Team number is 89812
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WipEoutZone Folding@Home Stats
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Team number is 89812
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WipEoutZone Folding@Home Stats
was wondering if this would happen :P
I'll migrate mine over from the team I'm in atm
Yeah I would need to do that too I'm currently in team Gamesey, to be honest though I don't do a lot of folding on the PS3 its either serving me directly or it gets switched off.
Figured I might as well start one. :)
When the firmware comes that allows you to wake on LAN via the PSP, I'll access it during the day to download stuff from the store in the background and run F@H while it's doing that.
Yay finally a team to join that's worth supporting!
Mind you, I fold on my PC instead.
Yeah but the PS3s folding power is probably way more than your PC, I downloaded the PC app and it started screwing up my other programs so it was swiftly removed.
Yeah, i know, but i just dont want to leave my ps3 running unattended.
F@H also screws around with my other programs - if i have it running, all my full-screen programs minimise.
*Promptly joins in the hopes to cure mother's Multiple Sclerosis*
Moved over to team Wipeoutzone :) I think I'll let my PS3 do more folding because today it hit me, I don't pay the power bill :D
Joined :)
I'm not understanding the stats/scoring system at all - Lion's PS3 has been folding like... someone who's just emptied every dryer in the worlds largest laundrette... *ahem*, but for some reason I've scored more.
I was wondering how the points system worked too maybe bigger units earn more points?
I'm in!
Will running this shorten the life of my console? I mean it is hammering the cell isn't it?
It'll have no more effect than just having the console on would have.
A processor isn't really a failure point for hardware, the other parts of your console will wear out much sooner.
mine keeps having communications issues. it'll complete a unit and fail to upload results, or fail to grab a unit to work with in the first place (and the retry delay gets longer each time). and it doesn't seem to cache them to upload later either...
edit: interesting, I just noticed that my PS3 says I have completed 2 work units, where that page says I have completed 9
I imagine this is related to my lower than expected score.
edit2: 3 days later...
if I wasn't taking breaks from folding to play Dirt or Wipeout (which is way harder than I remember, without a neggie) then I recon I'd be beating you on points by now ;)
edit3: another 9 days later...
kickass! top of the tables
Probably a little late, but I'll join as well :D
I just figured out how it works and what it actually is.
I've not been doing a lot recently, but if I'm playing a lot of Burnout at the weekend then the controllers will need recharged overnight, so that's as good a reason as any to do some folding. :)
I'll join when I return from class tonight. I usually only run it when I'm away for a couple hours and I want to come home to a warm PS3 =P. Hopefully reviving this topic will get some of the people whom also just got a PS3. Let's cure some cancer!! :hyper
Edit: this totally needs a sticky
I signed up too. Love the maps with all the clusters of lights on - the UK and the Netherlands seem to be the hottest places. It`s like being in a plane. If only they could add some gameplay and let us use that view to drop bombs on France it would be perfect. ;) Joking, FFF. :) Let`s get WZ into the top 10,000!
Btw, why does India seem to have it's own system of lights? Everything in folding looks consistent but India.
I also noticed, what I determined were US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Or friendly terrorists?
One light I saw was in the middle of nowhere - a boat, maybe?
I found looking at japan rather funny...
How? Lack of lights?
yeah... I thought I would have been technicolour city over there, all I saw was a few lights
There always seems to be some geezer in orkney running folding as well. If you look carefully there are also some tiny islands in the middle of the pacific and indian oceans. Pretty interesting :)
Yeah, and I`m starting to feel a little bit competitive about folding now. I think maybe I might take competition too far sometimes.
But I`m wondering what`s the best ethical choice here. Do you create more good with your small contribution to the folding programme than the harm you cause by leaving your PS3 on and using more energy resources?
I think I read somewhere that with the new updates (it's on the folding site iirc) your PS3 uses 115W. I presume that is per hour.
Couple of weekends back it was my Uncle Peter's 60th birthday and while he was round I had F@H running as something to do whilst I recharged controllers. Uncle Peter is a scientist with a seriously strong background in biology. I asked him to explain what was going on with the proteins and his explanation was awesome!
Apparently he'd tried to go the teaching route at some point in his career, but it didn't fit with him so well, which I find amazing considering how well he explained it to me. I cant remember all of it, admittedly, but by way of example he explained the difference between biological and non-biological detergent by what they were doing at the molecular level.
Bit of a mind job, but fascinating - especially having it explained by someone with so much enthusiasm for the subject. :)
I don't let my PS3 fold anymore, I know it's a good cause and all but eh, I want my PS3 to last as long as possible considering I payed launch day prices for it and I don't think leaving it on folding is the best way to go about that.
Then theres the power it'll use.
Joined the cause. The name is Fuchikoma (my PS3's network name) since it does all the work, not me. ;)
Not in the team but I did contribute :)
join'd!
I've not done any folding in ages - if my PS3 is on, then I'm playing it!
Otherwise, now that it's in the bedroom with me, it'd be too noisy to have on through the night - would probably make the room quite hot, too. :|
Got an nvidia 8 series and above graphics card?
Folding @home now runs on Nvidia GFX hardware, delivering performance probably faster than the PS3. I can complete a 25000000 frame project in around 2 and a half hours :D
made a team before i joined WZ its called "wipeout_cancer" and has a small array of zoners in it, i will suggest a merge with this team among its contributors :)
A standard PS3 uses somewhere in the region of 200W of power, so it's like leaving a few lights on in your house. Not really that much when you think about it. I'm currently folding for GTAforums, I've got about 76K points, if I'm not playing on my ps3 I'm folding. My crappy laptop folds 24/7. I'd say it would take my laptop a week to do what my PS3 does in a day.
I thought a little and decided to install screensaver clients on all office computers at my work. The only their function now is heating the air ;)
Current prices is sky high in Sweden right now, but I'm going to join and fold some for the WipEoutZone team.. hope it still exist!?
More people should contribute to Folding@Home. I imagine it could make a change. The app is pretty great too:nod