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#226
09-19-2008, 12:05 PM
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 Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP I was surprised to see people getting so excited for the release of Life with Playstation, considering that it's just a globe with news feeds like Wii News. I guess people were more excited for the future potential of the program than it's current state. For now, I don't care for the changes to the Folding@Home navigation. Used to be that you could just press Triangle to bring up the options (For checking Stats, Setting the Auto Shutdown Time). Now, they've added several steps, and it takes too long to do something. For me, I want to quickly set the Auto Shutdown Time and be done with it when I'm Folding. Not possible anymore  Hopefully they will dumb it down to where it was before this update.      |
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#227
02-08-2009, 11:58 AM
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| Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP I do agree they could have made their news section a separate entity and left the Folding@Home as is. I think they made it more difficult to find the Folding@Home side of it with this merger. It's been way too long since we had an update here. Suffice to say, our ranking has taken a bit of a hit but still doing ok at 1222 out of 153,233 teams. On a more personal note, my own total is up to 1960 work units now so i should be at the 2k mark by late this week.  |
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#228
02-08-2009, 12:20 PM
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| Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP With the changes they made, I've found myself not Folding much any more, just as I suspected I would. Why fix what isn't broken? I expected another Folding firmware update by now, but nothing lately. I'm surprised I'm still in 3rd place with all of the time I've taken off from folding. Congrats on approaching 2000 Lyndon. I'm approaching 500 at the moment. Might try to hit that milestone over the next week. |
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#229
02-08-2009, 12:41 PM
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| Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP Have at it! Myself, I've pretty much ignored the news/ weather aspect and just leave Life set up on the folding side of the app. |
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#230
09-12-2009, 06:40 PM
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 Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP Ok, whoever I hear laugh is gonna' get a poke in the eye!  I checked, double-checked and checked again on this "Folding"....and I'll be go to all hell if I even understand what it is, let alone how it works. Can anyone here direct me to a good quality site that explains exactly what this "Folding" is, how it works and yadda, yadda...I just don't get it. If I can figure it out, then I would indeed be glad to join Team AP. Thanks in advance!
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#231
09-12-2009, 11:03 PM
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| Re: Folding@Home on the PS3- Join Team AP Let me put my safety goggles on first and then...  The Stamford Folding@Home site would be the best place to start for an explanation- I've linked to it in the first post of this thread. Still, I'll try to explain. It's a method called "distributed computing" (you may have heard of Seti@Home? Same idea). The Folding@Home program runs on your PS3 (they also have clients for use on the PC) when completely idle so it will not affect your gaming/ movie watching/ etc.. The servers at Stamford University's medical research division sends out this bits of data called "work units". These are simulations of proteins folding (hence the name). The idea is to use the combined power of everyone folding to process data faster and may one day lead to cures for various diseases including Alzeimer's and Parkinsons Disease. Once your PS3 is done with the work unit it sends the results back and they send the next work unit to be processed. Now, these work units all carry a point value based on size and priority. These points are all correlated together for a team's total score and they have a leaderboard for all teams. Of late I think our team has been pretty non-existent in folding but I plan on getting my system back at it. To set up your PS3 for this go into the Life With PlayStation app (you'll likely find an update to the latest version waiting). Once it is running hold down the square button and go to Folding@Home. Once it is open hit triangle to bring up the menu and select "Current Channel". Next, go into "Identity" and select "Change Donor Name". You can make your ID whatever you like (PSN name, forum name, your choice). Once this is done go down to "Join An Existing Team" and enter in 54263 to join the Absolute PlayStation team. |
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