"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?
