Will setting Fahcore_11.exe*32 to HIGH/REALTIME increase PPD?

Technically no it does not increase your PPD. If you are on your machine while it is running and you set clients to high or real time priority it could cause lagging in certain applications. On the good side it will prevent other programs from stealing resources. If you do have things stealing resources that the folding client needs it could increase PPD by a smidgen.

What is F@H and Distributed Computing?

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.