PS3 community launches Sunday Night Foldathon |
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Over at the official U.S. community site of PlayStation, member Xenokai posted about the up and coming event this weekend that involves the Folding@Home feature. If you're not familiar with this, it's actually a joint project by Stanford University and Sony that aims to research protein folding and misfolding in order to gain an understanding of how these are related to disease.
Anyway, the said event is dubbed as Sunday Night Foldathon (SNF), and here's how it goes: This Sunday night, March 25, all PS3 users are encouraged to turn on their systems and run the folding program. It could be anytime you want, even right before you go to Dreamland and you can just let the program run until you wake up in the morning. And that's it.
According to Xenokai, the purpose of this event is to let Sony, or Stanford University for that matter, know that their work and project is being appreciated and that the PS3 community is willing to help out. In simple terms, it's a "show of force" on the part of the community. One important thing to note is that SNF was conceptualized and is now being implemented purely by members of the community. Both Sony and Stanford have no hand on this whatsoever. Regardless, we know the two would be very thankful if this turns out to be a success.
QJ members have also set up QJ's own Folding@Home team (team number 52781) to help out with Stanford University's project. Folding@Home attempts to understand diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many forms of cancer among others. It will be an optional feature bundled with the next PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update.
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I'm in! Lets all do it!
Can't wait to see the results on the Stanford site
to help cure diseses, you should this ownes!
I'll definitely join in. Let's show standford the power of the PS3! ;)
im in too, but i got an idea, how about this, everybody that posts here that they r gonna do it, put a number count. Im #5 (assuming that all 4 posters above me are in)
im def in
Count me in
IM IN!
im in too ... question though is this gonna cost alot of energy ... sony should give u playstation store credit for every hour.
And for those who say that it is killing the environment for running these programs its for a good cause
w00t w00t!!!
im all in......
i'll do it
I'm in .... but we have to wait for the FW upgrade in order to do it right? Or is it possible to dl'd and do now ??
I'm also in! I'll try and leave it on 24 hours! But anyways, I'll be running this alot, but I'll definately leave it on 24 hours this Sunday.
Yeah I accidentaly left mine on for approximately 68 hours this weekend. I ended up downloading Def Jam: Icon, and didnt think twice about turning it off. whoops. I also second the idea about the Playstation Store Credit. Then I wouldnt have to pay anything.
Count me in... my ps3 will be on 24/7 :)
Count me in for sure. I really hope that some nonprofit group gets a hold of this and starts a lottery of sorts in co-op with sony and stanford that will give out (donated ) prizes to those to run the programs every month. I'm more than willing to run this just for the sake of good. But I know that soooo many more people would run this, if say, they got one ticket per hour of running the program for the end of the month lottery with a possibility to when games, sony merchandise, or anything that was tax deductable and donated by companies around the world. even a little chance of reward would beef this up greatly. either way I'll be running it.
I'm in!
This is a great plan everyone. As for Sony giving us PSN Store credit, that would be great, but please remember that What we're doing is charity and not really costing us anything. Hope this goes great!
lol damn static pages >
THE WHOLE POINT IS altruism... SELFLESS ACTS... DONT TURN THIS INTO A "bribe me to help cure cancer" THING!!
can i take this idea one step further?
if we can time it up globally and get a good number of PS3s online maybe we can hit the 1000 Tflop mark and make history!!!!!
if any one can calculate it in see how likely is it, these will be great
we will make the first PetaFlop computing grid in one night, now this is a real reward..
and no one else can do that but PS3 users
can any one help with that?
In I am..Try it b4 sunday...I will
All right! Foldin'!
I'll be folding with you guys.
haha u guys make me laugh cuz everyone sucksat knowing what number comes after the other apparently. anyways,im confused so screw it.
yea, we should all definately do this to help stanforsd in there research. it could be a great and powerful thing. just remember though guy: IF YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WHEN RUNNING IT, IT COUNTS FOR NOTHING, because, i mean, how the hell else could they know whether we're running it or not
*raises eyebrow*
Sunday seems like it will be a very interesting day...
For Sure!
Do it! spread the word
IM IN!!!!!
Hell yeah im in!
I'm in, cause it's a good thing. Still, I'm a bit amazed to see how excited people get over this...
Count me in for this
yeah!!! i am totally in. i already started this on my comp and have like 5 wu's done in 1 month. now with the ps3 i can do 5 in like 5 hours! cant wait to make history!!
sure i'll do it, sounds great, and how greta is it to brag abou the ps3, like people say xbox 360 is better, oh yeah well my ps3 cures diseases i mean idk but thats pretty amazing if you ask me :)
Well,
You can also count me in.. ill be rocking 2 ps3's.. And I wont just be folding on sunday only, but 24/7. :)
JahRastaFari
www.ps3folding.com
Please keep on folding after the Fold-a-thon. The more you fold, the more gets done for research. Folding is best done every day, not just one day.
And you can also fold on your computer too. I highly recommend downloading and running F@H on both your PS3 and PC (or Mac or Linux comp or GPU...yeah, even some graphics cards can be used to help fold) 24/7