LTT Official Folding Month VI

[GOTSpectrum]

 

Event Starts November 1st (00:00 GMT)

Ends December 6th (23:59 GMT)

 

 

Sign up for the event here:

Sign ups will close October 31st, 12:00 GMT

https://forms.gle/KbbougQ7xB91jomi6

 

 

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 $20 Steam codes - Donated by @Jawa_Juice

 PC Building Simulator Steam code - Donated by @JamesTheFolf

2x Steam games - Donated by @JamesTheFolf

3x $50 USD equivalent Amazon gift cards - Donated by @IkeaGnome

1x GOG Game key - Donated by @SirSaibot

40x Steam Game Keys - Donated by @SirSaibot

 

LMG Prizes?

20x 100USD LTTStore giftcards

2x Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4TB-G

1x UniFi Dream Machine Pro (lightly used)

1x surprise unifi switch

3x Prize packs of U6 Mesh Access Point

1x  Switch Flex

 

 

 

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. 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

[Frugivore8894]

Epic, can't wait for my room to be cozy for the month.

[BondiBlue]

Can't believe it's been another year already. Looking forward to the event!

[TheLANguy]

Awesome! Excited to participate in my first event!

The requirements will keep my N4020 Celeron and AMD PRO AIO-8770E working hard!

[SansVarnic]

Event has been added to the Calendar.

 

 

I signed up, don't include me for any prizes please.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Looks at UK electricity prices, starts sweating before even heating up from Folding.

 

I think there's a good chance the only direction I have to go in the leaderboard is down on this one.

[GOTSpectrum]

33 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Can't believe it's been another year already. Looking forward to the event!

IKR it comes around so fast...

 

I really can't believe this is my 6th event already

[GOTSpectrum]

9 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Looks at UK electricity prices, starts sweating before even heating up from Folding.

 

I think there's a good chance the only direction I have to go in the leaderboard is down on this one.

This is why I didn't raise the min reqs, I did consider it but decided against it with the way power is for many people right now 

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

This is why I didn't raise the min reqs, I did consider it but decided against it with the way power is for many people right now 

Sensible move, as I don't think F@H can keep up with 40x0 series owners anyway.  Were reaching the point where the project is crunching the WUs faster than they have resources at their end to deal with them, which of course is both a good and bad thing.

[BiotechBen]

Excited to see how the flat rate electricity performs for savings.

[Levent]

First time participating (I think). I am going to try to do rest of the month.

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Levent said:

First time participating (I think). I am going to try to do rest of the month.

 

Not sure I understand what you're saying.  Have you installed the Chrome addon what will compare your output to the average from your GPU?   https://folding.lar.systems/#get_FITDAT

 

There's also the GPU ranking.

[BiotechBen]

1 hour ago, Levent said:

First time participating (I think). I am going to try to do rest of the month.

 

That doesnt sound too outlandish, my 2x 1080's will pull 2-2.5M PPD combined, a 3070 pulling about 3M sounds about right to me.

[ir8munk33]

Woohoo Signed up, time to start tinkering again to find those magic PPD/clock/mem/power balances to ensure my power company isn't going to destroy my wallet...

[Metallus97]

Yeeees I am in! U guys plan on using the v8 Beta or stay on v7 for the event? On my Mac imma gonna use v8 for sure, because that can do WUs that are made for Apple silicon and that way I can utilise my M1Pro. But for my windows macine idk yet...

[Levent]

1 hour ago, Metallus97 said:

Yeeees I am in! U guys plan on using the v8 Beta or stay on v7 for the event? On my Mac imma gonna use v8 for sure, because that can do WUs that are made for Apple silicon and that way I can utilise my M1Pro. But for my windows macine idk yet...

I was just looking into how FAH works with Apple Silicon. Do let us know that works, I got an M1 machine I can throw into mix.

[RollinLower]

LETS GET THAT HYPETRAIN GOING BOIS!

 

2 hours ago, Metallus97 said:

Yeeees I am in! U guys plan on using the v8 Beta or stay on v7 for the event? On my Mac imma gonna use v8 for sure, because that can do WUs that are made for Apple silicon and that way I can utilise my M1Pro. But for my windows macine idk yet...

definitely staying on a production-safe V7 for my server. Maybe V8 on my windows box, but i don;t use any apple silicon so i'm not sure what the benefit would be for me.

[RollinLower]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

I dropped $900 on an RTX 3090. I blame y'all. And, unironically, thank you so much.

 

I'm currently in the middle of setting up an i7-8700 test bench/folding rig for the dual 2080 Tis that I'll explant from my current workstation that the 3090 will go in. I can't wait!

yes! who needs money anyway, when you can get GPUs to fold instead?

[TVwazhere]

IT'S  ABOUT FREAKING TIME

[Lightwreather]

My nomination for event Soundtrack

[Dutch_Master]

I'm considering partaking, but not owning (due to not needing) a d/recent GPU, never mind more then one, how much CPU-bound tasks will find their way to @home-folders? If CPU power can be utilised, I may throw in some EPYC cores (I have 68 at my disposal, if all boards run)

[podkall]

@GOTSpectrum what is our team number?

[TylerD321]

I am excited to finally get my FAH badge!

[Lightwreather]

23 minutes ago, podkall said:

@GOTSpectrum what is our team number?

223518 iirc 

[podkall]

2 minutes ago, Lightwreather JfromN said:

223518 iirc 

"iirc" meaning if you don't rc I'd still be folding but for an imaginary team?