Many of you have probably already heard about the Folding@Home
research initiative by Stanford University:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage
I set it up on my F17 desktop today, and it works well so far.
Unfortunately the visualizer and GUI do not work due to a Python
problem (ticket exists for it already), but the client itself can be
configured and run via CLI (use FHAClient --help for a listing). I
recommend the whole community to consider parttaking in this project,
it is likely to bring many beneficial advancements over time.
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Best,
Christopher Svanefalk