I run a few folding machines for a project called Folding @ Home. I currently fold for Team 15 (www.SpeedGuide.net).

Folding @ Home is a project run by Stanford University.

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. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can learn more about this at http://folding.stanford.edu . It's a worthwhile cause to donate your otherwise unused CPU cycles. It doesn't slow your PC down at all. The only time the folding application uses your CPU is when nothing else is.

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