folding???

have anyone heard about folding before?

Well, folding could refer to a lot of thing, fold a paper, fold newspaper, or folding a certain things, but actually this word is pretty famous in scientific environment. Folding simply refer to protein folding.

The main purpose of researching folding is to learn the result of the folding proccess itself. To learn about misfold that causes serious diseases for human being. Folding in research is commonly computed by supercomputers. But now, folding can be take place in our own home. For example, Stanford school of medicine have made a very good software that everyone having a computer anf internet connection can help folding. By this method, folding will be faster with the unlimited resources from all around the world. This software called folding@home.

I myself pretty confused about this word. i found this word from the only forum i joined, chip forum, and i didn't pay attention at all. After read the related thread, at the momment i touched and decided to take part. Then i download the software and give it a try.

This software is very good, since it don't need a lot of resoure of your computer, when you want to use your computer for high performance computing like playing games, rendering video, this service or application will paused for a while, allowing other application to take place. Then, after the proccessor is idle, the service will continue its folding. So, this service don't disturb our computer very much.