OCAU Playstation 3 Folding@Home Team - OCAU-PS3

trop · 9th October 2007, 7:17 AM

OCAU-PS3 - OCAU's PS3 Folding Team

With the backing of Agg & co, this thread is here to try and encourage OCAU’s PS3 community to fold for Team 24 (OCAU).

OCAU’s team is a major player in the world rankings, we have been number 1 in the past but currently have been relegated to 2nd place behind "The [H]orde" from [H]ardOCP. OCAU really needs all the help it can get if we're going to beat the yanks and get our first place spot back, so there is now a new sub-team called “OCAU-PS3” for all the PS3 owners who don't have a sub-team to fold for.

The steps for setting up your PS3 are outlined below aswell as some basic info on folding (thanks MWNP). If you have any questions feel free to ask them here or in the Distributed Computing thread which is linked below.

Trop.

Getting Started
Folding on the PS3 is extremely easy to get up and running. Just download the Folding@Home client from the “Network” tab on your PS3, run through the setup and enter your “Team Number” as 24, and “Name” as OCAU-PS3. Once it starts, press Triangle to bring up the menu and go to "Mode" and set it to Advanced. Next go to "Settings" and enable the screensaver.

NOTE - If you upgrade the client to 1.2, you will need firmware 1.9 or higher on your PS3

Once that’s done, whenever you run the folding app you’ll be processing work units and contributing to OCAU-PS3 and thus the main Team 24 of OCAU.
Each Work Unit (WU) takes around 8hrs to complete, so even if you only leave the PS3 on while you go to work/school, you’ll still be adding valuable points to OCAU’s stats and hopefully helping to cure some pretty horrible diseases. But of course being OCAU, we should all be running it 24/7 when you're not gaming

Short FAQ about Folding@Home
What is "Folding"?
For those who haven't heard of folding@home, it’s a distributed computing project that conducts scientific experiments on a biological process called protein folding .
Protein Folding or simply "Folding" is a biological process that occurs within cells. Proteins are a long molecule and when they are ready to do their work in a cell they fold, which is sort of like scrunching a piece of paper into a ball. Different proteins fold into different shapes and the shape that they fold into determines what they will do in the cell. Sometimes proteins mis-fold and become a different shape than they were meant to, this can be very bad and is thought to be the cause of many diseases. The Folding@Home project (run by Stanford University) investigates how proteins fold (and mis-fold).

Some diseases that are being researched by this project:
Various cancers,
Alzheimer's,
Mad Cow disease,
Parkinson's,
and Huntington's disease.

How does Folding@Home work?
Folding@Home is very similar to other distributed computing projects. People donate their spare CPU cycles (by installing a client app on their machine) and a master server will send out work for the client application to process. When it has finished, the client process sends the results back to the server. To keep track of how much work people have done and to reward those who donate their CPU-time, Stanford award points for each protein people fold. Each protein is referred to as a work unit (WU).

Links
“OCAU-PS3” Stats Page - From withing the client, Press Triangle -> Information -> My Stats
PS3 Folding FAQ - http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html
Stanford website - http://folding.stanford.edu/
OCAU's folding page - http://www.ocau.com/folding
The Distributed Computing forum at OCAU - http://forums.overclockers.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=29

Damion · 9th October 2007, 7:36 AM

nice work trop, My PS3 recently passed 110k for team 24.

Id go as far as saying at $700 the new 40g PS3 would be tho most cost effective rig out there for folding.

Cdr Zero · 9th October 2007, 7:40 AM

As of 1.2, the best way to run it is with screensaver mode and advanced mode enabled. You can enable these in the 'settings' and 'mode' menu's respectively.

With screensaver on it will, after 3 minutes, go to a blank screen with the Stanford folding@home logo that moves around the screen every now and then. According to Stanford you will save power and increase folding speeds with this on.

If you enable advanced mode you will get a wider variety of WU's, you will possibly get more points this way and you will get more interesting ones than the supervillin WU's on normal mode. You will also get an interesting graph and some new visualisation models.

trop · 9th October 2007, 7:49 AM

Cheers guys, i'v added your tips to the first post Cdr Zero.

Thanks to Deeman for the sticky.

Memph · 9th October 2007, 11:46 PM

Why do you have to have your name as OCAU-PS3 if your folding for the same team?
I'm on my 79th WU as Memph for Team 24, Doesn't that still go towards OCAU's total?

SSJX · 9th October 2007, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Memph

Why do you have to have your name as OCAU-PS3 if your folding for the same team?
I'm on my 79th WU as Memph for Team 24, Doesn't that still go towards OCAU's total?

Your name can be anything; anyone correct me if i'm wrong

As the long the team number is 24, it gets attributed to OCAU

genxor · 10th October 2007, 12:02 AM

I spotted this thread this morning and remembered that my PS3 had the folding client so I turned it on to get it going, only it couldn't download a WU. I thought it may be a net connection problem so I left it retrying by itself but it was still doing it an hour later. I gave up and turned it off, then tried again just before and got the same thing. Network settings are all good, NAT is open etc. Anyone else had that problem?

trop · 10th October 2007, 7:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Memph

Why do you have to have your name as OCAU-PS3 if your folding for the same team?
I'm on my 79th WU as Memph for Team 24, Doesn't that still go towards OCAU's total?

Your name can be anything. If you are already folding your PS3 for a OCAU sub-team keep it going. We're just trying to pull in some new blood for the cause and hopefully by having everyone together as a sub-team keep people interested when the team starts climbing the charts.

Genxor - Haven't had that issue myself, but maybe try deleting the client and re-downloading it?

r8response · 10th October 2007, 8:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genxor

Snip...

I've had that exact problem myself. it has only started happening since 1.2 was released.

All my connection settings are fine, as i can browse the PSN store and use the web browser

iCit · 10th October 2007, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r8response

I've had that exact problem myself. it has only started happening since 1.2 was released.

All my connection settings are fine, as i can browse the PSN store and use the web browser

Slade found the same problem is this thread http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...d.php?t=603048 and found that you needed to update the PS3 to version 1.90 for it to work okay with the new Folding client.

Could be worth a try.

trop · 11th October 2007, 8:15 AM

Thanks iCit, info added to first post.

lahmyaj · 13th October 2007, 1:56 AM

hey good to see a more 'official' thread for Folding on the PS3..

I've been working hard to try & get a lot of PS3 users to join in, whether it be with your team or mine - | Aussie Rules Footy | Team 52735 |.

See the thing is im a bit annoyed i didn't get too much support on the two threads i've posted to try and increase folding numbers.. Folding@Home - 1st Supercomputer to crack 1 Petaflop! & Playstation 3 - Folding@Home - Big Potential - Come on ppl.. i mean where were you guys? PS3, folding, big potential... geezus yous coulda helped me out a bit! Just pisses me off becoz im not an 'official' person on the site or nothin, no-one seems to give a shit when i do something to try & keep the awareness up on the project we all love participating in.

hopefully this thread attracts a lot more attention, more exposure to the masses is always better for the project.

Cheers

trop · 13th October 2007, 7:41 AM

I wouldn't be too disappointed mate, this "official" thread has drummed up all of "fuck all" support. Guess OCAU PS3 users just don't care if people they know die from a disease they could be helping cure

genxor · 13th October 2007, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iCit

Slade found the same problem is this thread http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...d.php?t=603048 and found that you needed to update the PS3 to version 1.90 for it to work okay with the new Folding client.

Could be worth a try.

Well, my PS3 is at the latest version, I've deleted and reinstalled the folding client, triple checked my network settings and it still won't work.

I'm going to have to do some heavy googling later I think.

iCit · 15th October 2007, 8:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trop

I wouldn't be too disappointed mate, this "official" thread has drummed up all of "fuck all" support. Guess OCAU PS3 users just don't care if people they know die from a disease they could be helping cure

Just give it a wee chance there trop.

When you first posted there was only one PS3 folding and now there are two.

@ lahmyaj
Maybe the lack of response with your threads was purely that you were posting in the part of the forum where us converts already reside. Then again perhaps it was just apathy.

9th October 2007, 7:17 AM	#1
trop Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,561	OCAU Playstation 3 Folding@Home Team - OCAU-PS3 OCAU-PS3 - OCAU's PS3 Folding Team With the backing of Agg & co, this thread is here to try and encourage OCAU’s PS3 community to fold for Team 24 (OCAU). OCAU’s team is a major player in the world rankings, we have been number 1 in the past but currently have been relegated to 2nd place behind "The [H]orde" from [H]ardOCP. OCAU really needs all the help it can get if we're going to beat the yanks and get our first place spot back, so there is now a new sub-team called “OCAU-PS3” for all the PS3 owners who don't have a sub-team to fold for. The steps for setting up your PS3 are outlined below aswell as some basic info on folding (thanks MWNP). If you have any questions feel free to ask them here or in the Distributed Computing thread which is linked below. Trop. Getting Started Folding on the PS3 is extremely easy to get up and running. Just download the Folding@Home client from the “Network” tab on your PS3, run through the setup and enter your “Team Number” as 24, and “Name” as OCAU-PS3. Once it starts, press Triangle to bring up the menu and go to "Mode" and set it to Advanced. Next go to "Settings" and enable the screensaver. NOTE - If you upgrade the client to 1.2, you will need firmware 1.9 or higher on your PS3 Once that’s done, whenever you run the folding app you’ll be processing work units and contributing to OCAU-PS3 and thus the main Team 24 of OCAU. Each Work Unit (WU) takes around 8hrs to complete, so even if you only leave the PS3 on while you go to work/school, you’ll still be adding valuable points to OCAU’s stats and hopefully helping to cure some pretty horrible diseases. But of course being OCAU, we should all be running it 24/7 when you're not gaming Short FAQ about Folding@Home What is "Folding"? For those who haven't heard of folding@home, it’s a distributed computing project that conducts scientific experiments on a biological process called protein folding . Protein Folding or simply "Folding" is a biological process that occurs within cells. Proteins are a long molecule and when they are ready to do their work in a cell they fold, which is sort of like scrunching a piece of paper into a ball. Different proteins fold into different shapes and the shape that they fold into determines what they will do in the cell. Sometimes proteins mis-fold and become a different shape than they were meant to, this can be very bad and is thought to be the cause of many diseases. The Folding@Home project (run by Stanford University) investigates how proteins fold (and mis-fold). Some diseases that are being researched by this project: Various cancers, Alzheimer's, Mad Cow disease, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease. How does Folding@Home work? Folding@Home is very similar to other distributed computing projects. People donate their spare CPU cycles (by installing a client app on their machine) and a master server will send out work for the client application to process. When it has finished, the client process sends the results back to the server. To keep track of how much work people have done and to reward those who donate their CPU-time, Stanford award points for each protein people fold. Each protein is referred to as a work unit (WU). Links “OCAU-PS3” Stats Page - From withing the client, Press Triangle -> Information -> My Stats PS3 Folding FAQ - http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html Stanford website - http://folding.stanford.edu/ OCAU's folding page - http://www.ocau.com/folding The Distributed Computing forum at OCAU - http://forums.overclockers.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=29 __________________ Trades Last edited by trop; 11th October 2007 at 8:12 AM.

9th October 2007, 7:40 AM	#3
Cdr Zero Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT Posts: 1,899	As of 1.2, the best way to run it is with screensaver mode and advanced mode enabled. You can enable these in the 'settings' and 'mode' menu's respectively. With screensaver on it will, after 3 minutes, go to a blank screen with the Stanford folding@home logo that moves around the screen every now and then. According to Stanford you will save power and increase folding speeds with this on. If you enable advanced mode you will get a wider variety of WU's, you will possibly get more points this way and you will get more interesting ones than the supervillin WU's on normal mode. You will also get an interesting graph and some new visualisation models. __________________ =^= Certified Folding Addict #64 =^= 1.5 Million Points Milestone [Join the fight. Never surrender.] =Stats= HS30103643

9th October 2007, 7:49 AM	#4
trop Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,561	Cheers guys, i'v added your tips to the first post Cdr Zero. Thanks to Deeman for the sticky. __________________ Trades

9th October 2007, 11:46 PM	#5
Memph Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: croydon.melb.vic.au Posts: 2,007	Why do you have to have your name as OCAU-PS3 if your folding for the same team? I'm on my 79th WU as Memph for Team 24, Doesn't that still go towards OCAU's total? __________________ OCAU Night Owl Trading since '01 [OCAU Golf Addict Member#32 Weapons of choice:Nike VR Pro Combo]

11th October 2007, 8:15 AM	#11
trop Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,561	Thanks iCit, info added to first post. __________________ Trades

9th October 2007, 7:36 AM	#2
Damion Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 378	nice work trop, My PS3 recently passed 110k for team 24. Id go as far as saying at $700 the new 40g PS3 would be tho most cost effective rig out there for folding.

10th October 2007, 12:02 AM	#7
genxor Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Perth Posts: 339	I spotted this thread this morning and remembered that my PS3 had the folding client so I turned it on to get it going, only it couldn't download a WU. I thought it may be a net connection problem so I left it retrying by itself but it was still doing it an hour later. I gave up and turned it off, then tried again just before and got the same thing. Network settings are all good, NAT is open etc. Anyone else had that problem?

13th October 2007, 1:56 AM	#12
lahmyaj Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kialla - Shepparton, VIC Posts: 66	hey good to see a more 'official' thread for Folding on the PS3.. I've been working hard to try & get a lot of PS3 users to join in, whether it be with your team or mine - \| Aussie Rules Footy \| Team 52735 \|. See the thing is im a bit annoyed i didn't get too much support on the two threads i've posted to try and increase folding numbers.. Folding@Home - 1st Supercomputer to crack 1 Petaflop! & Playstation 3 - Folding@Home - Big Potential - Come on ppl.. i mean where were you guys? PS3, folding, big potential... geezus yous coulda helped me out a bit! Just pisses me off becoz im not an 'official' person on the site or nothin, no-one seems to give a shit when i do something to try & keep the awareness up on the project we all love participating in. hopefully this thread attracts a lot more attention, more exposure to the masses is always better for the project. Cheers __________________ Help Cure Cancer! Fold@Home for \| Aussie Rules Footy \| Team 52735 \| - I'm smASHer88, checkout the team's Folding Community Forums thread Also, increase awareness for the project by rackin up 'Views' for my YouTube video - Folding@Home - 1st Supercomputer to crack 1 Petaflop!

13th October 2007, 7:41 AM	#13
trop Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,561	I wouldn't be too disappointed mate, this "official" thread has drummed up all of "fuck all" support. Guess OCAU PS3 users just don't care if people they know die from a disease they could be helping cure __________________ Trades Last edited by trop; 13th October 2007 at 2:15 PM.