He is also the founder of the
Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project for disease research which pushes the boundaries of the development and application of computer science techniques (such as distributed systems, machine learning, and exotic computer architectures) into biology and medicine, in both fundamental research as well as the development of new therapeutics.
One such computing project is the famous
Folding@Home, which runs computationally intensive computer simulations using the collective effort of millions of smaller computers.
Now, MilkyWay@Home has outgrown even this famous project, in terms of speed, making it the fastest computing project on the BOINC platform and perhaps the second fastest public distributed computing program ever in operation, just behind
Folding@home.The interdisciplinary team behind MilkyWay@Home, which ranges from professors to undergraduates, began the formal development under the BOINC platform in July 2006 and worked tirelessly to build a volunteer base from the ground up to build its computational power.
For example, consumers today can use their GeForce 9 Series GPUs to run applications such as
Folding@home and join online protein folding teams to help find cures for diseases such as AlzheimerCOs or ParkinsonCOs.
Stanford UniversityCOs distributed computing programme
Folding@home has become a major force in researching cures to life-threatening diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and ParkinsonCOs disease by combining the computing horsepower of millions of processors to simulate protein folding.
More than 30,000 gamers around the world have already signed up to Stanford University's
Folding@home project, which aims to study the causes of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and cancers.
Sony and Stanford University's
Folding@home project have created an application that breaks huge processing tasks into smaller units, also known as distributed computing, thereby allowing Playstation 3 owners to donate extra processing power to scientists studying protein folding.
To harness computing power for his experiment, Pande two years ago launched
Folding@home, which is a distributed computing project that asks PC owners to dedicate their screensavers to simulating the protein-folding process.