Folding Crusade: The Greatest CPU Test

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Originally posted by vertices
What a great 14th post on the forums. You have officially made the Top 10 Most Retarded People at Sharky's. And you did it in only 14 posts!! Good job. I give you a sticker. Please place it on your forehead.:D

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LOL, this must be a new and improved vertices. Twice recently you've shown an edge I didn't know you had.

Any way, fold on. No disrespect to our environmental issues in any way, but more people die from cancer annually than from tree-hugger issues. I know where my priorities are. Not belittling anything, but the effect of shutting my machine down would have an insignificant impact on our environment, whereas I might just help somebody in the future avoid what is inevitable today if I leave it on and folding.

Signed up and folding:) Although I can't fold as often as I would like because it makes my room so hot:(

I've got my p4 2.4 running at 2.8
and my family's p4 2.4
and hopefully more soon!

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Originally posted by vertices
What a great 14th post on the forums. You have officially made the Top 10 Most Retarded People at Sharky's. And you did it in only 14 posts!! Good job. I give you a sticker. Please place it on your forehead.:D

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WOW i feel :cool:

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Originally posted by greg r
Signed up and folding:) Although I can't fold as often as I would like because it makes my room so hot:(

I've got my p4 2.4 running at 2.8
and my family's p4 2.4
and hopefully more soon!

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thanks man.:cool:

OK I'm in (slightly different name). I have a question though; have some pentium 2's and 3's in my classroom. Would they even be a positive contribution or would they just choke? Since I don't own them and can't reinstall the os on them (the IT guy locks us out) I wonder how they'd do; hate to crash them and have them down a couple months (till the IT guy gets around to them).

I don't think it matters what kind of machine you use, since Folding just uses whatever unused cycles that are available. On an old PII it will take about a week to fold one protein, but hey, that's one less protein to fold ;) . As far as stability issues, I haven't heard of any, even on old machines.

Thanks. This program has already helped me; I benchmark but my comp wasn't stable at my overclock on my second wu so I bumped up the vcore and now she is.

I guess I get to fight the IT folks tomorrow to open up the ports to allow my work comps to run; tried today and no go. Anyone know about arguments for/against opening up firewall ports for this let me know ok? Thanks again, this is a good cause. Finally my o/clock has a purpose! Plus which I teach science and this can tie in.

Thought I'd bump this thread since I see a lot of newer people here.

For those of you who don't know what folding is...Stanford University is doing research on cancer and how certain proteins behavior relates to getting cancer. They have lots of numbers to crunch, too many for themselves to handle. So what they do is let other peoples computers crunch the numbers, and the results are sent back to them. You simply download the folding client, tweak it a little bit(there's instructions for all this HERE ), and then its pretty self-sufficient after that.

It only uses the cpu cycles that you're not using. Once you start doing something, it backs off and gives priority to whatever you're doing. It's very simple and is for a great cause, curing cancer. So I would ask that all of you reading this post/thread, join the Sharky Forums Folding Team.

Folding Team Thread

Thanks everyone!:D

Aaw.. at first I thought that saps was back. :( Nice bump tho speedy. :)

Arg........Tricked me into thinking Saps was back.

^^^ I was thinking the same thing. :(

cripes, sorry guys...just trying to recruit more people for a good cause.:)

Not only are there a lot of new people who may not know about Folding, there are also a lot of OLD people who used to Fold but aren't any more. Back when this thread first ran we got a big influx of new people to the Sharky Folding team and went from #4658 (or something like that) to the #45 team internationally in about 3 months. Since then we've been stuck, mainly because there are only ~25 active Folders still on the team.

Come on guys, help us (and everyone else) out here! It doesn't cost you a dime and won't interfere with your computing, but it WILL help out a lot of sick people in the long-run, something to be proud of :D .

I've been folding 24/7 ever since the beginning. Come on people. get sharky's name out there.

24/7 Except when I need power for games

i've never really done any folding but im gonna try to remember to leave it on. Should have my first wu done in 39 hours, got my big xp 2000 @ 1.83 ghz :p

nttdemented with a (currently) 3.5Ghz P4 Prescott at your services Sharkies...

Gonna start it now and never look back. I just hope my damn PSU doesn't start overheating during the day time and starts restarting my PC (reason why I'm at 3.5 instad of 3.7 like in my sig, need a new PSU).

awesome, thanks primate and ntt!:cool:

edit: and I know you're folding murtaza, i've been eyeing you getting closer to me everyday in the rankings..:p

Hopefully some farms will start back up again (I won't name names) with the colder weather coming in.

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Originally posted by speedyaxon
Thought I'd bump this thread since I see a lot of newer people here.

For those of you who don't know what folding is...Stanford University is doing research on cancer and how certain proteins behavior relates to getting cancer. They have lots of numbers to crunch, too many for themselves to handle. So what they do is let other peoples computers crunch the numbers, and the results are sent back to them. You simply download the folding client, tweak it a little bit(there's instructions for all this HERE ), and then its pretty self-sufficient after that.

It only uses the cpu cycles that you're not using. Once you start doing something, it backs off and gives priority to whatever you're doing. It's very simple and is for a great cause, curing cancer. So I would ask that all of you reading this post/thread, join the Sharky Forums Folding Team.

Folding Team Thread

Thanks everyone!:D

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bumpity bump

Yahoo!!! Sharky team is currently at spot #44 and I'm already at #198 within Sharkys with only 3 WUs completed. I dunno about you guys but last time I did some folding (not for the Sharky team) I would get WUs that were in the 600-900 range, now I'm getting WUs between 1k and 3k. :eek: No wonder I'm higher than a few guys with tens of WUs with only 3 completed ones. The one I'm executing right now is 2.5k and its at 53%

I see lots of new people in the overclocking forum, what's going on? Please join our folding team! So far 6 people have joined since i bumped this from the grave.

Is there anyone else who will stand with us in the fight against cancer? https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/10/7.gif

also, for those who just joined...if you're shooting out work units and they only show up as worth a few points, it's most likely because the work units are getting corrupted, meaning your system might not be folding stable. :(

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Originally posted by speedyaxon
Thought I'd bump this thread since I see a lot of newer people here.

For those of you who don't know what folding is...Stanford University is doing research on cancer and how certain proteins behavior relates to getting cancer. They have lots of numbers to crunch, too many for themselves to handle. So what they do is let other peoples computers crunch the numbers, and the results are sent back to them. You simply download the folding client, tweak it a little bit(there's instructions for all this HERE ), and then its pretty self-sufficient after that.

It only uses the cpu cycles that you're not using. Once you start doing something, it backs off and gives priority to whatever you're doing. It's very simple and is for a great cause, curing cancer. So I would ask that all of you reading this post/thread, join the Sharky Forums Folding Team.

Folding Team Thread

Thanks everyone!:D

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Originally posted by speedyaxon

also, for those who just joined...if you're shooting out work units and they only show up as worth a few points, it's most likely because the work units are getting corrupted, meaning your system might not be folding stable. :(

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i did 3 wu, and got about 94 points for them, is that about normal?

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Originally posted by PriMaTe
i did 3 wu, and got about 94 points for them, is that about normal?

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yeah, that's fine. I was looking at some other people though and they had like 4 work units for 7 points IIRC. That makes me think something is unstable.

If you want to know how many points the work unit you're doing is worth, check this out.:)

I forgot about this thread. Anyway, we need more people on the sharky folding team. We are team 34149
This is the website to download the client.
http://folding.stanford.edu/


Here is the giant folding thread stickied in the software forum
http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthre...hreadid=211327

put your idle cpu to use :)