Hi,

Just a quick idea before I hit the hay.

How does a x404 Folding@Home team sound? Will probably be pwnt by Sas with his over 9000 rigs, but still.

Sorry, I don't want to change. I think the CPC (and now bit-tech team) needs us more so we can reach the world no 4 spot and beyond.

I'm up for it if one is set up.

NO, NO, NO.

The CPC folding team is one of the top teams in the world and let's keep it that way. I also don't feel that all those involved in Folding over the years are the driving force behind these changes and it isn't fair to damage or even all but destroy the progress of the CPC folding team.

No.

CPC folding team all the way.

Hi guys - ditto from me.

When I resume folding I shall be joining whichever team I feel I like the most. I was planning on the CPC team, and I urge everyone here to do so as well; taking the high road etc.

But if there is an x404 team then that'll be the one for me.

As an (ex? )PCPro person folding for what was the CustomPC team, I'm slightly unsure what to do.

An important thing to note is that it doesn't matter to the overall Folding@home project which team people are in - just that as many people people as possible contribute. The teams are just a way to encourage and bring people in.

When we were all together at the Dennis site the obvious team for people like me was the one with the nice people over at forum 18. Now that the CPC part of the forums has completely closed and been moved to bit-tech and the remaining portals, when they return, are to be permanently separated that is no longer the case. I won't be moving the bit tech-forums and can therefore see no particular reason to fold for their team (I have to say that changing the name hasn't helped - bit-tech already had a team of their own). I would imagine that most of the actual CustomPC folding people will move to bit-tech and stay in that team and I completely understand why they would.

However, if we did form a new x404 team it might encourage some of our members from the other Dennis portals who weren't previously folding to join - which would be good for the project overall, and it would provide a natural team for dispossessed people like me. The only problem I can see really is that this is Saspro's domain and it would be slightly weird if it had a folding team that he wasn't involved with, particularly given his large contribution to the folding project (I'm assuming he'll be staying with the CPC team). I can start a team if he doesn't mind - perhaps we should have a poll?

I quite agree. The CustomPC team was great, but the top end of the table was a tall order for new starters and even with my 90,000 points I was still near the bottom end. I started folding for TeamUbuntu recently, mainly because it was more relevant to me at the time, but happy to fold for the new forum! I'm a casual folder and can't keep up with the 24 hour server farmers in CPC!

For the time being I'm sticking with Custom PC and urge everybody else to do the same.
The Custom PC team is the magazines team and the magazine so far hasn't changed (they're actually doing more for us folders), I've got issues with the team name change but that may just be a kneejerk reaction to getting the equivalent of the "you've got 10 minutes to pack your bags and f*ck off" approach DI did to the forums. It's also not James' (Lizard) or Alex's (Sifter) fault the online presence has changed.

If the situation changes in the future (and I hope it doesn't) then I'll consider a team but as we've got got a perfectly good team (who needs all the help we can to stay 5th in the world) we should all stay.

What the flippity flip are you all talking about?

Folding paper - check
Folding money - check
Folding time/space continuum - check

How the wossname do you fold a forum, why do it in teams and what's the point?

To win.

Not really.

To contribute to medical sciences. The teams are there to encourage people to spend money on hardware they don't need.. oh wait, they are there so that there is a competitive edge to the whole thing.

I would be willing to join an x404 team as soon as I find an OpenSolaris client for my server...

It's protein folding- distributed computing where computers all over the world process data from Stanford Uni Clicky

I have just set up my folding/test rig and with two instances of F@H it looks like I could produce around 1500 points a day. That's an E6600 based PC. My old Athlon 2800+ is currently doing about 180 points When I upgrade the graphics in my main system later this year, I might be able to include an 8800GTS in my folding/test rig.

Actually i believe it will be the other way around, with a merge between the Bit-tech and CPC folding teams, but more like the Bit-tech team moving over to the CustomPC team since they are ranked higher.