Folding@home Update

Rezinol  |  August 21st, 2007 at 8:26 pm

I have to wait until tomorrow to update =/

Rockwallaby  |  August 21st, 2007 at 8:50 pm

FOLDING DOES NOT NEED MULTITASKING.

If your playing games/watching movies or whatever = DON’T FOLD

When your @ work, school, bed or wherever = FOLD

daLa  |  August 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pm

Going to download and update right now =]

nyyanks  |  August 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm

NIce, just downloaded update. I like how you can access folding while in remote play.

Reddsk  |  August 21st, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Like the update. Hope the next one has access to the music on the HD. =D

tearsofash  |  August 21st, 2007 at 11:32 pm

The “backbone” option is only available on certain proteins, right? Is that why it’s greyed out? And what exactly is the difference between normal mode and advanced mode? I picked advanced since I leave it on 24/7, but I’d like to know what has really changed.

Enedok  |  August 21st, 2007 at 11:41 pm

“I picked advanced since I leave it on 24/7, but I’d like to know what has really changed.”

Its for folding that takes longer time.

Jeff Chen  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 am

My PS3 died on my birthday after finishing 20 WU back in April. It then cost me $170 USD and a whole month to fix it, not mentioning about the annoying custom… So I quit FAH, sorry bud, but it scared me.

hockeystick  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 am

Am I the only one who thinks this, but did Sony get Folding@home and Remote Play BACKWARDS….

I don’t really care to see folding@home graphics on my PSP via remote play… I want to be able to leave my Playstation 3 running Folding@home all the time, and only when I need to use remote play be able to interupt F@H. Someone prove me wrong and tell me that this is the most efficient way to keep F@H going as often as possible.

nagus69  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 am

Wish i could surf the internet while folding - seems we only have access to the F@H Website. Or am i missing something?

LordOfRuin  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 am

A lot of whining peeps here at the moment. Hey, I got the update, it worked. F@H runs when I’m at work or at night when I’m not using the PS3 for anything else. Some people like to turn their unit off when it’s not needed, fine, then F@H isn’t for them. I don’t get enjoyment out of it, but if I can contribute computing power to a good cause, then that’s okay by me.

Imagine if we could use this latent computing power in another way, not F@H, but similarly set up, but where the computing power was sold. Each users PS3 would then be generating revenue for the user. Stats would no longer be for just cudos, but for cash. And as long as the cash was more than the electricity it took to run the PS3, then woo hoo. Hey, universities, military, corporations, governments, would you like access to terraflop computing? Willing to pay for it?

LordOfRuin  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 am

Or even Petaflop computing.

coolasj19  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 5:25 am

also can youll do something about these blog people they are annoying. all they do is take up space.

hammertime  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 6:43 am

I got this consol to play games!,
not save f*cking lifes

maluraq  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 7:34 am

To everyone who keeps asking what the Folding@Home client does, please learn to use Google. This is a huge project with lots of press coverage. It has its own Wikipedia entry describing how it works as well.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

maluraq  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 7:50 am

My major request for the Folding@Home client is to allow it to run in the background and still let me use the PS3 to view photos and listen to music at least.

I can understand there’s no point to having it try to run in idle cycles while playing a game or watching a movie, but I’d like to be able to not shut it off to listen to music then turn it back on again later manually.

It would be VERY cool to have this running full-screen as the background app behind my XMB when I hit the PS button and keep running while I do other non-gaming things — we already know the web browser will load with it running.

scorpio  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am

I think this is a great cause. For people to curse at this should be amashed as this has potential to saves lives….

Loucifer  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 am

@hammertime

LOL…dude you could have phrased that a bit differently…but i hear ya…the PS3 will do everything but play games…LOL

TylerOwnsYou1986  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 am

How low can you go by bashing F@home. Either you are a loser or your parents hate you. Whoever bashes F@home needs to commit suicide.

Xipo  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 am

How about using the PS3 for others @home proyects such as SETI@home… for those of you who don’t know.. SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)

SETI@home is an extremely popular distributed computing project that was launched by U.C. Berkeley in May 1999, and is heavily sponsored by The Planetary Society. Over 5 million computer users in more than 200 countries have signed up for SETI@home and have collectively contributed over 19 billion hours of computer processing time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI ;D

terminatorvsmtrx  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 am

oo i definitely gotta check that out later

Davitr0n  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am

@ hammertime & Loucifer

You two in a competition for who can be the biggest a**hole on the Sony Blog? Pretty close race I think, but I would have to say Loucifer is in the lead because he/she seems more well spoken. (plus I can’t get the MC Hammer song “Can’t Touch This” out of my head when I read a hammertime post)

Seriously… hating on Folding@Home?

40cal  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am

Wow! SCEE is droping all kinds of bombs today. Will we ever get GPS for PSP in the states? I sure as hell hope so.

Not to say that Remote Play for F@H is not cool I just would like GPS more.

Oh and my wife would have actualy wanted a PSP if she could have gotten the simpsons bundel.

Nephlabobo  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am

Sony are facist cowards for censoring Manhunt 2.

End of Story.

drakkan  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 am

Don’t blame Sony for the game getting an AO rating, thats up to the ESRB. Go troll the Nintendo boards instead, the primary reason it got an AO rating was because of using the Wiimote to perform the attacks.

RobinNL  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 am

Just followed Leipzig and I like the new TV tuner.

Not so impressed though and it looks like that gamespot guy was right about F1, or the lack of.

I know now, Ron.

GAME-HERO  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 11:46 am

I mentioned this before but it sure would be nice to have some kinda “TROPHY” in our appartment in Playstation’s “Home” for all the folding we do. Maybe a unique trophy for helping save peoples lives….Uh? maybe a “Hero” trophy.

P_tear_griffin  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 11:49 am

I just want to thank you Sony guys for the blogs, the announcement of added features and listening. Hope you do fix the F@H remote play feature to interrupt or continue the folding via the PSP. I guess remote play would benefit from a menu option of having it turn on automatically after 5 minutes of idle time or something.

Sipu  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 12:05 pm

It’s silly F@H requires finishing the work unit for switching between basic and advanced modes

xplosneer  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm

@Sipu
No it’s not. Since Stanford requires one unit to move to the next, if you left the one that you were working on half completed they would have to wait 2 days to make sure you aren’t going to switch back and give it to another person which the other person would have to start over.

Enedok  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Err, no sipu. Its not.

Its like thinking your playing deathmatch in a game and then its silly that you cant change it into capture the flag without ending the game.

Get it?

hockeystick  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Update on my earlier comment…..

Sony did get it correct… I believed Sony had the F@H and remote play backwards. I felt that if you left your PS3 in remote play it wouldn’t start F@H, but I was WRONG. I turned on my PSP and went to remote play and low and behold, F@H was running.

Thank you Sony.

C-h-a-o-s  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Ah how nice yet another thing people with out a PS3 can’t do on their PSP.

hammertime  |  August 22nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm

@ Davitr0n

U Tw@ go and fold@home you loser,

We are ment to be saving energy because of globalwarming not wasting it on this shi*te,

When your not using it turn it off !!

This is the most stupid thing EVER!!!!

i went to the shop and paid £420 for what ?

Answer: Folding @ home

Well i would rather fold my clothes@home…. thanks!