is today the day?

[Nny]

checking out the Folding@Home stats page:

Speedguide.net 4905581
Macrumors.com 4892041

Looks like we will be passing them soon... very soon.

not that it's a competition... all for a good cause, right? but still.... let's show 'em what we're made of.

--Nny

[wrldwzrd89]

checking out the Folding@Home stats page:

Speedguide.net 4905581
Macrumors.com 4892041

Looks like we will be passing them soon... very soon.

not that it's a competition... all for a good cause, right? but still.... let's show 'em what we're made of.

--Nny
I don't fold currently - I'm trying to decide whether to join the Macrumors.com team. Can you give me a URL to the Folding@Home site?

[Nny]

I don't fold currently - I'm trying to decide whether to join the Macrumors.com team. Can you give me a URL to the Folding@Home site?

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

We are team 3446.

[wrldwzrd89]

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

We are team 3446.
Thanks! I plan to start today as soon as I return to my iMac.

[Don't panic]

welcome to the team, wrldwzrd89!
we certainly can use some fresh cyberblood.

fold on :)

[britboy]

checking out the Folding@Home stats page:

Speedguide.net 4905581
Macrumors.com 4892041

Looks like we will be passing them soon... very soon.

not that it's a competition... all for a good cause, right? but still.... let's show 'em what we're made of.

--Nny

It is indeed all for a good cause. Our cause it to take the mac to the top of the leaderboard! ;)

We're not going to be passing speedguide today though. We'll be shooting by them in about 4 days, most likely.

[wrldwzrd89]

I've downloaded and installed the Folding@home client - I'm waiting for it to configure itself and start folding.
<edit> I just figured out that it doesn't start until Show Protein is selected. It's folding now.</edit>

[Don't panic]

we should clinch the # 18 spot in 3 days on 04.22.04, at 10pm (according to this: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=3446).
Unfortunately our fellow Mac folders at Team MacOSX will zoom by us in a couple months, unless we get some serious extra power online.

So keep folding and get someone else to fold for team 3446!

[wdlove]

Hopefully getting back to our well deserved #18 spot will be the beginning of a strategy to keep us as the #1 Mac Team. If the G5's come out soon we will certainly be well on our way.

[MacFan25]

Hopefully getting back to our well deserved #18 spot will be the beginning of a strategy to keep us as the #1 Mac Team. If the G5's come out soon we will certainly be well on our way.
Yes, but Team Mac OS X will probably still pass us in a few months. But there's no shame in being the #2 Mac Folding Team...or is there? ;)

Fold on! :)

[Vlade]

Yes, but Team Mac OS X will probably still pass us in a few months. But there's no shame in being the #2 Mac Folding Team...or is there? ;)

Fold on! :)

Of course there is! If we get some front page exposure after we pass the next team I am sure that will really boost our performance, it seams we get about 100 new users and then 50 stay,50 uninstall. We need some members to step up and get more points too, I have something I am working on that has the potential to REALLY boost our points!

[adamjay]

Yes, but Team Mac OS X will probably still pass us in a few months.

Heresy!!!

we will remain the #1 Mac Folding Team period.
i just added a 4th machine today, a 2.6ghz Pentium 4
in the next month i'll add another 2.4ghz Pentium 4, and possibly a 733mhz Pentium 3 and/or an Athlon 1ghz.
sure they are pc's but desperate times call for desperate measures... and the only thing they'll be doing is Folding.

yea.... that'll hold em off..

and you better beleive if (heaven forbid) Team Mac OS X does pass us for 1 second, i'll make the last stand with CompUSA's display G5's all set to 3446.

[MrMacMan]

Of course there is! If we get some front page exposure after we pass the next team I am sure that will really boost our performance, it seams we get about 100 new users and then 50 stay,50 uninstall. We need some members to step up and get more points too, I have something I am working on that has the potential to REALLY boost our points!
Yeah it seems we get a temporary boost for like 1-2 WU and then they suddendly die down.

Next time we are mentioned on the front page we really need some links to the programs and to tell them to how and why they should join the team and why to KEEP running the program.

Really, 1/2 retention (I think its more like 1/3) is horrible -- Horrible.

We need to do better.

[Macmaniac]

Well I have done 2 WU's we are well on our way now!

[bousozoku]

Yes, but Team Mac OS X will probably still pass us in a few months. But there's no shame in being the #2 Mac Folding Team...or is there? ;)

Fold on! :)

There wasn't when that's where we were, so I can't see it being the worst thing in the world. At least, we're not in any danger from MacNN or MacCentral or MacAddict.

[MrMacMan]

There wasn't when that's where we were, so I can't see it being the worst thing in the world. At least, we're not in any danger from MacNN or MacCentral or MacAddict.
All of those teams smoked... I don't know, smoked something heavy.

They had a lot of support but it just fell out.


MacAddict was running a good competition with Mac Os X a while back... where are they now eh?

[MacFan25]

Heresy!!!

we will remain the #1 Mac Folding Team period.

With an attitude like that, maybe we can. ;)

But what I was trying to say was that when new G5s are released, Team Mac OS X will probably add some to their team, and we probably will too. The release will help us mac teams competing against PC teams, but not really help MacRumors.com competing against the other mac teams, because they, too, will add G5s to their teams as well. Unless, of course everyone at Macrumors decides to get a new G5 when they come out... ;)

But, I'm confindent that we still have plenty of time to get our daily production higher and remain the #1 Mac Team. :cool:

[benpatient]

i'll be passing 1000 points in a couple of hours...not bad considering:

1. I started a week and a half ago
2. i'm using one machine
3. i've gotten more than a handful of 400 frame tinkers

actually, i think that i might pass 1100 points today if i don't get another one of those beasts...

[MacFan25]

i'll be passing 1000 points in a couple of hours...not bad considering:

1. I started a week and a half ago
2. i'm using one machine
3. i've gotten more than a handful of 400 frame tinkers

actually, i think that i might pass 1100 points today if i don't get another one of those beasts...
Congratulations...and thanks for joining the team. :)

You must be folding with a G5 or fast P4, correct?

[Dros]

i'll be passing 1000 points in a couple of hours...not bad considering:
3. i've gotten more than a handful of 400 frame tinkers

actually, i think that i might pass 1100 points today if i don't get another one of those beasts...

Nice work. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but Stanford has re-done how they figure points, and the machine they use for a reference. The bottom line is that Tinkers are now worth more points. They are also using a P4 to calculate points. Athlons do better on Tinkers compared to P4s, so if you are using Athlons, you should not use the -advmethods flag, and instead welcome as many Tinkers as you can get. Tinkers are still a bad deal for G4s and G5s since they lack Altivec optimization.

[adamjay]

My Pentium box hasn't been able to submit a completed Tinker WU for the last 2 days.

the lines read
- Couldn't send HTTP request to server
+ Could not connect to Work Server (results)
(171.64.122.143:8080)
- Error: Could not transmit unit 04 (completed April 20). Keeping unit in queue.

and then it goes on to continue folding protein: p1006_ppg10_pfold

so it was able to connect to get the new protein, but can't connect to Work Server to send results on this tinker.

how can i fix this??

thanks!

[djbahdow01]

I will be helping out in the efforts once the new PMs are released. Right now my PIII 700 won't do much as i am maxing it out while we speak.

[jbeetz]

My Pentium box hasn't been able to submit a completed Tinker WU for the last 2 days.

the lines read
- Couldn't send HTTP request to server
+ Could not connect to Work Server (results)
(171.64.122.143:8080)
- Error: Could not transmit unit 04 (completed April 20). Keeping unit in queue.

and then it goes on to continue folding protein: p1006_ppg10_pfold

so it was able to connect to get the new protein, but can't connect to Work Server to send results on this tinker.

how can i fix this??

thanks!

No worries, 143 is "down" according to Stanford's server page. Patience, it'll come back up and your results will be returned!

[MrMacMan]

Standford really needs to open Google Only Servers.


Because Google itself makes like 90% of the server load, basically stopping the rest of us for getting and sending work unites!

:mad:

[wrldwzrd89]

This protein I'm working on, p638,L939_K12M, is taking a good while to complete. It's spent about 3 days working on it and it's only 50% done. How can I find out how many points I'll get for folding it successfully?

[britboy]

This protein I'm working on, p638,L939_K12M, is taking a good while to complete. It's spent about 3 days working on it and it's only 50% done. How can I find out how many points I'll get for folding it successfully?

You can usually check the value of each work unit at psummary.html (http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html).
Your's isn't listed at the moment (unless I've just missed it), but my guess would be that it's worth in the region of 138 points.

Good luck with the remaining 50%.

[wrldwzrd89]

You can usually check the value of each work unit at psummary.html (http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html).
Your's isn't listed at the moment (unless I've just missed it), but my guess would be that it's worth in the region of 138 points.

Good luck with the remaining 50%.
I just checked, and it isn't showing up for me either. Also, I'm not listed as a member of the MacRumors team for some reason. Can you help?

[Don't panic]

This protein I'm working on, p638,L939_K12M, is taking a good while to complete. It's spent about 3 days working on it and it's only 50% done. How can I find out how many points I'll get for folding it successfully?

I've got the same! It was worth 70 when it started. I don't know if it's different with the new point system nor, if it is different, whether we are going to get the extra pts.

Also, I'm not listed as a member of the MacRumors team for some reason. Can you help?

what's your folding username?

[Jedda]

Hey Hey!

I've decided to actually put my dual 1.8 Ghz G5 to some practical use and join the folding team.

The beast is ripping through these work units (4 in 25 hours), but I have one question.

Is there any way to utilise the dual processors under screensaver mode.

I think it's only available via the terminal version.

[wrldwzrd89]

I've got the same! It was worth 70 when it started. I don't know if it's different with the new point system nor, if it is different, whether we are going to get the extra pts.



what's your folding username?
I believe I set it to the same as my macrumors handle, wrldwzrd89.

[Rower_CPU]

Hey Hey!

I've decided to actually put my dual 1.8 Ghz G5 to some practical use and join the folding team.

The beast is ripping through these work units (4 in 25 hours), but I have one question.

Is there any way to utilise the dual processors under screensaver mode.

I think it's only available via the terminal version.

Welcome to the team. :)

AFAIK, there is not dual processor screensaver client available. The console version is really much better optimized since it doesn't use any graphical resources, and you don't need to worry about it running all the time since it only uses idle CPU cycles - it should not conflict with your programs.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

[britboy]

I believe I set it to the same as my macrumors handle, wrldwzrd89.

Have you submitted any completed work units yet? You won't show up on the stats until shortly after you submit your first result.

[wrldwzrd89]

Have you submitted any completed work units yet? You won't show up on the stats until shortly after you submit your first result.
No I have not - the protein I mentioned my Mac was working on is my first.

[Don't panic]

I believe I set it to the same as my macrumors handle, wrldwzrd89.

what britboy said.
from your previous posts it looks the big tinker is your first work unit.
At least you'll start with a bang!
You won't show up in the stats until that first one is (automatically) submitted.

fold on

[Mav451]

I'm considering joining the Macrumors group...i have 2 questions though:

1) Athlon optimizations. Someone mentioned I should disable advmethods flag or something like that...where do i set this in config? (I'm using the newbie GUI one rite now :) )

2) Its giving me a "Could Not Connect To Work server" error.

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm considering joining the Macrumors group...i have 2 questions though:

1) Athlon optimizations. Someone mentioned I should disable advmethods flag or something like that...where do i set this in config? (I'm using the newbie GUI one rite now :) )

2) Its giving me a "Could Not Connect To Work server" error.
I can't answer #1 for you, but I can answer #2 - the work server is experiencing heavy load right now, and is frequently refusing connections. You'll just have to try again later.

[Rower_CPU]

As for #1, -advmethods makes sure you download the newest cores/units (typically Gromacs). Check out the console install info page for a complete list of the switches and their functions.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/console-userguide.html

Make sure you look at the forceasm switch for 3DNow optimization on your Athlon.

[britboy]

As for #1, -advmethods makes sure you download the newest cores/units (typically Gromacs). Check out the console install info page for a complete list of the switches and their functions.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/console-userguide.html

Make sure you look at the forceasm switch for 3DNow optimization on your Athlon.

For an Athlon, it's faster to use the -forcesse switch, rather than relying on 3DNow.

Mav451> to use the -advmethods switch, go to your startup folding (start > programs > startup), and bring up the properties for folding@home 4.00. Where it says Target: "c:\program files\etc etc....", add the -advmethods switch at the end. ie. "c:\program files\etc etc..." -advmethods

You can add as many switches as you want.

Thanks again to mc68k for guiding me through this one just recently ;)

[Rower_CPU]

Thanks for the clarification, britboy. I wasn't aware that SSE was better than 3DNow for F@H.

[britboy]

np rower. I was bored for a couple of hours, so I checked out the stanford forums. Amazing how much you can pick up just from reading other person's comments........ I knew almost nothing about which switch did what until I actually read the instructions :rolleyes:

Perhaps this might even help you rack up some extra points?

[Rower_CPU]

It may, but I think our 1GHz Intels at work are doing all they can. :(

[britboy]

You know, I think you might just be right there. -forcesse only works on athlon processors. Never mind...... :o

[Nny]

we should clinch the # 18 spot in 3 days on 04.22.04, at 10pm (according to this: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=3446).

we missed our goal! what happened? did we loose some people or are people just waiting to turn in big tinkers? i myself am workign on a 135 point GROMAC right now that is taking awhile.

thanks for that link, Don't Panic. says we should be there in 2 more days. time for me to get back to folding and stop wasting processor power by checking the forums.... hehe

[bousozoku]

we missed our goal! what happened? did we loose some people or are people just waiting to turn in big tinkers? i myself am workign on a 135 point GROMAC right now that is taking awhile.

thanks for that link, Don't Panic. says we should be there in 2 more days. time for me to get back to folding and stop wasting processor power by checking the forums.... hehe

That's Gromacs. We're only about 5000 points behind the other team. I'm quite surprised because my daily average is hovering around 100 points per day--which is nearly my highest of 106 ppd. We're getting close but we've got teams coming up quickly too.

[MrMacMan]

Yeah we are looking up and looking down.... soon soon.

[Rower_CPU]

Everyone is seeing an uptick due to Tinkers clearing out and the new point scheme - but we've got members upping their output, too.

I'm glad to see bertman back on the attack. It's great to see you cranking out the WUs like mad, bert'. :)

[Mav451]

Just great. I did a whole day of folding, using the console version, but i have no credit at all on the Stanford site. None. Even my name doesn't show up. Wut's going on?

Now i just started using the GUI version, hopefully this will at least show up on the records :cool:

[stoid]

yay! I finally hit 5000! Go Team MacRumors!!

*dances*

[Rower_CPU]

Just great. I did a whole day of folding, using the console version, but i have no credit at all on the Stanford site. None. Even my name doesn't show up. Wut's going on?

Now i just started using the GUI version, hopefully this will at least show up on the records :cool:

You may or may not have noted this line in the FAQ:
Q: Where can I find statistics for my contribution to the team and our position relative to other F@H teams?
A: There are several places you can find statistics:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/stats.html
Extreme Overclocking (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overview.php?TeamID=3446)
MacNN Stats (http://teamstats.macnn.com/fold/stats.php?page=b1&TID=3446)

Please allow some time for your work units (WUs) to register in the Stanford server.

You double-check your config file to make sure your name and team # are right, but if they are it's just a matter of time for Stanford to process your info and add you to the stats. I'd really recommend sticking with the console for optimum performance.

[bousozoku]

Just great. I did a whole day of folding, using the console version, but i have no credit at all on the Stanford site. None. Even my name doesn't show up. Wut's going on?

Now i just started using the GUI version, hopefully this will at least show up on the records :cool:

Did you finish anything? Uncompleted work units don't show up anywhere but on your machine.

[Dreadnought]

Hi all,

Still on my vacation in Greece, so my two macs are still offline, but next week I am back! So, I read that you need me desperately!! Well, have to lie another week in the sun (the punishment!!) and then I'll be back!

Keep on folding all!

Greetz, Dreadnought

[Mav451]

Did you finish anything? Uncompleted work units don't show up anywhere but on your machine.

Hehe, actually I just finished this morning.
Well I'm on the listing now, I feel so special now :)

[bousozoku]

Hehe, actually I just finished this morning.
Well I'm on the listing now, I feel so special now :)

Ah ha. Virgins are always so impatient. ;) :D

Congratulations! Now, get back to work. :D

[MrMacMan]

We're #18!

yay!

Keep it up.

congrats guys!

[wrldwzrd89]

We're #18!

yay!

Keep it up.

congrats guys!
I'm doing my best - I'm 96.25% done folding this humongous tinker I got when I started folding. It'll probably complete today, while I'm away from my Mac, no doubt. It's p638_L939_K12M, if you're curious.

[kbonnel]

Well, I just jumped into the folding fun. I put my Dual Athlon MP (1.2Gigs) box on it, and my AMD2000+, and my AMD3200+, and as soon as my new PB1.5 comes in, it will also go to work. I would add my AMD1700+, but it is my firewall, and I don't want to set up the proper IPTABLES right now :).. Give me a couple of days.

Hopefully this will help the team.

Kimo

[Arkillion]

Glad to see we are back in #18. I just recently made my first 1,000.

[Don't panic]

Well, I just jumped into the folding fun. I put my Dual Athlon MP (1.2Gigs) box on it, and my AMD2000+, and my AMD3200+, and as soon as my new PB1.5 comes in, it will also go to work. I would add my AMD1700+, but it is my firewall, and I don't want to set up the proper IPTABLES right now :).. Give me a couple of days.

Hopefully this will help the team.

Kimo

welcome!
and yes, it will help!

[Jedda]

Just interested to know if im churning out what i should be.

Ive done 19 WUs in just under 46 hours.

Is this sufficient?

[MrMacMan]

Just interested to know if im churning out what i should be.

Ive done 19 WUs in just under 46 hours.

Is this sufficient?
19 Work units in under 46 hours?

Wow, how many machines you got going there... thats crazy.


Yes sufficent... way past it.


You Rock! :D (or could he mean points... ohhh... maybe he means points)

If you mean points... then your machine is underpreforming...

really depends on what you mean.

[bousozoku]

Just interested to know if im churning out what i should be.

Ive done 19 WUs in just under 46 hours.

Is this sufficient?

Sounds as though you've been processing p563 and p568 WUs. :) They go pretty quickly, even for those of us with older machines.

[Jedda]

I have 2 DP 1.8 G5s folding all night, and during the day when im at school.

I mean WU's and not points.

One of my G5's is having trouble uploading stuff, so the folding site says ive only done 13. I'll fix that problem.

Glad it's going nice and quick.

Hope I can contribute to the team.

- J

[britboy]

Hope I can contribute to the team.

- J

Sounds to me like you already are :cool:

Welcome to the team.

[wrldwzrd89]

I've made my first contribution to the MacRumors team - I finally got done folding that large tinker. I got another WU for the same protein.

[MrMacMan]

Well thanks Jedda and thanks wrldwzrd89.


Your support will help is greatly. :D

Welcome to the team and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.