F@H is a project that uses distributed computing in over 100 countries around the globe to study the folding and misfolding of proteins. It is the scientists' belief that when amino acids misfold then the result could cause many diseases including Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and Huntington's. Scientists at PandeGroup with Stanford University started the Folding@Home project in 2000. Over the years the project has grown to include well over One Million individual participants some using more than one machine (PC, Mac, PS3) to help Humanity.
F@H requires one to install a small program (client), and use his or her machine to use its idle Processing Power to crunch smaller bits of a larger puzzle called Work Units (WU).
Once the client finishes a WU, it then sends back the results to Stanford's servers and downloads a new WU and continues with the process. Depending on the machine used, the clients could use anywhere from a small amount of the available processing power to all of the same. However, the clients are designed to step back, slow down or halt completely when other programs need the Processing Power.
Every finished WU can earn the owner of the machine with credits (Points) ranging from as little as 15 Points to well over 2500 Points per WU. This is where the fun begins!!! As a group all of each team's members compete against one another for points, and as a whole all teams compete against one another too. The competition is fun, exciting and addicting (in a good way of course); helps Humanity and Science AND helps us get to know the limits of our machines.
Team_XPS hopes that as a member of Humanity all would consider donating to this project their unused CPU/GPU/PS3 cycles.
Here's a good link to read up
on articles about Folding@Home.
Congratz again to Team_XPS for yet another Record weekly number of points 
Team_XPS Crunched 5,921 Work Units for a total of 2,809,703 Points, averaging 475 PpWU
Those numbers show increases of 21,212 Points and 126 WUs compared to week before.
Hopefully we will have a wonderful week ahead, let us aim for 3_Million 
* Always Shoot for the Moon, if you don't reach it, you'll sure end up amongst the stars!!!
| # | Team | Points | WUs | Rank |
| 80856 | Team XPS - Folding@Home | 96,562,234 | 167,389 | 44 |
| Team XPS' daily production for the last 90 days |
This is our vision first for Humanity, and second for Folding@Home.
We hope that you decide to join this great cause, and if you join Team_XPS we will be even happier. Either way you could feel free to ask questions and we will be glad to assist you.
Team_XPS started in July 2007 and was the 80856th team when we started. As of September 2008, Team_XPS has climbed to Rank in Top_50 amongst well over 140,000 Teams World Wide. Over the last year-plus we have had more than a dozen lead changes within our team. We have seen some new and original team members build machines exclusively for Folding. And at the same time all team members help each other to make sure we achieve the utmost results from our machines. The collective group of each member's machines is referred to as a "Folding Farm"
The newest client is the GPU client, and of course the oldest ones are the CPU and PS3 ones. There are clients available for different Operating Systems, so you could be Folding with a PC using Windows Vista or XP and if you prefer a flavor of Linux, there are clients available for Linux too, many of us use Ubuntu. There are clients for the MAC/Apple' OS and of course Sony's PS3.
Important Announcement about the new 6.23 Beta Client
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Won't running my computer at full usage/100% all the time damage it?
Folding@Home works best if your machine is running 24/7 especially when it comes to high performance clients, SMP in particular as they have a very short (2-4 days) deadline.
Therefore one question some usually ask is this:
"Won't running my computer at full usage/100% all the time damage it?"
Let us go ahead and take care of this myth once and for all:
It is very likely that a good computer lives longer when run 100% at all times than one that gets turned on and off once a day. Most faults in electronics - it does not matter if it is a computer, a TV or a microwave oven - are in fact temperature related.
Some are the result of overheating (and a bad environment or a hardware design is to blame) but others are the result of thermal stress, and are simply unavoidable. Because different materials expand differently when exposed to heat they then build up tension and cause friction, also known as thermal stress.
Whenever a computer is turned on and off its components change in temperature by as much as 40c to 60c, causing thermal stress in all contacts, cables, PCBs and soldering. Given enough time will it cause most materials to break - like a piece of plastic or metal that is being bend too often.
A computer which is running at full speed 24/7 and producing a constant heat will receive a lot less thermal stress than one that is being turned on and off once a day, and therefore live longer.
Again, this implies a good computer as well as a good environment! With computer components getting hotter each year, requiring more cooling than ever before, they also tend to die earlier because of over-heating. A computer on a dusty carpet in a crowded office will most-likely die of dust before any thermal stress can kill it.
IMO, the answer is even simpler.
A well built and well maintained computer will age and be considered obsolete
well before it breaks down.
Team - XPS