I have all other devices disabled and the head set set as default
They are actually amazing especially when you turn surround sound and THX on and they are extremely comfortable I can wear then for 16h no problem
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 be eligible for F@H event badges.
Please follow this thread to keep up to date!
Prizes!!!
(possibly more to come)
Community donated prizes:
10x random Steam keys - Donated by @GOTSpectrum
Draw - All Ranks
9x random Steam keys - Donated by @tg4life666
Draw - All Ranks
24x random Steam keys - Doanted by @kubo6472
Draw - All Ranks
20x Random Steam keys - Donated by @ossi120
Draw - All Ranks
20x Random Steam keys - Donated by @ObscureMammal
Draw - All Ranks
5x 20USD Steam gift cards - Donated by @Den-Fi
Draw - Ranks 26-50, 51-75, 76-100, 101-125, 126-150
1x 60USD Steam gift card - Donated by @YBPT
Draw - Ranks 1-25
1x Wolfenstein - young blood, bethesda client key - Donated by @shaz2sxy
Draw - Ranks 150 - 300
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB kit - Donated by @JoeDaCabbie*
Draw - Ranks 1-100
LMG Prizes:
Corsair
5 x K70 RGB MK.2
5 x Nightsword RGB
5 x HS70 Wireless
Fractal
2 x Define R6 Tempered Glass
EVGA
4 x 650 G5 Power Supplies
4 x 240mm or 280mm AIO Liquid Coolers
Cablemod
5 x Pro Cable Kit (any PSU/color)
Floatplane
10 x 3 Month Subs
*(Joe will purchase the kit in the country of the winner online and use that retailer to ship to winners address)
The LMG prizes will be handled by them on a separate thread that will be posted closer to the start date, keep your eye out here for further information as it rolls in.
follow the link below to sign up for the LMG giveaway.
LMG Prize Thread!
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of having activity over the course of the whole month
Well guys, it has once again come, the Folding Month is here! But this time around we will be running across 5 whole weeks! Autumn is the time of year when temperature starts to fall and many of us ramp up our folding efforts. At least that is the case for those of us in the northern hemisphere, apologies to anyone down under. Much like last year the format is simple, over the course of the event we will all try to fold as much as we can, pushing our hardware, bringing as much online as we can and most importantly showing the world just what Team LTT can do! Remember that we may be ranking the participants but much like any other folding event we run we fold as a team first and as an individual second. As a bonus there will be a spreadsheet to sign up for so that we can track your folding progress over the course of the month, with bragging rights at stake. Special badges will be awarded to all who meet the minimum participation requirement.
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 fall into 2nd, Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems, with a speed of approximately 98.7petaFLOPS. It would be 50% faster than the fastest x86 computer currently listed on the top500.
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/
Sign up for the event here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Gr6yyAKMGqt3GnvWmB_rfaK97f82_dj5VRJOAgygVL0
Sign ups close September 30th 23:30 BST.
Please fill out this poll to improve future events:
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1100595-folding-month-2019-poll/
If you want to be messaged about future Distributed Computing events on the forum sign up to our mailing list here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gduOZEKLf5jm0ZiSQK3lAqT70sHC6WnfDCVikpjTccE
To qualify for badges you must meet the minimum requirements for participation which for this event will be as follows minimum requirements: 100k points, 20WUs, and 20 days of having 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
Can we all make sure to give thanks to Riley for his Techlinked shout out, we really appreciate the help. If you are not subscribed to Techlinked over on YouTube I'd really suggest it, go show the man some love.
Please remember that I will be writing my usual daily update blog once the event kicks off, once we are ready the link for the blog for this year will be found in this part of the OP.
If you need some signs that these things usually blow up and go pretty well you can check out the last few event threads here, the first one turned into the folding community board, our second has over 400 sign ups and earlier this year we held a mini folding sprint during the summer, all can be found linked below.
NoPee4U got a reaction from Haraikomono in Headset randomly disconecting
NoPee4U reacted to GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month 2019!!!
