LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

[GOTSpectrum]

LTT Folding Month 2020

 

Event Starts October, 12th (00:00 BST)

Ends November 15nd (23:59 GMT)

 

 

Sign up for the event here:

SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT!

 

 

This event will be eligible for F@H event badges.

This is the 3rd official folding month, and with that, silver badges will be awarded to people who have participated in both previous folding month events.

 

  

 

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 event. Points produced before the start date do not count!

 

 

Prizes!!!

Community donated prizes:

 

100USD Newegg Gift Card - Donated by @Zberg

All Ranks

 

50EUR Steam Gift Card - Donated by @RollinLower

Ranks 1-24

 

3x 50USD Steam Gift cards - Donated by @Jawa_Juice

Ranks 25-49, 50-74, 75-99

 

A total of 150USD of amazon vouchers to be shared among ranks. - Donated by @marknd59*

50USD Ranks 100-149

30USD Ranks 150-199

20USD Ranks 200-249

5x 10USD All ranks

 

2x 20EUR Steam Gift Card - Donated by @RollinLower

All Ranks

 

10EUR Steam Gift Card - Donated by @RollinLower

All Ranks

 

5x 10GBP Steam Gift Cards - Donated by @marknd59

All Ranks

 

25x Random steam Keys - Donated by The Community Pool

All Ranks

 

12x Random Steam Keys -Donated by @GOTSpectrum

All Ranks

 

More details of the prizes and ranks will be released closer to the start of the event.

 

 

*To claim the amazon voucher you must PM me with your email and the amazon domain you use for your nationality, you will then receive a voucher with the nearest amount available in your own currency. 

 

 

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 is the world's fastest computing systems, with a speed of approximately 2.1 exaFLOPS. It is significantly faster than any compute system ever created and faster than even the fastest current such systems in the design phase.

 

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

 

COVID-19

COVID-19 still remains a massive prority for Foldin@Home, we are here to continue to unite with the legion of other folders from around the globe who have taken up the fight against COVID-19.

 

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common across the world.  These viruses can cause mild symptoms ranging from a fever and cough to more serious conditions such as severe pneumonia, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. 

In December 2019, a new strain of coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) was first identified in Wuhan City, China.  This virus has now spread to affect practically every human population on the planet. It is the largest health crisis seen in 100 years and a massive global concerted effort has been launched to find a cure, a vaccine or even the simplest form of treatment. And that is where folding@home comes in, partnered with The Covid Moonshot team; the folding network is being used to find existing drugs that could prove to be an effective treatment for the virus. 

 

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. These are mostly older guides but are still quite useful for most things.

 

 

[kelvinhall05]

I haven't folded in months. Maybe this gives me an excuse to start again.

[iLostMyXbox21]

Someone remind me to set this up today. This is gonna by my first time folding. I won’t be able to do much due to my low specs, but I figure I will try

[Guest]

My power bill: FINALLY! I can rest!
Specywecky:

[GOTSpectrum]

4 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

My power bill: FINALLY! I can rest!
Specywecky:

I've took the liberty to sign you up already

[Parideboy]

Can't wait for the temperatures to go down so I can fire up my bad boy 24/7

[Guest]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I've took the liberty to sign you up already

[gloop]

This has convinced me to get Folding started again after not doing it for the past few months. Probably can’t get much up considering I can’t run it overnight but whenever I’m idling I’ll leave it go!

[marknd59]

Den-Fi is banned from using any RX 580.

[givingtnt]

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, marknd59 said:

Den-Fi is banned from using any RX 580.

That's fine, because I've upgraded to 5700 XTs.

[Moonzy]

hmm... maybe I could chip in for the event

been a while since I folded

 

on a side note, i can't access the folding site since long ago, pretty sure it's something to do with my network

Spoiler

feel free to PM me if you know the solution (I partially blame malaysia ISP censorship)

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, Moonzy said:

hmm... maybe I could chip in for the event

been a while since I folded

 

on a side note, i can't access the folding site since long ago, pretty sure it's something to do with my network

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feel free to PM me if you know the solution (I partially blame malaysia ISP censorship)

Do you have any VPN active, if you do it will be the cause 

[Moonzy]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

Do you have any VPN active, if you do it will be the cause

no VPN, using google DNS

[FloRolf]

Now let's hope RTX3000 will be 

1. Available

2. Affordable 

 

Count me in

[Captainmarino]

This could be the extra kick in the patoot I need to finally finish my backup and get the new rig up and running.

[kelvinhall05]

Hm, already running into a problem. Are work unit servers down or something?

15:16:58:WARNING:WU01:FS01:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80
15:19:08:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Failed to connect to 192.0.2.1:80: Connection timed out
15:21:17:WARNING:WU01:FS01:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80

GPU slot keeps timing out trying to get WU.

 

Btw I'm also trying to get it running on my server so I can have at least a little folding power (in addition to my desktop).

[Parideboy]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Hm, already running into a problem. Are work unit servers down or something?

15:16:58:WARNING:WU01:FS01:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80
15:19:08:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Failed to connect to 192.0.2.1:80: Connection timed out
15:21:17:WARNING:WU01:FS01:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80

GPU slot keeps timing out trying to get WU.

 

Btw I'm also trying to get it running on my server so I can have at least a little folding power (in addition to my desktop).

It should eventually work. Have you set any cause preference?

[DonGuano]

I requested a passkey and realized I have one already. Will the passkey change? Is there any consequensies?

I did't apply it yet. Don't know if it's different from the one I have..

[kelvinhall05]

2 minutes ago, Parideboy said:

It should eventually work. Have you set any cause preference?

Nope, will try setting to COVID and seeing if it changes anything.

[Parideboy]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

Nope, will try setting to COVID and seeing if it changes anything.

'Any' should give you the most WU. It still has to find some work servers, as I belive

192.0.2.1

is your local IP

[kelvinhall05]

6 minutes ago, Parideboy said:

'Any' should give you the most WU. It still has to find some work servers, as I belive

192.0.2.1

is your local IP

My local IP is not that. Maybe I'm misunderstanding where it's trying to get WU from but I don't think it should be connecting to a local IP.

 

 

EDIT: I will make a new thread instead of clogging this one  

[Parideboy]

5 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

My local IP is not that. Maybe I'm misunderstanding where it's trying to get WU from but I don't think it should be connecting to a local IP.

It does that by default, eventually it will pick one of those IPs and start folding

 

https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats

[DonGuano]

19 minutes ago, DonGuano said:

I requested a passkey and realized I have one already. Will the passkey change? Is there any consequensies?

I did't apply it yet. Don't know if it's different from the one I have..

Found my original passkey. It seems to be the same one so no worries...

 

-Don

[GOTSpectrum]

59 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

This event will be eligible for F@H event badges.

This is the 3rd official folding month, and with that, silver badges will be awarded to people who have participated in both previous folding month events.

Just added this line, as a nice reminder for you veterans!