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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

• Back in the days of yore...(Score: 4, Funny) by turgid on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:26PM

  by turgid (4318) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:26PM (#338100) Journal

  I'm one of those SETI@Home crazies, and I've been doing it since it started back in about 1999, first on my Pentium 100.

  When I went to work (as a very junior not much of anything) at the mighty Sun, I collected some old PC junk and built a few machines from the parts and made my own LAN at home to play with. After about 18 months of thrashing my K6-2/500, K6-III/450, Dual Pentium III 550, Athlon XP 2000+, Sun Ultra 10 and some other pieces of junk I got my SETI@Home 2500 work unit certificate and I was proud.

  I went down to the big Sun server farm on business once. It was wall to wall E15k machines with the odd workstation and smaller server about. I saw that they had their 2500 SETI@Home work unit certificate up on the side of one of the racks. I told one of the guys there that I'd got mine and it had taken me 18 months. He replied that they'd just got theirs and it had taken them an hour. They wanted something to stress test all the CPUs at once...

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  I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].

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