I use folding@home

[camerongray]

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

[computeruler]

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

[Aegis]

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.

[camerongray]

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

[computeruler]

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

[Aegis]

Your PS3 will rock for this!   

[computeruler]

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

[Calum]

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.

[Mulreay]

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.

[Quantos]

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.

[camerongray]

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

Cameron Gray

[Aegis]

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

[patio]

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

[Aegis]

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... )

[BC_Programmer]

hey, don't persecute his folding habits.

[harry 48]

aegis , what do you mean what kind of units did camerongray sign up for

[Aegis]

Yes, because he's showing units completed but no points.

[harry 48]

Cameron, what kind of work units did you sign up for?

what i'm asking is what did you mean by the above

[Ugarte]

In the configuration options you can select the size of WU to fold.  You can also request new advanced
 scientific cores and/or work units if available. 

But that's all a moot point, either way it should have been worth some points.  My curiosity got the best of me on Cameron's issue, so I asked on the official F@H forum.

"This is most likely due to incomplete WUs (Early Unit Ends). While some WUs terminate 'normally', a large number like this indicates WUs being returned from an unstable or improperly configured machine, perhaps running the GPU client.'

So if Cameron is still here trying to work out these kinks, post your client info and what you did for configuration.

[harry 48]

i think this is what you want you can look at my specs , 48harry48

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