Folding@home GTP Team is #55702 (PS3 and PC) - Team is once again ranked #700!

[UnoMOTO]

Top ten update time. Our team rank is down to 649 👎

1 Eric_Biggs..........340974 1596
2 FoolKiller............275910 1140
3 PZF_.................256928 934
4 landseaair..........220515 806
5 SolidFro.............181275 616
6 Pako.................160930 727
7 UnoMOTO............89326 501
8 SOLID_LIFTERS....85733 284
9 GT3mich.............79788 412
10 Beerzgood.........60794 194

 

[Noah]

I want to join the team.

 

[land sea air]

do it, just look for where it says "team" and enter our number, 55702. Hopefully I will start folding again more now that I'm not gaming quite as much.

 

[Eric.]

Yeah, I've still got three PCs here folding (and a friends should still be ) but I don't run the PS3 much due to the heat. I let it go 1-2 hours each night when I go to bed. I'm not putting it on my Macbook Pro though because I want to keep the battery in as good of condition as I can.

 

[Noah]

Alright so I keep my PS3 running for quite some time when I'm not playing. Does this mean whenever I'm doing so I should be folding?

 

[Eric.]

Alright so I keep my PS3 running for quite some time when I'm not playing. Does this mean whenever I'm doing so I should be folding?

I'd change the autostart setting to 10 minutes so when you do leave it F@h starts. Hover over the F@H client in the XMB and press triangle for that option.

 

[FoolKiller]

I'd change the autostart setting to 10 minutes so when you do leave it F@h starts. Hover over the F@H client in the XMB and press triangle for that option.

And then be sure to turn the screensaver mode on in the F@H settings so that if it sits for more than five minutes the globe and stats goes away and you just have a logo that jumps around the screen.

Granted I shouldn't be leaving the TV on if I am away for that long, but I have had a couple of instances where I came in from dinner or running errands and found the TV on with the F@H logo jumping around on the screen.

 

[G.T]

I'm not putting it on my Macbook Pro though because I want to keep the battery in as good of condition as I can.

Only run it when it's plugged into the mains. 💡

There's an option on it to stop folding when running on battery. I done that when I was running it on this laptop.

 

[Eric.]

Only run it when it's plugged into the mains. 💡

There's an option on it to stop folding when running on battery. I done that when I was running it on this laptop.

I know, but I'm probably only going to have it on charge when it actually needs charging or if I'm playing a game. I pretty much killed my Dell laptop from running F@H with it on AC power...

 

[DustDriver]

Only folding on my laptop.
After a while i stopped folding on the ps3 because the energy prizes are rising.

And my laptop is on all day, so using 1 core for folding doesn't make such a big difference.

 

[GT3mich]

Needs to be on the 1st page....

 

[Sureboss]

You have a new contributor. Sureshot. Got my first WU set to complete in 6hrs.

 

[Eric.]

You have a new contributor. Sureshot. Got my first WU set to complete in 6hrs.

Welcome to the fold.

Now that I bought a GTX 260 I'm running a few work units on that each day. Those only take about 2 hours to complete.

 

[FoolKiller]

Welcome to the fold.

Now that I bought a GTX 260 I'm running a few work units on that each day. Those only take about 2 hours to complete.

Looks like I am stuck in second place forever.

 

[Sureboss]

3 WU done, had my console 8 days. I'm actually slightly surprised at the goodness (er..brain not working) I feel from doing it. Wouldn't do it if the PS3 showed any signs of heat, but even after 4 hours it's colder than a Penguin in a freezer.

 

[FoolKiller]

3 WU done, had my console 8 days. I'm actually slightly surprised at the goodness (er..brain not working) I feel from doing it. Wouldn't do it if the PS3 showed any signs of heat, but even after 4 hours it's colder than a Penguin in a freezer.

I have had my PS3 for over a year and I rarely ever turn it off. when I am not using it I am Folding. It is still going strong.

 

[Eric.]

I have had my PS3 for over a year and I rarely ever turn it off. when I am not using it I am Folding. It is still going strong.

I remember saying that at least once...💡


*looks at his replacement PS3*

 

[Eric.]

Just a little heads up to increase your performance: the newer versions of F@h allow you to choose three sizes of work units. The previous one allowed for an unspecified "small" work unit or the large 5MB ones. Now you can choose 5MB, <10MB, and >10MB. These larger units should be worth more points, even if they do take longer.

I'm not sure when this was included, but I just updated from the 5.04 to 6.20 console clients.

 

[Sureboss]

How do you choose? I just enter Life@PlayStation and it just starts, I choose nowt.

 

[Eric.]

How do you choose? I just enter Life@PlayStation and it just starts, I choose nowt.

Sorry, thats actually just part of the PC client's options. You can't change the PS3 one any.

 

[Sureboss]

That's disappointing. Ever think we'll get that option? I suppose I could run it on my laptop actually...

 

[opendriver]

Started to fold again, this time without a PS3.

These WU's take FOREVER

Running it on my E7200 @ 3.16, 2 machines

And my 8800GT @ 735/1000

I dont think leaving my computer on 24/7 is going to help the power bill, but it might help with the heating bill!

 

[Eric.]

Started to fold again, this time without a PS3.

These WU's take FOREVER

Running it on my E7200 @ 3.16, 2 machines

And my 8800GT @ 735/1000

I dont think leaving my computer on 24/7 is going to help the power bill, but it might help with the heating bill!

I'm getting about 10 WU per day with the GPU. Hopefully that isn't affecting the power bill too much. CPU work units always take a long time since its done in a serial fashion. GPUs have so many stream processors that make parallel computing so fast. I'd love to see what an ATI 4870 would do, since they've got like 800 stream processors...Rediculous.

 

[Louie_Schumii]

Just did a couple of work units for you guys - http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=55702&username=LOUIE_SCHUMII_GTP

Found out about Folding@home / Life with Playstation recently and decided to chip in to the GTP team (and pass a few people along the way if you get my drift!)


EDIT: Wasn't too hard to make it to 50th in the team leaderboard...

More people should be doing this because it will help to find cures to serious diseases any one of us could get in the future!

 

[FoolKiller]

One day, in the far future, you may be able to break into the top ten. But it will be a long time before you catch myself or Eric.

The reason why not many are active is that a lot of people don't want to use the electricity or create any extra wear and tear on their PS3s. I used to leave mine on all the time, but now I don't. I do have Folding setup to come on as my PS3 screensaver so that anytime I get busy around the house without turning of the system it will get some Folding in.

 

[Louie_Schumii]

Yeah the top ten is a tough ask. Just wanted to remind and raise awareness of this awesome app!

Regarding electricity; since I run a PS3 slim it isn't so bad (80-90Watts). So that's a light bulb on for the whole day to find cures for cancer, alzheimers, huntington's disease etc. (more or less to allow for gaming and watching movies).

Wear and tear was my first initial worry but since Sony approves of Folding@home running 24/7 I might let the PS3 do its thing for science. If something goes wrong within the one year warranty then the hardware is faulty!

I will probably slow the amount of folding I do after around 6-9 months after my date of purchase of the PS3 just to be on the safe side but I think I read on this thread something about "the useful life of a machine will come to an end sooner than the machine wearing out due to over-use"?

I still run F@h on the computer when I'm just browsing or doing something that's not CPU intensive. It's slow but it's electricity that's just being put to no use anyway so I figured I might as well .

 

[nick09]

Soon my first fold will be done and I joined the team! I'm not running F@H on my PS3 since it's a 60GB model and I don't need to put more stress on it. So I'm running the PC program on my NES-PC which has a Core 2 Duo running at 2.9GHz and a GeForce 9300. So from what I can tell here my folds take 5-6 hours to finish. I could make that faster if I overclock the CPU and GPU(make my 9300 into a 9400 perhaps). Though I'm kinda worried about heat if I overclock.

 

[slims]

I do have Folding setup to come on as my PS3 screensaver so that anytime I get busy around the house without turning of the system it will get some Folding in.

How do you do that? From time to time I start up the program before I go to sleep and let it do one and shut down. Didn't know you could set it to come on with the screensaver.

 

[astrosdude91]

I have to ask, what the heck is folding at home? The only folding at home I do is when I'm folding clothes.

 

[nick09]

It would be better for Wikipedia to explain that.

Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness,[2] and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.[3] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.

Accurate simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including sickle-cell disease (drepanocytosis), Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cancer, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, osteogenesis imperfecta, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and other aggregation-related diseases.[5] More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how biological molecules assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. So far, the Folding@home project has successfully simulated folding in the 1.5 millisecond range[6] — which is a simulation thousands of times longer than it was previously thought possible to model.

It's kind of like reverse engineering a technology so we can understand it and make more of it or in this case find a way to stop a disease from happening.