We have great teams here at CDFreaks that need your help supporting research into curing diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer and many other critical diseases so please take a moment to read this announcement.

What is Distributed Computing?
DC is a scheme of multiple computers processing problems simultaneously over a network or internet. The goal is to solve problems using thousands to millions of computers around the world to achieve a boost in performance and solve more researches faster.

What are DC projects?
There have been many research projects running for many years where they still need our help. We can help them by using our extra processing/CPU power to help cure life threatening diseases like AIDS, Cancer, Alzheimer, Anthrax and many more.

How can we help?
Throughout the day, there is time when our CPU power is not fully used, eq when browsing the internet, checking e-mails, word processing, or when you leave your PC on for 24/7 and you are away, at work or sleep. During these times we can help these research projects by donating our CPU running their small program client in our PC and in turn will benefit humanity. The client program will run in your PC solving equations and simulating problems, and when it's done it will send the results back to the main server. The researchers will compile these results for their projects and you will get “points” in return.

These are some research projects from non-profit organizations that we currently support:

Folding at Home (Stanford University)
FAH goal is to understand protein folding, misfolding and related diseases. Proteins are biology’s workhorses and before they can carry out 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.

World Community Grids
WCG mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. They are looking for research projects that can benefit from grid technology and have a positive impact on humanity. Their success depends on individuals, like you, collectively contributing your extra computer time to the non profit endeavour. Their works include researches on Muscular Dystrophy, Cancer, Human Proteome, AIDS and many others.

The client program can be set to idle or low priority so it will halt itself when you run a big application or start a game. You can also set your client to use only a percentage of your CPU power. A small disadvantage you might have from running these clients will be a slightly higher electricity cost but it depends on your system specifications and client settings.

You can find more information about our teams, guides and FAQs in the Distributed Computing forum (http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=135)

Thanks for your time and we hope you have fun while helping to save other people's lives.