fre, 22.10.2004 kl. 15.48 skrev Gene Heskett: > On Friday 22 October 2004 02:38, Tom Taylor wrote: > >On Thursday 21 October 2004 21:21, joelbryan wrote: > >> Hi, For the sake of science, will Fedora Core participate at > >> Folding@Home? > >> > >> -- > >> Music = Apple iPod + Rhythmbox & iTunes > >> Browser = Mozilla Firefox & Epiphany > >> Desktop = Gnome, Mac OSX, Longhorn 4074 > >> Distro = Fedora Core > >> Language = PHP, MySQL, Python, HTML > >> Graphics = Gimp 2.0, gThumb > >> Editors = FrontPage 2003, vi, gedit > >> Codecs = FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Apple Lossless > > > >Hmmm: > > Folding. Is this like an origami party? Or perhaps an envelope > > stuffing afair? > > > > Home. Whose? Why? Where? When? > > > >Hee, hee, hee says he while ducking the tomatoes. > > > >Tom > > Its a program to study how proteins fold as they combine to make the > end products chemically. It has quite far reaching implications in > the development of new drugs. Such research requires the sort of > processing power thats only available from the organisational aspect > of something like setiathome. I'm currently running seti, but the > replacement for seti, called boinc (and I forget exectly what that > acronym stands for), I will probably convert to when seti runs down. > Its also doing various areas of medical research, but isn't limited to > that only. Both would seem to be projects that have potential for > the betterment of mankind whereas seti is basicly an itch scratcher. Who gets the benifit of this research? Anybody-who-wants-to-download-the-result, or some multi-billion pharmaneutical reseach company that will use it only for own profit?