multiple family members to cancers of various sorts and over my spring vacation i saw my grandfather who now has severely advanced Alzheimer's disease and it's truly heartbreaking when in the course of 45 minutes you have to tell your grandfather at least 10-15 times where you go to school, what your name is, etc.  What I am proposing here is the construction of a server style 8-core folding machine which will only be used to fold the advanced units which many current folding computers cannot handle.  The proposed build would cost between $1500-$1800 and this is not something i can do on my own especially as a full time engineering student.  I am asking that anyone who can afford it chip in what little they can so that when i work again this summer i will be able to complete the project and still be able to afford school books next school year.  This is my way of giving back, and I am asking you to help.

Follow this link to go to the donation site which also has a direct link to the "Folding at Home" website.

This is not a Clock Crew exclusive charity (there will be no awards given out for donating other than piece of mind and you will not be classified as a donor on this website)

[Topcatyo]

I'd donate if I had money, I love the idea.
Well, I'll be getting a job sometime this year ( ) so maybe later on I can donate.

[SageClock]

I donated. Alzheimer's is slowly taking my favorite author away, and is probably the disease that scares me the most, so it better be taken care of by the time I get old.

[DarkMatterClock]

Thanks for the help Sage, hopefully if some more people decide to help out We can get this really going and hopefully contribute a great deal to a cure.

[CrustClock]

you're developing a cure for Alzheimer's?

[SpinningCubeClock]

donated.

[RabidClock]

Make non-profit, need tax write off.

[DarkMatterClock]

well technically it is non-profit...as in im not going to make any money from doing this...but i dont know how to have it legally made non-profit.

[Schmellements Clawk]

I like how they think computers are human.

[AlbinoClock]

I like how they think computers are human.

They never said that.

[Joey 57857]

I would vote if i could sorry kinda low on it i shall donate when possible.

[Schmellements Clawk]

They never said that.

As many of you know there is a program called "Folding at Home" which studies the folding and mis-folding of proteins in the human body to further research diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. This application uses your idle cpu cycles to process these proteins and basically has no effect on your everyday computing.

How does they do that?!

A computer is nawt human!

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[DillClock]

if i had some some more money i would

i got like $19 in my bank atm, so yeah

[LuigiClock]

How does they do that?!

A computer is nawt human!

Information is sent to your CPU, it processes it and sends it back. SETI does this also

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[WarCorrespondentClock]

So bending the natural proteins in our body, that our body makes for itself for the purpose of being used in that particular shape, is going to help alzheimers? Not that I am being negative, but how does it work? If you change the shape, doesn't the protein become denatured?

[DarkMatterClock]

I'm not exactly sure how it works in nature but by simulating the various ways in which a protien could possibly fold we can understand how it can MISFOLD which is the cause of many diseases.  by determining how they misfold we can then determine why, once we have the why we need only figure out a way to stop it....it is a long road but every bit counts.