Doge4F@H - report (2017-06)



Comrades, shibes,

In 2014, we reached to you for the creation of a fund to make our community discover Folding@Home. Since then, the project has matured a lot.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project which uses the power of more than 200 000 computers across the World, generating 42 000 Teraflops. All this power is dedicated to scientific research, aiming to cure diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease and many forms of cancer.

The Doge4F@H initiative aims to donate unused computing power to Science. This computing power is provided by people who are no longer mining with their equipment or who simply would like to lend a helping hand, and at the same time, thank those shibes for their services by offering them a symbolic amount of dogecoin.

In order to thank shibes who concentrate their efforts to help science, we continually raise funds and redistribute, each week, a part, according to the contribution of each one to the work of that week.

Whether you have a simple computer or a GPU rig, you can make good use of your computing power, and help scientists in their effort to look for remedies.

You can also send your donations in dogecoin; they will go directly to scientific research, and at the same time will be redistributed to the community. Difficult to make better use of it!

Send your donations to DCFaH9p7NBKkHdhQ2cEaZ89sMTcFXTBHdR

1,000,000 dogecoins raised

During the first two years of the campaign, we succeeded to raise enough dogecoin to launch the project and offer a weekly reward defying traditional mining of dogecoin.

In April 2016, we launched the project on our website: dogecoinfah.com and began paying the participants with a weekly prize pool starting at 20,000 DOGE and gradually moving towards our goal.

Since February 12, 2017, we have distributed 50,000 doge per week to nearly 25 contributors. Actually, our team counts as many as 73 contributors!

History of contributions and payouts in the Doge4F@H initiative

174th worldwide!

The dogefolders team moved up to 174th position, out of 226,696 other teams. We have contributed with 731,705,388 points and completed 110,996 work units.

Points and units of the Doge4F@H initiative

Getting started

Eager to join the Doge4F@H adventure? Head up to DogeCoinFaH.com!

To learn more about Dogecoin, the currency that propels you to the Moon, visit Dogecoin.com!

To learn more about Folding@Home, visit the dedicated section of Stanford University's official website.

The community

Join our community to discuss the project, Dogecoin or anything you care about:

Facebook page: fb.com/Doge4FaH

Twitter account: @Doge4FaH

Subreddit: /r/DogecoinFaH

Official IRC Chat: #dogecoin-f@h on Freenode

Or contact us by email @ dogecoinfah.com

Q&A

1. What does the community benefit from this project?

The satisfaction of being charitable; to give to others and help scientific research against diseases that mankind has been suffering for too long.

Dogecoin also gains exposition, with the promotional campaign that surrounds the project. In addition, with the place that our team will have among other folders, we will draw the attention of the organizing institution, the Pande Group, as well as Stanford University (which is responsible for making the results accessible to the scientific community).

2. What is the current DogeFolders team ranking?

Prior to the launch of the project, our team was ranked 8056th (96%). In the past 2 years, we have made a huge leap forward!

Now the dogefolders team is ranked 174th out of 226,696 teams around the World. This means that we are doing better than 99.922% of the teams; and we have got only 0.078% of the teams to surpass!

3. What is the reward system for folders?

Since February 12, 2017 and for each week, a prize pool of 50,000 doge is withdrew from community donations and distributed among the folders according to their contribution to all the work done during the past week.

The reward received by a folder (Rf) represents the proportion of the points it has acquired (Pf) compared to the points acquired by the entire team (Peq), taken from the 50,000 doge prize pool.

4. What material is required for "folding"?

You can fold with your CPU and GPU together.

Graphics cards fold faster than CPU; but the difference is not as striking as for the mining. You can also do folding with your CPU "while" you mine with your GPU, or even use both while you mining with your ASIC.

5. Can I fold with my ASIC?

No. ASIC hardware is made to generate hash keys according to a specific algorithm. The folding concerns different work, changing according to the project you are granted. Each job includes several mathematical simulation operations that have no relation to the cryptographic algorithms.

6. Is it intense for my computer?

Here, we consider a maximum power folding. The other powers (normal and low) do not slow down or heat the computer.

— CPU

If you are doing CPU folding with a laptop, it will be hot and the fab will run accordingly to cool it. If you are using a desktop computer, the fan is effective enough to keep it cool and stable.

This does not really slow down your computer; except if you fold with an old CPU (older than an Intel i3).

— GPU

Folding is much less intense than mining. The heat is moderate (eg. 60 °C to 57% of the fan, stable for an old HD 6970). Newer GPU do much better, with 60 °C at 30% of the fan speed. Moreover, folding consumes much less electric power than mining.

The performance of the computer is diminished but it does not limit the daily use of a computer (surfing the Web, watching movies, etc.). However, you will not be able to launch a video game or a graphics application at the same time that you fold at maximum power.

7. Who can we contact about this initiative?

TheDude1693, Jahus, SoCo_cpp

Or contact us by email @ dogecoinfah.com

Behind the project

/u/SoCo_cpp

/u/EvairFairy

/u/MaximaxII

@Jahus

/u/thedude1693

@mohus



