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_RSF 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.
(extremeoverclockering.com stats)
| # | Team | Points | WUs | Rank |
| 80856 | Team RSF | 453,955,957 | 629,156 | 29 |
| Team XPS' daily production for the last 90 days |
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Team_RSF (formerly named Team_XPS) was founded in July 2007 by some friends who became acquainted on the old Dell community forum and wanted to put the spare capacity of their computers to good use. From the team's beginning as the 80856th folding team, we have climbed to 36th place worldwide as of December 2009. Along the way, we've grown far beyond our Dell roots to the point where many members have built their own machines exclusively for folding. In the Summer of 2009, we finally severed our ties to the XPS logo and became the independent Team_RSF, based here at the Rampant Speculation Forum.
Whether you are interested in building a dedicated "folding farm," or only wish to donate a few spare processing cycles from you home computer, gaming rig, or laptop, we would love to have you join Team_RSF. You will be among friends here!
Team - RSF