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Sir Finkus [soylentnews.org] writes:

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Please hold until http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319 [stanford.edu] indicates that we are actually in the top 500

It might also be a good idea to just re-run https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/21/0835257 [soylentnews.org] instead of this with an (UPDATE) tag or something and some minor wording changes. As a bonus, it'll probably piss off Gravis as well.
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It's only been six short months since Soylent News' Folding@Home team was founded, and we've made a major milestone; Our team is now one of the best 500 teams in the world! [extremeoverclocking.com] 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 excreter of software [extremeoverclocking.com] currently occupies #442.

In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project [stanford.edu] that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started here. [stanford.edu] There are clients available for Linux, Windows, and OSX. Once you have installed the software, enter the team id 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:

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

(microsoft is 442)
230319
http://folding.stanford.edu [stanford.edu]
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319 [stanford.edu]

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