Folding@Home for OpenBSD

schnarff writes "Users of OpenBSD have been asking the Folding@Home team for a port of their distributed computing client since at least May of 2002; I've helped out by figuring out how to run F@H under Linux emulation (mirror of instructions). Note that this procedure should work for NetBSD as well with some minor modifications."

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What it is that is being "folded"

[puff the barbarian]

For those of you that do not know, what is being studied is how protein molecules "fold" themselves before doing useful work. Improper folding often accompanies diseases, so studying why things go wrong can help toward curing diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's.