RowdyRuff.net Grid.org Team

I am sure that we all know or have known people that have been stricken with a disease.  Diseases with treatments that have little chance of success.  No real possibility for a cure. The likes of Cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, Cystic Fibrosis, the list goes on...  Hoping that a cure could be found, knowing the outlook was hopeless.

Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data, storage, or network resources across dynamic and geographically dispersed organizations.  Grid technologies promise to change the way organizations tackle complex computational problems.  However, the vision of large scale resource sharing is not yet a reality in many areas — Grid computing is an evolving area of computing, where standards and technology are still being developed to enable this new paradigm.

This is where our ability to help begins. We can all share our computers' unused resources to assist the researchers in expediting this protein folding.  A more detailed explanation can be found at Grid.org's website.

The program can be set to run in the background, off of your computers resources that you are not using.  It does not slow down what you are doing; it is designed to use only the "idle" cycles of your processor, which will otherwise go to waste.  A very small price for a very noble cause.

I hope that you will realize the potential and join the team with us.

You can download the windows client here:  http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm

Once you install it, you just leave it running and it will do the rest.  You must have an Internet connection so it can transmit the results back to the server.

When registering, they will ask you if you belong to a team.  Use "RowdyRuff.net" as the team name so all of our work can be grouped together.  You can click this link to see the Team's page.

I even made a team logo for the program:

If you are under 18, please ask your parent's permission to install this program. It doesn't cost anything and is 100% free to use.

This isn't the most user friendly program to use, so if you have any problems installing it, please email me.  If enough people start joining the cause, I may make a new section here in the forums to discuss how to best run this program.

If you need any help, please e-mail me.