I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
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I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
You got permission?Quote:
Originally posted by ace727861986
I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
i should do that with the p4 1.8ghz i use at schoolQuote:
Originally posted by ace727861986
I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
Awesome :) :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by ace727861986
I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
that's a whole lot of folding! that will DEFINATELY help a lot!! :DQuote:
Originally posted by ace727861986
I have just started running F@H on 25 p4 2.6ghz at school for 6- 12 hours a day :D.
did you have permission to do that? it would be awesome if i got permission to do it in all 35 1.8ghz computers in one of my classes
I get very nervous when I hear people speak of multi-dozens of cpus they have access to. I wanna stress again the importance of user or Administrative permission prior to borging other machines. We all wanna see SF succeed and protein misfolding cured. But there are right ways to go about this. By all means of any SF member is granted permission for usage of multi-dozens of cpus by all means thats fantastic. I would just hate to see any negativity brought to Folding@Home, our Team, SF itself or any individual team members.
The machines are there for students to use i work in the lab watching over stuff etc etc. I have has multipul teachers,intructors come in and say whats that and i say F@H and then again they say whats that i say cancer research and usally they say kewl. The machines are there for students use there are 25 machines in the room i watch and i only have 10 - 15 of them folding (while im there) they are turned off any other time. plus the students dont even know that its doing anything they sit down to whatever they want and never ask a question muchless know that its even there.
About the administrative things. The machines are all running WinXP Pro with only user access :D.
Two things ace
One you don't have permission to do the borging you're currently doing; do you? Having various professors who aren't in charge of those machines per se pass by and ask superficial questions and make superficially approving statements is not the same. I must vigorously encourage you to stop this practice immediately or get expressed, and ideally, written permission from a real Administrator. If you have something in writing it truly is your own safeguard.
Two I seem to recall you mentioning this before. Something about the fact that everyday the client is uninstalled and must be reinstalled again daily. Again those cpus aren't fast enough to complete WU's in 6 hours so your efforts would be useless.
You seem to have a genuine desire to cure protein misfolding and help our team. Those are qualities I very much respect. However, your methodology is wrong in this case. I urge you to get that official permission before proceeding further. Also don't take this personal. These same words apply to any and all in a similar circumstance. As an SF Moderator, founder of this team and someone who works in law enforcement believe me when I tell you will regret the consequences of failing to heed these words. I pray you and all do not ignore them.
Can I just add to this.. hopefully it's useful.
I have 1400 machines at my disposal. If I want, I can give myself permission to run F@H on all of them most runnign about 8 hours a day. I have spoken to my boss about it, however, and we came to the conclusion together that it should not be done. Don't take lightly the running of an app that gives others access to your network - you can almost think of F@H as a benevolent trojan. I run it on 3 machines only, which are on a separate network from our main server system, and have taken the risks myself.
Listen to Sap's, he's dead right about getting permission. To be honest, if members were borging without permission, I'd simply leave and start another team.
You people going home for the hollidays, why not put F@H on your family computers and fold on. Of course be sure to get permission first.:)
I am the system administrator so that's ok. :)
I've set it running on one dual G4 at work which rarely gets used. I wouldn't set it up on any of the workstations, and would certainly be annoyed if I found someone had set it running on the centre's workstations. Although I'd love to donate them to the cause, in reality they aren't mine and it appears to me F@H certainly stresses components. It's my job as admin. to keep all the hardware (and in particular the network) in the centre running smoothly, I'd see running F&H across the network as putting some of this hardware at risk to a certain extent.
Anywho, enough waffle... conquer on! :)
i'm know that i'm going to do that :DQuote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
why not put F@H on your family computers and fold on. Of course be sure to get permission first.:)
Folding on a 750Mhz Duron = not super (family PC back home).Quote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
You people going home for the hollidays, why not put F@H on your family computers and fold on. Of course be sure to get permission first.:)
It was just a thought, I forgot that not everyone has computers, like the ones we have. :(Quote:
Originally posted by mystifmagic
Folding on a 750Mhz Duron = not super (family PC back home).
hehe, it's a sad reality we all must come to grips with ;)Quote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
It was just a thought, I forgot that not everyone has computers, like the ones we have. :(