BleepingComputer.com: Folding@home, Distributed Computing At It's Best

Woo hooo, sorry to pat my own back but broke 19000 pts,91 WU and into 3rd place. Where I'll probably stay til someone catches up to me. Never planned to catch Yano or Hucker but wanted to at least get here when I started. Dig it.

Fold On !

Congrats boopme!

Congratulations 'boopme'.That is some achievement, to Fold that many WU's.
Watch your rear. 'Koan' has his Folding PC's 'A-Smokin' and closing in fast.

congratulations boopme

Congratulations, boopme. It is really great to achieve a goal and especially for a project like this. Well done.

Thanks alot it just felt good. Like I did a lot for someone. Those two rockets above are still outstanding folders. I hope Koan does catch and pass me, in fact every body pas me The cause is what counts. Just let me enjoy it for a couple days KY

Fold On!

Way to go boopme!
Your CPU's have helped so many people...what a great feeling

(Don't worry, I won't be catching up with you any time soon!!)

mz30, on Jun 9 2007, 04:11 PM, said:

Well being that most don't really know each other well personally, I would think the best would be to send the money to grinler, have him order the parts to someone (I'll use me as an example, being I brought it up) and I would build the computer (being I do it for a living anyway). The upkeep, there is no cost because if it was at my home, it would be for a good cause and my small business that I run with my dad would deal with any problems it might, and probably wouldn't, encounter. The biggest issue I could see with this is the electric bill. Maybe we could let it run for a month and than see what the price is (approximatley) and divide it amongst ourselves. Or even if it's not all that much (because a computer really doesnt take that much power, its the monitor thats the power hog and that will be off most of the time) and I'm hosting it, you won't even have to worry about it and I'd take care of it. Yeah this probably seems kinda fishy that I want people's money for a computer that no one will see, but it's just an idea and anyone of the more seasoned folders could host it as well.

EDIT: And of course, all money would be more than likley sent through PayPal.

Regards,
TheYoda

Just to get an idea, I put together some parts just as estimate. Of course, if someone has a spare CD-drive, floppy, ATX case, or even harddrive, the price will go down. And remember, it's not supposed to be pretty or have a huge harddrive, just things for folding. Here's what I've come up with (if I'm forgetting everything or you have suggestions, input is appreciated):
RAIDMAX Elite ATX-208 Beige 0.7mm SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - $19.99
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Just to have a harddrive) - $41.99
BIOSTAR NF4UAM2G Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - $65.99 (before $10 mail-in rebate)
SAPPHIRE 100200L Radeon X1950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card (for GPU folding, maybe?) - $154.99
ASUS Black 52X CD-ROM E-IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Model CD-S520/A5 (the OS needs a way to be installed, lol) - $11.99
Rosewill Stallion Series RD500-2-DB ATX V2.2 500W Dual Ball Bearing Fan Power Supply 115/230 V UL, CSA, TUV, FCC (same brand I use in my current desktop) - $47.99
Transcend JETRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - $73.99
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - $158.99

Subtotal=$575.92
Shipping=$30.38 (UPS 3-day standard)
Grand Total=$606.30

Just an idea, if anyone has any suggestions or changes, feel free to tell me.

Regards,
TheYoda

Willing to donate an ATX case Full or Mini tower, 10 GB Hard Drive, and a 300 watt ATX PSU.

The harddrive and case, deffinatley a go (which takes off $62 and half the shipping) but the PSU i'm not so sure about because if people would really willing to be able to do this, it would need some serious power for the dual-core processor and the X1950 GPU and 2gigs of RAM (unless we opt out of GPU folding, in which case a 300W would be ample)

Also, I have a spare DVD drive so thats another $12 off. And actually, you can hold the 10GB cause i found a 40GB that works good. Also, a friend of my dad is giving him his computer because the harddrive died (I'm gunna asume it's old and not all that powerful, being hes giving it away) and I'll see what parts I can get from that.

Also, we wouldn't need a monitor, keyboard, or mouse, just a KVM switch with my current dedicated folding computer, which takes about $500 off the build, lol.

So with Harddrive, CD Drive and ATX case out of the way, the new totals are as follows:
Subtotal=$501.95
Shipping=$11.08
Grand Total=$513.03

How many of you would be willing to donate money, and/or parts to make a bleeing computer dedicated folding machine?

PS - and of course, the results and points won't go under anyones name, just under the user name Dedicated or something like that under our team.

Regards,
TheYoda

BlackSpyder, on Jun 9 2007, 05:55 PM, said:

Translation: Stanford determined that using many smaller systems each working a small part was better than trying to enlist major corporations to dedicate time to the project. It also allows them to reprocess the results in smaller chunks.
And this allows them to quickly change any direction of the research as they see fit.

//Aside: Some BC folders can relax for a few days,as I managed to burn up a system.
(Spider laying her eggs on the MOBO. I'd blame "BlackSpyder" but I know better. This one was brown and very small. )

Fold on!

KoanYorel, on Jun 11 2007, 02:11 PM, said:

Salvation from a spider. My kin love me.

BTW thanks for the translation. I understand it now

ZOMG, bug!

5.03 running on the laptop was having a lot of problems. It did work but no logfile and a lot of weird errors so removed it and finally seem to have a working version of 5.04 running.

2 more cores to go. LOL