This is to open this thread, and to post a link to the previous 30 pages archived here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic1364.html

For those of you who are new to this, there's lot's of suggestions about how to get started on the first page of the above post.

FWIW - I'm a latecomer, only having seen the last 4 or 5 pages myself!

Fold On!!!

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Oh, In case anyone is interested:
Per 7 day points:
5,913

:D

Billy3

I Need a new banner. Its been brought to my attention that my banner link no longer works, and I have lost the Tags to the old one. If anyone knows where I can get a new one for my sig I would be greatfull.

Just take your old sig, go to where it says

Billy3

It's amazing how far Folding@Home has come here at BleepingComputer. I haven't been here since the very beginning but pretty darn close. I currently have about 7 or 8 machines running F@H plus I just bought a PlayStation 3 tonight, hopefully when I'm not playing games it can help for the cause!

Thats the problem I lost the link to the old one. I think I got it from Blackspyder and I haven't seen him in awhile.

@Sneaky
Oh. Oops.

Billy3

Just a note to all BC F@H members.

If one is involved in the project, then you are helping out.

Some of us run multiple systems at different levels.

It's good to see the upcoming members folding so hard.

Look out Yano! I see a few hard folders coming on.... giggle.

FOLD ON BC! As a team, we are under the 1200 mark now.

Yes, Im doubling your rate, Yano!

Billy3

I know, according to Kakaostats.com I have 284 days to recruit new machines.

*KoanYorel goes looking for cheap, used Playstations this weekend... ha ha ha

Actually according to folding.stanford.edu the fastest way to earn points is the GPU's. They ranked them like this:

Fastest - Middle - Slow

GPU's----PS3----CPU


EDIT: Grammar fix.

Hmmm, I thought PS3's were GPU's... I get Koanfused on the games.

Must be time to invest in that Nvidia 8800Gt soon

Nope. The GPU client works on ATI cards only.

(Which really sucks, because I hate ATI)

Billy3

But so do I!

And I'm making the ghost image that is being rolled out to the entire district next year.... hehehe

Billy3

Hey, does anyone here know if F@h will run on a Beowulf cluster?

From doing some Google searching it looks like Beowulf is a type of linux? If so I think the linux version of F@H will work on any linux computer.



Source

umm....

does anyone else happen to get with the screensaver to a point where it just stacks the molecule things on top of each other? I'm just wondering....

It wont. Just run a copy of the client on each machine.

Billy3

Vaerli you computer might not be fast enough to update the screensaver, or it just might be a lag. Not sure what Billy was referring to, though?

Dont know which post youre talking about...

For one, I am responsible for making cloned windows installations for the school district (Nordonia High School, http://nordoniaschools.org), and might add a system service to the image..... hehe4

For two, I was saying that FAH will not run on a beowulf cluster. Sure, it will run, but it will run on one machine at a time. If madman6510 wants to use the full potential of FAH, let me remind him that FAH itself is a giant "beowulf" cluster (Ok, not really, but you get the point). Just run a copy of the client on each machine.


Like the windows Pipes screensaver? No. It takes way too long to calculate where an atom goes for that to be useful. Remember that most of these workunits are a maximum of 100 atoms or so, and it takes most machines 20 minutes PER FRAME on average, so there would really be nothing to see in a screensaver. Thats why it only displays a snapshot of the most recently created frame.

Billy3

Edit:fixed url

Cool, becareful though about adding the service to the installation. If it's anything like what my school uses (my HS used Norton Ghost I believe) it'll rewrite any new data with the data on the image during every reboot. So you might have 10+ machines all working on the same WU indefinitely. lol

No, they are ghosted once a year ;)

Although.. you do have a point. The school machines have DeepFreeze on.. that could be a problem. I dont suppose I could set up a lan share with the folding data.

I was just kidding though. While I make the image, I dont have the athority to say what actually goes on it, and I dont know how much the adminstrators check my work.

Most of them have no idea what they're doing anyway.

The schools machines have 256MB of ram. The adminstration's default image uses ~350MB at boot (Lots of pagefile). Mine uses ~120. Probably 'cause I turn off visual themes, remote registry, wireless zero configuration, etc.

Anyway, thanks for reminding me that putting FAH on the school machines is a bad idea, unless I could somehow thaw some part of the machine.

Edit: Oh, and it would be ~650 machines

Billy3

Oh my goodness. only 256MB of RAM? lol Instead of spending money on the nice website, spend it on upgrading the computers! lol

btw: It was deepfreeze that the computers had on them at my school, but they initially used North Ghost to set up the computers.

Really? Small world.

Well, the machines are 4 years old now. Gateway E2300's.

Billy3

Whoa power was out for a little bit (11:00pm to about 12:30am). Looks like I just pop some points out.

Billy, looks like the high-week points have swung my way this week.

Yeah, a whole bunch of my machines are down right now. The internet is down at work

Billy3

Ouch. Weather related? Probably all the snow we're getting.

No, Allan (my boss) had to rebuild the server. The firewall software we used to use didnt uninstall correctly (we replaced it with something else) and it destroyed the entire Routing and Remote Acess configuration.

I still have 3~4 machines at it though

Mine (which is really 2 on an E6600)
My grandmothers (not on all the time)
My server(2.6GHZ P4).

Fold on folks!

Billy3

Every little bit counts! Good to have anything contribute.

Hi

I have read these posts and the one with the 30 pages on it, but still don't understand what Folding@Home is!

Would it be ok if someone could explain it to me

Regards,
David.

Hi, I sort of am understanding it now. The more CPU power you allow the program to use, results in faster completion and therefore helps the project?

I have already joined and am donating at the moment

Regards,
David.

Mhhm, I have yet to get my wlan working at home and to install the F@H on my suse laptop then. We ll see when that happens lol.

@ David28

Wiki has about the best description of the project.

Thanks Koan, I was about to look it up on Wiki

Regards,
David.

I had a 150 frame WU and it took about 4 Hours to complete on a 1.6Ghz AMD Sempron 2600+, is this a fast enough processor?

Had a bit of a glitch a couple of weeks ago when I was home for the weekend. Desktop decided to crash mightily so had no option but to shut it down and leave.

Came home again on Friday for a 4 day weekend so chucked in a new 320GB Seagate on Sat afternoon and am now madly reinstalling eveything, F @ H being one of the first.

Only have a couple of days work left till the end of the stone fruit season so should be home by Easter. Think I will leave all the computers at home this time and let the 6 CPUs do their thing so it will be interesting to see the upcoming results.

Welcome to all the new "Folders". Keep up the good work

WTG Yano, spectacular burst there.

That's the smallest WU I've ever had also. Worth 15 points, I've had a minimal time of two hours 30 minutes on a dual core system. So 4 hours on your system sound fair?
I've forgotten to forward results on these smaller units at times. One must watch the results?

Seems like my PS3 is on fire! (not literally, but I am thinking about getting one of the extra cooling fans for it). Apparently on days when I have school then work it really pumps WU's. My PS3 has done 65 WU's since I got it.

So when F@H is run on the PS3, can you still do things with it or does running F2H not allow you to use the PS3 at all?

You can't do anything else while it's runnging, but I have it set up so it turns on after 10 minutes of inactivitiy. So if I'm at the main menu and I haven't done anything for more than 10 minutes F@H while automatically start.

Gee thats pretty good! Might consider a PS3 and also to use it for F@H

Anyone else seeing this?


Billy3

Yea it was like that for most of the night, they must have had some down time. When they are down, I usually use this: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/tea...?s=&t=38444

I stumbled into this thread. What I understand is my computer will simulate protein folding and I'll somehow help save the world(god bless to all of you who have family and loved ones diagnosed with a disease related to misfolding). I'm still not really sure how I help anything by downloading this program....cheers I guess:)

You help by allowing your computer to fold proteins in the background. When its done folding it sends the information on what happened back to Stanford. If you get a miss fold they can examine what happend.

Hi stryke297, and welcome to BleepingComputer.

You will find a quick rundown on F@H here - http://folding.stanford.edu/

Every little bit helps, so if you decide to join Team 38444
I would suggest you dowload Vs 5.03 which will give you an icon in your systray from which you can see your progress and alter your configuration.

When you get familiar with how Folding works on your machine, you may want to change to 5.04 which runs completely automatically in the background.

Security is No 1 priority with this program so you may be assured that it is completely safe to run on your system and you will be welcomed by about 900,000 other users around the world.

The more folks who join in, the better chance there is that Stanford University will come up with results which may help all of us.

Cheers.

Also you can be assured it's safe because it is created and maintained by a university and has been around for about 7 years.