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Soylent News has a Top 1000 Folding@Home Team!

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:07AM   
from the yay-us! dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

I'm thrilled to report that the Soylent News Folding@Home team is now ranked among the top 1000 folding teams in the world! As of this submission, we are currently at rank 996. The team has been active for just over two months and has made impressive progress. Thank you to all who have participated.

Current team member rankings follow:

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

If you'd like additional information, or would like to join our team, there is more information available here, or feel free to join us in #folding on chat.soylentnews.org

Please note that the numbers across the different reporting sites are not exactly consistent. Team members may appear in different orders based on where and when the stats are viewed.

Thanks
-SirFinkus

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Original Submission

• YAY US!YAY US! (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:38PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:38PM (#337950) Journal

  We are just so cool! In celebration, I'm passing out free internet beer, burgers, corn on the cob, and chips all day today. Those who don't imbibe in alcohol, help yourselves to some web coke.

  And, while we pat ourselves on our backs, let's think a little deeper about what this is all about. We are supporting medical research with our little competition. There are people proposing ideas that just might maybe could possibly lead to a cure for cancer, or MS, or diabetes, or malaria, or dengue - anything at all. I dare say that all of us know someone - maybe even intimately - who suffers from one of life's dread illnesses.

  No one can say that we will discover anything useful, nor can they say that we won't. But, it's a nice dream that our little contributions MIGHT help to cure million's of people's suffering.

  I want to invite everyone to join the team. Doesn't matter if you only have a laptop that produces a couple hundred points per day - CMN32480 runs one, and so do I. If you have a gaming rig with a honking huge graphics card, join in with that, and turn a million points every two or three days. Whatever you have, sign it up and join in the fun!

  Also join us on IRC - we chat about this stuff off and on, right on the main channel. Need support? Probably not, but if so, join IRC and ask questions!

  And, here, have another beer!

  --
  “Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC

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• Re:YAY US!Re:YAY US! (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:19PM

  by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:19PM (#338095) Homepage

  Anyone know if there's a client for an IBM z12 mainframe? :-)

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  • Re:YAY US!Re:YAY US! (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 28 2016, @01:28AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday April 28 2016, @01:28AM (#338233) Journal

    I spent about 4 minutes googling for a z12 client - and came up empty. Sorry 'bout that!

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    “Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC

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    • Re:YAY US!(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Thursday April 28 2016, @04:32PM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Thursday April 28 2016, @04:32PM (#338510) Homepage

      Thanks for taking a look. I have looked around and unless I want to build one it looks like I'll have to stick to PCs for this.

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