I switched just for you guys.

[CarlsonCustoms]

I was on the totally rad show folding team but now on my PS3 i switched over to my mac brethren.

Let's find a cure,

GO TEAM

Zack

[4JNA]

you rock, oh yeah and Welcome to the team!

i LOVE the pics of the home theater by the way. can't believe you can fit that much in an apartment, and glad i'm not in apartments anymore as your neighbor! :eek: best of luck with the sale.

PS3 is a load and go, but if you end up with anything else to fold to victory on and have questions, please let us know. thanks.

[mc68k]

thanks

[twoodcc]

thanks for joining us! we need all the help we can get. our team just got passed by 2 teams this week :(

[sjjordan]

thanks for joining us! we need all the help we can get. our team just got passed by 2 teams this week :(

I also joined the team. I've got 2 C2D 2.16Ghz iMacs running. They'll be folding 24/7. Hopefully this'll help out!

[twoodcc]

I also joined the time. I've got 2 C2D 2.16Ghz iMacs running. They'll be folding 24/7. Hopefully this'll help out!

thanks! we need you! those are some nice machines also, that should help out a lot.

[CarlsonCustoms]

What client are you guys using on your macs? I went to the stanford site to download their mac client and all I got was a page not found error. There download list works but when you click to actually download the program the page isn't found.

Zack

[snap58]

What client are you guys using on your macs? I went to the stanford site to download their mac client and all I got was a page not found error. There download list works but when you click to actually download the program the page isn't found.

Zack

I am using the SMP 6.10 beta2 on the C2D's, works great.

This page?

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

[gotzero]

I have a C2D mini and a quad Xeon Dell Poweredge (linux) sitting idle most of the day.

Anyone know how to run folding on them with an override when I need them and am away from home?

I am sure my whole setup would get smoked by a PS3, but I would love to help if I can.

[GoKyu]

I joined up maybe 2 weeks ago and I jumped from like 850+ already up to 237...I keep Folding running on my Mac Pro 24/7, and the nice thing is, it really crunches the numbers, but I *never* feel any kind of lag from it :)

I was wondering, does this Folding project help at all with diabetes? I didn't specifically see anything about that disease on their site, and I have a few really close friends who have it...

-Bryan

[4JNA]

...does this Folding project help at all with diabetes?

not listed as a current study by stanford, but all folding research will help advance all knowledge of related disease. diabetes has been linked to mis-folded proteins, and work is ongoing by other universities. LINK (http://www.curingdeath.com/Research/Problems_with_insulin_folding_may_lead_to_diabetes.asp) to one of the more current results.

thanks for folding.

[sjjordan]

not listed as a current study by stanford, but all folding research will help advance all knowledge of related disease. diabetes has been linked to mis-folded proteins, and work is ongoing by other universities. LINK (http://www.curingdeath.com/Research/Problems_with_insulin_folding_may_lead_to_diabetes.asp) to one of the more current results.

thanks for folding.

Guys, we just got passed by another team this week! My small 3000 points/day isn't picking up the slack.

[twoodcc]

Guys, we just got passed by another team this week! My small 3000 points/day isn't picking up the slack.

yeah, it keep messing up on my mac pro, so i'm now only folding with my PS3

[meeble]

its working fine on a couple of MacPro's for me - what exactly is happening?

[sjjordan]

its working fine on a couple of MacPro's for me - what exactly is happening?

Woot! Just made the top 100 on team MacRumors!

This is addicting!

MUST FIND MORE MACHINES!

[twoodcc]

Woot! Just made the top 100 on team MacRumors!

This is addicting!

MUST FIND MORE MACHINES!

haha. good work!

[iShater]

Looks like the team is losing ground. I haven't folded in years, and I just started again, but boy, we are not gaining on anybody! :(

[twoodcc]

Looks like the team is losing ground. I haven't folded in years, and I just started again, but boy, we are not gaining on anybody! :(

yeah i know. we just don't have enough people. i was folding, then i wasn't, now i am again, for now at least.

[meeble]

yeah, but the whole project is not!

[iToaster]

I've been curious about F@H recently. I've got a Mac Pro idle for most of the day that I'd love to contribute... do I need to do anything aside from getting the program from the website and turning it on in system prefs... my viewer only shows a demo, is there something more I should be doing, this makes me think so.

[twoodcc]

I've been curious about F@H recently. I've got a Mac Pro idle for most of the day that I'd love to contribute... do I need to do anything aside from getting the program from the website and turning it on in system prefs... my viewer only shows a demo, is there something more I should be doing, this makes me think so.

pretty much you just install it, turn it on in system prefs, and that's it.

[iShater]

I've been curious about F@H recently. I've got a Mac Pro idle for most of the day that I'd love to contribute... do I need to do anything aside from getting the program from the website and turning it on in system prefs... my viewer only shows a demo, is there something more I should be doing, this makes me think so.

I'm losing track of the Mac HW details, is yours the dual-core dual-CPU system? if so, you can download an SMP-version of the application that can use the dual processors. I forget where the link was, but you get to it from the Folding homepage.

I might add my iMac to my PowerBook and my work PC, and I think I have an old PC sitting under my desk at home.

[scienide09]

For those of you using the SMP client, are you finding that you have to run pretty much 24/7 in order to make the work unit deadlines?

[iShater]

For those of you using the SMP client, are you finding that you have to run pretty much 24/7 in order to make the work unit deadlines?

I'm using the InCrease client, which on my iMac started using the SMP core. The deadlines are tights, and I am probably going to switch to the normal client when I am done with the current unit and just kick off two local cores. That way I have a normal deadline, and both cores work when the iMac is on.

[iShater]

I did notice that the SMP deadlines are tight, but if you run the normal client, it is PPC only, and the points you get are low. Boo!

[mc68k]

For those of you using the SMP client, are you finding that you have to run pretty much 24/7 in order to make the work unit deadlines?the biggest factor is your clock speed for shaving off time on each step of the WU. if you are not doing CPU intensive tasks the time for each step should remain pretty constant. say each step requires an average of 16 minutes you could multiply that by 100 for the steps and get 1600 minutes. thats 26 hours if running 24/7. the deadline is like 3 or 4 days so you could take some breaks in between there and get it done. say each step is 20 minutes then your looking at 33 hours etc

so yeah if you take small breaks no prob, but if you leave it off for a day or more you may be cutting it close.

[iShater]

the biggest factor is your clock speed for shaving off time on each step of the WU. if you are not doing CPU intensive tasks the time for each step should remain pretty constant. say each step requires an average of 16 minutes you could multiply that by 100 for the steps and get 1600 minutes. thats 26 hours if running 24/7. the deadline is like 3 or 4 days so you could take some breaks in between there and get it done. say each step is 20 minutes then your looking at 33 hours etc

so yeah if you take small breaks no prob, but if you leave it off for a day or more you may be cutting it close.

You're definitely haulin' on the stats, what kinda rig are you running?

[mc68k]

You're definitely haulin' on the stats, what kinda rig are you running?
well not hauling anymore since the job switch :(

but my main home desktop rig is

gigabyte p35t-dq6
e8200 6mb cache @ 3.65GHz
ddr3 @1.82GHz

triple booting 10.5
hardy heron
and XP SP3

each folding step on a SMP unit takes about 10.5 mins