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Folding@Home Update
Article written by Watchful in Community News, on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 15:00.
Back in May we told you how two members of our community, Jas-n and TheDeathAvenger, had set up a TSA team for the Folding@Home application that lives within the Life with PlayStation icon on your PS3’s XMB. We also said we would be bringing you monthly updates on the team’s progress. Last month’s got missed in the flurry of activity surrounding E3, so apologies for that.
What is Folding@Home?
It is an application the makes use of your PS3’s processing power to solve biological puzzles. These particular puzzles are looking at how protein molecules assemble themselves or ‘fold’. Proteins are exceptionally important molecules and F@H’s biomedical research is currently studying diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntingdon’s, Parkinson’s and cancer as well as working to develop new antibiotics.
How do you Join the Team?
The first step is to make sure that you change your PS3’s F@H identity from the default “PS3″ to your TSA ID. It could be anything but if you use your TSA ID it will help us recognise you. Then you will need to tell the F@H application you want to be in our team.
The Team’s Progress
At the start of May Team TSA was languishing way down the listings with a rank of only 21,281 out of 158,205. We have come a long way in the, almost two months, since then. Our rank early (01:30!) this morning was 4233 out of 161,161.
| Rank | Contributor | Score |
| 1 | sonicsteve | 48,573 |
| 2 | markwijnants | 40,940 |
| 3 | ParagonKnight | 40,457 |
| 4 | BORTEN | 35,850 |
| 5 | Watchful | 35,713 |
| 6 | TheDeathAvenger | 30,867 |
| 7 | whodey12 | 29,627 |
| 8 | pOOpInFlames | 24,857 |
| 9 | Jas-n | 17,175 |
| 10 | Vandix | 11,019 |
| 11 | colossalblue | 10,355 |
| 12 | Jeebers | 7,679 |
| 13 | Kai | 6,060 |
| 14 | Mr-Flame-Head | 4,770 |
| 15 | MayfieldAlpha | 4,264 |
| 16 | theshockwave | 4,248 |
| PS3 | 4,091 | |
| 17 | GregThorn | 3,837 |
| 18 | Kevatron400 | 3,513 |
| 19 | BioEye | 2,259 |
| 20 | GTOWN | 2,255 |
| 21 | LordMooch | 2,232 |
| 22 | CrazyKrissZ | 2,014 |
| 23 | Jonathan_Carson | 1,757 |
| 24 | LiquescentShadow | 1,255 |
| 25 | gaffers101 | 1,010 |
| 26 | Artefx | 753 |
| 27 | Azman87 | 753 |
| 28 | uksonic | 753 |
| 29 | Boomshanks | 749 |
| 30 | CCasey123 | 502 |
| 31 | Hicko | 502 |
| 32 | yogh_wayne | 502 |
| 33 | Binchi | 287 |
| 34 | Colinbarr66 | 251 |
| 35 | Glenndog84 | 251 |
| 36 | Lanselta | 251 |
| 37 | mpb1955 | 251 |
| 38 | prometheuz | 251 |
| 39 | Spawnofboredom | 251 |
| 40 | TheHostilePenguin | 251 |
| 41 | Captain Murdo | 247 |
| 42 | Jas-n-PC | 225 |
For more information and discussion about our Folding@Home team join in on the forum.
Comments
Please note that all comments are the opinion of the individual author and not TheSixthAxis.
hannes_truce | 01/07/2009 15:08
Member
2808 TSA Points | Member since: Sep 2008
nice work everybody. I’ll join when i remember…
Hodgi92 | 01/07/2009 15:14
The Thumb
969 TSA Points | Member since: Forever
Yeah, good work guys
gaffers101 | 01/07/2009 15:15
Member
255 TSA Points | Member since: Oct 2008
Didn’t expect to be that high up the table. Will be doing some more folding tonight.
vouzamo | 01/07/2009 15:47
Member
59 TSA Points | Member since: Jun 2009
The Folding at home icon was replaced some time ago. How do you re-activate it?
theshockwave | 01/07/2009 15:53
Member
1721 TSA Points | Member since: Nov 2008
What do you mean? It changed it’s name to Life with Playstation, if that helps.
TctclMvPhase | 01/07/2009 16:22
Member
818 TSA Points | Member since: Nov 2008
What impact does this have on bandwidth usage? I get real close to my cap as is…
Watchful | 01/07/2009 16:29
Team TSA: Writer
2037 TSA Points | Member since: Oct 2008
Very little. The work units aren’t that big and the only network traffic is when the PS3 downloads a new one and uploads the results.
TheDeathAvenger | 01/07/2009 17:10
Member
1562 TSA Points | Member since: Forever
Nice to see F@H Team on the front page. I know i’ve not been folding much lately as some days it’s been so hot i’ve not wanted to leave my PS3 running for too long, plus i’ve been playing it a lot more.
DarthSharkey | 01/07/2009 17:14
Member
1038 TSA Points | Member since: Feb 2009
I still haven’t finished one yet, poor show by myself. I don’t like leaving my PS3 on at night anymore but when I finish uni I’m going to use my 2nd PC to fold.
YOURMUMANDME | 01/07/2009 17:24
Member
629 TSA Points | Member since: Oct 2008
I might give it the odd go once in a while now , it just takes up so much tim . Well done to everyone else though
yogh_wayne | 01/07/2009 18:57
Member
2718 TSA Points | Member since: Oct 2008
Nice progress! I should fold a bit more again.
zb100 | 01/07/2009 20:37
Member
500 TSA Points | Member since: Aug 2008
Completely forgot about this, sorry. Am signing up now! Go Team TSA!
Hicko | 01/07/2009 22:36
Member
131 TSA Points | Member since: Feb 2009
How good are we?
Colinbarr66 | 05/07/2009 02:14
Member
774 TSA Points | Member since: Mar 2009
IM NOT BOTTOM. Great job to everyone who folds. I haven’t done much but I’m going to start