“The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of the numbers.”

Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer. Add your computer to over 274,000 others around the world to form the world’s largest distributed supercomputer.

via Folding@home.