What can I do with the points?

[Fredy46]

Hello

Hello
I find a lot of information about the points you can collect here (and much more).
But what I haven't found, is an answer to why I collect points here.
What can I do with it?
Maybe I have overlooked the information?

Thanks for help

[bruce]

You can compete with others who are also collecting points.

you can be proud of your contributions.

(In other words, nothing.)

[Fredy46]

Thank you very much, I was thinking something like that ^^

[Neil-B]

Over time they can actually be relatively useful as a "metric" for monitoring your own kit … You get used to a certain level of points per day/week and if these shift it can give you a bit of a heads up that something might not be as you expect.

[AlanTheBeast]

I mainly see them as a handy metric for how my son's 2018 6 core (12 thread) + GeForce GPU is beating the pants off of my 2012 iMac i7 4 core (8 thread) whose GPU us not usable for folding....

iMac: 30,000 pt/day
Linux box: 275,000 pts/day.

[TPL]

Two things. First, as mentioned they are good metrics of speed. You know when your effort is maximized (if that is your goal of course).
Second, it is a kind of confirmation your contribution is worth it. You don't need to check every log file to see if your WUs have been successful or not.

[FoldingFodder]

F@H points are just like every other useless internet points. Gamification to get more engagement.

[AnClar]

F@H is a grind...in a very good way! It's like every other gaming grind we've ever been involved in. It takes a long time to get to the top, it can be sorta boring along the way, and at the end all you get is some more relatively useless armor or a fancy weapon. The F@H grind has one key difference: the end result can be to help science defeat diseases that are sickening and killing humans. That's a grind I'm happy to be a part of.

[fold_all_the_things]

Over time they can actually be relatively useful as a "metric" for monitoring your own kit … You get used to a certain level of points per day/week and if these shift it can give you a bit of a heads up that something might not be as you expect.

Not anymore though, so many people joined the project that sometimes all my systems fold all day every day, then sometimes they do hardly anything for a week.
We put up part of our render farm on the project on march 28th, making easily 10m points per day for a while then it just went down hill from there and has not recovered since april 9th. Yesterday we earned 1.1m points total.

It's great for the project, but means I need to find a new benchmark. We used to deploy a disk image with F@H to benchmark new systems and let it run for about a day or two, that's impossible now.

[PantherX]

Welcome to the F@H Forum fold_all_the_things,

Currently, the demand for WUs has exceeded the supply for WUs. Thus, there's a shortage. However, work is happening on various levels to resolve this as fast as humanly possible during the pandemic.

[HaloJones]

"I can make a hat, or a plane"

[PantherX]

"I can make a hat,...

*Curls up in a ball shrieking, not the hats, anything but the hats*
Ahem... I still remember this and don't think I can forget the time when we had an influx of hat questions on the Forum: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=14347 Appreciated the Donors but couldn't answer the hat questions.

[Neil-B]

Now you have gone and done it … I want Super Flying Cowboy Hat … Can you tell me where I can get one?

[PantherX]

Now you have gone and done it … I want Super Flying Cowboy Hat … Can you tell me where I can get one?

It can be all yours... it is just a click away: <Click> but wait, it you double click now you can get another one too for a very low and special deal costing 1 internet brownie point: <Click Click>
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