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posted by martyb on Saturday August 27 2016, @03:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-we-make-the-Top-400-by-Halloween? dept.

It has only been six short months since SoylentNews' Folding@Home team was founded, and we've made a major milestone: our team is now one of the top 500 teams in the world! We've already surpassed some heavy hitters like /. and several universities, including MIT. (But now is not the time to rest on our laurels. A certain Redmond-based software producer currently occupies #442.)

In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's and thereby help to find a cure. To that end, SoylentNews' team has completed nearly 16,000 work units.

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started here. There are clients available for Linux, Windows, and OSX. Once you have installed the software, enter the TeamID 230319 to join us.

Feel free to join #folding on our IRC channel if you need any help, or just want to chat.

Thank you to all that have participated, and a special thanks to our top 10 folders:

  1. cmn32480
  2. Runaway1956
  3. Beldin65
  4. tibman
  5. LTKKane
  6. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
  7. Kymation
  8. meisterister
  9. kurenai.tsubasa
  10. NotSanguine

Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:47PM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:47PM (#393971) Journal

    And so what is the down side of that?

    If you don't care about thee electricity usage and it has the potential, with zero guarantee of finding something useful, who cares if a dick gets measured along the way?

    You don't have to ever look at the standings if you don't care.

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  • (Score: 2) by ticho on Saturday August 27 2016, @06:56PM

    by ticho (89) on Saturday August 27 2016, @06:56PM (#394004) Homepage Journal

    I'm not saying there is a downside to that. :) I was merely reacting to the guy too proud of his folding@home dick size to join a team.