"Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease."
English translation: Hay guys, run our screen saver and help cure nasty shit like Alzheimer's. Also compare your internet penis size with other communities.
Team 4-ch: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=42861
Our forefathers: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=162
4chan/world4ch lacks a team (unless it's named something less then obvious), someone can post there if they want.
Start folding, and maybe someday W.T.Snacks will not be filled with AIDS.
team 4-ch: Active CPUs within 50 days 0
team 2ch: Active CPUs within 50 days 494
orz
I've been working on a block but it's only at 2.75%. Gonna be a while before I show up as active. :p
My name is Squeeks and I approve this. If >>1 wants me to setup random F@H propoganda around 4ch, im willing to do so.
That would be cool.
Can I use one of your front images as the team logo? Any opinions on which?
This I think might be good:
http://4-ch.net/images/front/src/1102394695500.gif
However if other people want to suggest or make a better one, do it. I don't mind, hey its your idea.
Can't we say that it's our idea?
I've now got my desktop here running F@H for our team for when I'm sleeping or at work (its an Athlon XP 2500 CPU, so WU's should move through relatively steady), and I might put on my other machine (Duron 1.3 :( ) on weekends.
Keep in mind that the F@H client only uses the CPU power that isn't used otherwise.
started running it on a few PCs now :)
800mhz Via C3 and a 600mhz duron (slow, but on 24/7)
Athlon XP 3200+ (my desktop, but not allways on)
Homepage should probably get changed to http://4-ch.net
Remember people to get the faster advantage is to use only the console version, it doesnt have to draw all the purdy graphics etc, and thus spends more time doing real work.
If you enable the 'windows service startup' option in it, it won't appear on the taskbar next time you launch windows (yet will be active at the same time).
I use a Mac Mini now, which is most likely the reason for my suckage.
I might be joining up, as soon as I get my server set up and going.
It's a good cause. I downloaded and joined the good fight!
Congratulations to Squeeks for completing our first work unit!
well maybe more people with faster processors should sign up :P
(that was done with my XP2500, and its taken about 2 or so days, only working for about 12 hours a day).
>>20
i think i downloaded a really big unit on my main PC, been running for about 16hours on an 3200+ and it's only at 53% o.O
>>21
How did you configure your client up? I set mine up to be idle, 85% CPU Usage, and then used task manager to perk its priority to "High". Maybe I did get a tiny WU, my other machine is taking forever just to do 15%, and its a Duron.
I only have 8%, and this after asking my family to keep it running when they use the comp. :\
>>22
command line client in 'run as service' mode, default settings (so it uses 100% CPU)
what makes me think it's a huge unit is the score you get per unit:
squeeks got a score of 64, but the one i'm doing has a score of 241 :O
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html
Ah, that's it. I'm also on a 241. Glad the Mini isn't as gutless as I thought. :p
>>25
Are you using the 1.25GHz or 1.4GHz Mac Mini? I'll be picking up my 1.25 in a couple of hours, and yes I'll be putting F@H on it.
>>22
I dont think the "Credit" section isnt the important bit, thats just how many points you receive after completing the WU ontime. The frame and atom numbers are probably more important. Currently my XP2500 is doing: p1318_1fnt_a9_9.1ps-1_uf and my Duron doing p1141_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL_nospring and p1135_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL.
>>25
1.4GHz. The amount of RAM probably makes a bigger difference. I hope you have an upgrade lined up because multitasking is basically impossible with 256MB.
I have joined the team now, currently with my desktop computer only, but I might use my laptop too.
Seems like it'll take some time with this WU. My application says 41d left, eh. :/
And yeah, I'm using an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, clocked to 2GHz. Seems like a very large WU, this one.
There it went down to 1d, that's better!
And that's enough spamming from me.
HERE COMES
A NEW CHALLENGER!
54.75%, btw
HERE COMES
A NEW CHALLENGER!
54.75%, btw
wtf? orz
I've already done two WU!
But cyril's got more than twice my score. orz
age because my mac mini has been working hard (and 80% through its first WU)
orz
Joined.
wheee~ i'm definately winning now :$
482
It took my 800mhz Via C3 an entire week running 24/7 to do a single unit :D
I LOL'd, and Harbl'd for good measure
The same thing's about to happen to my 1.0 GHz Pentium III. Been going for 32 hours and it's only 18.25% done.
It's my main desktop, though, so I do use it for stuff other than folding.
> Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)
> 7704 of 36649
Not a bad start. Go team!
I have three CPUs working on folding at the moment, with a possible 3 more coming.
i've had it running on my 730MHz pentium 3 for about 18 hours now, and it's only 0.5% done...
I have 2 CPUs, a 1 GHz Pentium III and an Athlon XP 1800+, working on folding. But I don't actually own the Athlon box (I do occassional maintenance and troubleshooting on it), so it may disappear at any time.
>>43
i know it's slow... and i know why...
virus scan + spyware scan + tripcode searching = not much cpu time left for anything else
lol windows
age because we need more people, and this team is doing great!
apparantly jAnks is doing work units worth 1/9 a score point. (w
zOMG NOOOOOOOO!
I 52% through a 241-point unit when a
> Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0
> Deleting current work unit & continuing...
lost all that work. :(
Posted our certificate in the 'front images' forum.
Keep at it!
Top 5000 GET!
I've joined also! Thanks for using my image on the site :)
... it will probably be a while before I show up though. 21% orz
joined
Too bad the client does not support Unicode. Otherwise my name would have been ⊂二二( ＾ω＾)二⊃
Greetings from the Garden of DQN, btw!
y0
Top 4000get.
なんだここは？
I have to remember to join as well...
Bump for great justice (10 units and counting...)
joined :>
Top 3000get
age to get more people to join us on the way to 100,000 points!
40,000 POINTS GET!
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/awards/tcert.php?u=42861&pts=40519
Joined, too. I don't know how meaningful or valid such a calculation is, but it looks like this machine I just started it on will do about 3.464 credit points an hour. It'll be 14.7hours for a 51point unit.
Heh, I knew there had to be a use for a Sempron... :)
Top 2500 get!
>>67
What kinds of CPUs are you using to fold? You're moving up the ranks at some crazy speed.
64 bit baby
>>68
Ufufu~, no 64bit at all, actually.
A few machines:
Shirayuki: Sempron 2400+, 384 ram, linux command-line client
Karen: Sempron 2400+, 256 ram, winxp command-line client
Work machine: P4 3GHz, 256 ram, winxp command-line client
The work machine has hyperthreading, so it's running two clients. If I only run one, it actually only uses half the CPU time, funnily enough. The P4 virtualises two CPUs so heavily that a pure single-threaded app can only use 50% of the capacity, by the looks of it. :(
My stats reckons I've had five active CPUs, but if that's the case, I can't remember where that fifth one is. Oh well. ^_^
If you don't mind me saying so, you really need to add more RAM to those machines. My laptop came with 256MB RAM and it was quite ghastly until I added another 512MB a few months later.
Look at it this way: it's an investment to prolong the longevity of your hard disks...
Haha, point noted. Yeah, they could use more RAM. Thing is, though, these aren't general use workstations. They're part of my small cluster of servers I keep at home. They're not for "serious" work, so they don't really need serious hardware.
My machines are built on the cheap. That means scrounging whatever parts I can and only buying what I need to. In this case, the RAM is either what I had lying around, or the smallest, cheapest thing available.
Linux doesn't need much RAM. It's pretty infamous for that, I think. The XP machines could use it, but don't need it. Karen's going to run as a media PC, so all it needs is a fast-enough CPU and a TV-out (something I bought yesterday).
As for the work machine, I didn't buy it. The place I work (a library) is getting shipments of vanilla Dell boxen at the moment, so that what I've got. Goddess they're cheap. It comes with 2x 128meg sticks! You can't even find those any more! (My girlfriend's Mac G5 also came with 2x128. What's going on here?)
Anyway, point is, I'm not playing games on them, and the usage pattern is non-intensive, so they're cool with having so little RAM.
>>70
According to the threads linked at http://fahwiki.fahstats.com/index.php?title=%22HT_%26_stuff%22 , running multiple clients on a Hyper-Threaded processor actually slows both clients down.
>My stats reckons I've had five active CPUs, but if that's the case, I can't remember where that fifth one is. Oh well. ^_^
And here comes a sixth. Whatever it is you're doing, it's working awful well. Madness, I say! It must be nice to have so many computers that they can be primarily dedicated to folding.
>It comes with 2x 128meg sticks! You can't even find those any more!
I have (possibly) functional 4MB EDO SIMMs laying around somewhere. A few 64MB and 128MB SDRAM sticks running from PC66 to PC133, as well.
> It must be nice to have so many computers that they can be primarily dedicated to folding.
It's probably also going heavily on the electricity bill, doesn't it?
HT: Interesting. Unfortunately, the forums seem to be swamped by only-somewhat-coherent people who are aggressively pursuing the most points-per-day and producing conspiracy theories about why people are trying to stop them. Yeesh, I just fire it up and tell it how I would like it to work.
I can definitely see why HT would be slower though. The way it works at the moment, it "looks" like 2x1.5GHz CPUs, when it's really a 1x3GHz. HT will be slower due to context switching between the two. I'll try turning HT off, and if XP doesn't puke at the sudden loss of a CPU, I'll leave it that way.
Sixth: I swear I haven't built another PC recently! Uguu~
RAM: Yeah, but did you receive them with new computers recently? My point was "Only 256 RAM (and in 2x128 sticks, no less!) in a new OEM machine? What a jip!".
Power bill: Well, realistically, I don't expect they actually use that much power at all. New CPUs are measured by tech report sites, and figures indicate a couple hundred watts at the wall socket for the system case. Mine are nowehre near that. They're specifically "servers on a shoestring", so they're not top of the line CPUs. They're on microATX motherboards, and not a lot of peripherals being powered at all. They all run headless, so there's no CRT to turn power into heat. I'd hazard a guess that they're comparable to running a few light globes.
>a guess that they're comparable to running a few light globes.
Unlike my mac mini here, which would sit on no more than 20W idle. Add that with my monitor which sits at 40W idle, and my computer is essentially chewing one single lightbulb's power. Interesting, because all the bulbs in my house are at least 75W.
>>75-76
How would you go about measuring the actual power consumption of your computers?
>>77
I own a fancy-pants UPS which tells me how much total it's drawing.
>>76
I too could leave all my machines idle and they'd likely draw very little power as well, but that's a moot point. The reason I'm running Folding is because they'd otherwise be sitting there idle cycling (they're servers, I need them running).
I'm talking about a few lightbulbs for all the machines in total, too.
As for measuring power consumption, you can get devices called clamp meters that measure the current flow through a wire with an inductance coil. It's basically a (non-contact) loop of wire that senses electric field strength in the wire. You then multiply the current by the voltage (240V here in Australia) and you have the power consumption in watts. Or, as >>78 suggests, your UPS can tell you. :) Clamp meters (and other dedicated tools for power readings) are pretty expensive.
There's one thing all computers are really good at: space heaters. Just think: you're heating your house, but you get CPU cycles too!
We should replace all central furnaces with big-ass CPUs post-haste.
I was pondering the possibility earlier today, while sitting in a friend's flat, with their 7ft-tall rack cabinet open.
Outside temperature: 8 degrees celcius
Inside temperature: 20 degrees celcius
I like this idea. I can run my 2000 watt blower heater. Or, I could run about 20 Pentium4 boxen. Can you imagine the amount of folding that could do!?
Pity my machines don't heat the house up much. My house is spacious, and the machines are far apart.
Shirayuki: Hanging under my floorboards
Karen: Loungeroom
Ichigo: Bedroom, under my desk.
It'll never work. :(
One problem with CPUs is that the fans are noisy. If you can't go the central-heating route (which would be expensive, alas), you can always go the nutcase nouveau geek artist route:
Cover one entire wall with fanless ARM chips. Or just do the whole room.
As an added bonus you can sell cycles to your local university to somewhat defray the large amount of money you just paid. You might also be able to find a few biologists who want to test the effects of electromagnetic fields on their rats.
Haha, now that's a novel idea.
"This just in, wallpaper out, silicon is IN, folks!"
(CPU fans need not be noisy. Most stock heatsink fans aren't too bad, especially the last P4 one I picked up a while ago, IMO. And you can always get aftermarket quiet fans/passive heatsinks.)
Yeah, they don't need to be loud, but a few hundred fans tends to add up. On the other hand, they also really help with air flow.
It'd probably be cheaper to get some large fans at the end of the rows to circulate air in the room. For added alpha-geekiness, add neon lighting to the fan.
Or do it Blade Runner style: one huge man-sized fan at the end of the room venting the heat to the rest of the house. Leave the room dark, add some smoke machines, and backlight the big-ass fan.
I'm sure the lab rats will appreciate the awesomeness of it.
Hell yeah, I'd go for that.
>>84
hmm... i already have a big-ass fan and a bunch of old processors (and can get more free)... and i can get smoke machines really cheap... i'm so going to do this and probably post pictures when i finish it (probably in a few years...)
60000 GET!
Top 2000 GET!
checking back, we 100000got while no one was looking and are approaching 200000get and top 1000 get
GJ!
also: damn furinkan is a beast
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47633
HAHA, team 4chan has some work to do.
A 4chan has appeared!
1068 COMETH
been using:
1.6GHz turion
733MHz pentium 3
just added:
2.8GHz pentium 4
> Team Ranking: 1040 of 42718
still not in the top 1000?
Thanks for aging, I've been forgetting to run this for a couple days
Heh, I forgot all about this, eventhough I said I would join in. Thanks for aging.
Main: Athlon 64 3200+
Also: (2) 833 MHz Pentium 3s.
some interesting observations... http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats
Windows MFLOPS/Active CPU: 949.038
Mac OS X MFLOPS/Active CPU: 571.755
Linux MFLOPS/Active CPU: 1207.912
Weird how nobody using anything other than Windows, MacOS X, or Linux is participating. You'd expect at least a few BeOS, BSD, etc. users in there.
covertly got 100
