Do my seti@home points transfer over?

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johnbabrick
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Do my seti@home points transfer over?

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Since seti@home concluded recently I am now using my computer to fold proteins. My question is, do I get credit for the 9,786,202 Cobblestones of computation? That's 8.46 quintillion floating point operations, mind you.
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Re: Do my seti@home points transfer over?

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Welcome to Folding@Home

No.

Folding points are never transferable.

If I wanted some degree of transfer, I would choose another BOINC project.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

GPUGRID.net and Rosetta@Home seem somewhat similar to F@H.
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Re: Do my seti@home points transfer over?

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Hi johnbabrick, welcome to Folding and to this forum.

Folding@home and SETI@home don't share the same distributing computing platform/ ecosystem and the credits are not transferable between the two projects. Additionally, points in Folding@home cannot be transferred to a different user or team once they have been credited. Just something to keep in mind.
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Post by Harry Cummins »

I'm another SETI orphan looking for a good project to support. I did SETI for over 20 years amassing 73 million cobblestones (#572 worldwide) and 23 thousand units before moving to cobblestones. I did look at teams, but only the top 100 seemed to show. I was wondering how to get a full listing of teams hoping that a team or teams had been formed by SETI orphans. I was on the Planetary Society team in SETI. Could use some help getting to the right place.
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Post by Joe_H »

The third party stats site at Extreme Overclocking - https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ - currently is tracking the top 12,000 teams and tracks individual stats for members of the top 800(?) teams. That might get you some team names.
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Re: Do my seti@home points transfer over?

Post by anandhanju »

The entire Teams list (text file) can be downloaded from https://foldingathome.org/statistics/ . This has around 110k teams, with several having "SETI" in their names. Perhaps one of these may be a good fit? You can see the team members and their contributions over at https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams to see if there's anyone you recognize from your SETI teams.
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