Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

Heya

Yeah this Tinker's big. In addition it's painfully slow to process. I get Gromacs and quite a few Ambers lately most of the time.

JAN :D
 
24th in the list. Im climbing quick, thanks to folding 24/7. I think thats the only worthwhile use of a multi-core system - use the spare core(s) to fold.
 
Awsome

thealmightyone said:
24th in the list. Im climbing quick, thanks to folding 24/7. I think thats the only worthwhile use of a multi-core system - use the spare core(s) to fold.
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Yeah congrats on your progress in the first place :) Much appreciated. As to the dual-core question, I agree with you. In most cases, the Dual core systems are just laying there, doing nothing. This way, they can help something worthwhile. The same counts for single core setups. Just imagine if everyone with a PC and Internet did Folding. Where would we be now?

JAN :D
 
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Question: When folding, would a single core Athlon perform better, or a single core P4? Just curious, as historically Intel has owned when it came to compiling/compressing/encoding apps, while Athlons seemed to have the advantage for gaming and such? Dual Cores, everybody wins. :)

You know what would be cool? If we could convince universities to install Folding@Home on their computers in the network. Those computers spend at least half the day sitting doing nothing. I Know at my university there are about 75 Pentium D's, 25 Pentium 4 HT's, and 16 Pentium 3 computers that are for student use only (the Pentium D's are split into 2 classrooms, and are for classes only and some days only get one class). The power requirements would mean that the university would shoot the idea down. Still..if the Stanford team worked out some sort of energy credit to offer to institutions with large numbers of computers that agreed to let their computers fold during the day, and in return they got some sort of energy tax credit back from the government. That sounds almost legitimate enough for Stanford to make that into a government grant request.

Anyways, carry on. I'm trying to work out the network issues so that my girlfriend's computer will be hooked up and Folding as well, so hopefully within the next 2 months I'll have 3 CPU's going :).
 
Saurian said:
You know what would be cool? If we could convince universities to install Folding@Home on their computers in the network. Those computers spend at least half the day sitting doing nothing. I Know at my university there are about 75 Pentium D's, 25 Pentium 4 HT's, and 16 Pentium 3 computers that are for student use only (the Pentium D's are split into 2 classrooms, and are for classes only and some days only get one class). The power requirements would mean that the university would shoot the idea down. Still..if the Stanford team worked out some sort of energy credit to offer to institutions with large numbers of computers that agreed to let their computers fold during the day, and in return they got some sort of energy tax credit back from the government. That sounds almost legitimate enough for Stanford to make that into a government grant request.
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Something tells me that isn't going to happen...but it would be very cool nonetheless.

My high school has about 200-300 Athlon 64s and P4s (relatively new) that I think I might talk to the IT manager about installing F@H on. I might have to create my own team for that...I don't think you guys would want me folding with 200 computers under my username. :D
 
Bobo said:
Something tells me that isn't going to happen...but it would be very cool nonetheless.

My high school has about 200-300 Athlon 64s and P4s (relatively new) that I think I might talk to the IT manager about installing F@H on. I might have to create my own team for that...I don't think you guys would want me folding with 200 computers under my username. :D
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Wow, Bobo, actually we would love you to be on our team should you be granted the right to install F@H. Cofo would shoot up the ranks and the performance of our team would be phenomenal. As a sidenote, you would be our top contributor which would be an honour by itself :)

Saurian: great idea and good luck with your third CPU :)

JAN :D
 
If that were to happen, I would create a separate username, like Bobo's HS, or whatever.

It wouldn't be hard, cause everything is run off of one server. I'll see if I can talk to Mr. Dunkle tomorrow. I'd give it about a 40% chance of happening. :)
 
Saurian said:
Question: When folding, would a single core Athlon perform better, or a single core P4? Just curious, as historically Intel has owned when it came to compiling/compressing/encoding apps, while Athlons seemed to have the advantage for gaming and such? Dual Cores, everybody wins. :)
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I think the Intels would be better I am running 2 right now a p4 and a p4EE and they are both doing good I just started this not too long ago and I have 14 WU's completed, I have nothing to compair to though but I am getting my hands on a AMD pretty soon and I will be able to compair them...I also plan to have my E6600 core 2 duo soon and then I will be rocking, lol!
 
I found that my AMD out performs my intell at the same speed folding. And I have been folding for a few years. I just changed over to this group.
 
MyCattMaxx said:
I found that my AMD out performs my intell at the same speed folding. And I have been folding for a few years. I just changed over to this group.
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What do you mean, "the same speed"? I would have thought that Intel would be better since it is designed to use SSE2
 
how is it now with the GPU-folding of the program? are NVidia cards supported already? (7800GTX? :D)

would be nice if you could run 2 Cores folding, and 2 GPU's all at the same time :P
 
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Archangel said:
how is it now with the GPU-folding of the program? are NVidia cards supported already? (7800GTX? :D)

would be nice if you could run 2 Cores folding, and 2 GPU's all at the same time :P
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That would be sweet indeed :) As far as the 7800GTX is concerned, I am afraid that the F@H Stanford research team said it does not perform sufficiently well enough for them to do it because of the pixel pipelines. But two X1950XTXs and you would be a folding god :P

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
That would be sweet indeed :) As far as the 7800GTX is concerned, I am afraid that the F@H Stanford research team said it does not perform sufficiently well enough for them to do it because of the pixel pipelines. But two X1950XTXs and you would be a folding god :P

JAN :D
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As well, they have not developed the program for Crossfire or SLi, so two cards doesn't perform as well as one currently. I would suppose, though, that in the future they would try to figure something out for that.
 
Almost 1000 WUs!

Date of last work unit 2006-10-06 13:14:09
Active CPUs within 50 days 64
Team Id 44358
Grand Score 193283 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 987 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1579 of 45854

Almost at 1000 WUs..... prepare to celebrate :P

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Date of last work unit 2006-10-06 13:14:09
Active CPUs within 50 days 64
Team Id 44358
Grand Score 193283 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 987 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1579 of 45854

Almost at 1000 WUs..... prepare to celebrate :P

JAN :D
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And just think:
I have been folding a:
1Ghz P3 24/7
my D 820 dual programs roughly 12 hours a day.

now, I have a 90% chance of:
D820 24/7
1Ghz app. 12 hrs/day

Yay! Now I might be able to defend my 5th place a little better :) And, it should give the team an extra boost with stats too.
 
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