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Folding@Home, Fighting For Disease Treatments

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Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. In summary it helps scientists figure out why and how diseases are formed and how to create treatments to combat them. 

Folding@Home combats many diseases we are all familiar with from Cancer,Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Huntington's Disease and more recently the Covid-19 threat. You can see a full list of illness's that Folding@Home contributes to HERE 

In order to help, Stanford University who oversee the project, they requires computing from all over the world to help process the huge amount of computation model data they have with a view to formulating treatments. This is achieved by distributed computing.

We have a Folding Team  on our website dedicated to helping towards this project. We are attempting to create a powerful dedicated PC that will run 24/7 for the Folding@Home project with a view to contributing as much computing power we can as possible. However in order to maximize on how much power we can give to the project, means that we have to have a powerful machine, which inevitably increases cost which is our stumbling point. 

This is where we are hoping the generous people on GoFundMe can help us. All donations received will go to the procurement of the best of breed hardware that will go towards the finished build of this dedicated Folding@Home PC.

The great thing is we are recording the build process of this PC on our Community Folding Project page , which means you as donor can see the progress of not only the building of the machine, but the finished article working for Folding@Home 

This is a huge humanitarian effort to help us fight diseases that have effected us directly or indirectly. It is our goal to be a part of the fight towards finding effective treatments for all those affected by the aforementioned diseases as well as the recent Covid-19 threat. 

We hope you will help us via your kind donations. 

All the best,
Team ExtremeHW

Organizer

Kim Puleston
Organizer
England

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