FR Folding@Home Project Update - Sony Playstation 3 Makes Its Debut!

Fox News Technology ^ | 03/23/2007 | LOU KESTEN, Associated Press Writer

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_INTO THE FOLD: Despite all the criticism the PlayStation 3 has received, everyone acknowledges it's a powerful piece of hardware. Scientists at Stanford University want to harness that power while you're not using it to play "Virtual Fighter."

The researchers are studying the folding and misfolding of proteins, processes that may lead to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and many kinds of cancer. It requires a lot of computing power to simulate the processes, so the Folding@home program has set up a global network of computers to handle the calculations.

By the end of this month, Internet-connected PS3 owners will be able to donate time on their machines to the Folding@home project. It's the first "distributed computing" project to take advantage of the PS3's zippy Cell processor, and Sony promises it won't be the last.

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If you are running the GUI version of F@H, then you will see a little red flower in the system tray. Right click, go to properties and you will be able to adjust the CPU usage with the slider bar in one of the tabs. Drop it down to 75% or 85%.

If you have the console version we have a bit more work to do. You will need to stop the service, then adjust the properties from a command line.

If you have the console version then FReepmail me.

[brityank]

2ch@PS3 and D&D Minions are really climbing the charts; full PS3 teams? [The links are live if you want to check them out.]

Rank Overall	Change 24hr	Change 7days	Points 24hr Avg	Points Last 24hr	Points Last 7days	Points Update	Points Today	Points Week	Points Total	WUs Total
54	+1	+1	45,578	130,713	319,047	44,825	44,825	130,713	21,289,091	110,605

Top 5 Conquests and Threats!

Team Name	Rank Diff	Points Diff	Gain Daily	Date Overtake
The New Xtreme Resources	15	-9,437,891	36,270	12.11.07, 7pm / 8.7 Months
newz.dk	10	-8,176,669	31,609	12.10.07, 6am / 8.6 Months
the motherboards.org team	6	-5,680,041	27,001	10.22.07, 10pm / 7 Months
Hewlett Packard	3	-2,958,449	14,205	10.20.07, 8pm / 6.9 Months
MacAddict4Life	4	-3,736,780	27,439	08.09.07, 6pm / 4.5 Months
Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan	0	0	0	--
2ch@PS3	-285	19,481,641	-182,841	07.11.07, 3am / 3.6 Months
Ukraine	-12	5,285,020	-12,506	05.22.08, 4am / 1.2 Years
D&D Minions	-236	19,063,723	-18,305	01.31.10, 12am / 2.9 Years
xtremesystems.org	-18	7,112,437	-5,773	08.09.10, 2pm / 3.4 Years
Pande Lab	-29	9,189,552	-4,751	07.11.12, 7pm / 5.3 Years

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Wow. 2ch@PS3 is comprised of about 300 - 350 PS3s (so far). The biggest user has 220 PS3s lined up for him.

Maybe a gaming salon, or some guy that loads F@H on every PS3 that goes out of his store.

Not bad when your first major update is about 1 million points!

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Looks like all of you have posted points as *new* folders. Thank you very much for helping the cause.

If anyone knows nerdwithamachine holler at him/her to say Thanks!

Txroadkill, I like your home page!

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

bttt

[txroadkill]

Txroadkill, I like your home page!

Thanks! Check it out now....I'm already brag'n

[Drango]

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=36120

Welcome..."folding" can be infectious, as you watch your standing on the list. Soon you will be thinkin' about how you can add a new 'puter to your effort so you can climb ahead of another FReeper. Perhaps your 'puter at work, your in-laws, or borg a friends computer.

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Hey, the updated home page looks great! Just remember to update every now and then as you advance up the charts.

Nerd, you can change the name of your one folding machine to nerdwithamachinegun and just orphan those points. You'll enjoy having a few systems pop in points on a regular basis.

[nerdwithamachinegun]

I don't get to run my PS3 a lot (it's a furnace!) but I'm going to try to leave my peeeeceeeee running more.

[nerdwithamachinegun]

I can't change the short (nerdwithamachine) as it is my PS3.
They capped the string length.

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That was a complaint heard very fast on the forum. Only 16 characters for a user name.

It may be fixed in the future but don't bet the mortgage on it.

We are still talking about Sony, ya' know.

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Thanks for joining the team, and adding your work with ours.

Your home page is ... interesting. Did you have anything to do with the manufacture of that gun, or did you adopt it?

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Thanks for joining the FReeper Folding team!

Your first points reported today.

Please holler if you have any problems.

[Drango]

I'd like to thank "ProsecuteBushCheney" for joining the team and contributing points to our cause. If a thousand other wackos join up, we will be the number one team. Remember, "fold" one for the Gipper!

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I tried every combination I could think of to find PBC's FReeper name but couldn't find one.

I guess that DU must still have a team going. I haven't even looked in months.

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Eleven regular contributors who are over or near 1,000 ppd.

Now if the energy nazis ever let Klutz update his systems over spring break, we would be pulling in some points!

1 Klutz_dohanger......... 7,837... 4,851,999
2 lrenh......................... 4,645... 2,043,199
3 josephw..................... 3,851... 364,924
4 Malsua....................... 2,905... 1,415,472
5 andyk......................... 2,504... 973,938
6 Texas_Booster............ 1,898... 490,107
7 Chris_Primavera......... 1,807... 556,774
8 GOPBiker................. 1,369... 55,268
9 NAPA_Laurel_MS..... 1,019... 110,775
10 mediamole.................. 852... 82,048
11 Dr_Quin...................... 810... 102,847

[Drango]

It's good times...We are "folding" with a lot of new members, and they bring a welcome amount of points. Perhaps it's cause of the sad cancer news in the papers recently, but whatever the reason, everyone is welcome and even the slowest 'puter helps.

I sorta like watching the "unofficial" non-battle between two new members, td911 and LanPB01 as they surge up the charts. May the best 'folder" win.

[Drango]

You were with us a short time and pulled some impressive points, but you've seemed to have dropped out? Anything we can do to assist?

[Drango]

Thank you "EndBushWarProfiteering" for folding for the Gipper. If you have any more friends at DU, please encourage them to fold for us also.

[dfwddr]

Here's a link to their EOC team page. They seem to be steadily dropping. I would think they would be better served by folding for their own team, than to give us points through childish pranks.

Oh wait, these ARE the DUmmies......