Join Neowin Folding@Home Group

[Meshuggah86]

956...More people should join. If you have a PS3, Please join and do workloads when you go to sleep. :D

[fobi]

this sounds exciting :)

i'll definitely join once i'm done drooling over my PS3 (expecting it next tuesday!)

i'm sure i can fold while a sleep and while i'm at work

it's funny that it's called folding tho..

friend: what r u doing with ur ps3 now?

me: i'm folding

friend: what? *hangs up*

[MightyJordan]

I'm part of your team now! I've been folding for my own team since I got my PS3, but there's only 3 of us, so I'm converting.

[Emile]

Joining right now....

[cashman Veteran]

We should be able to break into the top 900 by the new year!! I'm doing my bit. Gone from #33 to #29 this week in the Neowin league.

[SnowRanger13]

We should be able to break into the top 900 by the new year!! I'm doing my bit. Gone from #33 to #29 this week in the Neowin league.

899 of 94409

You were right about breaking 900 :D

Should have a goal for the next year.

[jelli]

Been a member of the group since the end of November, alas no PS3 to help me fold but the Q6600 is running two clients and not breaking a sweat so i should be helping with the points a bit ;)

The goal for next year? Break the 750 Barrier, then the year after the 500 Barrier and so on. Would be a good goal to stick to.

[cashman Veteran]

I think the closer we get to the top 500 the harder it will be. Can't see us doing that to be honest, not without a major push. Worth a try though.

[jelli]

Well yes the higher we get the harder it gets but it will be a great thing to aim for and hopefully push people to try and fold more. I may start running 3 clients soon to help towards the aim :D

[KoL Veteran]

893 of 94877 very nice Neowin, keep folding :)

[jelli]

Yeah we are doing really well been watching us get a couple of positions a day.

Based on our current and other teams folding we will be at position 800 in 39 Days. Obviously that's if we keep up our rate of production and everyone else stays at the same rate of production.

Team Radar

hmmm now if only i could get the SMP client to work :angry:

[jelli]

SMP client now working so should be folding more efficiently. Christ at trying to get the client to run in Program Files under Vista with UAC on :angry:

[+StevoFC MVC]

we're almost to 1 million points...

[MightyJordan]

I've had my PS3 on for 3 days straight now to help us up the ranks. With my help, I guarantee we'll hit the million by tomorrow!

[+StevoFC MVC]

I've had my PS3 on for 3 days straight now to help us up the ranks. With my help, I guarantee we'll hit the million by tomorrow!

My pc just finished a unit so we need 27 points. So close! haha

[jelli]

Congratulations guys

Rank - 862

Points - 1,003,896

Check out this link for a good team summary.

[Huleboeren]

Hmm

I hope you guys can shed some light on this

My friend just did 1 WU and got 1760 points/score (Using Core2Duo E6600)

Ive done 35, but I only have a score of 7481 - which should be ~214points for each WU(Using a PS3)

Why the difference?

[MightyJordan]

Hmm

I hope you guys can shed some light on this

My friend just did 1 WU and got 1760 points/score (Using Core2Duo E6600)

Ive done 35, but I only have a score of 7481 - which should be ~214points for each WU(Using a PS3)

Why the difference?

Every WU is different. The longer it takes to do, the bigger it is and the more amount of points it's worth.

[Huleboeren]

I thought all WUs were the same more or less - ~7hours to complete on the PS3 (not including the special WUs you can sign up for)

[jelli]

He is running the SMP Client like i am, each work unit is worth around 1760 points and takes my Q6600 @ 3.0GHz 17 Hours to complete with pretty much all of my processing time given to the SMP Client, give or take a little bit.

Due to the amount of time taken to compute the work unit the work unit is awarded more points.

Points FAQ

[jelli]

Do you think it would be possible to get this initiative posted on the main page during a slow news day? I know many people may not frequent the Gamers or Sony Console forums to notice this thread and i am sure many of the members or even regular readers would be willing to participate and contribute their spare CPU cycles.

[KoL Veteran]

Do you think it would be possible to get this initiative posted on the main page during a slow news day? I know many people may not frequent the Gamers or Sony Console forums to notice this thread and i am sure many of the members or even regular readers would be willing to participate and contribute their spare CPU cycles.

yeah that is a nice idea, I would love to see more people in the group. :)

[+StevoFC MVC]

It would help if the people in the other neowin folding groups switched too. I think there are a couple different ones.

[cashman Veteran]

I've had work units before that have been completed in less than an hour on my PS3. Quite a few actually.

[+StevoFC MVC]

we're up to 831 of 98060