Serious Folding At Home

I have been very busy for quite some time now, Not paying much attention to this group other than having the FAH client running on my computer.

Somehow, i forgot about the other 12 computers around, Quad Core (2), Dual core (2),Pentium D (2), P4 (1), Celeron (2), And a couple of P3s 1Ghz (2), and one Pentium M 2Ghz (1), I think all of them are capable of runing the program.

The linux clinet is somewhat simpler than the windows client (Or maybe more mature) Since the Single processor and the multi processor version are the same file (FAH6), you run it and leave the details to the thing !

On windows, you have to install a service and give it your credentials to run ! But it runs fine for all i can tell !

I am happy that FAH now supports Multi Core processors (Owning 2 Quad core computers), And even though i don't have a GPU fast enough or sophisticated enough to run folding, i am happy FAH now utilizes all those Gamer GPUs !

Anyway, i went to the folding website a few days ago to get the Latest SMP client (Since SMP clients are all in Beta and updating is good for you), and i thought, why not give this thing a try, With a much more serious look this time.

Looking at the colored map at the stanford website, i am not so pleased with the dots in the arab world, Europe and america are dotted everywhere, and hardly any dots in an area just as big or bigger ! My personal explanation would be, There is no one promoting the project in Arabic, and the website does not lend itself very well to search terms, especially when they are in arabic !

My last try at PeaceBoards was a failure, Partially because i didn't promote it or put enough effort into it, Maybe the website design was not serious enough and did not give an impression that it wanted to promote something so Hi-Tech like protein folding, maybe not many have seen it anyway (Actually, Not many have seen it), And Maybe it did not show what the benefits (To humanity) understanding preteen folding gave us!

And since this project is very dear to me, i though i give it another try, this time, i want to put more effort into it, and i will not stop until there is a snowball !

Again, the target audience is the Arab user, So the website should be in Arabic and English.

I have already renamed the folding group to ArabFolding, and got the domain ArabFolding.com to go with it, Once Hisham is here, he will help me with the design of the new website, Zaina will do some of the Logic, and we should start telling our friends about it

For those of you who know nothing about the project, it is a very ambitious project by stanford university, They aim to understand how proteins fold (Or misfold), and this will pave the way to understanding many diseases like Alzheimer's disease !

But since the calculations are tremendous, a team at stanford Uni. came up with the idea of distributing the load ! Everyone can donate his/Her computer's idle time (The time the computer is doing nothing) to there research, and thus accelerating the process.