Basically, Folding is a distributed computing project created by Stanford University and currently run by there own Pande Group. The idea behind the project is to studying proteins folding and misfolding. Which ultimately can lead to bad things health wise if the protein misfold.
Distributed Computing in a nutshell is when two or more computers work together on a project(data) or parts or a project(data) while communicating over a network. It uses there servers on site as well as all the other computers folding and uses that power to process the information simultaneously as needed. This is where WUs come into play, this will be discussed in later FAQs. All of the personal/team info and stats can be found on several sites. Stanford does this for research and are actually spending money to keep it going, hence the reason we are helping them.
No profit is made only the hope for finding cures to disease and illnesses in which we currently have no cures.
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