Folding@home - Milestone for Team Castaways
:: 02 February 2012 ::
In 2008, the Castaways became part of a global initiative called Folding@home to help researchers at Standford University crunch computer data so they could learn more about diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers and cancer-related syndromes. This is done with a processing method called 'distributed computing' where thousands of computers are given little bits of data to process, thus completing the data processing in a fraction of the time it would take a single powerful supercomputer.
On January 27th, Team Castaway broke the 1000 Work Unit milestone. A work unit is just one of the aforementioned little bits that was distributed to members of our team. A single work unit typically takes six hours to process, with larger units taking as much as 24 hours or more. This equates to the team's effort of over 6500 hours of data processing in the fight against all of these diseases.
If you have a personal computer (Windows or Mac) or a Sony Playstation 3 in your home, you too can help Team Castaway! It's easy to download the program, and get started folding. If you're really interested, but all this computer business seems like a bunch of hooey, please contact us!
To Learn More and Download Folding@home:
Folding@Home
*Special Note:
Once you download and kick off the program, under 'identity' join team CastawaysAgainstCancer by entering our team number into the field. We are Team#: 148630.
For those of you with a PS3, go to the Playstation Network and download "Life with Playstation". Don't forget to enter our team number to get credit!
On the Salty Water
:: 22 January 2011 ::
Dear friends and family, we're pleased to announce that our beloved Team Navigator, Bob Linfors, has released his memoir of the Castaways, "On the Salty Water", which is now available for download from Amazon. We are very proud of Bob and this endeavor. If you didn't already know, along with his career as an English teacher, he is also an excellent writer and successful playwright.
We invite you to pick up your own copy and support Bob:
On the Salty Water
Happy New Year! Enjoy Some Pictures!
:: 05 January 2012 ::
At long last, the pictures from the 2011 Dirty Dozen Tour are online!
The Dirty Dozen Tour
The Castaways hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday season.
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