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Well, it happened. We are officially no.2

Ranks have been added 

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time!
 
Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began.
Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died.
No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff.
Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again.
Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while!
 
I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

Event Starts: June 1st (00:00 BST)
Ends: June 7th (23:59 BST)
 
 
Sign up for the event here:
Sign ups will close May 30th, 00:00 BST
https://forms.gle/4Erf7fJ7nnwURkfG9
 
 
This event will NOT be eligible for F@H event badges.
 
 
Follow this thread to keep up to date!
 
Please read the whole of this post before asking any questions and use the link/s provided at the end for help and support!
 
 
Minimum Participation Requirements For Prizes
7 Days with activity*, 100,000 Points & 14 WU
(*activity is defined as completing at least 1WU for the 24 hour period)
These must be met DURING the week of the event. Points produced before the start date do not count!
 
 
Prizes!!!
(possibly more to come)
Community donated prizes:
20 x Random Steam Keys - Donated by Community Chest
Draw: Random
 
 
 
When I did the first folding sprint, a five-day mid-week madness, I never thought it would become a regular thing, yet here we are. 
 
The folding sprint is on the one hand a nod to our few southern hemisphere members while also trying to help out the folding protect, who often see their processor count drop during the summer. The aim is simple, make as many points as you can for the week while trying to stay as cool as possible. Folding is an incredibly finicky software and is a great way to tell if your system is truly 100% per cent stable. 
 
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 is 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. 
 
 
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 prizes you must meet the minimum requirements for participation which for this event will be as follows minimum requirements: 100k points, 14WUs, and 7 days of activity over the course of the whole week. This means, you miss a day and you are out of the running. As always, 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 entry for prizes.
 
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
 
 
 
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! Bear 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.
 

You're better off folding full time but at a lower power, underclock the GPU with afterburner if you like, if you're worries about your components.
What kills components is generally thermal cycles, heating up and cooling down. Staying warm will be much better than getting hot and then cooling back down over and over again.

"Summer" Folding Sprint of 2021
 
Starts September 10th(00:00 BST)
Ends September, 16th (23:59 BST)
 
 
Sign up for the event here:
Sign ups closed at 23:30BST, 8th September.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n0EjAgW1CQcdb5Njw9JolkEy1tIjoJNeMSwjTe3BRYM
 
 
 
Folding@home team LTT id#: 223518
(This event is only for folding for team LTT you will not qualify if you are folding independent or for another team, sorry.)
 
This event will NOT be eligible for F@H event badges.
 
Please read the whole of this post before asking any questions and use the links provided at the end for help and support!
 
If anyone is willing to help with data handling PM me ASAP!
 
Please follow this thread to keep up to date!
 
Minimum Participation Requirements For Prizes
5 Days with activity* & 300,000 Points
(*activity is defined as completing at least 1WU for the 24 hour period)
 
 
Prizes!!!
(More to come soon)
Community donated prizes:
 
20x Random Steam keys - Community Pool
Draw: All Ranks
 
5x Steam 10GBP Gift Cards - Donated by @marknd59
Draw: All Ranks
 
1x iFixit Mako kit through Amazon* - Donated by @IkeaGnome
Draw: All Ranks
(if you would like to add any prizes hit me with a DM) 
 
*You will receive an Amazon gift card for the Price + Shipping of this item in your own currency
 
This is usually the place that I talk about how the weather is getting hotter and the like. We have moved past that a little and the majority of the summer is now behind us. But yet we are here with the "summer" folding sprint. There are many reasons why someone may want to fold, to win prizes, for the bragging rights and hopefully the drive to support the furthering of human knowledge. No matter the reason why you fold, you are welcome here. 
 
What is Folding@Home
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 and most recently COVID19. 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. 
 
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
 
Please remember that I will be writing my usual daily update blog once the event kicks off, the blog can be found linked below.
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/blog/1352-summer-folding-sprint-2021/
 
 
 
 
This is just a PSA, the folding team is historically 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

Live, Laugh, Liao.
Best $400 ever spent.

I really just want to fold!

I finally have WUs! I was starting to think I might need to put the heating on!
I'm always amazed at how exciting it is to push this cause and do good with my tech.
 
Currently celebrating with the weirdest drink I have, unintentional homemade maple syrup liqeur. And also toblerone.

Every day is whisky day when a folding event is on for me...
 
Where you at! Imma come raid you!

Had to ask... you DID know that this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_whisk(e)y_day today?

Paul's Hardware did a video on F@H too.
He also had to choose a team, spoilers below:
 

Have moved house recently and my internet doesn't get turned on until Friday. Found a BT Wifi hotspot today so catching up on everything and jst realised this event existed!
Big PC unpacked and GPU re-installed. Also finally got round to putting the R9 290 that came with my 2nd hand motherboard bundle in, so a fair old hotch potch, but got to get through those sweet work units for the cause!
 
Currently trying to download the driver at 1mbps through phone tethering and trying to bat back windows updates to save bandwidth.

Have moved house recently and my internet doesn't get turned on until Friday. Found a BT Wifi hotspot today so catching up on everything and jst realised this event existed!
Big PC unpacked and GPU re-installed. Also finally got round to putting the R9 290 that came with my 2nd hand motherboard bundle in, so a fair old hotch potch, but got to get through those sweet work units for the cause!
 
Currently trying to download the driver at 1mbps through phone tethering and trying to bat back windows updates to save bandwidth.

almost forgot about my robot vac - its not a roomba its a lesser brand , when i bought it i just thought they would all be smart . 
i bought a Deebot ecovacs one and it is the worst . sometimes and i mean not often it makes it back to the charging station. 
It doesn't know where the station is however so what it does is .. when bat gets low it stops vacuum and then drives around until its IR sensor finds the charge station and then that's how it lines up. 
However most or many times it doesn't find it so it just runs out of battery power somewhere like a hall or bathroom. 
That's if it didn't get stuck on something in some almost impossible way or close a bathroom door on itself somehow.
 
I regret not getting a better one that maps the rooms etc.  

makes you feel a little shit 

Done

Speaking of.  One moved slightly if you could fix it please.