***************A CALL TO ARMS PROCESSING UNITS!!***************
In my pursuit of a new graphics card (leading candidate) I have stumbled upon a competition between our blogs that has been ongoing behind the scenes for years, the Folding@home distributed research project from Stanford University in its 9th year.
It involves allowing the project to use the CPU, GPU or both from your home computer as a point on a worldwide internet supercomputer to assist them and affiliated universities in performing complex modeling experiments on how proteins fold in the moments after they have finished being encoded. A multitude of diseases are due to abberations in the folding process.
The amount of work done by any individual (allows multiple computers per log-in) is recorded and points for your work can be dedicated to a cumulative team score then ranked by team totals.
Team FReeper is ranked in the low 70's.
Team DailyKos is ranked in the mid 420's.
Team RedState is ranked in the 1150's.
This is UNACCEPTABLE for a site that boasts so many medicine and science buffs!!!!
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