Folding@home on PS3

[Silent1]

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?

[Silent1]

Ok it's set up, team number 193775 I'll get around to making a logo once Ive sorted my PC

[Silent1]

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

[Silent1]

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.

Edited by Silent1 on Wednesday 15th September 23:31

[Silent1]

FeatherZ said:

So what has folding done for the world so far?

Here's their website:
Folding@Home

Here's their pages for the things they've discovered so far, quite a few:
Published papers
FAQ

Here gives a nice clickable timeline of achievements:
F@H Awards

[Silent1]

Here's our team info page:
Team PistonHeads
There's only me on it right now, but as people start up their clients it'll update

[Silent1]

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.

Edited by Silent1 on Thursday 16th September 01:20

[Silent1]

No problem, it would be nice to think we can do something useful with them when we're not using them

[Silent1]

5 of us folding and we're already ranked 48336 of 187432!

[Silent1]

Jinx said:

Any idea why I can't get a work unit - continually requests one but comes back with the no appropiate work units available?

Leave it running, it seems that the server the UK pcs get connected to is having some connection issues.

[Silent1]

They can run forever doing it, there's no limits. As for bandwidth, the most they can use is 40mb a day, but on average it's closer to 4mb a day.

[Silent1]

Is it down for everyone else too?
Seems we must have cured cancer, go PH

[Silent1]

Anyone else just got a new work unit that's quoting 1day 16 hours?!!

[Silent1]

Yeah, this one is 1,000,000 steps : yikes: this is the first time this has happened, they've always been 6-8 hour WUs

[Silent1]

Ballistic Banana said:

Havent they shot themselves in the foot, now I would have to leave my PS on for over 1 day for i package!! were as 6hrs before wasnt so bad..

BB

Yeah, I suspect its an accident as it's never done it before

[Silent1]

Right I've just had a dig around and it seems that those long work units are once a blue moon types, they yield 1250 points but they shouldn't appear often at all

[Silent1]

StormLoaded said:

Ballistic Banana said:

Havent they shot themselves in the foot, now I would have to leave my PS on for over 1 day for i package!! were as 6hrs before wasnt so bad..

BB

Can you switch the PS3 off anyway if its taking longer than you'd like? and then just resume another time?

Ive rebooted my PC (after a software install), and it carried on from where it was when i shut it off (i think it just had to re-crunch the previous 1% it had actioned but nothing worse than that)

You can but the deadline time is a week on the long units and 48 hours on the shirt ones, it will still complete it but you won't get points for it.

[Silent1]

I'd quite like that, I'll ask the question.

[Silent1]

snuffy said:

Roop said:

Leithen said:

What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?

st loads I reckon.

About 200 watts for the big PS3s and 120 for the slim ones ( according to the folding@home website ).

200w for a launch ps3, the next get still fat 80gb about 120w and the slim is 80w

[Silent1]

Leithen said:

Silent1 said:

snuffy said:

Roop said:

Leithen said:

What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?

st loads I reckon.

About 200 watts for the big PS3s and 120 for the slim ones ( according to the folding@home website ).

200w for a launch ps3, the next get still fat 80gb about 120w and the slim is 80w

Forgive my ignorance, but what does that work out as in pounds and pence per day?

.12-.30p an hour, so 7.2-15.3p per work unit