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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:
- cmn32480
- Runaway1956
- Beldin65
- tibman
- LTKKane
- EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
- Kymation
- meisterister
- kurenai.tsubasa
- NotSanguine
Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:04PM
LOSERS!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:10PM
I am reluctant to sign up because I have a current account going back over 10 years and am in the top 1% in the world as a result, all from the results of PCs I owned one time or another... I don't really feel like sharing the fruits of so many electricity bills with people I just met...
(Score: 2) by ticho on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:34PM
You would only "share the fruits of so many electricity bills" with them if your work actually happened to contribute to finding a cure that could be applied to whatever might be ailing these people you just met, or their loved ones. Anything else, points, standings, is just dick-measuring contest.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday August 27 2016, @04:47PM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by ticho on Saturday August 27 2016, @06:56PM
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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 27 2016, @05:15PM
There are several things you can do.
Not join our team, and stay with your current team, if any.
Join our team, and bring your points with you.
Join our team under an alias - all you need do is use a different donor name, and generate a new passkey.
I'm happy that a fellow Soylentil is doing something for science. You may or may not contribute to our team, and that is perfectly fine. They ARE your computers, after all.
I believe that if I were in the top 1%, I'd be very reluctant to change anything about my status.
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Sunday August 28 2016, @08:03PM
I have a current account going back 6 months, and am also in the top 1%.
According to the stats, there are 1,837,242 users enrolled.
The top 1% would be anyone ranked under 18,372.
Unless I have seriously pooched the math, our top 4 team members are ALL in the top 1%.
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