For you who have never heard about Folding@Home, it's a scientific project using distributed computing concept, started by Vijay Pande, a researcher at Wisconsin University. The purpose of this project is “to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases”. Basically, you will need to install a client software that will pull some data to be worked on (called work-units) from a server, and starts molecular-dynamics simulation on your machine. Once the work-unit is completed, the resulting data will be sent back to the server. The processed data will then be used by the researchers.
The list of scientific papers using data from Folding@Home can be found in this link in Wikipedia. You don't have to worry that the processing will interfere your real work, because the engine will work as a low priority task which yields CPU time when the higher priority tasks needs it, therefore your main programs that runs in the foreground will not be affected at all.
owadays, public open spaces in Jakarta is considered rarity. Long ago, there was a splendid city with lots of public spaces called Batavia, which was built by the Dutch traders over the ruins of the defeated indigenous city of Jayakarta. It was modelled after Dutch cities, complete with its canals and waterways. The area flourishes in 17th and 18th century, before eventually the Dutch moved their administrative headquarters towards the southern parts of Jakarta, which was considered healthier than the swampy low-lying area of their original settlement.
