Common Questions
What is Folding at Home?
Folding @ Home is a program run on your PC through the processor and/or video card used to analyze proteins. What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. More information can be found at Stanford EDU
What Client is right for me?
So you want to know which client to download? This all depends on your hardware. There are 2 Download sections. The main Download page: Stanford EDU Folding @ Home Main Downloads and the Beta Clients: High Performance Windows Clients. So which one to use depends on your hardware.
Quick List:
Older Processors Pentium III, Pentium 4, Celeron..ect That are not 64bit compatible need to use the basic CPU client on the main Downloads page. (Main Downloads). Higher Multi Core Processors / 64 bit such as the C2D, Quad Core and new i7 should use the experimental SMP Beta Clients at the bottom of the Beta page. (High Performance Windows Clients) Make sure to choose the correct one for your Operating system.
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FAQ edited 2008-02-27 (22:26 GMT)
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