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Clustercorp and its partners have joined to provide free EC2 instances to run Folding@Home in the cloud with Rocks+ during Supercomputing 2010 (SC10). Conference attendees and online participants may launch fully-populated compute instances by scanning a QR Code on the show floor with their mobile phones or by visiting http://www.clustercorp.com/sc10 from their computers. If you'd like to help promote the cause, find and wear a "Rocks+ is in the cloud" t-shirt to help others launch instances by scanning your shirt (check the AMD Booth where there is a local Dell cluster contributing to the effort).

"Clustercorp is thrilled to have launched Rocks+ for Amazon EC2 earlier this year," said Tim McIntire, CEO and co-founder of Clustercorp. "For cloud computing to reach its full potential, complex multi-instance management must be solved -- our Supercomputing 2010 Folding@Home run demonstrates how administrators can leverage the same powerful tools that have become the de facto standard in the cluster computing space to build and manage solutions in the cloud."

Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers. The goal of Folding@Home is to better understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. It is run as a distributed computing project -- which allows people from throughout the world to download and run the application, banding together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

Rocks+ is available to end-users direct from Clustercorp, through Amazon Web Services as an AMI, and through multiple hardware partners including HP and Dell.