Folding Challenge **Win Stuff, and help find the cure**

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:49 pm

***Updated with the t-shirt design, and added some designs for women, since we have a few on here! so lets have it ladies fold for the cure and get a hot t-shirt or sweatshirt.***

Well in the interest of recruiting new member, finding a cure and because I want to, I'm going to issue a challenge.

If you can get 10 people to fold and keep them folding for 1 mth I will send you a sweatshirt.

If you can fold 10,000 points over a 1 mth period i will send you a T-Shirt based on this design

If you can fold 15,000 points over a 1 mth period i will send you a T-Shirt based on this design, AND I will put your username on it to make it more personal!

To enter:
Folow this guide Link
Post your folding at home user name
post the names of people you sign up

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:30 pm

wow, this is pretty killer that Yves came up with this idea, designed the logo, and is giving them out to dedicated folders. Let's see if we can't get Yves to send out some T-Shirts!

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:04 am

This is a cool idea, dont think I can get 10, having issues keeping the couple of guys going that I got.

as for the 10,000 points in a month I think I can give that a shot.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:09 am

WAOH, that is a sweet shirt!!!
I'm still a F@H newbie, but I'll see what I can do!

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:45 am

Just be careful what you promise. I'm sure a lot of people could easily manage 10k in a month with their system.

Maybe the "first 5" to reach that goal or something?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:58 am

The best I could do was 5,603 points in 1 month, that was with 2x rigs running!

On average I get ~4000 points when running 24/7 with the rig in my sig!

10,000 points? Yves, are you willing to ship to Ireland?

I can see if I can get my P4 rig back in action, and mayby I can hit 10K....But only If I can get a T-Shirt!!!

I know It's winter, and in Ireland it's COLD, but I'll need to turn off the heating for this challenge....LOL

Great Idea BTW.........(especially getting 10 more people!!)

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:08 pm

10k is just a bit more than most single systmes can do, thast why i picked that number. As for the number of people who meet this challenge... well i plan on going for it until i run out of $$.

Ken if you get the points or the people i will ship out of the US.

These things cost me about $50 for a sweatshirt and $35 for a T-Shirt so its a decent prize

i figure it can get some people motivated. I know its going to be hard to hit these goals, thats why its a challenge.

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:47 pm

OK, so I was thinking of joining for a while. Now I did

I'm the new team member

my user name is: sbohdan

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:53 pm

I just linked the challange on the main page. Be sure to spread the word!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:33 pm

damn with you doing that i may have to take out a loan

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:53 pm

sbohdan wrote:OK, so I was thinking of joining for a while. Now I did
I'm the new team member
my user name is: sbohdan

WOO HOO!
Welcome!

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:57 pm

AND WERE OFF........

Should have the P4 rig (3.6GHz) up 2moro ;)
I'm building a pc for a mate next week (3800+), I'll try get him to join....everyone else I know either doesn't use a pc or only uses them for e-mail etc.

It would be good if we had some more LR contest winners folding.....

Welcome to team 38296 sbohdan

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:09 pm

thanks guys. I'm proud to belong to a team with a higher purpose.
especially the LR team

let's see If I could make a difference

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:14 pm

Just added abit more incentive!

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:21 pm

P4 3.6GHz rig up & running

Come on people....get crunching.....let's aim for 2M points by the 31st....
@ least 1.8M points

Current standing...

Rank overall = 210 (can in theory reach 207 by '06)

Total points = 1,634,717

Total work units = 4,549

24Hr Avg =3,753

In June, July and Aug we got between 141,000 & 147,000 points, so this month we should bet getting @ least 200,000!!!!!!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:23 pm

Shirt designs are up now.

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:35 am

I'm new to this so my questions might seem stupid:

- after downloading and installing the graphical interface I still don't have the screensaver part

I thought it would be included but it isn't and couldn't find any separate download for it or any info on stanfords page

- my name doesn't appear on the team statistics page. did I do something wrong when installing?
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main ... mnum=38296

unfortunatelly I don't have 2,3 or more PC's like other members just one but mine is allways on 24/7 so maybe I can contribute after all

thanks for any help.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:46 am

When it's installed, you should have a Folding@home Icon in the taskbar!

R-click it, goto configure, Enter sbohdan for your name and 38296 for team number...Then click ok

Then d-click the icon, it will show you it's working and on the left it will show details of the work unit your currently folding.....

A work unit can take anywhere from 4hrs to 2days to complete......~4hrs or so after you complete a work unit, it wil show up in the stats page

I never use screensavers! I just leave the client running in the taskbar, and turn off my monitor when I'm not using the PC.......(saves my screen

)

Remember that if you want to play any games, you will need to close the FAH client, otherwise no 3d apps load.......

Also you can also run FAH as a service in windows, so it's always running no matter what.....I wouldn't do this on a single core chip as performance will be degraded in games etc. (great for anyone with dual core tough)

(I'll only have 1 rig going 24/7 too, Just on weekends and overnight during the week i'll add my p4 rig....)

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:31 am

thanks ken. actually I did configure it right I guess because its doing the job.
when I D click it shows 660/1300 frames done so far. so it will show in stats once the work is done. I see.
also it runs in the taskbar constantly and I'm still able to play NFS MW on the same settings as before (1280x1024 all settings full

)
maybe because my CPU has hyper threading

so I will run it 24/7 since it doesn't seem to hinder anything I do on the rig so far. thanks for the help.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:49 am

No problem, FAH runs with IDLE priority

You should see "WU End:" on the left too....

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