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And now for the hardest part - convincing myself that others know better.

LTT Folding Month 2021
 
Event Starts November 8th (00:00 GMT)
Ends December 12th (23:59 GMT)
 
 
Sign up for the event here:
Sign ups will close November 6th, 00:00 GMT
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tu-7zVK93OBIT30FdPMkyK9yUqLok7moeQ7D4aPOIDc
 
 
This event will be eligible for F@H event badges.
 
  
 
Please follow this thread to keep up to date!
 
Please read the whole of this post before asking any questions and use the links provided at the end for help and support!
 
 
Minimum Participation Requirements For Prizes
20 Days with activity*, 500,000 Points & 40 WU
(*activity is defined as completing at least 1WU for the 24 hour period)
These must be met DURING the five weeks of the event. Points produced before the start date do not count!
 
 
Prizes!!!
(possibly more to come)
Community donated prizes:
5x 10GBP Steam gift cards - Donated by @marknd59
2x 20USD Steam gift cards - Donated by @Jawa_Juice
3x 20USD Steam gift cards - Donated by @Pezui
50USD Amazon gift card - Donated by Anon
4x 50USD Amazon gift cards - Donated by @IkeaGnome
5x random Steam key - Donated by Community Chest
 
LMG Prizes?
 
If anyone would like to donate a prize then hit me up on discord or on PMs here and we will sort it out
 
 
Folding@home is a network of volunteer computers distributed around the world that aims to perform biomedical research with the single intent of helping to further understand and develop cures for a range of diseases such as; Alzheimer's, cancer, and Parkinson's. The exact research that is done is simulating the 'folding' of proteins in the body, this is important because the function of a protein id directly related to its physical shape. And this, when the protein is created in the body it needs to reshuffle its shape to get into the correct structure to perform its task. Many illnesses can be linked to faulty proteins in the body such as many cancers and neurological issues, along with a wide number of other general health concerns. This network if compared with the TOP500 list of supercomputers would outclass every single entry on the list, Folding@home has been of the fastest computing systems in the world, reaching a speed of over 2.1 petaFLOPS. 
 
If you are wondering what exactly has been done with all this computing power then you can check out the papers written by the scientists and researchers that use the folding network, I will warn you though many of them are very in depth reads and in turn this means they are often fairly technical.
https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/
 
To qualify for badges you must meet the minimum requirements for participation which for this event will be as follows minimum requirements: 500k points, 40WUs, and 20 days of activity over the course of the whole month. This is subject to change for future events as we find out what the sweet spot is to include as many people as possible but not make it too easy to just get a free badge. 
 
PASSKEYS! (they're really important)
 
Don't forget to get yourself a passkey from the link below to ensure that you hit the points requirement, the passkey is a feature that was added a while ago to the Folding Client that helps to authenticate each user on the network, an added bonus of this is the fact that it allows you to qualify for QRB(Quick Return Bonus) Points, QRBs are extra points you earn for submitting work units more quickly, such as if you have faster hardware or let the client fold full time, rather than on idle. QRB credit is awarded after 10 WUs have been submitted. You can get your passkey from the link below.
https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey
 
RULES
Please remember that this is the first event that will be governed by the new rules, these rules were first discussed at the end of last folding month and will be in effect for the duration of the event.
 
Failing to meet the minimum requirements.
 
Publicly discussing the administration of the event;
If you have an issue with the way in which the event is being conducted please reach out to an appropriate member of the event team.
 
Signing up to the event with a folding identity that is believed to not be your own.
 
Signing up to the event with more than one folding identity.
 
Conducting yourself in a manner that is believed to be not in the spirit of the event, this includes but not limited to the below;
purposefully only meeting the minimum requirements, acting to undermine the integrity of the event, to attempt to cause division within the community. 
 
Breaking any one of these rules will result in a disqualification from the event. It is also important to know that there is no appeal process for disqualifications. 
 
 
 
This is just a PSA for the new guys here, the folding team is a small close knit community, so here's a few things I'd like you all to keep in mind. It doesn't hurt to say thank you, if someone has genuinely helped you out don't forget to drop a reaction on their posts, help others where ever you can and finally we are a team first and always. 
 
Check your stats out here! Bare in mind it can take some time for your first WUs to appear so leave it a day or two.
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/search.php
 
Please follow the guides below to help with set-up and troubleshooting.
 
 
 
 

The CPUs shall heat the home!

Welp, it's time to continue slowly folding..

Welp, it's time to continue slowly folding..

Welp, it's time to continue slowly folding..

Welp, it's time to continue slowly folding..

Today I took 420 place off a cancer WU... while I don't partake others might find humor in this. 

Welp, I'm always slowly folding on my 1070 anyway, so might as well join..

Welp, I'm always slowly folding on my 1070 anyway, so might as well join..

Welp, I'm always slowly folding on my 1070 anyway, so might as well join..

🤔 but what's more important, science or "vide(  .  )(  .  ) games"?

Welp, I'm always slowly folding on my 1070 anyway, so might as well join..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Signed up, though then again I never really stopped folding..

Didn't someone on here do a folding server build with either the k80 or k40? You could try to find that and ask them.
Oh right, it was project steamroller
 

I don't want to celebrate too soon, but it really seems like the powersupply really was the problem. I bought a barely used corsair hx1200i. You might ask why, because it's definitely an overkill, but it was a good deal and I'm planning on slowly upgrading the system. Anyway, the random crashes have seemingly stopped, even with the game, so that's cool.

Shall we celebrate a bit? It seems we got a new breakthrough! 😃
Full Article: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3587388/foldinghome-exascale-supercomputer-finds-potential-targets-for-covid-19-cure.html
 
And said study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v3
 
Let's pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The Folding@home project has shared new results of its efforts to simulate proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus to better understand how they function and how to stop them. Folding@home is a distributed computing effort that uses small clients to run simulations for biomedical research when users' PCs are idle. The clients operate independently of each other to perform their own unique simulation and send in the results to the F@h servers. In its SARS-CoV-2 simulations, F@h first targeted the spike, the cone-shaped appendages on the surface of the virus consisting of three proteins. The spike must open to attach itself to a human cell to infiltrate and replicate. F@h's mission was to simulate this opening process to gain unique insight into what the open state looks like and find a way to inhibit the connection between the spike and human cells.

And it did so. In a newly published paper, the Folding@home team said it was able to simulate an "unprecedented" 0.1 seconds of the viral proteome. They captured dramatic opening of the spike complex, as well as shape-shifting in other proteins that revealed more than 50 "cryptic" pockets that expand targeting options for the design of antivirals. [...] The model derived from the F@h simulations shows that the spike opens up and exposes buried surfaces. These surfaces are necessary for infecting a human cell and can also be targeted with antibodies or antivirals that bind to the surface to neutralize the virus and prevent it from infecting someone. "And the tech sector played a big role in helping the find," adds the anonymous Slashdot reader. "Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, AWS, Oracle, and Cisco all helped with hardware and cloud services. Pure Storage donated a one petabyte all-flash storage array. Linus Tech Tips, a hobbyist YouTube channel for home system builders with 12 million followers, set up a 100TB server to take the load off."

Source: https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/10/27/2315240/foldinghome-exascale-supercomputer-finds-potential-targets-for-covid-19-cure