Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[Aaron]

91

[Cyorg]

I'll sign up tonight when I get home. My PS3 is folding almost every night when I'm asleep.

[iceman]

We're about to break 300

[whippersnapper]

Originally Posted by Iceman

We're about to break 300

Yep, 299th now; out of 79,890 teams.

[halon]

I've been on the psm magazine team forever, I am now changing to the blu team.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by whippersnapper

Yep, 299th now; out of 79,890 teams.

Way to go guys! Now let's aim for top 100!!

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

Hello fellow folders, Im new member, but been lurking and folding for the team for a while. I fold under handle DeLaGardie.

Well lets fold on double and aim towards top100...

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Banjo

Wow, just wow!

8,340 active PS3 units are kicking 158,869 Windows (PC) over to the side big time! The 8,340 PS3 units are currently at 204 TFLOPS while 158,869 Windows (PC) users are only bringing out 151 TFLOPS! Imagine what 100,000 PS3 units can do! Time will tell.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...?qtype=osstats

Why are you surprised? The Cell CPU in the PS3 is more powerful than any CPU used in a Windows machine.

[whippersnapper]

Originally Posted by P3rv3rt B3ar

Hello fellow folders, Im new member, but been lurking and folding for the team for a while. I fold under handle DeLaGardie.

Well lets fold on double and aim towards top100...

Hello. Nice contribution for the team and for the cause. I'm with you; let's get to 100. We need some more folks to fold 24/7, at least some of the time. I fold under the handle BradleyStorm.

[Aaron]

I'm at 95 work units. I fold under AaronDavies.

And our team is 293 of 80196.

[spam.curitiba]

oK I have seen the folding at home thing on my menu but what the hell is it?

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by spam.curitiba

oK I have seen the folding at home thing on my menu but what the hell is it?

It's where you allow your PS3 to do medical research for Stanford. Download the app, set up an account, download a work unit and that's all you have to do to help cancer research!

A work unit is typically 500KB in size and takes 5-10 hours to complete, depending on complexity. You can also do the same for your PC or Mac, but a work unit takes much longer because the processor is not as fast as the Cell.

[actionhank]

Originally Posted by spam.curitiba

oK I have seen the folding at home thing on my menu but what the hell is it?

I posted this previously on a different thread. But I think its a good explanation:

From how i understand it all the proteins in your body fold into different shapes. Diseases happen when a protein "misfolds." So to find a cure or way to prevent these diseases, scientists at Stanford are studying how proteins fold in the first place. To do this they need to simulate it. But this "folding" happens really really quickly, as fast as a millionth of a second. It takes about a day to simulate a nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000 of a second). Unfortunately, proteins fold on the tens of microsecond timescale (10,000 nanoseconds). Thus, it would take 1 CPU 10,000 days to simulate folding -- i.e. it would take 30 years! That's a long time to wait for one result!

Thats where a lot of computers and the PS3 come in. By cutting up the simulations into chunks and giving each CPU that participates a piece or "work unit" we can all help. A finished work unit is sent over the internet to the Stanford University servers

The cell processor in the PS3 is especially good at doing work units. In fact it's about 20 to 30 times faster than an average Pentium PC. Sony has partnered with Stanford so you can easily "fold@home" by just clicking an icon on your PS3.

Some of the diseases they are trying to cure are alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, Mad Cow, emphesyma and some forms of cancer. So its best to help out, you never know when you'll be the one eating the mad beef from a mad cow.

If you want more info check out the website:
http://stanford.folding.edu

[whippersnapper]

And don't forget, you can join the team using the team number 56895.
Team information: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=56895

[matthewrounds]

I will add to the team tonight!

[P3B3]

Ill be taking over the delagardie account... My friend P3rv sold his ps3 and blus for me for 1 euro... he went to buy an xbox and add-on...

Now lets fold-on folders!!!!

[CAB]

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=56895

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 287 of 80569

[actionhank]

I checked the client statistics by OS today at 4:32pm pacific time and lo and behold the folding@home project is now running at 1 petaflop or 1000 teraflops! To put that in perspective, the most powerful supercomputer right now runs at 512 teraflops (correct me if I am wrong but thats the ballpark)

The 35,126 PS3s is pulling the most weight with 769 teraflops.

Fold on guys, fold on!

here's the link:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...?qtype=osstats

[Aaron]

Up to 104 WU's.

[6ryph3n]

Just joined the team, and I'm processing my first WU. My PS3 name is the same as my forum name: 6ryph3n.