Folding@Home: Hit a personal milestone? Share it here!

Grey410 said:
I've been folding for 2 days and I'm already at 1936 points!!!! Yippeeee! :P :D ;) Which by the way is helped by my GPU. I altered my CPU 1 to 80% from 95% usage and I notice my GPU is tearing threw WU's a lot faster than before.
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Ya, you might pass superpetrik! Now you just need to get all 30000 points it will take to overtake the leaders :D
 
Grey410 said:
I've been folding for 2 days and I'm already at 1936 points!!!! Yippeeee! :P :D ;) Which by the way is helped by my GPU. I altered my CPU 1 to 80% from 95% usage and I notice my GPU is tearing threw WU's a lot faster than before.
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Jeez, with people like you on the team, the rest of us folding on one and a bit cpu's don't stand a chance! :)

The progress is very impressive, stay tuned to see some very steep lines on the graph updates tomorrow...
 
one more question : if i'm participating in the folding@home program, would i be vulnerable to people stealing personal information from my pc? how can i be sure that i'm safe?
 
Load a firewall. but no, you are not any more vulnerable than normal. you are not on the internet all the time when using F@H. you only have a active internet connection with folding around once every few days.
 
a123 said:
one more question : if i'm participating in the folding@home program, would i be vulnerable to people stealing personal information from my pc? how can i be sure that i'm safe?
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There's absolutely nothing to worry about security wise with F@H, it's perfectly safe. With this forum being so high profile and with so many knowledgable members, this project wouldn't have half the support it does if security were an issue. If that weren't enough, this is taken from F@H Wiki:
The Folding@home client and distributed computing service is no less safe than other programs that you can download from the internet and run on your computer. Because security of the FAH client is very important to the Pande Group, they have designed the FAH to be as secure as feasible through encrypted downloads/uploads, file checksums, etc. FAH should not reduce the security of your computer.
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So basically, you're good to go. :)

Edit: That is of course, so long as your pc is adequately protected at the moment. If it isn't, they you may find personal information going astray through no fault of folding@home. ;)
 
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1st?

Jet said:
YA! By the end of today, we will be in in 1099th or better place!
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How long/ how many more members do we need until we are in 1st place? :D I'm tempted to start having people I know with computers start F@H for the team as well.
 
Grey410 said:
How long/ how many more members do we need until we are in 1st place? :D I'm tempted to start having people I know with computers start F@H for the team as well.
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We'd need about 500 more computers to move up to even the top 100.
 
Grey410 said:
How long/ how many more members do we need until we are in 1st place? :D I'm tempted to start having people I know with computers start F@H for the team as well.
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yeah the top team earn twice as many points in 1 day as we have since we started.
 
LOL! The top people on the top teams have 800 comptuers running for THEM, let alone their own team.. :D
 
It's like the opposite of spreading a disease. Spread the cure!

Jet said:
LOL! The top people on the top teams have 800 comptuers running for THEM, let alone their own team.. :D
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How many ppl do you know? I know a few. I'm sure everyone does. It's not a hard pitch to say hey do you run a msnger service? Well hey check this out: Run F@H. Leave your computer on without the monitor it only costs an average of 30 cents per day. I mean I'm in the Navy. I don't know nearly everyone in it but posting this at work is doable. There are 352,000 plus ppl in the Navy. I think this is something worth doing that takes like ZERO effort. So I'm going to start campaigning for it :D and I encourage you all to do the same. Parents, Grandparents, computer illiterate friends, just go set it up and explain they're helping to solve diseases. Who doesn't want to do that? :confused:
 
Grey410 said:
How long/ how many more members do we need until we are in 1st place? :D I'm tempted to start having people I know with computers start F@H for the team as well.
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It won't happen! I left a team where I had over 100,000 points by myself! We can only try to make the top 200 or so.

And believe me that would be one hell of a feat!!!

If you don't believe me this is the link to my old folding! http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=My_Catt_Maxx_DWE
 
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MyCattMaxx said:
It won't happen! I left a team where I had over 100,000 points by myself! We can only try to make the top 200 or so.

And believe me that would be one hell of a feat!!!

If you don't believe me this is the link to my old folding! http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=My_Catt_Maxx_DWE
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I choose to believe nothing is impossible. Back in the day whe Quake was out that game was IT. I bet you never thought you'd see a game like Fear and a computer to run it. You might have said it wouldn't happen. But it happened. It may not happen but why not give it a try? :D I prefer to AIM high and not top 200 high.
 
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If I can pull some strings and get my schools computers folding for our team, that's another 100-150 CPUs. I'm still working on that tho....
 
Yeah baby

Bobo said:
If I can pull some strings and get my schools computers folding for our team, that's another 100-150 CPUs. I'm still working on that tho....
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I would approach the administrator AND the principal with a plan to implement it showing the total cost (thats if the computer dont run 24/7 already) and the bandwidth estimate. Showing how it would be a minimal impact but be for a good cause. :D
 
No, the computers do run 24/7. I just don't know how this would work. I most certainly do not want to install a different instance of F@H on each computer. But if I install it on the server, how would that work?

And what do you mean by the bandwidth estimate?
 
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