Soldato
Can someone explain F@H to me please. I have noticed it on my ps3 but i've never understood the point of it.
I'll point you to the folding@home website http://folding.stanford.edu/ but in a nutshell, "folding" aims to understand how proteins fold and mis-fold which can lead to diseases such as cancer and alzheimers.
What happens is, rather than Stanford running these simulations on one supercomputer, they are broken up into chunks and distributed to volunteers who have installed the client on their computer(s). Your computer runs the simulation and then uploads the results. These results are then credited with points which go towards your score.
There are no prizes for points, maybe just a warm feeling of being charitable and the fact we all have a bit of a lark around in this forum for a bit of fun.
I know some people use it as an excuse to have the latest and greatest hardware.
Anyway, my short post turned into a few paragraphs so I'll sum up:
If you want to contribute to science, just set your PS3 running. If you need any specfic help just make a new thread but the PS3 client is a synch to get going. If you get "the bug" you'll probably want to get your PC folding too so any questions just ask.
edit - argh rich beat me to it!