For the second year in a row, I'm here to talk to y'all about Cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's. They are terrible diseases that have had an effect on nearly everyone in one way or another, and we want to help. Researching these conditions is an incredibly expensive endeavor, but for many people, donating to fund these causes isn't an option. Thankfully, there is still something we all can do: Folding @ Home
With your gaming PC, laptop, server, or really any computer, you can donate processing power from your CPU or GPU when you're not using them to help run calculations on a vast number of medical distributed computation projects. This massive shared computational power can help researchers learn more about these diseases in an effort to better treat them, and it can make a HUGE difference in the fight to conquer them. To achieve this huge collaborative effort, Stanford University started developing the Folding @ Home project, all the way back in the year 2000. It's a simple software you can run on your PC that automagically uses your processing power when idling (or full time if you desire) for the previously mentioned calculations.
You can fold with pretty much anything, your dad's old dell prebuilt, a top tier RTX rig, or presumably even a RasPi. Every little bit helps.
In exchange for your valiant processing effort, you can earn points that show off your contribution to find the cures all year round, but for a month out of every year, the Forum community runs a friendly Folding competition. Members of the community have donated a bunch of prizes, and you can read about the official forum competition here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1091921-ltt-official-folding-month-2019/
Note: Signups for the forum competition where you can win the community donated prizes, and a forum badge are open until September 30th at 23:30 BST.
In addition to the community donated prizes, we've partnered with several vendors to give out even more prizes to participants! Be sure to give each of them a follow as a thank you for their contributions!
Corsair (International):
5 x Cosair prize packs including: a K70 RGB MK.2, a Nightsword RGB, and a HS70 Wireless
EVGA (International):
4 x 650 G5 Power Supplies
4 x 240mm or 280mm EVGA AIO Liquid Coolers
Cablemod (International):
5 x Cablemod Pro Cable Kits (any model)
Floatplane (International):
10 x 3 Month LMG Floatplane subscriptions
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We will be randomly drawing 3 winners from the top 100 folders on the LTT team, and then the rest from the entrants on the form below.
To enter the contest, setup the folding client to run on your PC as listed below, then click on the entry below where you will be able to submit a link to your folding profile as well as a photo of your folding rig and we will select the winners according to the above definition. Entries will close on November 4th, 2019s at 5:00 PM PST.
Entries are now closed.
Contest Info:
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If you want to sign up for the forum competition, entries close on September 30th at 23:30 BST (this is separate from the hardware giveaway/contest).
Sign up now: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1091921-ltt-official-folding-month-2019/
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Folding Instructions:
Downloading the Folding@Home Client: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
Set your username to same as your forum handle, the team number to 223518, and set your passkey, which can be generated here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey
More Information: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/876-foldinghome-install-guide-and-links-linustechtips_team-223518/
Monthly Leaderboard: https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams-monthly
LinusTechTips Folding Team: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/223518
I heard that LTT was folding from the last weekly show and decided I should join in! I had already brought out the room heater for the winter and thought, "I do have another heater that can fight disease and heats the room, better choose the one that might save a life."
Entered. Since i got this RX570 for bargain, feels good to put it to good use. Funny thing, one of the fans bearing failed so i replaced it with a 120mm fan hahaha. Hot-glued it in place and works cooler than before, even quieter... Especially good for power circuitry on gpu board, which need cooling too but don't have a temp senor on them.
Desktop (only R9 280x ?), work laptop (shhh.. don't tell them) and personal laptop. I had another old laptop as well but it was only managing 5k PPD, so I stopped using it after 2 WU. Only started after the WAN show promoted the event, so about 2 weeks ago and managed 3 million points so far.
dhellgaming got a reaction from Mattias Edeslatt in Folding Community Board
dhellgaming got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in Help Scientists Cure Cancer with your PC! - Folding @ Home
