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Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:34 pm
by Mr Kleen
If you have a PS3 and you donate computing time/power to the Folding@Home project please take a few minutes to join the DCAWD team.
if you don't mind, set your identity to your screen name so we can track who's who.
our team #: 159936
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:18 pm
by snaab
Oh, I think I have this installed, but I haven't run it in a while. I will turn on the PS3 this weekend and add the group number!
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:35 pm
by snaab
I have Folding@Home, but I have no idea how to assign my PS3 a team. Did I need to do this when I initially installed it?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:33 pm
by Mr Kleen
it's in one of the settings menus after you start the F@H app. play around, it's somewhere.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:27 pm
by Libra Monkee
You shot who in the what now?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:07 am
by snaab
The only settings I could find was music and display... Then I couldn't even figure out how to update it. I feel inadequate!
The Wii never makes me feel this way
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:41 am
by Mr Kleen
same menu, just pick channel set up instead of music. it isn't that difficult, is it?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:44 pm
by snaab
I tried that already. I am PS3-incompetent. I will try it again, once I grow tired of the Wii (never).
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:21 pm
by snaab
I finally found it, after using the least intuitive menu system I've ever seen. Just saying...
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:38 pm
by Mr Kleen
snaab wrote:I finally found it, after using the least intuitive menu system I've ever seen. Just saying...
be careful, I don't think Nintendo manufactures an OBDII scanner.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:23 pm
by snaab
I only meant for videogamez. Of course I've run into some miraculously helpful, Windows-based scantools, whose sign of functioning is to become inactive for minutes at a time!
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:56 am
by Libra Monkee
Okay, fill me in. What's the point in the group now?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:21 am
by Mr Kleen
no point really. if you participate in the Stanford Folding@Home project it will group us together for a team score. you don't need to use a PS3, you can run it on a computer just like the SETI project. just another area to extend the DCAWD brand.
you aren't being
cynical, are you?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:27 am
by Libra Monkee
Mr Kleen wrote:you aren't being
cynical, are you?
Always
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:16 pm
by Sabre
Just threw my PS3 on it and am going to throw my server on it as well
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:44 pm
by complacent
I'm on there as well.. Finally
I agree with RJ, the whole changing channels thing is super confusing. I felt significantly disabled until I stumbled across it.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:03 pm
by Sabre
Ya, me too. They REALLY need to change that interface...
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:28 pm
by Raven
Anyone still doing this? I just started up. I've been running my desktop round the clock to host some virtual servers, and my quad core and 8GB of RAM have been sitting idle for the most part.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:36 pm
by Sabre
Yep, I still have it running on my home system and my PS3 (when I remember to leave it on!)
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:57 pm
by complacent
Sabre wrote:Yep, I still have it running on my home system and my PS3 (when I remember to leave it on!)
dittos.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:59 pm
by Raven
You guys know those work units expire after a while, right?
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:33 pm
by Sabre
It will automatically get new units after it has finished the ones it was working on...
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:58 pm
by Raven
Sabre wrote:It will automatically get new units after it has finished the ones it was working on...
But if it isn't running constantly, it'll never finish a work unit because the work unit time limit expires.
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:36 pm
by Sabre
It will know that the unit has expired and get a new one
I've started it before and seen where it will say "work units have expired, fetching new ones"
Re: Folding@Home DCAWD team
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:13 am
by Libra Monkee
Folding@Home ending on the PS3
Squared away in the PlayStation 3's latest software update post, Sony announced that the Folding@Home service will be retired starting next month, alongside the console's 4.30 update. The project, which tied into Stanford University's work on protein folding and research into the causes of a diseases like Alzheimer's, pulled in over 15 million PlayStation owners since it started in 2007. In fact, according to Stanford's client statistics, PS3 users offered the second greatest contribution after Windows devices, adding more than 100 million computation hours to the research project --
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