Welcome Sledgehammer70 to Team 93!
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
I have joined the Folding@Home team 93 
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It depends on the size of the Work Unit. My experience has been that Stanford usually starts you off with a smaller one. If that's the case you'll be on the board in a day or two. Bigger WU's take somewhat longer, but are worth more points.
Welcome to The Team!
:celebrate
whats another 30 CPU's to a good cause:)
Welcome to the team, Sledgehammer. It's always good to see new faces here.
Wow Dude that is some computing power you have there.
If you don't mind me asking, what does one do with so much hardware
Planning on taking over the world???
Seriously though, I think its great that we can do some good from the comfort of our home with little or no extra expense to ourselves. I have been looking into joining up but would appreciate a bit more info than the site gives.
EDIT: Shouldn't be a problem. Every couple of days each computer will upload the finished WU, then download a new one. They are just a couple MB's in size.
Other than that, there is no Internet usage at all - unless you get really hooked (like many of us) and check your Stats at Stanford fifty times a day.
I see stanfords going to like you
Do you have any of your work on the net where I can go to a site and check it out?
Here is an image of a few of my work Beasts lol!
whats involved with registering?
What software do they put on your PC? How often do you have to upload the information or is it done automatically when you log on?
Does the speed of your connection make a difference? Do you get a better score running one powerful PC or a few smaller spec?
I have 10 Pent 4 - 3.6Ghz Pros's chopping away at info so far
A small program which simulates the way proteins Fold (and misFold). The program may be downloaded here. Many of us prefer the Windows NT/2000/XP "No-nonsense" text-only console (with built-in Windows-service-install option), but there is also a graphical version.
The software makes use of unused CPU cycles. If all you're doing is surfing the 'Net and reading email it is likely that you are using only a minute amount of your processor. When you do something more CPU-intensive (like gaming, or something such as Sledgehammer70's graphic crunching) the program automatically backs off and frees up whatever resources your programs require. Folding essentially supplants the System Idle Process, meaning that your computer is doing something useful instead of just twiddling it's thumbs.
It's your preference. Most people set it to automatically turn in finished work and get a new WU. You can also set the program to ask you first.
Not in the least. As long as your connection is stable enough to upload and download a 2-3 MB WU every few days you're fine.
The faster your CPU the faster you'll finish a WU. My worst machine at the moment is an Athlon 850; my best is an Athlon64 3500+. Needless to say, the latter machine outscores the former.
I only have internet connectivity on one. Am I able to fold on all three and transfer the info to the computer that can connect to the net and send it on from there?
Did you choose the console or the graphical client?
sorry prof just making sure you didn't miss this question
I know some of our teammates who travel a lot and have limited Internet access at times will download a bunch of WU's, crunch them while they're on the road, then send them all back in at once when they return. That is all done on one machine, though.
I'm kind of leaning toward saying you can't (unless you are using Internet Connection Sharing). There would be too much risk of point fraud, since there would be jerks who'd just copy the same WU over and over again to inflate their score.
But as I said, I'm not an expert in this particular area. If no one else pipes up with a definitive answer I'll do a little more research and find out.
Like I said I really do not want to do that if I can help it, so your feedback with regards to my previous question would be greatly appreciated