Folding Month 2019 - Help Medical Research with your PC!

[jakkuh_t]

Hey everyone!

 

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.

 

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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

 

Fractal Design (US & Canada only):

2 x Define R6 Tempered Glass Cases

 

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:

Spoiler

- Winners will be chosen on November 3rd, and will have 72 hours to reply, otherwise the prizes will be redrawn.

- Winners will be notified via forum private message.

- Participants must be actively folding for at least 24 hours to be eligible for the prize draw.

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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

 

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Be sure to post photos of your folding rigs, your progress, and any questions below!

[Dissitesuxba11s]

To all who join: Thank you for supporting the cause

Edited September 25, 2019 by Dissitesuxba11s
Extending the appreciation to all.

[GOTSpectrum]

@jakkuh_t you beautiful man!

[kiosion]

I'm glad to be able to help out!

[Stormseeker9]

@jakkuh_t  

 

wish everyone happy F@lding !

[Puntertje]

I'll start up my rigs again just like last year :)

[Egg-Roll]

At least this wake-up call was closer to the starting date...

 

Also your not getting a pic because I'm lazy.

[GamerTrem]

I'll sign up as soon as I'm home!

[Kochiha Ichihara]

I'll attach a pic when I get all my photography stuff sorted out. For now, though, I'm having GPU trouble, so I gotta sort that quick.

[Linkas]

I'm doing this first time, any pro tips?

[Kochiha Ichihara]

GPU problem solved, one of the voltage settings had been moved...probably by me hitting a key I shouldn't have, derp! All systems go!

[Shock_Wave1]

Also just joined to help out and would appreciate some tips. Also is a picture of my rig required for the signups or is it just a nice thing to do because mine isn't all that great to look at crammed in a corner XD

[GOTSpectrum]

20 minutes ago, Linkas said:

I'm doing this first time, any pro tips?

You're better off asking in the event thread

[Dissitesuxba11s]

19 minutes ago, Linkas said:

I'm doing this first time, any pro tips?

 

16 minutes ago, Shock_Wave1 said:

Also just joined to help out and would appreciate some tips.

Check out the links at the bottom of the first post here: 

Also, defer question to the linked thread so that they can help you.

[Nusic]

17 hours ago, jakkuh_t said:

Hey everyone!

-snip-

getting started right now!

Edited September 26, 2019 by TVwazhere
Sniping OP

[Shock_Wave1]

Thanks @Dissitesuxba11s 

 

[kiosion]

Here's the PC I'm using for folding... not the best pic but oh well. 1060 6gb+8700k@5ghz

also yes, it needs cleaning. badly.

[Shock_Wave1]

@kiosion that PC looks great, and a lot cleaner then mine >.>

[pbx2]

Got both my rigs going now, Unfortunately the performance on my Ryzen 3600 is terrible compared to my 8700k (Not sure why, I've seen alot of rave about AMD on F@H)

Might chuck my third and fourth on later if I can be bothered.

[Linkas]

What todo if this page keeps refreshing? 

[kiosion]

3 minutes ago, pbx2 said:

Got both my rigs going now

Wish I had a second computer to fold with... my media pc is still packed up though, moving sucks

[mattheginger]

17 minutes ago, kiosion said:

Here's the PC I'm using for folding... not the best pic but oh well. 1060 6gb+8700k@5ghz

also yes, it needs cleaning. badly.

 

Nice! That's a really clean look.

[pbx2]

7 minutes ago, kiosion said:

Wish I had a second computer to fold with... my media pc is still packed up though, moving sucks

I wish it was a privilege but it's more of an artefact of living between two houses.

[Stormseeker9]

16 minutes ago, Linkas said:

What todo if this page keeps refreshing? 

Use the advanced control by right clicking the folding icon in bottom right of your taskbar. Web control can be buggy. 

[Linkas]

1 minute ago, Stormseeker9 said:

Use the advanced control by right clicking the folding icon in bottom right of your taskbar. Web control can be buggy. 

I can't see myself in folding user search, that will update later I guess?