Folding@Home team for FIRST

[miketwalker]

This seems like a good thing to try to get going again. I see there are a small number of people still on this team. I'm going to setup my machine to run the client and get started with this team.

[Gamer930]

Alright. Team 171 has started back up the Folding@Home FIRST Robotics Team!!! Lets get more people and computers involved

Name: FIRST Folding
Number: 43672
http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=43672

Put some of those idle processing time to use to benefit Math and Science

Read more about it at: http://folding.stanford.edu/

[UnknownMember]

This was a great idea, especially given the demographic of FIRST members. I'm glad someone started this

[cadandcookies]

Figured I'd bump this up because I've been contributing to the group for a while but it looks like participation has taken a dive (okay fine, it's just me right now). The group is still up, the ID is still the same (43672), if you have some idle processing time feel free to contribute!

[hyprvx]

I've started my own computer onto this! (Since I'm too underpowered for bitcoin/dogecoin mining to be even remotely profitable... I am a poor shibe)

[safiq10]

I wonder if you could use a C-Rio to do some folding?

[safiq10]

Alright I figured I bump this again since FIRST is now ranking at 1327 of 220372. I wonder how much power is needed for us to push to become 1st?

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by safiq10

Alright I figured I bump this again since FIRST is now ranking at 1327 of 220372. I wonder how much power is needed for us to push to become 1st?

A lot. Notice that numbe two is Google? Look at the points they have amd then at ours.

I do belive we passed 10 million or so points recently (can't check right now, though), so that's a very good achievement!

[Gamer930]

I have started my 2 Dell servers folding (No GPU pure CPU) with extra CPU cycles.

My Desktop will also be folding when it is on. Every little bit helps towards great cause.

[cadandcookies]

I'm going to give this another bump since it's been a couple years-- we're still folding! Okay, fine, it's down to just me again. Still, you can download the client software here and join the FIRST Folding team (#43672). We're currently ranked #693!

If you aren't familiar with folding, it uses idle processing time on your computer to simulate protein folding. The project has also lead to over a hundred peer-reviewed research papers.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

I'm going to give this another bump since it's been a couple years-- we're still folding! Okay, fine, it's down to just me again. Still, you can download the client software here and join the FIRST Folding team (#43672). We're currently ranked #693!

If you aren't familiar with folding, it uses idle processing time on your computer to simulate protein folding. The project has also lead to over a hundred peer-reviewed research papers.

Awesome! We just got some new computers so I'll see if we can set this up to run on them at night when we aren't using them.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by frcguy

Awesome! We just got some new computers so I'll see if we can set this up to run on them at night when we aren't using them.

Nice! Make sure to configure it so it only uses idle time using FAHcontrol. I think this is why some people stop using it or uninstall, but you really can have it running without affecting your work in the slightest.