Folding@Home Team

jon1591 · 04-19-2004, 01:33 AM

Hi Guys,
I've just found out about the Linuxquestions.org Folding@Home team (Team ID 12776) but there is only 5 or 6 users contributing. I would like to see a News item in some of the forums telling members about the Folding@Home project and our team. I also think that all new users should be told about Folding@Home when they register.

Just my opinion

Jon

EDIT: The team number is 12776 NOT 12766

darin3200 · 04-23-2004, 04:14 PM

Or maybe in the community bulliten some time to raise awareness. Also you could add something to your signature that tells people to join the team.

wapcaplet · 04-23-2004, 04:45 PM

Cool, I didn't know about this team either. I never had a team before, so my WUs from now on will be for this team.

jeremy · 04-23-2004, 07:23 PM

We used to have a page with our Seti and dnet teams, but I think I removed it a while back. Let me get the info together and I will create a new page. Thanks.

--jeremy

trickykid · 04-23-2004, 09:33 PM

I just setup two of my machines on the team..

darin3200 · 04-24-2004, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jeremy
We used to have a page with our Seti and dnet teams, but I think I removed it a while back. Let me get the info together and I will create a new page. Thanks.

--jeremy

Very cool, thanks

jon1591 · 04-26-2004, 10:58 AM

As I mentioned in my edited post above the team ID is 12776 not 12766, big mistake

.
And yes, my sig was wrong too!
Anyway, thanks for all your replies and I would also like to see a new page about the team and have it included in maybe a community bulletin or news item.

Thank you to everyone who has added it to their sig (I heard about the team through Darin3200's sig

). I hope more users will soon start to contribute.

Thanks Again

Jon

jon1591 · 05-03-2004, 03:18 AM

Hi again,
I'm just posting again to say how amazed I am at the amount of users now contributing, since I first started this thread 2 weeks ago the number of work units has doubled from 14 to 28 with 3 new users. The user wapcaplet99 alone has done 12 WUs!

Thank You

Jon

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/awards/tc...=1342.75999069
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/awards/tc...=28&t=wus&bg=4

wapcaplet · 05-03-2004, 03:44 AM

I have two machines running F@H 24/7

trickykid · 05-03-2004, 07:18 AM

I have just one machine going now.. its a bit on the slow side as its only a p233mhz but it should get there. I did have another machine going and it finished.. but me being a dumbarse accidently put in the wrong team number.. so it got credited under another team..

Anyways.. my little workhorse will get there soon, it got hit with a big task and its a pretty busy little server....

Cheers.

lyceum · 06-09-2004, 06:52 PM

just wanted to bring this back to the public attention...not that too many people read in this forum, but....it's a very worthy cause, and i know that LQ has quite a following. any ideas how we can get more people involved? we currently only have 14 people on our team. i know that there are a lot of very bored servers sitting around chewing their cud.

macskeeball · 06-15-2004, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lyceum
...Any ideas how we can get more people involved? we currently only have 14 people on our team. i know that there are a lot of very bored servers sitting around chewing their cud.

About a year or so ago I started a very small campaign (for lack of a better term) that came to be called "Benefits of Folding" which serves to promote the project and get people started. It's written for another team (Team MacAddict4Life- team 18) but in the spirit of open-source all versions of it- forum thread, web page, and promotional flyer (high-quality layered PDF available for editing) are freely distributable and modifiable. Change whatever you want to make it suit your team of choice, but I would appreciate it if a link/URL to my website is given somewhere.

jeremy · 06-21-2004, 10:56 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...w.php?pg=teams has a list of the teams we currently have. I will send a note in one of the upcoming community bulletins so that people know about them. If there are any other teams you think should be started, let me know.

--jeremy

SolarBear · 06-25-2004, 04:58 PM

Interesting project that could bring useful results. I'm downloading the necessary modules right now and in a few moments, I should be contributing to the team.

lyceum · 06-26-2004, 10:10 AM

thanks solarbear! we're steadily climbing up the ranks.