Phantasy Star Folders (Folding@Home)

[PrinceBrightstar]

Have you ever wanted to help science out but didn't know what to do? How about helping to find cures to diseases like Cancer and Alzheimer's and so on? There's a way you can do so right now with the Folding@Home project by the Standford School of Medicine. Folding@home takes the idle time of computers and puts them towards finding out what causes these diseases to come about.

Phantasy Star Folders is a team that I've created to join the Phantasy Star community to help in this effort. It is team number 138839 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=138839). It'll ask you for this and a username of your choosing when you're done installing and run it for the first time.

How does it work? Whenever you're not using your computer (or if you have a really fast PC, when you're using it) simply run the client and that's it. There are multiple clients that you can run. The fastest client uses the processing power of your graphics card.

Single processor (Most stable but slowest client. Requires 450 mhz, but most here should be using much more than that to be running PSU.)
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Nvidia cards since the 8000 Geforce series running the special cuda drivers (You don't need the rest of it) in the link can participate. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html and http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/[email protected]

ATI cards 2xxx series running Catalyst 8.5 or later.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/[email protected]

Multi-core PCs (Core2Duo/Quad and Barcelona. Slower than Graphics Cards.)
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ekasson/folding/Folding@Home%20Windows%20SMP%20Client.EXE

Also if you have a Playstation 3 you're all set to fold on that as well since Sony and Standford reached an agreement to use the processing power of the PS3 for this as well. There are also Linux and OSX versions on the same page the single core client is on.

For more information on the project visit http://folding.stanford.edu/

Now lets get folding and help out science cure these horrible diseases! Also here's our team page (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=138839)

Here's what you should see inside the client of the console version.
[spoiler-box][05:12:42] Completed 97%
[05:14:16] Completed 98%
[05:15:52] Completed 99%
[05:17:27] Completed 100%
[05:18:27]
[05:18:27] Finished Work Unit:
[05:18:27] - Reading up to 3550680 from "work/wudata_01.trr": Read 3550680
[05:18:27] trr file hash check passed.
[05:18:27] - Reading up to 1127396 from "work/wudata_01.xtc": Read 1127396
[05:18:27] xtc file hash check passed.
[05:18:27] edr file hash check passed.
[05:18:27] logfile size: 129861
[05:18:27] Leaving Run
[05:18:30] - Writing 4809009 bytes of core data to disk...
[05:18:32] Done: 4808497 -> 4280401 (compressed to 89.0 percent)
[05:18:32] ... Done.
[05:18:32] - Shutting down core
[05:18:32]
[05:18:32] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[05:18:36] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[05:18:36] Sending work to server
[05:18:36] Project: 5217 (Run 8, Clone 83, Gen 2)


[05:18:36] + Attempting to send results [July 21 05:18:36 UTC]
[05:19:07] + Results successfully sent
[05:19:07] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[05:19:07] + Number of Units Completed: 3

[05:19:11] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[05:19:11] + Attempting to get work packet
[05:19:11] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:19:11] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.20).
[05:19:11] + News From Folding@Home: GPU folding beta
[05:19:11] Loaded queue successfully.
[05:19:12] + Closed connections
[05:19:12]
[05:19:12] + Processing work unit
[05:19:12] Core required: FahCore_11.exe
[05:19:12] Core found.
[05:19:12] Working on queue slot 02 [July 21 05:19:12 UTC]
[05:19:12] + Working ...
[05:19:12]
[05:19:12] *------------------------------*
[05:19:12] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[05:19:12] Version 1.06 (Mon Jun 23 10:53:13 PDT 2008)
[05:19:12]
[05:19:12] Compiler :
[05:19:12] Build host: amoeba
[05:19:12] Preparing to commence simulation
[05:19:12] - Looking at optimizations...
[05:19:12] - Created dyn
[05:19:12] - Files status OK
[05:19:12] - Expanded 41893 -> 244433 (decompressed 583.4 percent)
[05:19:12] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=41893 data_size=2444
33, decompressed_data_size=244433 diff=0
[05:19:12] - Digital signature verified
[05:19:12]
[05:19:12] Project: 5007 (Run 3, Clone 14, Gen 46)
[05:19:12]
[05:19:12] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[05:19:12] Entering M.D.
[05:19:19] Working on 576 p5005_supervillin_e1
[05:19:19] Client config found, loading data.
[05:19:19] Starting GUI Server[/spoiler-box]

[eXo]

I already belong to a team but im more then willing to leave that one and comtribute my power to PSOW, /waves goodbye to Team playstation underground.

[McLaughlin]

That's a pretty cool idea. Unfortunately, when I don't use my PC I turn it off (because it's a piece of crap and becomes unresponsive if left alone).

[Kylie]

I should do this more often on my PS3. ^^; I wasn't really sure what it did though.

Thanks for the info.

[Fossil]

I've been folding since the beginning of July, however for another team. Overclock.net. My username is... YOU GUESSED IT! :D

[gundam0079]

i joined on the team with my ps3. got 10 work units done