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[Calum]

The team's progress has been excellent so far, and I'm very happy to be folding with you ... yadda yadda.

Anyway, I did some quick calculations this morning, and I see we have just over 26000 forum members - great!
Check the folding team ... 20 active members, 34 total.
Less than one in a thousand members are folding.
I know most forum members aren't active, but even say half of them aren't, that's still less than one in five hundred.

We can do better!
Get the word out guys and gals, as a team currently we're doing great but we need more firepower to push on.

Some of you may think I'm stupid or out of line doing this, but I don't really care - sure, it's not "my" team or my website, but I can think of no better cause than folding@home, especially when it requires almost no effort on anyone's part to get it going.  No matter what team number or username you fold under, it's all good to me.

So ... who's with me?  I'm doing my best to keep my performance up but the heat makes things difficult.  I can imagine the same goes for most of us, which is why I think the way to go is more members, not just current members folding more.


Edit: renamed topic.

[BC_Programmer]

I'm with you! 

my laptop is still chugging along with those units. I keep forgetting to restart it or resume it when I have to pause it for whatever reason, but in general it gets a good 6 1/2 out of 7 days a week folding.

[Calum]

Good to hear BC
I was interrupted just after I posted the above post by a delivery - a new case for my main machine, which I'll have to (no, really!) install this weekend along with my new board as it's currently dominating the living room (in its box, I can't even get it up the stairs, it's too heavy/awkward).  That should help keep my main rig folding for more of the time.
I'm also collecting a low-end folding graphics card for my server soon, I saw it for a good price and jumped on it.  That should turn in a good amount of work, 24/7.

[unlovedwarrior]

i just got the gpu client a week ago with the smp client im using my grandmas computer is folding and im getting my friends computers to fold to

maybe see if admin can put this as a welcome pop up to members or in the welcome section of the forum and on the sites main page or something

[squall_01]

thanks for the support choach.     I would add a good deal but then again you guys would be like what?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

thanks for the support choach.     I would add a good deal but then again you guys would be like what?

What?

We can do better!
Get the word out guys and gals, as a team currently we're doing great but we need more firepower to push on.

I'm trying to get a few of my friends folding. Like always, they're procrastinating.

[Calum]

thanks for the support choach.     I would add a good deal but then again you guys would be like what?

Feel free to go ahead squall, I for one would welcome any folding@home related posts.

I'm trying to get a few of my friends folding. Like always, they're procrastinating.

Try harder!  There's no excuse not to, really.

[Aegis]

I have to keep bugging my better half to run it!  She did some units, but keeps forgetting to launch the program!     Patio mentions it  every so often, but we can't get him to commence!   

[squall_01]

my point exatly, cause I'll have the batman pc running like it should an start messing with the boot.ini file and it will raise a lot of issues.

[Karnac]

Well folks, I'm signed up and working as I type.......

[Calum]

Great!
Glad to have you on board.

[Calum]

Just a quick update/bump.
I think I've maxed out my effective crunching power now.  Any more purchases will have to stop because I need to start saving some money.
My 8800GT seems to have lost its ability to overclock, which has reduced my output considerably.
Also in autumn I'm hopefully leaving the country, so I think I may have to stop folding then (much as it hurts me, I can't justify leaving my machines on at home for no apparent reason).  My friend's computer and the family PC should still be crunching, but overall I think their output would come to one unit every few weeks.

In the meantime, I'll be folding as much as I can, I've sorted out my heat issues and will be folding as much as possible without spending any more money.  Even my server has a graphics card in it now, heh.

The team seems to have lost some momentum lately - grab a friend, introduce them to the fold, and let's push into the top 1000!

Fold on!

[Computer Hope Admin]

Read through the thread and thanks everyone for trying to get additional members to the team. I'll also add a link to join the Folding@Home team into the news links that are shown at the top of all the forum pages.

[Buzzintx]

Just signed up.....

[Calum]

Great!
Glad to have you on board.
When you've completed your first unit, the admin will give you your profile icon to show you're part of the team.
If you have any questions about what clients you could/should be running, what you can do to get better folding performance, or anything folding-related, please do feel free to create a thread in this board and we'll do our best to help you out.