Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed to
perform simulations of protein folding and other molecular
dynamics, as well as improved methods for doing so. Also known
as FAH or F@H, it first tries to determine how proteins reach
their final structure, which has considerable scientific
interest and is of great importance for the study of Alzheimer's
disease, Huntington's disease, cancer and many other ailments.
To a lesser extent, Folding@Home and tries to predict what the
final structure and to determine how other molecules can
interact with it, which is used in medicines. Folding@Home is
designed and operated by Pande lab Stanford University, led by
Vijay Pande. The project is dedicated to the understanding of
protein folding, the diseases that are the result of misfolding
and the development of new computational methods for drug
development. Folding@Home runs on idle processing resources of
thousands of volunteer PCs and PlayStation 3. Completed work
units of those systems back to the databas