Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[reider]

Originally Posted by LatinCan

what exactly does this do??

Folding@home Frequently Asked Questions:

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Parkinson's disease, and cancers.

[phlydude]

sorry guys, I have been on a home based vacation (doing construction projects around the house) and have been too tired to post anything at night.

I will get those BIOS screen shots...

Team is up to #93!! WHOO HOOOO!!!

[AlaskaDon]

Originally Posted by phlydude

sorry guys, I have been on a home based vacation (doing construction projects around the house) and have been too tired to post anything at night.

I will get those BIOS screen shots...

Team is up to #93!! WHOO HOOOO!!!

No rush on the screen shots, I found a how-to guide for the P5K over at the EOC forums. It worked like a charm. I'm now running at 3.005 gHz and everything is nice and stable. I was going to let it run at that speed for a week or so before thinking about pushing it any further. Thanks anyway though

[phlydude]

That's pretty much where I got my info from as well...good deal (and make sure C1E is disabled)

[alan2308]

Wow, thought you guys found a new hobby. 5 days without a post here.

[ChoosyLobster]

ok guys i just joined the team =)

[AlaskaDon]

Originally Posted by alan2308

Wow, thought you guys found a new hobby. 5 days without a post here.

Yeah, that was kinda odd. This is usually a busier thread than that

I've been down sick for the last few days. Finally got around to seeing the doctor today and found that I have an ugly case of pneumonia. He has me spending a couple more days at home now until the antibiotics kick in. On the bright side, it's helping me catch up on my back-log of blu-rays. Don't have the energy to do much besides watch movies anyway. Being sick really sucks.

[AlaskaDon]

Originally Posted by ChoosyLobster

ok guys i just joined the team =)

Welcome to the team

[ChoosyLobster]

Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

Welcome to the team

Thanks

[sj001]

Blu-ray.com team is kicking some ass, we are moving into the lower 90's.

[Slckevin]

Just need to start recruiting new members to help the cause. Hopefully soon I can find sometime to get my quad going, going to have to order a new psu for it as my other one I had doesn’t fit in the case. Any recommendations?

[caliblue15]

I have done 281 WU's... maybe i shall join your team...

[AlaskaDon]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

Just need to start recruiting new members to help the cause. Hopefully soon I can find sometime to get my quad going, going to have to order a new psu for it as my other one I had doesn’t fit in the case. Any recommendations?

Yeah, as we move up the rankings the competition is starting to look pretty stiff. We need to get our average PPD up over 1 million or we're going to start hitting the wall. Right now we are hanging just under a million. I know we can do it because we did it for the foldathon week. We need to have a membership drive or something

As far as the PSU question, I'm using one of those Antec Phantom models that is supposed to be "silent". It very well may be, but you couldn't tell anyway with this Zalman cooler installed hehe. It does work fine though. I think you can get them rated up to 800 watts or so. Mine is an older 500 watt model but it's plenty.

[BlackLightShark009]

Maybe i'll join too, i've done 309. I'm on a small team and they been busting out but for the past 2 weeks noone has been folding but me and i don't know why. I'm 11 units ahead of 1 person and in first out of all. Lol. If this keeps up im out. I've been on 1 other team already, i'd rather not have to start over again on a team. I'm still deciding.

[alan2308]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

Just need to start recruiting new members to help the cause. Hopefully soon I can find sometime to get my quad going, going to have to order a new psu for it as my other one I had doesn’t fit in the case. Any recommendations?

Antec Earth Watts 380 Watt PSU $29.99 plus free shipping at newegg. Promo code EMCAECCBA good through 4/28. We're stocking up over at the [H].

[alan2308]

Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

Yeah, as we move up the rankings the competition is starting to look pretty stiff. We need to get our average PPD up over 1 million or we're going to start hitting the wall. Right now we are hanging just under a million. I know we can do it because we did it for the foldathon week. We need to have a membership drive or something

Quick nit-pick. Don't you mean PPW rather than PPD? Theres only 3 teams doing 1M PPD with OCAU inching their way to being the 4th.

While another drive sounds like a great idea, what you have to remember is that if you do too many of them too close together, people have a tendancy to start tuning it out. In the meantime, do what you can to keep the competition up amongst yourselves while you wait for the right time to start another one.

Another idea to kick around is a competiton with another team(s). Right now [H]ard|OCP, OCAU, overclockers.com, and MaxPC (the top 4 teams) are getting ready to kick off the 3rd annual Chimp Challenge. We all turn our boxes over to one username per team and the first one to hit 5Million is the winner. It starts in a week and a half, but the smack talk is already getting started and excitement is building.

[phlydude]

the number of active users is actually increasing...people are signing on again but not posting here

[AlaskaDon]

Originally Posted by alan2308

Quick nit-pick. Don't you mean PPW rather than PPD? Theres only 3 teams doing 1M PPD with OCAU inching their way to being the 4th.

Yep, I sure did mean PPW, but hey, it's all the same thing right? More PPD = more PPW = us kickin Alan's butt etc. etc...

Seriously though, I agree with you on the not having too many foldathon type events. People just stop seeing them after a while. I was talking more about doing something to get new forum members interested in F@H. Hell, if we could just get half of the PS3 owners around here to stop turning their machines off while they're at work/asleep then think of the points that would rack up.

[alan2308]

Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

Yep, I sure did mean PPW, but hey, it's all the same thing right? More PPD = more PPW = us kickin Alan's butt etc. etc...

Exactly. Only 785 Million to go.

[Slckevin]

Originally Posted by alan2308

Exactly. Only 785 Million to go.

Thats all??