Charity and Potential Ron Paul Publicity via ::Folding@home::

PauliticsPolitics said:
I just finally got around to addressing this thread.

I put one of my old bitcoin mining computers on this.
Should add an extra few hundred points per day.
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Welcome to the team! Make sure you show up on our team's stat page so you know everything is working! If it works well consider adding more computers!
 
specialkornflake said:
Welcome to the team! Make sure you show up on our team's stat page so you know everything is working! If it works well consider adding more computers!
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Yea, I am not appearing on the stat page yet.
But I am confident that it is all configured properly, so we will see when it all decides to catch up.
Seems like a fun project.
I'll probably add some more computers later, once I know it is all working.
I used to mine bitcoins back when that was profitable a few years ago, so I have some optimized rigs with higher-end GPUs just laying around.
 
PauliticsPolitics said:
Yea, I am not appearing on the stat page yet.
But I am confident that it is all configured properly, so we will see when it all decides to catch up.
Seems like a fun project.
I'll probably add some more computers later, once I know it is all working.
I used to mine bitcoins back when that was profitable a few years ago, so I have some optimized rigs with higher-end GPUs just laying around.
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I see you are on the list and have already submitted 4 WUs! You will find those GPUs will rack you up an incredible amount of points quickly!
 
specialkornflake said:
I see you are on the list and have already submitted 4 WUs! You will find those GPUs will rack you up an incredible amount of points quickly!
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Yea, looks like I pulled 4233 points in my first 24 hours.
Not bad.
Thanks for running this project. I wish I had delved into this thread sooner!
 
Out of curiosity:
How does our one user (Sullivan) have 4567 points but 4179 WUs?
That ratio is quite inconsistent with all other users.
Anyone know the science behind Sullivan's numbers?

EDIT:
I think I figured it out. Apparently Sullivan has been doing this for years, so the MUs shown are the cumulative total - but the points shown are only the points Sullivan has earned in the couple months since the switch to our team. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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Also...
We are now at: 1286 of 210767

Top 1000 is in sight.
If anyone here isn't doing this and has some computers with headroom, now is the time to jump in!
 
PauliticsPolitics said:
Out of curiosity:
How does our one user (Sullivan) have 4567 points but 4179 WUs?
That ratio is quite inconsistent with all other users.
Anyone know the science behind Sullivan's numbers?

EDIT:
I think I figured it out. Apparently Sullivan has been doing this for years, so the MUs shown are the cumulative total - but the points shown are only the points Sullivan has earned in the couple months since the switch to our team. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Sullivan had a misconfigured client and was returning WUs before completing them. He has since fixed the problem and that's why he started to get points. WUs and points stay with the group.
 
A browser based client would be awesome -- wonder if they will ever come up with one of those?
 
gerryb said:
A browser based client would be awesome -- wonder if they will ever come up with one of those?
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I wouldn't expect one, this V7 client they just released is the way they are going. Today, only a small percentage of users run anything but the uniprocessor client. The next great thing is getting lots of people using their multi-core CPUs and Video cards for the project. This thing is going to get big too because they are working on speeding up their calculations. The wikipedia article is fascinating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

Also they blog is great too!
http://folding.typepad.com/news/
 
Is there a tutorial or something on this? I'd contribute but I'm very lost on what this is....do you download a client that just runs in the background? Do I need to adjust any settings on my PC? (I'm hardware-illiterate.)
 
malkusm said:
Is there a tutorial or something on this? I'd contribute but I'm very lost on what this is....do you download a client that just runs in the background? Do I need to adjust any settings on my PC? (I'm hardware-illiterate.)
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Yes, you just download a client that runs in the background. You probably don't have to make any setting changes, except you need to choose a unique username (something to do with RP or liberty is probably free!) and put in our team number: 182919 Maybe give it a try and let me know how it goes or let me know if you have any other questions!
 
Hey guys, I'm leaving to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in about two weeks so I need others to take over for me! Feel free to take any of the content I've written if you need to make a new thread. I'll still be around for a bit more. We really are doing quite well, almost about to break into the top 1000 teams, some of which who have been doing this for 10 years!
 
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