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Old 04-13-2008, 11:51 PM
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good stuff your always nailing it now robcoxy you must of done a fair few
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Old 04-14-2008, 03:31 PM
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Well i've done around 120 on my PS3 and 5 on the PC (only started a short time ago)...A long way off from Lyn and Jay and MCW....
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:58 PM
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Just had a quick look at our F@H stats page. We now sit at 1161 out of 122469 teams!

Well done guys, lets keep up the good work...!
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Old 05-24-2008, 12:55 AM
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Yep, we're still slowly climbing, even though the number of active CPUs seems to be slowly dropping (down to 15 at this point). Seems to be a pretty hard sell with this to get new people joining in.
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Old 05-30-2008, 11:04 AM
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Just thought it's worth a mention that we have another 1000 WU+ club member here in the APi folding team.

Well done Jay290783 (or Jason F STAFF) on reaching as of now 1018 WU's completed. Congratulations again, and keep folding...

It might be worth another quick stats update, we now sit at 1156th place in the world out of 123620 teams. Seems like we're going up again, well done guys...
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:34 PM
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Nice work Jason.

As of 10 minutes ago, I am a member of team 54263 and on my way to complete my first unit. I have some catching up to do. My name is the same as here, Nec.
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Old 05-30-2008, 09:05 PM
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Wow..that was fast. Finished my first unit in 2 hours. I was folding my second within a minute of ending that one so i'm on my way. It says my second should be done in 2h 45m. I had stopped due to some friends showing up to try out COD4. I'll just let it run over night just to see what I can achieve by doing that. Hopefully a few.

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Old 05-31-2008, 09:27 AM
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Yeah, i'm getting a lot of 2-3 hour ones at the moment. The length and type of WU's vary over time so sooner or later they may start getting bigger. Still, they're there to be taken advantage of and it gets a few points on the board....

Welcome to the team Nec...
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Old 06-28-2008, 07:23 AM
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What is "Folding@home"?
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Old 06-28-2008, 12:23 PM
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Check out the first couple of posts on this thread or the pinned announcements in the PS3 help sections, wizz- i put full explanations there.
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Old 07-05-2008, 11:09 AM
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Seems like the teams hit another Landmark.

Our grand score has now topped the 1,000,000 mark!
At this point it sits at 1,006,253.

As for a stats update, we are ranked 1146th of 129800 teams.

Well done guys, keep up the Folding...!
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Old 07-06-2008, 09:05 PM
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My PS3 been doing Folding for some time. But honestly I dunno what help it actually does. c"_
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Old 07-07-2008, 03:15 AM
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What it does, Hulibert, is aid research toward possible cures to diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and several forms of cancer. They just don't have the computer space possible to handle all the data themselves so they make use of the PS3's Cell processor and use distributed computing to send the packets out to PS3s running the program.
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:38 PM
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I just joined the team Lyndon its great to be part of it
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:57 PM
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Welcome to the team, Ganon....! It's great to have you on board.
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Old 08-11-2008, 11:11 AM
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It's been a while so i though it'd be nice if we all had a little stats update...

We sit at 1140th of 135948 teams...

It's nice to see us climbing the table again; we were actually down a few places a week or two ago. Well done!
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It's been a while so i though it'd be nice if we all had a little stats update...

We sit at 1140th of 135948 teams...

It's nice to see us climbing the table again; we were actually down a few places a week or two ago. Well done!
We're still doing good although the same people still sit at the bottom (Those who've only done 1 or 2 work units and realized Folding@Home wasn't a fun video game) that were a year ago.

I've been neglecting the system lately, but I try to remind myself to switch over to folding every day after playing games. Maybe I should set my XMB Background picture to a Folding Protein, that would remind me before cutting the system off!

Great job dudes.
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Old 08-13-2008, 05:20 AM
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have any of you actually seen the end product of all this yet all this internet and ps3 usage and i cant find anything useful acheivments theyve made so far from it.
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Old 08-13-2008, 01:40 PM
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No one ever said it was going to be quick, Sam. These are diseases they have been trying to find the cure of for decades- now that the technology is there to lighten the load somewhat they are making use of it.
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Old 08-14-2008, 09:28 AM
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i have never heard of folding@home could some one explain
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Old 08-14-2008, 09:34 AM
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There is a full explanation at the front of the thread, nasher.

To summarize a bit, it is a medical research project by Stanford University, hoping to find breakthroughs toward cures/ treatments of various diseases. They send data packets called "work units" for the program to process and send the results back to analyze. The program only runs when you aren't doing anything else so it doesn't interfere with anything else you do on the system.
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ok iv read it and im downloading the software now then i will join the team
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Old 08-14-2008, 10:13 AM
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iv joined the team now
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Welcome to the team, Nasher...!
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Old 09-19-2008, 07:06 AM
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Couple of things to mention- first off, our current ranking is 1131 of 142297 teams- not bad but we can do a lot better, i think!

Also, some may have noticed things have changed a bit- the Folding@Home app is now "Life With PlayStation". Sony released their news/ weather app this past Wednesday, merging it with the Folding@Home program. Those of us currently running F@H will get a prompt to download the update when we restart the program. It's a 126 MB download (not overly big). To switch between seeing the two "channels" just hold the square button and flip up or down on the d-pad.
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