Folding@Home

Folding@Home is an amazing distributed computing organization that researches diseases such as Parkinson's.  Each connected computer is assigned proteins to simulate.  When a work packet is finished, the processed information in uploaded to Stanford University's labs for analysis.  Currently, my computer is working on a simulation of CheY and Src tyrosine kinases.  You can find more information on FAH and get involved by checking out their web site.  The client application is designed to use only idle CPU time unless you allow it to take precedence.  FAH also has power-saving options for laptops and performance-intensive plans for amazing gaming computers.  Put your computing power to work for science!