I use folding@home

Just to say that I am running folding@home on my PC. (Username: camerongray)

Not sure how much progress I will make - Look at my specs 

Cameron Gray

Every bit helps!  When you finish your first wu, then you will get the icon

Every bit helps -- truly.
We welcome you aboard.
In my lifetime, there was a time when most of this would've been done by hand, or at best, on mainframe computers.  What we're all doing together (distributed computing) is pretty remarkable.

Wow that was quick.

I wonder how long it will be until I finish my first WU. It says 31 days! And the PC isn't on all the time.

If I get a PS3 I will use that - I wish they did a PS2 version - I have 2 working and one broken (but fixable).

Cameron Gray

I have a p4 dell that I fold on and it usually takes awhile to do too, and its not on that much.  It always makes it by the deadline though    Maybe by around 10 days

Your PS3 will rock for this!   

It sure will!

e PlayStation 3 uses the Sony, Toshiba, IBM-designed Cell microprocessor as its CPU, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs).[94] The eighth SPE is disabled to improve chip yields.[95][96] Only six of the seven SPEs are accessible to developers as the seventh SPE is reserved by the console's operating system.

-wikipedia
Sounds like it should be able to do pretty good

Welcome to the team cameron, thanks for folding.
The PS3 is benchmarked to do around 600 points per day if left folding 24/7, not sure how the deadlines are compared to the other clients.

I used to use my PS3 for folding before I even new about this site. I broke my PS3 though so no longer until I buy a new one. It folds extremely fast compared to a PC/laptop. You will soon rock up those work units.

Welcome to the team cameron, thanks for folding.
The PS3 is benchmarked to do around 600 points per day if left folding 24/7, not sure how the deadlines are compared to the other clients.

For the initial outlay of money that is pretty good.

Could anyone tell me how many wu I have done. It says 19 but that seems too high for my PC!

Cameron Gray

I noticed that, too.  19 work units, and zero points.  Not sure what's going on...

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They may not be finished units...that's all i can guess.

Cameron, what kind of work units did you sign up for?  Which client are you running?  You've done a bunch of units, and no points??   

I've never seen that.  Maybe Calum knows more. 

(Patio would know more if he started folding something besides paper airplanes... )

hey, don't persecute his folding habits.