MAAN Clan Folding@Home Competition

[JJ-F1]

The MAAN Clan Folding@Home competition!

• Stats will be compiled bi-weekly with the top performer receiving a special forum recognition rank.
• Prize will be given to the user that completes the most points in the contest timeframe.

Most Recent Winners!
1st - KwikAg - 210014 points
2nd - frigman - 205654 points
3rd - Silent_Razor - 126166 points

Thank you to new folders to the team.
greasemonkey41
DaMiTrOn
Jeff257
Bullmoose38
SilexRepsi
Robmac44

Team Stats
Total Score: 3099139 (+1179777 points)
Team Rank: 937 (-104 places)

Weekly stats:



Previous Stats:


How Can you join?

On your PS3:
Start the Folding Client, press Triangle > Identity > Join Existing Team > 103062
Also be sure to put in a unique username so we can identify you.

On your computer:
Download the Folding client: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
After installing the client be sure to put in 103062 in for the team, and also enter your username.

What is Folding@Home?

Taken from http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ :

Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding.
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

[topodisc]

tastyfish is catching up to me. I am mostly running folding on a couple of computers at work. For me to run folding on my PS3, I would have to keep the cabinets open, defeating the purpose of putting it there. I may need to stop running it from time to time, so I expect you asshats to dethrone me soon.

[gtree10]

tastyfish is catching up to me. I am mostly running folding on a couple of computers at work. For me to run folding on my PS3, I would have to keep the cabinets open, defeating the purpose of putting it there. I may need to stop running it from time to time, so I expect you asshats to dethrone me soon.

I doubt I'd win, since I only run it on my PS3 and I need that to game on.

[tastyfish]

tastyfish is catching up to me. I am mostly running folding on a couple of computers at work. For me to run folding on my PS3, I would have to keep the cabinets open, defeating the purpose of putting it there. I may need to stop running it from time to time, so I expect you asshats to dethrone me soon.

Now that it is starting to warm up outside down here, the room where my PS3 resides is going to be too warm to keep it on all the time. The fans would run full speed constantly if I did that... Of course, maybe I should do it so my PS3 fails under warranty and I can get a new one... hmmm...

[IFMRacin]

tastyfish is catching up to me. I am mostly running folding on a couple of computers at work. For me to run folding on my PS3, I would have to keep the cabinets open, defeating the purpose of putting it there. I may need to stop running it from time to time, so I expect you asshats to dethrone me soon.

I doubt I'd win, since I only run it on my PS3 and I need that to game on.

But the PS3 accumulates points faster than the computer generally, and this competition is focused on weekly points production.

This will be an ongoing competition..........and, there might be other prizes or rewards for those that are not necessarily the winner.

[jandtng]

I'm going to have leave my ps3 on folding when I go to sleep during the day

[cc_Architect]

I don't get the stats part. I had mine Folding last night for about 1 1/2 hrs. I didn't even complete one work unit. So I don't get a score at all? WTF am I doing wrong? Apparently it takes 5 hrs for one work unit to be completed. There's no way I'll have the PS3 on that long without playing on it.

[topodisc]

I don't get the stats part. I had mine Folding last night for about 1 1/2 hrs. I didn't even complete one work unit. So I don't get a score at all? WTF am I doing wrong? Apparently it takes 5 hrs for one work unit to be completed. There's no way I'll have the PS3 on that long without playing on it.

It takes on average 9 hours on the PS3 to complete a WU. A lot of guys leave them on overnight after they finish playing. You can set it up so it automatically shuts down after a period of time or after a WU is completed. When you restart next time, it'll continue where it left off.

That's a personal decision since running the PS3 on a compute intensive task like folding does two things: run up your electricity bill and your cooling bill. People don't realize how much of your personal money goes to this international project. Hopefully it's for a good and righteous cause.

[JJ-F1]

The last three work units that have been given to me are only a little over 3 hours each to complete.

I was getting 6 - 8 hour work units prior to this past weekend.

[IFMRacin]

The last three work units that have been given to me are only a little over 3 hours each to complete.

I was getting 6 - 8 hour work units prior to this past weekend.

Maybe your PS3 is just a badass!

[JJ-F1]

The last three work units that have been given to me are only a little over 3 hours each to complete.

I was getting 6 - 8 hour work units prior to this past weekend.

Maybe your PS3 is just a badass!

LOL!!! - That was funny.

Take that you folded protien mother fuckers!!!

[jandtng]

How do you change the music...Can you add your own??

[cc_Architect]

I finally completed 1 WU, but it does not show up as me completing one. WTF?!!! That's it....I think I'm done Folding shit.

[Cabot500]

I finally completed 1 WU, but it does not show up as me completing one. WTF?!!! That's it....I think I'm done Folding shit.

I wish I could say that! I'm the folder in our house

[frigman]

How do you change the music...Can you add your own??

if you have music stored on your ps3, it will play from that... one of the items in the list has audio options in it.

[JJ-F1]

I finally completed 1 WU, but it does not show up as me completing one. WTF?!!! That's it....I think I'm done Folding shit.

If you take too long to complete a unit, usually longer that about a week, it won't count against your total. If you start one, you should try and finish it within 3 or 4 days to be safe. I can't even count the number of times I took too long, only to complete something and not have it count.

This is from the PS3 FAQ on the Folding@Home Website:

How long do I have to complete it?
Note that Work Units "expire" after a certain amount of time. This means that after a certain amount of time, if the WU has not been returned, we assume it's not coming back and our server moves on from there. This is necessary due to the fact that future work units depend on old ones and so we need to eventually give the work to someone else to get it completed. The times to complete a WU for the PS3 is short (8 hours), so the deadline time is also correspondingly short (2 days).

[cc_Architect]

Thanks JJ. I guess that makes sense.

[IFMRacin]

Week 1 winner!
Tastyfish - 6596 points.


Thank you to new folders to the team.
Crazy4nitro
dbl-fistn55
JBGJR2




Sorry Tasty, we're still working on the prize.....but you'll get it first.

[tastyfish]

I won! I won!

Wow, hang on a minute... I need to thank my mom and my PS3, without you this wouldn't have happened. Oh yeah, I'd better thank my wife too..

[fried_blowney]

And the electric company thanks YOU for having your PS3 on all that time and running up the juice