Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[MOONPHASE]

sure there is a lot of people buying the ps3 but to bad not everyone is folding and some who do fold dont take it serious. i know more of the ones who are serious about it are on this website but the majority of people dont even look at it or dont even have internet connection to even use it. so we still need to keep telling people who are getting a ps3 to download the folding@home program and tell them what it could do

[mystiksuicide]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

sure there is a lot of people buying the ps3 but to bad not everyone is folding and some who do fold dont take it serious. i know more of the ones who are serious about it are on this website but the majority of people dont even look at it or dont even have internet connection to even use it. so we still need to keep telling people who are getting a ps3 to download the folding@home program and tell them what it could do

Now that blu has won this is my new mission I lost someone very dear to me because of that awful disease.

[actionhank]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

The PS3 has two modes of folding. One is the normal mode of 8-10 hours of folding, which is the default. I think this is the "implicit solvation calculation" you're talking about. The other mode is a far more intensive, which requires you to not do anything but fold on the PS3. I think this is the "explicit solvation" calc? I could be wrong.

fuad

Well this is whats on the Folding@Home PS3 FAQ

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3

The PS3 right now runs what are called implicit solvation calculations, including some simple ones (sigmodal dependent dielectric) and some more sophisticated ones (AGBNP, a type of Generalized Born method from Prof. Ron Levy's group at Rutgers). In this respect, the PS3 client is much like our GPU client. However, the PS3 client is more flexible, in that it can also run explicit solvent calculations as well, although not at the same speed increase relative to PC's. We are working to increase the speed of explicit solvent on the PS3 and would then run these calculations on the PS3 as well. In a nutshell, the PS3 takes the middle ground between GPU's (extreme speed, but at limited types of WU's) and CPU's (less speed, but more flexibility in types of WU's).

What is new in version 1.2?

Advanced Participation Mode: Advanced participation mode allows Stanford University to send simulations o f varying computational lengths to PS3 users. Because the simulations in this mode can take significantly lon ger, Advanced Mode is only recommended for contributors who run Folding@home for at least eight hours per day .

I stand corrected

Also to everyone wondering what Folding@Home is, reading the FAQ above will explain everything

[groovyone]

Wow, some people hav been going crazy! Gary and I dropped from 7 and 8 to 11 and 12! My machine has still been folding like crazy, guess some have multiple PS3s or CPUs running.

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by groovyone

Wow, some people hav been going crazy! Gary and I dropped from 7 and 8 to 11 and 12! My machine has still been folding like crazy, guess some have multiple PS3s or CPUs running.

Yes, like a new cold war arms race, it takes 2 PS3s folding 24/7 to stay in the top 10 now. The PS3 is remarkably well suited to folding given its extremely powerful 8-core Cell processor.

[iceman]

Originally Posted by powersfoss

Yes, like a new cold war arms race, I think it takes 2 PS3s folding 24/7 to stay in the top 10 now. The PS3 is remarkably well suited to folding given its extremely powerful 8-core Cell processor.

So that means you have 5 PS3s folding 24/7?!

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by Iceman

So that means you have 5 PS3s folding 24/7?!

Ha ha. I only have 3 PS3s and 1 of them doesn't fold very often since it's the 60 GB and is in an enclosed space. But I do have 2 Macs that also fold 24/7. So in total I probably have the equivalent of 2.5 full-time folding PS3s.

[rayoflight80]

Well I just joined the team and started folding...let me tell you, I was reading some of the old posts and I agree with some of you that said that a lot of people didnt do it cause they were not aware of the program. As soon as I found out what it did I joined in!

[Minimejer05]

I joined and started to fold aswell... still lost as to what it does but im doing it.

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by rayoflight80

Well I just joined the team and started folding...let me tell you, I was reading some of the old posts and I agree with some of you that said that a lot of people didnt do it cause they were not aware of the program. As soon as I found out what it did I joined in!

It is for this reason that we must evangelize. Ask your friends with PS3s if they run folding and what team they're on. Once you learn someone has a PS3, ask them how many work units they've completed. You get the idea!

[bluflu]

Originally Posted by groovyone

Wow, some people hav been going crazy! Gary and I dropped from 7 and 8 to 11 and 12! My machine has still been folding like crazy, guess some have multiple PS3s or CPUs running.

So you noticed my new blu-ray player that I received for the holidays.

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by bluflu

So you noticed my new blu-ray player that I received for the holidays.

lol nice.

[Tanman19az]

What is all this talk about folding@home? What does it do? Working units??
Sorry guys im clueless about this buteager to learn and use.

[MOONPHASE]

when you download it and have it running when you click on the folding@home icon you can help research of cancer, aids, etc. and help standford university make cures for these diseases. so have your ps3 running when you are not using it and you can help make cures

[DragonSarc]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

when you download it and have it running when you click on the folding@home icon you can help research of cancer, aids, etc. and help standford university make cures for these diseases. so have your ps3 running when you are not using it and you can help make cures

hehehe lol hahahahahah ill keep it running

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by DragonSarc

hehehe lol hahahahahah ill keep it running

thats good to hear and fold as much as you can so we dont have to worry about diseases

[Barnum]

The concept is nice but I don't see a cure ever becoming reality. As much as I hate to say it companies are making so much money that a cure is just not in the future. I would like to think other wise but look at how many people would become unemployed. I think it is more a way to waste electricity than anything else. How long has the SETI program been around for a result of a big nothing. We can't even rid the planet of the common cold let alone a disease.

[actionhank]

Originally Posted by Barnum

The concept is nice but I don't see a cure ever becoming reality. As much as I hate to say it companies are making so much money that a cure is just not in the future. I would like to think other wise but look at how many people would become unemployed. I think it is more a way to waste electricity than anything else. How long has the SETI program been around for a result of a big nothing. We can't even rid the planet of the common cold let alone a disease.

Yeah? What about the vaccine for small pox? Polio? Hepatitis B? I know they aren't technically "cures," but still, I hope you get my point. And I am sure if I were a doctor I could put a whole list of diseases that have cures in modern science. Why the hell do you think we have longer life expectancies now more than any other time in history?

Anyway to the original poster check out the official website FAQ

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ

It will give you all the information you want and probably more (like what FLOPS are)

[Slec]

Originally Posted by Barnum

The concept is nice but I don't see a cure ever becoming reality. As much as I hate to say it companies are making so much money that a cure is just not in the future. I would like to think other wise but look at how many people would become unemployed. I think it is more a way to waste electricity than anything else. How long has the SETI program been around for a result of a big nothing. We can't even rid the planet of the common cold let alone a disease.

We can't cure the common cold because it is a mutating virus. Once you get once strain, you are immune to it. But because it mutates so easily, it can't really be prevented.

In terms of support, it's important to support UNIVERSITIES such as Stanford through Folding@Home. While conglomerates and companies make all their money from treatments (no incentives for cures), Universities work on cures because that's what they are funded for. That's why Folding at Home is important. They don't have the resources of the conglomerates and its a simple and effective form of support.

Don't compare medicine to SETI... we don't know if there is anything out there. We know there are diseases... Not even the same sport let alone ball park...

[Sylin]

Originally Posted by Barnum

The concept is nice but I don't see a cure ever becoming reality. As much as I hate to say it companies are making so much money that a cure is just not in the future. I would like to think other wise but look at how many people would become unemployed. I think it is more a way to waste electricity than anything else. How long has the SETI program been around for a result of a big nothing. We can't even rid the planet of the common cold let alone a disease.

Agreed. Chris Rock put it best: "The money's in the medicine, not the cure. Do you think we'll ever cure AIDS? Hell, we can't even cure athlete's foot!"

In all seriousness, most "cures" or vaccines or treatments do not come about as a result of extensive research or testing, but usually by accident and/or luck. It's my firm belief that we DO have everything we need to cure our diseases and infirmities here on this planet, but have not discovered the "magic" combination. There's still holes in the periodic table... we're far from knowing it all.

That said, I have started running Folding@Home here and there. And my company donates annually to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Gotta help where we can... maybe someone will get lucky.