Anyone out there Folding@Home?

hi guys, I just joined the prius chat team however I dont know if i did it correctly. I use a mac , downloaded the graphical installer. inserted my name (willsurg) and the team number 52533. now what? my screen saver is the same one it always was, I dont see my name registering on the web site. I am supposed to do anything else. how do I know when the program is running? any help would be appreciated!

thanks
-will

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(willsurg @ Feb 22 2007, 06:54 AM) [snapback]394439[/snapback]</div>

I don't have a mac, but here's some info that might help

1) Doublecheck this page: http://folding.stanford.edu/OSX/OSX.html It looks like to me that if you Downloaded the OSX client software (the top part of the page), then that is simply a program that runs on your desktop instead of a screen saver. If that is the case, then you should have a program running and you can use the menus to see the protien as work is being done.

However, if you scroll down the page, there are instruction for the OSX Screensaver, which looks to be a different program. If you downloaded this, make sure that you did everything in step#4 correctly. Especially the part about going into System Preferences and changing the screensaver.

2) As for your name not showing up on the FAH statistics, don't worry. It won't appear until you have completed your first work unit (conservatively expect this to take a week). Once the program finishes it's first unit, it calls back to Stanford, and you should then see your name appear within a matter of a few hours on the stat pages.

Maybe someone here that has a Mac can answer #1 a little more in-depth. Thanks for joining the team! Let us know if you need any more help.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jeannie @ Feb 22 2007, 05:40 AM) [snapback]394433[/snapback]</div>

Thanks, Jeannie.

First WU is complete so I'm finally showing up in the Folding@Home Team PriusChat stats now, in last place, of course. But it won't take long before I'm out of there as the second WU is now more than half way completed and should be done early Sunday morning.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Feb 21 2007, 05:57 PM) [snapback]394209[/snapback]</div>

Thanks for the invite, but no thanks. I'll be sticking with Team PriusChat.

BTW, thanks for getting this started here. It would be really cool if more PCer's would sign up.

Maybe we could get Danny to make this a sticky thread?

 

Gotta watch out for Wildkow, he's a sneaky one.

He started this whole group by taunting folks both here and at PriusOnline to have a point war.

I thank him a bunch for getting us going. However, he's yet to donate a point to the team (something he's neither confirmed nor denied....) so I still mistrust him.

 

it's early in the morning, eyes are barely open, dancing bananas are wreaking havok with my eyes, especially the avatar one dancing out of sync, it's all I can muster to say...

Congratulations Team PriusChat! 1996 and moving on up!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Mar 6 2007, 11:58 PM) [snapback]401509[/snapback]</div>

Yep . . . we're in stealth mode. It's easy to sneak up behind people in stealth mode.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Mar 3 2007, 03:32 AM) [snapback]399439[/snapback]</div>

I set mine up on Monday. I usd to run SETI way back when, but this makes a lot more sense.

- Marci

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(just_marci @ Mar 7 2007, 03:15 AM) [snapback]401537[/snapback]</div>

Marci,
Welcome to PriusChat!
And thanks for joining the team too.

I also went from SETI to F@H. I figured ETs could use their resources and find us first. In the meantime, we have our own problems to figure out. F@H made more sense to me too.

 

The announcement I've been waiting months for finally happened today!

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=2...ector=Computing

Short version. About a year after initial annoucement, Folding@Home client for PS3 to ship in PS3's next firmware update later this month.... Will pick up the idle cycles when you are not playing games... Recent benchmarks put it at 20-30x faster than a PC.

Screen shots of PS3 client: http://www.hardocp.com/images/news/1173988...uG7CO_1_1_l.jpg

(Based on team number in screen shot, I'm guessing this is Stanford's or Sony's PS3 F@H development test team: http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=49078 Just a guess...)

 

Team PriusChat just broke through the 1,800 rank.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Mar 20 2007, 01:47 AM) [snapback]408809[/snapback]</div>

Marci Maleski and 8AA are new. But they and tustin are all functional having reported a completed work unit within the past couple days.

tbsmith and johnpmid are both currently non-functional, but have been functional within the past 50 days.

Yes, it would make sense that PriusChat was an initial configuration error before someone realized it and changed their ID.

 

I'm new here. I'm a Folding@Home contributor for about 1 year now. I don't belong to any team, but I will reconfig my Folding@Home to join this team. My Folding@Home name is MolangiNaeda.

 

ok, i joined