PS3Chat Folding@home Team

Anyone else have Folding@home? It's one of the options to join or create a team. Perhaps we should start a PS3 Chat team to unite our PS3s. If you're interested, here's a rundown of what you need to join:

Update your PS3 firmware to 1.6 or above. The easiest way is to go to Settings -> System Update -> Update via Internet. You can also download the latest firmware to a storage device and then update through it, but you need to be online in order to get Folding@home.

Once you're updated, the Folding@home icon will be added to the Network portion of the XMB. Start it up and it'll download and install the program to your PS3.

When you have Folding@home up and running, press Triangle to open up OPTIONS -> Identity. From there, you can Change Donor Name from the default PS3 to something unique. From the Identity tab, you can also Join an Existing Team.

In order to join the PS3 Chat team, you'll need to input the team number, 57434. Now leave your PS3 on while it folds proteins in order to find the cure to cancer and other diseases.

PS3Chat Folding@home Stats:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=57434

I joined folding@home, I am down with a PS3chat team.

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I'll join for sure

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Welcome to my nightmare, I think you're going to like it.

I'll see about joining also.

I'm Down just let me know

Okay, I created the team. Just enter the number 57434 for the PS3chat team. It seems like their stats server is down at the moment (too many PS3s?) so I'm not sure how well it'll work.

Awesome idea, i'll try get a guide together on how to join it and make a sticky thread.

Good stuff Charlie

Thanks.

Oh, I didn't enter the URL or the logo for it. I couldn't find a way to edit it so I just made a new team... PS3 Chat, same deal, slightly different number: 57434.

^I am in the process of downloading Folding@Home right now.

Charlie, I don't understand...what do you want me to do with the digits?

When you're actually folding, press Triangle to open the OPTIONS menu. Go to Identity -> Join an Existing Team and enter the number to join the PS3 Chat team.

Ok, thanks a lot

Will go see if it is downloaded now...

Ill be in the team ASAP.

Here's the stats page:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=57434

Looks pretty cool

Charlie if you could edit your original post to include the details etc and a few sentences how to join the team i'll get this stickied

I'll join once I have my PS3.

I just downloaded it im gonna join your team tonight and leave my PS3 on overnight to make alot of Calulations and bring us one step closer to Cancer's weekness because my friends sister has cancer....

Okay, updated the topic with a few details.

Just about to join with my pc.

I entred the numerical digits earlier, but it didn't actually say that I had joined a group. Does it just mean that all our PS3's combine to tackle one disease?

When you press Select, it switches the view, showing you some status. It should have,

DONOR
Name _____
Team 57434
Completed __ Work Units

As long as you joined the team, it'll change from 0 to 57434 which means you've joined the PS3 Chat team. You can also check your stats over at OPTIONS -> Information -> My Statistics or My Team Statistics.

Ok i added my self and the sever database is still down lol

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“A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”
`Terry Goodkind

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

Welcome to my nightmare, I think you're going to like it.

I can guarantee you this will not find a cure for cancer. Even if a "cure" is found by this program, it has to be tested in real-life, hello. That means chemical modeling, animal testing, clinical trials, companies fighting over the rights to it, maybe even buying "the cure" and deep sixing it. Kinda like they did with the EV1, any electric cars anywhere? I mean ALL electric.
No money in a cure. Therefore, no cure.

Oh yeah, I'm a nurse.

BTW, each cancer is genetically different, depending on the type of cancer, and even then, different genetically from person to person. Ask an oncologist, or a genetecist.

Hitler...er I mean dantheman, folding@home doesn't cure cancer. All it does is try to understand why proteins fold in the way that they do. Scientists don't know why proteins fold but when they fold in the wrong way they can cause stuff like MS. By putting together the collective processing power of computers world wide, scientists are able to work on these problems hundreds and hundreds of times faster than if they just used their own computers.

If scientists can understand how and why the proteins fold, they can then work out how to make them fold the correct way, thereby curing diseases.

I win, you lose.

whats does being a nurse have to do with ANY thing.

I'm a meat wraper at a store. but i still know alot about this protein folding.

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Wizard's Ninth Rule
“A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”
`Terry Goodkind

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

Welcome to my nightmare, I think you're going to like it.

Joining in about 10 mins. when I'm powering my baby up.

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 14033 of 52698

Already making headway, i'll be joining you guys early this week once i've sorted this room out and found a place for everything

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Folding stats are going well, almost in the top 10k!

I'll be joining the efforts hopefully tomorrow

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