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SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400

posted by martyb on Friday October 07 2016, @05:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the doing-what-we-can-to-fight-disease dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

Our SoylentNews' Folding@Home team shows little sign of slowing down. We've now passed 400th place and barring any surprises, we might pass #300 just before the year's end. UC Berkley (387 at time of writing) is one of the next big names on our overtake list, and by the time this story goes live, we may have already passed them.

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 — as of a query at 2016-10-07 02:10:00 (UTC) — completed just shy of 21,000 work units!

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started at Stanford's Folding at Home web site. 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.

Again, thanks to all that have participated, especially our Top 10 folders:

  1. malloc_free
  2. cmn32480
  3. Runaway1956
  4. Booga1
  5. AnotherMindbomb
  6. NCommander
  7. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
  8. NotSanguine
  9. Frojack
  10. wArlOrd

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

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by julian on Friday October 07 2016, @06:03AM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 07 2016, @06:03AM (#411360)

    Alright, I'm going to convert my botn^H^H^H^H legally authorized network of computers to run f@h instead of SETI@home. That should be the equivalent of ~12 Intel i3 CPUs running for at least 20 hours a day, 365. It'll take me a couple weeks to get around to all of them.

    Just me, alone, (I've never been part of a team) got to the top 5% of SETI@home contributors. I don't know how populated the f@h network is but this should help out a bit.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @06:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @06:09AM (#411365)

    Insecure IoT 4 the cure!

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday October 07 2016, @10:27AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday October 07 2016, @10:27AM (#411418) Homepage
    Given that it's quite a small team currently, anyone throwing a few machines at it can make a noticeable difference - good on you guys. I'm trying to downgrade all my IT at home to fanless boxes (cubieboards and raspis for servers, one "cubibox" as my "workstation"), so I'll not contribute, but I don't mind being a chearleader.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:51PM (#411481)

      raspis for servers

      raspiss
      raspists

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:25PM (#411515)

    hmm im in the same situation as you, but I am exceeding 99.9% (with a few trailing decimals) of present users.

    I don't want to give up my score/ranking!

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 07 2016, @04:58PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday October 07 2016, @04:58PM (#411542)

    Go ahead and switch. Unlike with SETI, you'll actually be doing something good which provides tangible and useful results.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @05:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @05:10PM (#411544)

      New SETI code:

      with open("/dev/zero") as oracle:
              while not int(oracle):
                      pass
              else:
                      print("ALIENS FOUND!")

  • (Score: 2) by ls671 on Saturday October 08 2016, @07:07AM

    by ls671 (891) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 08 2016, @07:07AM (#411702) Homepage

    Hehe, I remember running distributed.net (still on-line) back in 2000 which the goal was just showing how supposedly secure keys were.

    Long live Soylent folding team!

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    Everything I write is lies, including this sentence.