Join the Official Console Heroes Folding@Home Team

[Clipse]

I would like to formally invite all of our members to join the official Console Heroes Folding@Home group.

Our team number is 103964.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases." These enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cystic fibrosis, Parkinson's disease, and many others.

We all talk about being heroes and there are many ways of doing that, but this is one way of being a hero and you don't even have to do anything. I invite anyone and everyone to download the Folding@Home software from the Folding@Home website (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download). This can be fun from Windows, Linux, Mac, and even the PS3. Once you've downloaded the Folding@Home software you can enter a specific name and the Console Heroes Team number; you'll then be contributing to the sites team. Open the program and let it go, there isn't anything specific you need to do except let it run and shut it down properly.

For PS3 owners any new PS3 should have the Folding@Home program loaded on the machine, after a quick update you'll then be able to run the program. Once running you can press the Triangle button to pull up the menu, go to "Identify" and then select "Join an Exiting Team"; then enter the team number. You can also use this menu to view your statistics, team statistics, and to stop the program properly.

This is going towards a great cause, one that could very well help save someone you know later on in life. As I mentioned its so very simple to just start the program and let it do its thing. It does take several hours for a job to be complete so I just leave my PS3 on when I go to bed; I'm not afraid of it burning up as I would if it were the 360. I hope you all will take this opportunity to do something positive, not only for the gaming community but for all of civilization.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.

[Flea]

It also uses very little processing power,
so you can just leave it on in the background of your pc while you do other things.

Theres a table as well so we can compete against others depending on how much folding we do.
:)

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If you have the pc version you should also do the following..............

Open the Control panel
Select the advanced tab
and move the check pointing frequency to 3 minutes like this

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/consoleheroes/Hero%20Stuff/Folding.jpg


That way if your pc goes off by a power cut or anything then less data is lost.

[Curtis]

I've had a quick look at it on my PS3. I spent most of the time just flying around earth and having a look though. The music is awesome aswell.

I'm going to download it on my PC aswell.

[iJohn]

I have never used this at all because I never knew what it really was. Thanks for clearing that up for me Clipse. I installed it a while ago, and I am going to join in.:D

[Clipse]

I've had a quick look at it on my PS3. I spent most of the time just flying around earth and having a look though. The music is awesome aswell.

I'm going to download it on my PC aswell.

I believe you can rip music on to the HDD of the PS3 and play that while Folding@Home is working. Just make sure you join the group and change your Donor name to whatever you want. ;)

[Curtis]

I believe you can rip music on to the HDD of the PS3 and play that while Folding@Home is working. Just make sure you join the group and change your Donor name to whatever you want. ;)

I kinda liked the piano thing goin on. I'll have to do it next time I get on it though, haven't touched my PS3 since december.

[Shadow]

I downloaded it and it's running but I have no idea what its doing or if I can do anything with it?

[Clipse]

I downloaded it and it's running but I have no idea what its doing or if I can do anything with it?

Nope, as long as you're running it and its processing a job you're just contributing towards medical research. Thats the whole point. ;)

Did you join the Team using the Team ID?

[NATERZ]

So pretty much just use the team ID number and let it run from what I hear? I have it downloaded and figured I would let it run over night once I got to bed. Once it starts running do I have to do anything to it?

[Shadow]

So what is it doing exactly? Using my computer to make things go faster, or what???

[code34]

Here's a link explaining just what folding@home (http://folding.stanford.edu/) is.

I'll join the team as soon as I boot F@H again.

Clipse, add me on PSN. Codeg34

[Burner110]

Ok I downloaded now I wait? Or do i do something with it? lol sorry Im not good with this stuff

[Clipse]

So what is it doing exactly? Using my computer to make things go faster, or what???
It's using your computer to process folding, misfolding of protein jobs. Then the results are sent back to the Folding@Home HQ. In other words you're allowing your computer to be a node in a computer cluster (kind of). It works kind of like a super computer, but in this case your can be doing a job and I could be doing a different one all at the same time.

Ok I downloaded now I wait? Or do i do something with it? lol sorry Im not good with this stuff

Once you download the program you should see a little icon in the bottom right it looks like a little red cog similar to Gears of War. Double click on that and it should give you the display showing Donator name, Team Number, Finished WU's (work units), what core you're using, frames completed, and ETA. There's nothing you need to do, but just do its thing. It will use the processing power of your CPU when there's free "space".


On PC machines you can get into the Folding@Home Control Panel by right clicking the red cog in the lower right hand corner and selecing "Configure". You can enter in your user name (whatever you want, but I'd use your forum name if you can) and the tream number which is: 103964. In this control panel you can also configure Folding@Home to run only when your screensaver is active if you wish. In the advanced tab you can limite the CPU usage if you wish, for laptops you can pause the work while on battery power.

Let me know if there are any more questions.

[Haly]

I'll have to get this set up again :) Used to do it for another site, quite fun in a nerdy kind of way :D

[Burner110]

THanks for clearing that up

[Flea]

If you have the pc version you should also do the following..............

Open the Control panel
Select the advanced tab
and move the check pointing frequency to 3 minutes like this

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/consoleheroes/Hero%20Stuff/Folding.jpg


That way if your pc goes off by a power cut or anything then less data is lost.

[Haly]

I'll try to get a guide sorted out later on. Using the console version of F@H is a lot more efficient than the graphical one with the screensaver but can take a bit more fiddling about so I'll see what I can do when I'm more awake :)

[Flea]

You can just minimize it and it works in the background without the screensaver.
;)

[angry]

I will try it also sounds like a great idea. ;) I now have it running. ;)

[Haly]

You can just minimize it and it works in the background without the screensaver.
;)

It still uses more CPU power than the console version :p
Think it's around 15% more iirc although it's been a while so I might be slightly off on the figures.
You can tweak loads of stuff to make sure it does the best it can :)

[AJMac]

What exactly does us running this do?

[Flea]

It simulates folding protiens,
and the information is then used to help understand how protiens work.

Which in turn can hopefully one day lead to cures for a variety of illnesses such as
Alzheimers disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers.

So basically its helping to try and save peoples lives.

We dont know what could happen to any of us in the future,
maybe 1 of us will be unfortunate enough to be taken ill,
if thats the case at least we can to help them in the future by doing this now.

[AJMac]

Thnaks flea. Once I started it, I thought I knew what it was doing, but thanks for clearing that up. It could take a while to do, though!

[Flea]

Every bit helps no matter how small,I just hope more of our users get behind it.
:)

[Clipse]

Here's a super cool capture of my PS3 hard at work. ( I just got the capture device and am playing with it. )


http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7722/foldingog5.jpg

[Burner110]

I put it on my CPU but not my PS3 yet I have to do it friday

[Ghost]

I have downloaded it.

[Comon]

So am I in as a sub or wut. Comon says im good enough :rolleyes: lol, k im not that good, but I just started n i wanna get better

Wrong place buddy. Go here:

http://www.consoleheroes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4932

[Clipse]

Wrong place buddy. Go here:

http://www.consoleheroes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4932

Moved... Now on to Folding@Home recruiting.

So far Code34 and I are the only ones showing up on the team. Hopefully once some of your who have work units in progress will shop up on the team once they've finished. ;)

[code34]

I think an achievement would prompt quite a few additions to the team. Don't you? ;)

[Clipse]

I think an achievement would prompt quite a few additions to the team. Don't you? ;)

Maybe, I'll hit Code up on this tomorrow and see what he says. :wheelchair:

[Haly]

Moved... Now on to Folding@Home recruiting.

So far Code34 and I are the only ones showing up on the team. Hopefully once some of your who have work units in progress will shop up on the team once they've finished. ;)

Think I should be showing up soon, just uploaded a WU.

[Flea]

I think an achievement would prompt quite a few additions to the team. Don't you? ;)

The problem i see with this is some people will run it just until they get the award,and then stop running it.

Plus some peoples pcs are a less powerful than others,
so they could be running the program for 2-3 weeks maybe longer,and still not have a complete WU.

My thoughts are this if you appear on the leaderboard,then we add you to a list of site users that are on the team.
Surely that should be enough for doing something for a good cause,and probably 1 that best gives recognintion to the fact they are helping.

This way its easier to edit as well as if someone stops running the program we can add them below to a section called Previous Folding Members.
:)

[DrHerbz]

Just d/l this for the PC, nice to know that I'm doing something positive without actually having to do anything ;)



Woah, my WU will have finished on Saturday the 19th of Jan!

[Bradmatic]

im just downloading it now, and its now benchmarking 10 out of 1500

EDIT: something weird just happened. after downloading version 5.03 i clicked to install, it then asked for admin allowance which i gave it and then the installation screen for the program flashed up and dissapeared. Ive tried it several times and the same thing keeps happening. any ideas anyone?

[code34]

The problem i see with this is some people will run it just until they get the award,and then stop running it.


Meh. It's the idea that it is a good cause that would be the reason for the achievement. Who cares how long they run it, or if they run it just for an achievement? The whole idea behind F@H is that every little bit helps. It doesn't matter if my PS3 can turn over 3 WU a day or someone else's computer can only turn over 1 a day. We're all still helping.

If we're not doing an achievement for it, that's fine. But, that's my case for one.

[Burner110]

I downloaded it on sunday and it only has 300/1500 done wtf!!1?

[AJMac]

We could say we do anything for the achievements. But that's what an ahcivement is showing, what you have accopmlished that is positive. I think it's a great idea.

[Clipse]

I downloaded it on sunday and it only has 300/1500 done wtf!!1?

Your processor is teh suck? Lol, each computer will work at its own pace for the most part, faster processors will work through work units faster and be able to do more. The PS3's cell processor tears up WU's, I think on average it takes 6 to 9 hours for the PS3 to complete a WU. This is why I have 6 completed already, but fear not; you're helping out. ;)

[Burner110]

Damn my processor is getting on my nerves

[Shadow]

I completed one 1500/1500 thing but it says I've done none. :confused: My power went out last night but it finished 2 nights ago. Whats up? did I loose all my stats

[Clipse]

I completed one 1500/1500 thing but it says I've done none. :confused: My power went out last night but it finished 2 nights ago. Whats up? did I loose all my stats

Shouldn't I'll send you a PM with instructions about checking the configuration.

[Flea]

Join in with this good cause,it just runs in the background of your pc,
It could help someone you know someday.
:)

[Mavren]

Joined and running.

Still trying to figure out what's being accomplished but if it's doing good, i'll let it run on my pc :)

[AJMac]

Joined and running.

Still trying to figure out what's being accomplished but if it's doing good, i'll let it run on my pc :)

From what I understand, it generates random images of folding particles. They are then sent to whoever who then research it and find cures for some serious diseases.

[Anti Hero]

I have had it on for about an hour now and it says 13/150. Is this good?

And my WU will finish tomorrow.

[Flea]

I have had it on for about an hour now and it says 13/150. Is this good?

And my WU will finish tomorrow.

Anything that helps is good,even if a WU takes 3 months it all that matters is it helps out to get a better understanding on the way protien folding works.

[Veritas347]

My PS3 usually has it running and I joined the group...we usually just leave the PS3 on and let it run while we play the 360 :p Either that or we play the music we put on the PS3 in the backg4round and chill out

[Tdchewy]

I'm in..a little late to the party, but the more the merrier right?

[A Yellow Fellow]

Hey joined but how do the stats work? Also do we gain anything as a team as our stats go up? Or is just the satisfaction of helping out others? Either way I am happy.

[Tdchewy]

Hey joined but how do the stats work? Also do we gain anything as a team as our stats go up? Or is just the satisfaction of helping out others? Either way I am happy.

Nothing is gained except for the scientific research that could one day save someones life. Its a distributed computing project.

[A Yellow Fellow]

Folding @ Home has been on for about 24 hours and I have yet to finish a WU (whatever that is). Is it supposed to take this long? Right now I have 195/1500 frames.

[Clipse]

Folding @ Home has been on for about 24 hours and I have yet to finish a WU (whatever that is). Is it supposed to take this long? Right now I have 195/1500 frames.

If you're using it on a computer then yes it will take what seems to be forever before it finishes a WU (work unit).

[A Yellow Fellow]

dang at this rate it will take at least 5 more days. Wow...well at least it is for a good cause.

[Tdchewy]

dang at this rate it will take at least 5 more days. Wow...well at least it is for a good cause.

On a PS3 you'll crank out about 3-4 work units a day..

[soldat329x]

Ive got it running on my comp and ps3, and I joined the team!

[Tdchewy]

Ive got it running on my comp and ps3, and I joined the team!

Hey dude, I just configured another Pc to run this and accidentally mistyped the team number and boom, I was on a team with you..check your team number, I think you mixed up the 6 and the 9..Thats what I did to see yours..LOL

[soldat329x]

Hey dude, I just configured another Pc to run this and accidentally mistyped the team number and boom, I was on a team with you..check your team number, I think you mixed up the 6 and the 9..Thats what I did to see yours..LOL

Yeah, you must have saw that within the 5 minutes of me fixing it lol

[Tdchewy]

So after having my PS3 and several computers grinding away at it, I have finally passed Clipse for the number one spot on the team. Keep up the good work everybody. It will help someone some day.!

My PS3 has been running folding@home for about a month and a half straight no crashes. Look Microsoft! no rings or crashes or anything else. PS3 is a solid machine thats made for abuse.

[Clipse]

Wanting to get in on the game? When I say "game" I truly do mean just that now. Foldit is a game based on the Folding@home program, allowing a human element to toy around with folding proteins. Think of it as a puzzle to solve, a game you can play on your PC or Mac while not only being fun, but also helping science at the same time. Try it out, its free after all.

Foldit's official website (http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main/)

[Razor]

I have always wondered what this was. What exactly is Folding@Home? I know its for the PS3 but what is it exactly?:confused:

[Clipse]

I have always wondered what this was. What exactly is Folding@Home? I know its for the PS3 but what is it exactly?:confused:

It's not specifically for the PS3, its a cluster program you can run on the PC, Mac, Linux, or the PS3. Its just a program that simulates the folding of proteins, as in the ones in your body, this is a natural occurrence and scientists believe that ones that are folded wrong cause cancer, or other illnesses. What the program does is simulate these mis-folding proteins to help in scientific research. This can help better understand how cancers and other illnesses occur but also could provide help with cures later on in the future.

[Razor]

Oh i see. So then what are you guys keeping stats for, what are you guys keeping track of?

[Clipse]

Oh i see. So then what are you guys keeping stats for, what are you guys keeping track of?

It automatically keeps track, we just have a team going which keeps tabs on how many work units each person's computer or PS3.

[Flea]

Console Heroes have got a certificate for all the folding that its team has done so far.

Our team rank has now also moved up
:)

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 4414 of 121218


Rank In Team|User|Score| Wu
1 | Tdchewy | 69320 | 236
2 | Clipse | 44474 | 190
3 | lnxguru | 12416 | 99
4 | Ghost_x3h | 10460 | 64
5 | Haly | 7110 | 24
6 | flea | 7070 |62
7 | c34 | 4393 |12
8 | Sirt0kesal0t420 | 2407 |16
9 | TenaciousDoner | 2375 |5
10 | AJMac | 2357 |13
11 | ironman | 2065 |7
12 | PS3-JJ_UK | 2047 |5
13 | Mavren | 1464 |9
14 | codedigital | 870 |6
15 | Burner110 | 687 |3
16 | Anti_Hero_ | 665 |9
17 | soldat329x | 500 |4
18 | o_ManBearP1g_o |343 |1




http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/consoleheroes/tcertphp.jpg

[Flea]

Just a reminder that we have a folding@home team if anyone that hasn't joined wants to help out and join the team.
:)

[Khaos x3h]

Haha shit I meant to do this awhile back but never did.

[x3nomorph]

This is such an incredible concept!


I just installed it and will be folding for at least 40 hours a week at work, and then some at home too.

[BigZ7337]

Very cool, I'm downloading the program now.

Edit: Actually, it won't download for me for some reason.

[kiwi x3h]

I use my laptop from 5pm-12am on weekdays but I have it in sleep mode when I am away. This saves the programs I am using but puts the laptop in a low power state. Will this still fold my protiens while it is in snooze mode? I am going to download it anyway as it helps for a great cause.

My laptop wont let me display the folding program when I click it. It says Data Execution Prevention stopped the program from starting. Help?!?!?

[merobb]

I've done Folding on my PS3 a few times. :)

I IS A GOOD PERSON!

[Tdchewy]

This is such an incredible concept!
I just installed it and will be folding for at least 40 hours a week at work, and then some at home too.

Don't forget to put in your username and our team number is 103964. This should be in preferences or options. We are now rank 3480 of 140034.

[x3nomorph]

Don't forget to put in your username and our team number is 103964. This should be in preferences or options. We are now rank 3480 of 140034.I did.

Im far behind you Chewy, but Im trying. :)

[Tdchewy]

I did.

Im far behind you Chewy, but Im trying. :)

I'm just glad more people are taking interest in this. I got my rank up by leaving my PS3 running Folding at Home for 2 months straight. Plus 2 MAC minis running 24 hours a day for about 5-6 months now, and 3 PCs running 24 hours a day. I'm in IT, So I sneak it onto machines all over the place at work. Glad you're part of the team!

[Flea]

I'm just glad more people are taking interest in this.

Thats why I bumped this post.
;)

We just need to do a monthly update of how were doing and stuff, so new members know its here.

[fishcuppizzaman]

Yeah, I'm glad you bumped this, setting up right now. Maybe add the link and team # also. I go to the newest post so it'll save someone 3 seconds so they dont have to go to page one lol.

[kiwi x3h]

Each time I hit 125, is that a new protein? Sometimes it shows 0/125 or 0/200, what is the difference? I already completed a 200 and now I am @ 34/125 for the new one. Hope I am helping.