The protien (NTL9) has Folded!

[Schlup]

Simulating protein folding on the millisecond timescale has been a major challenge for many years. When we started Folding@home, our first goal was to break the microsecond barrier. This barrier is 1000x fold harder and represents a major step forward in molecular simulation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcp2Xpd29I&feature=player_embedded
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This is a huge breakthrough!  Anybody else besides me fold in BPN?  You know we have a BPN folding@home group setup for those of you that do this!

[cygnus]

At first i was wondering what the heck you were talking about!  Some sort of strange dieting?  Gotta love google, so now I know what you meant but anyway, when I worked at IBM we used to run the community grid on our laptops...I don't run it on my home PC but maybe I might load it....is that the same thing?

[Schlup]

At first i was wondering what the heck you were talking about!  Some sort of strange dieting?  Gotta love google, so now I know what you meant but anyway, when I worked at IBM we used to run the community grid on our laptops...I don't run it on my home PC but maybe I might load it....is that the same thing?

I'd never heard of the community grid, looked it up and it seems to be something similar to Folding@Home, although Folding@Home is newer and much more advanced, they have found that they get the most production by using graphics cards.  Although they also still use CPU as well.  Also they have found that the PS3 is very good and so you can download the program on your PS3 and when you aren't playing games on your PS3 it will automatically start doing protein folding.

But yes, they are both folding to create cures for many diseases and health problems.