Folding @ Home

April 10, 2007

Stanford’s Folding@Home project makes use of a distributed computing model to simulate problems that are thousands to millions of times more complex than previously tackled.

What this basically means is that people from all around the world download and run software that links their home computers together, making one of the largest virtual supercomputers in the world - and every computer added takes the project closer to it’s goals.

I’ve long been a supporter of Folding@Home, and have dedicated my idle processor cycles (the time when I’m not actually using the PC) to the project for a number of years - so imagine my delight when I discovered that I could do it with a funky Sidebar Gadget too!

Kunal Kundaje released a version for single processor PCs in January, but has now followed it up with a dual processor (or dual core) version, for those of us fortunate enough to enjoy double bubble!

You can download both versions from Kunal’s Stuff page.

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