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:
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
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:38PM
Depends on the platform. With BIONC based ones, the team downloads a signed executable that does the calculations, and then submits it back to a central server. A few projects, like SETI@Home, let you compile your own local client and use it in place (which is very non-trivial, but I've done it successfully; I tend to use SETI as a hardware or compiler burnin test); results are always validated by having multiple machines run the same work unit, until a consensus is reached that its correct.
F@H is closed source, but uses GPL components under a special license grant; the reason being is they don't want to have to worry about people making modifications to the client that could compromise test results or the network.
Still always moving