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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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Anyone on here doing it? I usually run it after my nights gaming and am thinking of setting a PH team up. Would anyone bs interested?
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Brilad
248 posts
59 months
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Alright Silent1
I do it but not every night. I remember most nights and sometimes leave it on in the day.
Just got through 100 work units, but I did some before I needed to re-set the system after trying out Linux a while ago.
It would be good to set up a 'Pistonheads' team.
Brilad
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StormLoaded
846 posts
49 months
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would be interested in running joining up but on my HTPC (rather than ps3).. its pretty beefy. 8gig, quad core .. so i really should put it to some use, its also hardly used [as i play games more than watch movies] so would happily leave it on/running for days at a time.
let us know the details and i'll download/join the PH team.
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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Ok it's set up, team number 193775 I'll get around to making a logo once Ive sorted my PC 
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FeatherZ
2,421 posts
66 months
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Ballistic Banana
14,513 posts
137 months
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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FeatherZ said: Whats folding..... It's a program installed on your PS3 found under network called life with playstation. What it does is use your PS3 when it's idle to find cures for things like parkinsons, cancer and other genetic diseases
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Mini1275
9,463 posts
52 months
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Silent1 said: FeatherZ said: Whats folding..... It's a program installed on your PS3 found under network called life with playstation. What it does is use your PS3 when it's idle to find cures for things like parkinsons, cancer and other genetic diseases Ah i get it now!, i'll definitely do this, how do i join pal?.
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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As i said, here's what to do:
Go to network.
Open Life with playstation
Press triangle and familiarise yourself with the menus:
in indentity you want to select join exisiting team and put the number in (193775)
Also you want to set up auto shutdown to "after current" this will then turn your PS3 off once it's completed that unit (approx 5 hours worth)
The to optimise it, you want to set the settings to expert mode as this disables the other channels and turns it into a proper F@H set-up, also it is worth turning the screensaver on as this speeds up the calculations by ~5mins in every hour.
I'll rewrite this when i'm up and looking at my PS3, right now i'm going to bed after an epic battle with my PC all day.
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FeatherZ
2,421 posts
66 months
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So what has folding done for the world so far?
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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FeatherZ said: So what has folding done for the world so far? Here's their website: Folding@HomeHere's their pages for the things they've discovered so far, quite a few: Published papersFAQHere gives a nice clickable timeline of achievements: F@H Awards
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StormLoaded
846 posts
49 months
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my htpc's been running flat out with the SMP Client (100% usage on all 4 cores) for 4 hours now and is only 35% through its first go! mental. interestingly i can use it fully as it seems to allocate cpu for anything i want to open without issue and instantly, which im impressed with - so i see no reason why i cant let this thing number crunch all day long.. sweet as. 
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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Here's our team info page: Team PistonHeadsThere's only me on it right now, but as people start up their clients it'll update
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-crookedtail-
586 posts
60 months
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Silent1 said: FeatherZ said: Whats folding..... It's a program installed on your PS3 found under network called life with playstation. What it does is use your PS3 when it's idle to find cures for things like parkinsons, cancer and other genetic diseases I'm almost ashamed to think that you were taking the piss when you said the PS3 was helping out with finding cures for the desease mentioned! However I have read up and its a good cause so I have joined the team and my PS3 is doing something or other for the next few hours. I'm going to leave it on overnight and see what happens. When you said you can set it to auto-shutdown, would you do this within the main PS3 menu or the folding@home menu?
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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Within folding@home, you need to leave the life with playstation open for F@H to do the work.
Then in either general settings or F@H settings there's auto shutdown, click that and then click "after current".
Obviosuly press triangle to get the options menu up.
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-crookedtail-
586 posts
60 months
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Great found it now, thanks.
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Silent1
Original Poster
17,640 posts
105 months
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No problem, it would be nice to think we can do something useful with them when we're not using them
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Ballistic Banana
14,513 posts
137 months
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Sure is Silent1, just joined the team . Just hope the PS doesn't catch alight while I'm asleep lol  BB
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-crookedtail-
586 posts
60 months
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Well it has completed its first unit now.
However like a numpty I didn't change the default name so mine is coming up as 'PS3', doh! I have changed it now to '-crookedtail-' so hopefully it'll update when I do another unit although not sure on when that'll be as I'm away for the weekend now.
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StormLoaded
846 posts
49 months
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i left 2 pc's running this last night, weirdly both crashed out at 3:10am according to the logs .. yet this isnt internet dependant is it? - i thought it just downloaded the file, then crunched, then sent info back at the end.. unless it needs a constant connection and my internet probably went down at 3am [was all ok when i woke this am]?? .. i restarted the crunching before i left for work but they still arent on that list.. im assuming theyve probably stopped again.. I may just have to use the ps3 option instead at this rate
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