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It's a great week for Folding! (post your bragging here)

840quadra said:
My Dual G5 shut down for the current period of time due to Storm activity. I shut it down and unplug it from network and power :( . Sadly, my G4 (only a 500mhz) is also down during this period for the same reason :( .
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Look at it this way: you'll save on the electric bill! ;)
 
Dreadnought said:
Look at it this way: you'll save on the electric bill! ;)
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True, true. I also tend to fold less (with that computer) in the summer due to heat reasons. It (and 2 other computers) are all I have on during the winter to heat my room. I can actually turn down the temp in the rest of the house and stay in the bedroom / office and be comfortable in folding heat! The computers, monitors, and lights, all keep the room at a comfortable high 60's low 70's during January in Minnesota! :eek:
 
Well, right now I'm doing an experiment of how much my G5 is using of electricity. I love the idea that it's on 24/7, but also have a very high electric bill each year. I know the G5 has a power supply of 600 Watts, so with 2 procs crunching 24/7 it's using almost the 600 Watts. So now I have the G5 on for a week and I check the meters in my fusebox. Next week it will only be on for 6 hours a day, when I'm home in the evening. I'll report my findings next week!
 
My computer will be lucky to do one WU every 3 or 4 days.
So to win, I will just have to get my self into a bunker with fuel, and wait until the apocalypse takes the rest of you.

Na, that takes patients and a bunker... and an apocalypse.

Oh, well.

Go sprinters. Make the world a better place.
 
So I am folding slowly, but helping the world.

If anybody is reading this thread, wondering why should one start folding when it isn't likely that you will catch up or beat other, well then I have an answer.

Fold now, it doesn’t take very long to enter the top 2k people, but more importantly, who cares! It's volunteer work. Help as you can.

This is so cool. In two weeks I have completed 4 work units.
Wahoo!
 
Dreadnought said:
Well, right now I'm doing an experiment of how much my G5 is using of electricity. I love the idea that it's on 24/7, but also have a very high electric bill each year. I know the G5 has a power supply of 600 Watts, so with 2 procs crunching 24/7 it's using almost the 600 Watts. So now I have the G5 on for a week and I check the meters in my fusebox. Next week it will only be on for 6 hours a day, when I'm home in the evening. I'll report my findings next week!
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So what did you find out from this? I typically have my mahines folding 24/7. Oddly enough...maybe i'm not doing it right...but none of my machines get the same heating issues that everyone else seems to get. My ibook has been folding nonstop for the last 2 weeks since i got the PB...that's all it does now. The fans don't even come on. My powerbook folds non stop while i'm working...and all through the night no fans either...same for the g5. Are they not folding at full capacity maybe?
 
I forgot about that post, well my findings are that you save about 25 kwh per week for not leaving the G5, dual 1.8, crunch 24/7. I have to say, My G5 start up at 7 P.M. till midnight and stays on in the weekend. So that's 73 hours uptime per week instead of 168 hours per week. Unfortunately, I don't have a daily output of 240 points anymore, it's more about 80 to 100 points per day now. Therefore I'm easy to overtake now :mad:
 
Dreadnought said:
...I don't have a daily output of 240 points anymore, it's more about 80 to 100 points per day now. Therefore I'm easy to overtake now :mad:
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Who cares, it's not a race as long as you do all that you can.

Woot, 11 work units. I am only a drop in an ocean.
 
After a four year pause in my folding, I have gotten back into it. My new Core Duo is cranking out four units every three by using both processors. The old PowerBook G4 (500MHz) is folding again too. Unfortunately, it takes about 10 days per unit.
 
DeSnousa said:
Don't worry, but I feel obliged to rub it in a bit :p

So here goes, look what my iBook 1.2ghz is doing.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=138516

I quite proud of the little bugger :cool:
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For curiousities sake, I took a look. And it's only 74 points for your daily average. :p So I still have the upper hand! At least, not today... just saw that my daily production is only 48 points...
 
That's a pretty substantial amount of power that a g5 sucks up. Glad mines at work and not home lol. But i do typically have 2 laptops running at home now. I must say that i rarely have any of my computers off, and that was even before I started folding.


Dreadnought said:
I forgot about that post, well my findings are that you save about 25 kwh per week for not leaving the G5, dual 1.8, crunch 24/7. I have to say, My G5 start up at 7 P.M. till midnight and stays on in the weekend. So that's 73 hours uptime per week instead of 168 hours per week. Unfortunately, I don't have a daily output of 240 points anymore, it's more about 80 to 100 points per day now. Therefore I'm easy to overtake now :mad:
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Well, I haven't been around in a while, but my points kept adding up... nearing in on half a mil, and holding steady at 20th in the team. w00t. Gonna have to give it all up pretty soon, I feel a bit guilty stealing all that electricity from work (I have the computers on the network that I admin churning away). Ah well, it was a good run!
 
mrgreen4242 said:
Well, I haven't been around in a while, but my points kept adding up... nearing in on half a mil, and holding steady at 20th in the team. w00t. Gonna have to give it all up pretty soon, I feel a bit guilty stealing all that electricity from work (I have the computers on the network that I admin churning away). Ah well, it was a good run!
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You just could them run 8 hours per day instead of 24/7. Most computers are already on during business hours.
 
i went back to the library at the university, they got like 10 new dual core imacs. so if stanford makes some new cores then i will take those over...get some real numbers again ;)
 
mc68k said:
i went back to the library at the university, they got like 10 new dual core imacs. so if stanford makes some new cores then i will take those over...get some real numbers again ;)
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hehe.. Reminds me of my days at Intel. When distributed.net first came out (the original distributed computing app,) I was a tech support guy in Intel's server division. I had their client running on about 10 of our 'test' machines in our lab. Our lab didn't have internet access, so I'd download the largest 'workload' file d.net would let me, and swap it out weekly. I had it on an 8-way Pentium III Xeon 550MHz machine that would chew through it in hours. Once a week (when I'd upload my results and get new work units,) I'd be the #2 or #3 contributor. (And I just love d.net's logo. I use it as my avatar on a few websites.)
 
Dreadnought said:
Well, right now I'm doing an experiment of how much my G5 is using of electricity. I love the idea that it's on 24/7, but also have a very high electric bill each year. I know the G5 has a power supply of 600 Watts, so with 2 procs crunching 24/7 it's using almost the 600 Watts. So now I have the G5 on for a week and I check the meters in my fusebox. Next week it will only be on for 6 hours a day, when I'm home in the evening. I'll report my findings next week!
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Well, unless you have 6 15,000 RPM SCSI hard drives in there, you are NOT using 600 Watts. In fact, no matter what you have in there, you're not using 600 Watts. The Watt rating on a power supply is its maximum possible load. NOT the actual power usage of your computer. For a while, I had a dual-processor PC (Dual 900 MHz Pentium III Xeons, as a matter of fact, with two 10,000 RPM SCSI hard drives, and a high-power Radeon,) with a power supply that was rated at 500 Watts. I ran a 3D intensive benchmarking app on 'loop', and after one hour (and all the temperature readings at a stable maximum,) I used an Ammeter to measure the load. I was consuming about 250 Watts. Idling, I was at about 100 Watts.

According to Apple System Profiler, my 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro in 'max saving' draws a measly 12.1 Watts, and under full load (Xbench, iDVD showing a complex menu, QT Pro compressing an H.264, I even plugged in two bus-powered USB hard drives, and a bus-powered FireWire drive, had the iSight going, AirPort connected, three Bluetooth devices, and screen at full brightness.) it draws a whopping 52.6 Watts. Yet it's 'power supply' (brick) is rated at 85 Watts! In the case of a laptop, it makes sense, you want to have enough extra power that you can charge the battery even while the computer is under 'full load'.

But on a desktop, you have to have all that extra power because you don't know how much power all the plugged-in accessories will draw! (Such as drives and cards.) It doesn't mean you're ACTIVELY USING all that power, it just means that it is available should you need it. (That's why an iMac G5 only has a 180 Watt power supply, even though a single-processor (with similar video card) Power Mac G5 still has the 600 Watt power supply. Because they KNOW the iMac will never need more than 180 Watts. That means that a single-processor Power Mac G5 probably uses no more than 150 Watts unless you have some seriously nasty power draining devices in it.
 
ehurtley said:
I had their client running on about 10 of our 'test' machines in our lab. Our lab didn't have internet access, so I'd download the largest 'workload' file d.net would let me, and swap it out weekly. I had it on an 8-way Pentium III Xeon 550MHz machine that would chew through it in hours. Once a week (when I'd upload my results and get new work units,) I'd be the #2 or #3 contributor. (And I just love d.net's logo. I use it as my avatar on a few websites.)
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i agree, it's a cool logo. sneakernetting is definitely one of the coolest things about d.net

i do the same thing you mentioned at frys, compusa etc with their demo machines. if i let a quad core g5 go for a few weeks i can flush 15-20K blocks from one machine

check out my d.net history
 
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