Folding@Home: Team rank and member drive

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by mc68k




…and elvis, vile, etc. thanks to all those crazy unix nerds.

I would recommend the book that pimentoLoaf suggests. I read it through on a recent 9-day vacation an have learned lots. I have the opposite problem as you guys w/emacs. I was going to suggest vi, but I know of almost no one who can use it properly. It is very powerful though.

For example, to get rid of the ^M's at the end of every line you could have typed:

:%s/.$//g

vi does have a lot to remember. I tried emacs and it made me appreciate vi. But the battle will always rage on just like Ford vs. Chevy, etc.

I would rather use ed than vi, even if vi is a shell for ed. Recently, while using cygwin, I couldn't get vi to work and I resorted to Notepad. Then, the instructor asked me to help other people use vi.

My first 32-bit C compiler was Mark Williams C on the Atari ST and they had what they called micro shell and micro emacs. Before Win3.0, I used Epsilon on DOS because it was so close to emacs. Then, there was PerfectWriter on CP/M, which also used the key bindings of emacs. Borland's editor can also be configured that way.

[mc68k]

Originally posted by bousozoku


I would rather use ed than vi, even if vi is a shell for ed. Recently, while using cygwin, I couldn't get vi to work and I resorted to Notepad.

vi is a shell for ex. ed seems even more basic than ex. I like vi better than Word, hands down. No formatting, just the way I like it.

[pimentoLoaf]

Those of you who have clicked my F@H name and wondered about that reeeeal early date of my joining, take a lookie here.

Sad, though, how I can specify in the Windows F@H how I'd like to generate G@H data but I can only handle F@H on me Mac.

(The G@H client is the old DOS program; still works, and I'm crunching a 56-rotamer wu right now from early August; once that's done, it'll back to a p180 that has a 12-day return.)

[Mr. Anderson]

so after leaving the machine on all night and part of the day I've actually got 41 frames done - it seems to be doing about one frame every 20+ minutes. Hows this compair to some of you others?

D

[firewire2001]

Originally posted by dukestreet
so after leaving the machine on all night and part of the day I've actually got 41 frames done - it seems to be doing about one frame every 20+ minutes. Hows this compair to some of you others?

D

i seem to get 1 frame ever 14 minutes on my 1ghz machine.. (amd t-bird)...

and sumthing like 25+ minutes on my 400 mhz celeron... ive really not checked much..

-f

[bousozoku]

My G3/400 is currently doing one every 26 minutes and the dual G4/800 finishes a frame every 7 minutes.

[dnte42]

Seems I go anywhere from 6 minutes to 20 minutes with my 733. Depends on what else is going on and what protein I'm working on.

[pimentoLoaf]

It depends on the protein size how fast your system will crunch it. Small proteins, like p606 on my 500mhz g3 iBook right now, take about a day; huge proteins, like p180 on 366mhz mobilePentium II Toshiba will take about 8 days to send back results.

The work units are not like those of SETI wherein the data are utterly consistent (more or less) between one or another.

And the folks at Stanford have some new code that's optimized for Pentiums, dubbed Gromacs, that's being tested right now and should allow for even bigger proteins than p180 to be handled.

[Mr. Anderson]

Well, I've done 2 now - one for 2 points and one for .6 - the latter was finished in less than a day and it looks like the next one will be just as fast, probably finishing early AM - if I don't use the computer, which I will later.

Is there anyway to tell what the protein is if you're using the terminal version?

So I think I'm hooked and will keep this going as long as possible.

D

[mc68k]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Is there anyway to tell what the protein is if you're using the terminal version?

Here's a sample output from my FAHlog.txt file in my ~/Library/Folding@home subdirectory:

[22:54:28] ..."
[22:54:28] keyfile:
[22:54:28] "#parameters ./opls.prm
[22:54:28] #verbose
[22:54:28] NOVERSION
[22:54:28] ARCHIVE
[22:54:28]
[22:54:28] #cutoff 16.0
[22:54:28] #taper ..."
[22:54:28]
[22:54:28] - Couldn't get size info for dyn file: work/wudata_05.dyn
[22:54:28] Starting from initial work packet
[22:54:28]
[22:54:28] Protein: P200_villin
[22:54:28] - Run: 2634022912 (Clone 1291845632, Gen 184549376)
[22:54:28] - Frames Completed: 0, Remaining: 100
[22:54:28] - Dynamic steps required: 500000
[22:54:28]
[22:54:28] Writing local files:
[22:54:28]
[22:54:28] parameters work/wudata_05.prm
[22:54:28] - Writing "work/wudata_05.key": (overwrite) successful.
[22:54:28] - Writing "work/wudata_05.xyz": (overwrite)

The bolded part is the protein that you are folding. You can check the info on the protein here

It is updated hourly with stats like project #, server IP, # of atoms, deadline, credit, and even a brief description of each protein.

Glad to hear you like folding as much as the rest of us.

[pimentoLoaf]

I'm crunching a p145 (which may be a p146, due to an administrative error) and the deadline is 4 days. Alas, my iBook 500 is only at 12% after 18 hours; put another way, my Mac will return the data after the deadline.

Most of the deadlines are based on a 500MHz Celeron PC in the Folding lab. Data returned after the deadline is quite literally thrown away, which seems to me really bad science. Berkeley's SETI never throws out data; if someone doesn't return something after awhile, it sent to someone else.

[Mr. Anderson]

Is the crunching time counted or the amount of time upon receit of the file? I used my machine quite a lot, so on the first one, it took several days. I'd have to agree that's a waste of processing time. Hopefully future releases of the software fix this.

Is there any where to give suggestions/send feedback?

D

[bousozoku]

We're still somewhat short on members.

Certainly someone has a nice Mac OS X-compatible machine which could run this in the background. I noticed that Ars Technica has hundreds of members on their team, in contrast to the 86 on MacRumors team.

Anyone wanna show their pride?

[Mr. Anderson]

why don't we put it in our sig - get people interested - with links to our ranking page on folding?

make it one line for simplicity

D

[Tiauguinho]

Nice idea Dukestreet... Going to put it on my sig right away!

[Rower_CPU]

You mean you'll have some thing more than just your flossing propaganda in your signature duke? Amazing!

I'll jump on the bandwagon...

[mc68k]

I added mine, have you? Show some team spirt fools.

[Tiauguinho]

How do I make my sig like yours? I know only to post the entire adress... Please teach me how to do it...

[mc68k]

Originally posted by Tiauguinho
How do I make my sig like yours? I know only to post the entire adress... Please teach me how to do it...

Folding

Pretend your quoting this message and the code will be there instead of the link. I think that's the best way to see it. That's how I learned.

[bousozoku]

Duke...I see you've made some headway with your folding. No longer number 75.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Duke...I see you've made some headway with your folding. No longer number 75.

ha, well, i updated my old machine to jaguar and got it going so I now have two machines running it a 450 G4 and the 667 TiPB

not fantastic, but hey, its working ok so far - i'm 51st!

D

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by dukestreet


ha, well, i updated my old machine to jaguar and got it going so I now have two machines running it a 450 G4 and the 667 TiPB

not fantastic, but hey, its working ok so far - i'm 51st!

D

You've bypassed my G3 machine and you're working toward my dual G4. Stop that. I'll have to buy more memory or something to stay ahead.

[mc68k]

Originally posted by dukestreet
not fantastic, but hey, its working ok so far - i'm 51st!

Good work! Try to pass up that overclocker.

[Mr. Anderson]

Ha, well, i'm thinking i'm going to be getting a dual 800 or 1Ghz for my sawtooth - that should make more of a difference.

D

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by mc68k
Good work! Try to pass up that overclocker.

No overclockers here! Maybe that stuff flies where you are, but not in my house.

Besides, Jaguar seems to slow down my G3. Probably, it's a lack of memory. Looks like G4 memory isn't too bad right now.