Posted on 12/22/2007 12:29:27 PM PST by texas booster
As we approach one million PLAYSTATION 3 consoles participating in the Folding@Home program, we continue to improve the FAH client. With the new Firmware v2.1 we also prepared an updated version of FAH, which can soon be automatically downloaded by clicking on the FAH icon. This updated version includes the following new features:
If you happen to be one of the people that wants to leave their machine running after they finished their late-night gaming session, but wish to shut it down after a limited period of time, we have a great tip for you:
Go to Settings menu, select Automatic Shutdown and then After Current. You will see a little clock appearing on the top right hand corner of the screen. When this clock reaches zero, the machine will power off completely so you can sleep quietly through the night. In this option the machine will power off after sending the data back to Stanford University so your contribution to the project is maximized.
You may also choose to shut down after a limited period of time (for example, 3 or 4 hours). To do that choose the Automatic Shutdown option and click on the “In 01h:00m” timer. You will now be able to change the timer settings. After rotating the timer to a new time, you should now see your selected timer appear at the top right corner of the screen. This timer will count all the way down to 0 and then power off the system.
To disable active timer at any time, go to Settings, choose Automatic Shutdown and then Disable.
What’s a better Holiday addition to Folding than playing music? We’ve added a great feature in this version in the form of a background music player:
To activate the music player select Music and then a channel. The channels are automatically populated with songs you have stored on your Hard Disk Drive! For holiday music I prefer to choose Dramatic (yeah!) and voila - music is playing.
If you wish to skip to another track, just use a combination of X + left or right arrow. You can also change the channel by choosing X + up or down arrow. Happy listening!
To stop music from playing, select Music again from the main menu and choose “disable.”
Your music playback selection will be saved between consecutive runs of Folding@home.
We hope that these enhancements help improve your FAH experience. The response from PS3 owners really has been spectacular, and thanks to you, the most powerful distributed computer network in the world continues to grow.
Additional information can be found at:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/18/new-foldinghome-features-coming/
The F@H program is free, but it is a tremendous success, no doubt.
I do think that there are PS3 titles that have sold more copies than have been D/L.
BTW, the songs that F@H plays are in the MUSIC collection on the PS3 hard drive.
Thanks again. I wonder if this one’s gif sig is generated on the fly?
http://dcstat.com/sig/2783.gif
Must be then...
She seems to belong to several DC’s.
I just want to see if my numbers will change. They should.
FAHMonitor is currently offline. The server it sits on is in pieces in my shop. I was hoping to have the application converted to a new platform, and running on a different server (ASP conversion to RubyOnRails), but the new version is not yet ready for prime time.
My apologies to those of you who use the tool on a regular basis!
Bummer. I know that lots of folks use it, literally across the world, including folders that are not part of FR.
Good luck getting it going. Hey, you have Tuesday morning free don’t you? ;’)
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120
That means that your folding installation on whatever platform is working well.
Please ping if you have any questions.
Can you imagine the PMS quotient in that operation? :^)
I added one of my computers yesterday and a second the today, I used the same login name on both. Will this work?
It will work just fine, as long as you use the same team number, 36120.
Sometimes folks don’t put in the team number and are merrily folding for “Anonymous”.
You can have as many systems folding as you want using your same name.
Here is the link to view new users, for about a week after their first points:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120
Hope to have over 2mil points by this time next year
got to have goals
You hit 600,000 points on Dec 31 2007! Not bad. It seems as though your PPD doubled in Sept.
You are producing 33% of the points that the entire DUmmies team is pumping out.
Not bad for just one FReeper!
in jan-feb I hope to upgrade the cpu on my main computer and go smp with it and replace the motherboard and cpu on one lightning got last spring
You have been climbing real fast. you should be in top 5 by summer at the rate you are going.
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