Team Tony Lives On

It's been nearly 6 months since I've said anything about our Amyloidosis Awareness Folding@Home team. Thanks to the help of a number of anonymous users, our team is still ranked around 450th place (out of nearly 100,000), and we have scored over 2.2 million points.

I must admit that I have not been contributing recently. However, that has changed, now that I have a new quad-core Pentium box that has nothing else better to do!

Folding@Home is a program which uses the "idle" cycles of your computer (and Playstation 3!) to compute simulations of protein-folding, which is leading to cures for many protein-folding disorders (which amyloidosis is a part of). If you leave your computer on all the time, it is an easy way to show your support for amyloidosis awareness, and make a difference. The simulations that the scientists are running at Stanford are quite complex, and we need as people as we can to contribute.

Download the client, then check out the Team Tony website for more information on setting it up.