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Soaring. Mojo what's your folding ID. I'm going to make a list with our SF name and our Folding ID. Gimme a short while. Then I'll stick in in the Folding FAQ stickyQuote:
Originally posted by Mojo
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but we've hit the '100 active processors'. Nice milestone :)
My ID is MarkO. I started early, before my brain engaged enough to think about using my SF ID :)Quote:
Originally posted by sapasion
Soaring. Mojo what's your folding ID. I'm going to make a list with our SF name and our Folding ID. Gimme a short while. Then I'll stick in in the Folding FAQ sticky
Hopefully there won't be too many more nuffy's like me using the wrong ID ;)
alright..100 processors!! 11 people with 1k+!!! have i said WE ROCK yet? :) :D
oh...and lone...i like how much over 1000 you are... ;)
Roll Call this is also a link in the FAQ below I know I missed a few guys who have differing names lemme know if you're one.
that's pretty nice! thanks for doing that.Quote:
Originally posted by sapasion
Roll Call this is also a link in the FAQ below I know I missed a few guys who have differing names lemme know if you're one.
I'm not on there yet, my 1st WU finished at 16:55 GMT so I should be listed tomm. F@H name is the same.Quote:
Originally posted by sapasion
Roll Call this is also a link in the FAQ below I know I missed a few guys who have differing names lemme know if you're one.
BTW can you also add me to the OC crusaders.
OK to the Crusaders. Yeah it can take Stanford quite a while to get your first WU posted. After that its usually about 30 minutes turn around timeQuote:
Originally posted by yngwie98
I'm not on there yet, my 1st WU finished at 16:55 GMT so I should be listed tomm. F@H name is the same.
BTW can you also add me to the OC crusaders.
OK we need to get some stacks going around here. I guess some of you will need to know what a stack is. It’s a stack of PC’s, sometimes just the guts w/no case. The PC’s have no video and no KVM. Just a NIC and a network cable.
So here’s what you do, hit the Goodwill and such, ask around the neighborhood and find all the old PC’s you can lay your hands on. Put a free VNC on em and set them to auto boot. Trim the OS to the bone and pull every card and drive not needed for folding. Put the folding client on, plug em in and stackem up. String them to a hub with Cat 5 and set up a little network. ICS will work if it’s less than 10 (8 is more of a real world max). If you have more than 10, you will need something from a third party, there are lots of free network clients out there. Then turn them on and let them fold. When you need to drive them you just VNC in and do what needs to be done. Three old P II’s would give you 150 points a week, easy. 10 junk’rs would give you 500 points.
Around here it’s easy to find old systems. We can’t put them out with the trash, and the recycle guy won’t take em. So they tend to collect in garages and sheds. Last year I was in a group that was setting up a little network for kids center. We were looking for 5 usable PC’s. I put a notice up at the post office in my small town. In two weeks we had 34 working PC’s and a pickup load of broken ones. We kept the best 10, gave 16 away, and took the rest to the transfer station. Cost me 160 bucks to drop em off :mad:
So go shake the bushes a little, see what you can find. A couple of old systems will pad your score quite a bit.
But doesnt folding put a limit on how long a core can take? Such as testing the time it takes a 500Mhz Celeron takes to fold that specific group? So if you buy all those old setups it might be slower then a 500Mhz and will be pointless.. From my understanding...
Master has spoken... now let us go and do so.
I think one of them doesn't care about time, forgot if that's folding or genome....I think it's genome@home that has no deadlines...Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
But doesnt folding put a limit on how long a core can take? Such as testing the time it takes a 500Mhz Celeron takes to fold that specific group? So if you buy all those old setups it might be slower then a 500Mhz and will be pointless.. From my understanding...
The deadlines are based off a celeron 500Mhz as Colossus says. Genome has no deadlines as speedy said. Folding does so theoretically less than 500Mhz of celeron won't be quick enough. However, real world figures show a small minority of Folders are using less than a 500 celeron equivalent and completing WU's in time?
Yes, but they use a 400 celery for 10/7 only. So a PII 300 24/7 would cruise past the dead line.Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
But doesnt folding put a limit on how long a core can take? Such as testing the time it takes a 500Mhz Celeron takes to fold that specific group? So if you buy all those old setups it might be slower then a 500Mhz and will be pointless.. From my understanding...
Thermo's right again here's the official word from the folding forums:How do you set the deadlines for the work units?
Each work unit is benchmarked on a dedicated 500 MHz Celeron machine without SSE/3DNow. We look at how many days it takes, and multiply this by 2.5. This corresponds to requiring such a machine to fold less than 10 hours a day in order to meet the deadline. From our experience, the majority of donor machines are faster than our benchmarking machine, and virtually none are slower, so this shouldn't be a problem (if a machine is slower, it may need to fold more hours a day). Occasionally, deadlines may be set longer than the above calculation indicates, but the reason for having deadlines at all is that the sooner we get back work units, the sooner we can put the results to good use. We are looking into, in the very near future, having the assignment server take machine speed into account in making assignments, thereby allowing slower machines to receive smaller work units.
Which means that running 24/7 you can use sub 300Mhz cpus. Of course a 1.6Ghz is only $42 and if you enable the other 192k of L2 cache thats quite a deal too
It was a good day guys, we had a new all time high output for the last 24. And we just hit 30K points. The most outstanding number is the 17+K for the week. That will almost get us into the top 100 given time. But who wants to wait, lets see if we can get it to 4000 a day and over 25K a week.