Holy Jeebus! My 466MHz PM G4 just finished its first WU! I think it's been going at it for weeks... 239 points. Hm.. I think I'll just retire that one from its F@H duties and save the electricity.
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ham_man said:
C'mon folks!!! I know that I only pump out about 150 points/day, so I don't have much room to talk, but we need some more folders!!!
I am averaging 144 points per day according to the extreme site, not a ton but it is close to all I can do. I have my PC folding 24/7 and my PB folding overnight sometimes, but I don't like it always running hot like that. What temps are the G4 chips supposed to be safe at? Sometimes I wake up to a 14-ºF chip....is that okay
Hmmm. Just saw the extreme site for the first time.. Y'know, y'all got it worse than baseball stats junkies here...
Now in the MR top 400, So I've got my machines humming at just over 400 points per day - a little bit more and I could actually break the top 20 producers list. DotDotDot is my next target... prepare for some light taunting, Dot^3
But I'm definitely seeing Mr. Green on my rearview and approaching fast. Dang, how'd he jump to 783 a day so quick? I know, brute force, I guess I'll have to rely on experience and cunning... don't know just how mind you...
Now in the MR top 400, So I've got my machines humming at just over 400 points per day - a little bit more and I could actually break the top 20 producers list. DotDotDot is my next target... prepare for some light taunting, Dot^3
But I'm definitely seeing Mr. Green on my rearview and approaching fast. Dang, how'd he jump to 783 a day so quick? I know, brute force, I guess I'll have to rely on experience and cunning... don't know just how mind you...
CanadaRAM said:Hmmm. Just saw the extreme site for the first time.. Y'know, y'all got it worse than baseball stats junkies here...
Now in the MR top 400, So I've got my machines humming at just over 400 points per day - a little bit more and I could actually break the top 20 producers list. DotDotDot is my next target... prepare for some light taunting, Dot^3
But I'm definitely seeing Mr. Green on my rearview and approaching fast. Dang, how'd he jump to 783 a day so quick? I know, brute force, I guess I'll have to rely on experience and cunning... don't know just how mind you...
Well, adding as many computers to my 'cluster' as I did should have actually brought my total up higher than it did! For some reason the new machines don't seem to be producing points as fast as I'd expected (they are the same exact speed as the first few computers I had folding, so I'm not sure why there is a discrepancy). I should be doing something around 1500 pts/day, but I seem to be at only a little over half of that. Hopefully I just got a crappy batch of WUs initially and things will pick up...
mrgreen4242 said:Well, adding as many computers to my 'cluster' as I did should have actually brought my total up higher than it did! For some reason the new machines don't seem to be producing points as fast as I'd expected (they are the same exact speed as the first few computers I had folding, so I'm not sure why there is a discrepancy). I should be doing something around 1500 pts/day, but I seem to be at only a little over half of that. Hopefully I just got a crappy batch of WUs initially and things will pick up...
I wish I had the money/spare parts to create clusters of folding setups, that would be awesome. I think my parents would freak if I threw it on their system solely because they wouldn't understand why the fan would be on high all the time
Perhaps someday I'll get a server rack computing this stuff, kicking thousands out a day
, maybe someday.
That would be a nice little heater when you come home from a cold winter day!efoto said:Perhaps someday I'll get a server rack computing this stuff, kicking thousands out a day
Here we go again... In short folding @ home is a project from Stanford University. You can download a small app on you computer and let it do its stuff. What it does is simulating proteines, and let the geniusses at Stanford understand proteines better and why they develop the way it does, like diseases, like cancer and everything in the human body. We are giving the folks at Stanford time on our computers. For every WorkUnit we get points. We are in a team. So we are "battling" each other, but also other teams. Check out the link in my sig for more information or go directly to Stanfords webstite: http://folding.stanford.edu
Now that I explained it to you, you have to donload the app and fold with us. You have to set the app up by
username: Dreadnought
teamnumber: 3446
NOW GET FOLDING!
Now that I explained it to you, you have to donload the app and fold with us. You have to set the app up by
username: Dreadnought
teamnumber: 3446
NOW GET FOLDING!
Dreadnought said:Here we go again... In short folding @ home is a project from Stanford University. You can download a small app on you computer and let it do its stuff. What it does is simulating proteines, and let the geniusses at Stanford understand proteines better and why they develop the way it does, like diseases, like cancer and everything in the human body. We are giving the folks at Stanford time on our computers. For every WorkUnit we get points. We are in a team. So we are "battling" each other, but also other teams. Check out the link in my sig for more information or go directly to Stanfords webstite: http://folding.stanford.edu
Now that I explained it to you, you have to donload the app and fold with us. You have to set the app up by
username: Dreadnought
teamnumber: 3446
NOW GET FOLDING!
Oh- so it's sort of like SETI, but competitive. I wish I could join you, unfortunately our IT guys would delete it immediately and give me a scolding.
leekohler said:Oh- so it's sort of like SETI, but competitive. I wish I could join you, unfortunately our IT guys would delete it immediately and give me a scolding.
It is like SETI except useful is more like it
I guess you could believe SETI is useful, however just based on what it is doing and having watched X-Files a few too many times, I think they are using your computing power for some other purposes, conspiracy-like purposes. It is a great idea.
I should write a great little distributed computing program, make it extremely popular, but somewhere deep down it writes everything back to folding@home for me.
I could easily average 10k+ a day with that plan in action.
Yes, yes. I see it now, yes *evil*-
Dreadnought said:
I can, but it's off when I'm not working on it and I have dial-up. So if I'm not online, I need to keep the phone line clear for calls. Yes- I'm trying to avoid a cell phone at all costs. I don't want to be reached.
leekohler said:I can, but it's off when I'm not working on it and I have dial-up. So if I'm not online, I need to keep the phone line clear for calls. Yes- I'm trying to avoid a cell phone at all costs. I don't want to be reached.
You don't have to be online the entire time to folding is taking place, just to download and upload the packets is all. You can be online, download a protein, and then work it offline (hours usually) and then log on to upload the data and get a new set.
efoto said:I wish I had the money/spare parts to create clusters of folding setups, that would be awesome. I think my parents would freak if I threw it on their system solely because they wouldn't understand why the fan would be on high all the time
Perhaps someday I'll get a server rack computing this stuff, kicking thousands out a day
Heh, it's not a cluster in the typical sense (hence the '' around it) but rather I just have all the machines I admin at work folding for me. I am the system administrator at a mid sized (25 or so employees) non-profit company, so I can get away with it...
mrgreen4242 said:Heh, it's not a cluster in the typical sense (hence the '' around it) but rather I just have all the machines I admin at work folding for me. I am the system administrator at a mid sized (25 or so employees) non-profit company, so I can get away with it...
I caught the quotes, but I would still like a real cluster for my purposes, perhaps a whole x-serve tower or something, not too shabby
Ahh, so you are getting 25 computers to work for you, lucky dog!
leekohler said:
Usually works good for me too.. my computer will send and receive work units when I log turn on my Cable modem to check email, or surf Macrumors. Depending on the client (GUI or Text) the application will keep attempting to send packets, and should automagicly (kinda made up that word) send the WU when you have an active connection.
On some of the GUI application (OS-X and Windoze) you can set the application to ask you if it is ok to send or receive WU's.
leekohler said:Oh- so it's sort of like SETI, but competitive. I wish I could join you, unfortunately our IT guys would delete it immediately and give me a scolding.
those Jerks!!
I am one of the IT guys at my company.. If you worked here, I would give you an extra comptuer for your office / cube just to fold
YoW! MrGreen blew past me overnight like I was standing still -- he's ticking over 900 points a day. Hmm. Let's refocus on eas... More Worthy targets then, shall we?mrgreen4242 said:Well, adding as many computers to my 'cluster' as I did should have actually brought my total up higher than it did! For some reason the new machines don't seem to be producing points as fast as I'd expected (they are the same exact speed as the first few computers I had folding, so I'm not sure why there is a discrepancy). I should be doing something around 1500 pts/day, but I seem to be at only a little over half of that. Hopefully I just got a crappy batch of WUs initially and things will pick up...
Could you talk to my IT department as well and figure a way to get around that annoying firewall at work. Folding can download the cores, but download, or upload a WU. It's very annoying!840quadra said:those Jerks!!
I am one of the IT guys at my company.. If you worked here, I would give you an extra comptuer for your office / cube just to fold
CanadaRAM said:
Heh. If it makes you feel better all the points are coming from Windows machines, so your Mac produced ones should be worth double, in my book!
mrgreen4242 said:Heh. If it makes you feel better all the points are coming from Windows machines, so your Mac produced ones should be worth double, in my book!
Too bad it doesn't actually work that way
I still wouldn't be high in the production numbers, but at least I could feel good about producing on a Mac on occasion, which just feels better