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Folding@home scientists report first distributed computing success
Submitted by Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho; posted on Thursday, October 24, 2002
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``As you read this sentence, millions of personal computers around the world are working overtime – performing complex computations on their screensavers in the name of science. This growing Internet phenomenon, known as `distributed computing,' is being used for everything from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence to the design of new therapeutic drugs.
``Now, for the first time, a distributed computing experiment has produced significant results that have been published in a scientific journal. Writing in the advanced online edition of Nature magazine, Stanford University scientists Christopher D. Snow and Vijay S. Pande describe how they – with the help of 30,000 personal computers – successfully simulated part of the complex folding process that a typical protein molecule undergoes to achieve its unique, three-dimensional shape. Their findings were confirmed in the laboratory of Houbi Nguyen and Martin Gruebele, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored the Nature study.''
Full story:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/02/folding1023.html
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