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[1Frothy]

I just joined this project. I'm not 100% clear about the project but it seems to be a worthy thing. So why not! :D

[Elliot B.]

Apparently my first work unit will take until May! What the hell? I have to wait until May until I appear on the website?

[jelli]

Apparently my first work unit will take until May! What the hell? I have to wait until May until I appear on the website?

Are you sure you aren't reading the deadline? It shouldn't take that long considering your system.

[Elliot B.]

Are you sure you aren't reading the deadline? It shouldn't take that long considering your system.

Now it's saying 21h, I am so confused!

[jelli]

Guessing you must have been using your CPU cycles when you viewed the ETA, remember the program only uses up idle CPU cycles so if something else is using it the ETA will increase due to the lack of idle CPU cycles.

[jelli]

Also a little note to people, the beta clients were updated in the past couple of days, so if you shutdown your system (talking about PCs here, not PS3s) and then try to restart your client it will refuse to start, you have to go and download the updated client. When you update your client simply by overwriting the files in the Folding@Home directory, you will not waste your current progress in the work unit.

[one321]

I've been folding a lot more ever since the most recent PS3 firmware update. I love that I can set the PS3 to shut off after it finishes the current work unit (WU). I'm much more willing to let it run while I sleep knowing it will shut off at like 3AM when it finishes.

[+StevoFC MVC]

Yeah the auto shut off is good. But i wish there was a way to make it start up at a specific time also. I always forget to turn my ps3 on before i go to work.

[Huleboeren]

Yeah the auto shut off is good. But i wish there was a way to make it start up at a specific time also. I always forget to turn my ps3 on before i go to work.

Yeah - either that or being able to use WakeOnLan to turn on the PS3 and boot into XMB, then after 10mins it would autostart F@H..

I tried it - it turned on the PS3 but it booted into some remote play PSP thingy :(

[one321]

Yeah - either that or being able to use WakeOnLan to turn on the PS3 and boot into XMB, then after 10mins it would autostart F@H..

I tried it - it turned on the PS3 but it booted into some remote play PSP thingy :(

If you had a PSP, would you be able to navigate to Folding@Home and run it remotely, or does the PSP remote play just let you play games?

[Wannes]

Here we go, finally found some time to let a task fully finish and we just started.

[+StevoFC MVC]

damn, the server problems are starting to **** me off. I turned on my ps3 this morning before I left for work and it's not connecting again. I'm not going to leave my ps3 on all day if it's doing absolutely nothing. I'm not even going to try folding with the ps3 anymore if they don't fix it soon.

[KoL Veteran]

damn, the server problems are starting to **** me off. I turned on my ps3 this morning before I left for work and it's not connecting again. I'm not going to leave my ps3 on all day if it's doing absolutely nothing. I'm not even going to try folding with the ps3 anymore if they don't fix it soon.

Still having problems here too. I'm not going to fold until I read that all the problems are fixed. I think I have lost like 4+ WU that didn't upload. :crazy:

[PabUK Veteran]

damn, the server problems are starting to **** me off. I turned on my ps3 this morning before I left for work and it's not connecting again. I'm not going to leave my ps3 on all day if it's doing absolutely nothing. I'm not even going to try folding with the ps3 anymore if they don't fix it soon.

Still having problems here too. I'm not going to fold until I read that all the problems are fixed. I think I have lost like 4+ WU that didn't upload. :crazy:

I agree it's really frustrating but if you keep an eye on the Folding@Home blog you'll see they really are doing their best to get it sorted. So far they seem to have worked out where the problems are and are tweaking the servers to alleviate the problems as best they can until a new version of the client can be released.

[+StevoFC MVC]

I've gotten a few work units today to download.

[KoL Veteran]

One of my Playstation have been folding without problems since yesterday. The other one didn't upload the WU and I stopped folding with that one. I'm going to wait until Sony have the client update ready.

[Wannes]

I haven't been able to fold in the last few days because of my Playstation 3 being away. I still don't see my name showing up on the page even though I've completed 3 tasks.

[Nightz]

F@H has been updated to version 1.31. it should fix the upload/download issues that people have been having.

[+StevoFC MVC]

Yeah, mine has been running for 2 days straight now getting units with no problem.

[morebaker]

Just fired up my kids ps3 and joined. :D

[+StevoFC MVC]

Just fired up my kids ps3 and joined. :D

I see it finished some units (Y)

We are moving up some in ranking. Currently 733 of 105542.

Keep up the work guys! ;)

We have a lot of members in the group but barely any active.

[KoL Veteran]

wow how Jelli have 63 WU with 71919 score?

Almost 100 team members :D

[+StevoFC MVC]

wow how Jelli have 63 WU with 71919 score?

Almost 100 team members :D

he's using the smp client on a quad core pc i think. it gives you a ton of points for some reason.

and yeah, almost 100 members. But only 29 are active.

[jelli]

Thats correct StevoFC, i am running the SMP client on a Q6600 @ 3GHz

It gives around 1800 points per work unit and a work unit takes around 18 Hours to complete. As for the large number of points per work unit i am not exactly sure why that is but according to the F@H FAQ this is the reason.

SMP FAQ Points

[+StevoFC MVC]

Ever since the ps3 update that's running great. But now my 2 computers at work don't ever want to connect. Ugh...