Reason #9 of 10 I Should Win UGM

UGM will be a top producer for the Leoville/TWiT Folding@Home Team for a long long time

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The Leoville/TWiT team is a top perormer on the volunteer computing project Folding@Home.  This distributed computing platform harnesses the idle power of millions of computers to unlock the secrets of protein folding. Better understanding of the ways proteins assemble themselves could lead to treatments or cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

I'm new to the project, but as someone who has a family member with Alzheimer's, I'm excited to continue contributing to the Leoville/TWiT team regardless of whether I win UGM or not. I can promise if I do win UGM, the Folding@Home app will be a start-up service, and will continue to contribute to this worthy cause for quite a long time.  Given my commitment to keeping UGM up to date in terms of hardware, the performance is only going to improve with time. I realize this is a pretty obvious reason, one that I'm sure many other entries picked as well, but it is still a good reason, and one that helps an important project.