Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

Hehe

Yeah quite depressing to see that my other PC has 10 days remaining and my BEASTLY rig (LOL) has some 1 day to go! Also taky into consideration that work units come in different sizes and are assigned a different amount of points. I have a work unit of 10,000 frames and my other PC has a WU of 20,000 frames.

JAN :D
 
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s_m_w_d said:
What is the point of the whole point system just to make it a bit more interesting?
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It's to make the leaderboards fair. The pure number of WU's completed would not give an indication of folding power, since as Jan said, there are different sizes of WU.

The points awarded are calculated by using a benchmarking Linux machine before being release to the public, based on time-to-complete.
 
Ok, I'm folding on my dads houses computer (P4 2.4 Ghz)... not 24/7 though. Once I get my new computer here I'll make this one my folding rig.

I guess I shouldt have taken the IHS off my old dells CPU, I could have used it for something lol.
 
does anyone know what the pie charts at the bottom of this show:

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dragon
 
Yeah

The one on the rigth shows the overall progress (percentage of WU completed) and the one on the left seems to show current progress of a part of the WU.

JAN :D
 
By the way, for any heavy gamers, the graphical version of folding@home can cause games to minimize back to the desktop. If that's the case, then there is a console version available which works like a startup service, and doesn't interfere with your gaming experience. :D
 
Current status of our TEAM:

Date of last work unit: 2006-03-25 06:16:19
Active CPUs within 50 days: 10
Team Id: 44358
Grand Score: 2031
Work Unit Count: 15
Team Ranking: 1156 of 43425
Home Page http://www.computerforum.com

Nice to see people joining. I will have my first WU complete today :) Yay!

JAN :D
 
dragon2309 said:
thanks for the update jan, my first WU will be finished in 3 days. god damn...!!!
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Now you know why some folders have whole folding farms, and/or leave their PCs on 24/7! I've been doing this since June 2004, and since I only run my PC like 14 hours a day, I have less than 300 WU's done.
Just don't get discouraged; it's all for a great cause, and all contributions are more than welcomed!
Tom
 
Moving up...

Grand Score 2233 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 16 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 10913 of 43429

Yay!

JAN :D
 
I'm really itching to join the team, I wanna get to 20,000 pts with Custom PC Mag, then I get my name in it and I'll join u guys.

Just a thought, if it takes off enough, perhaps we could get a real-time updated sticky of the team's stats, perhaps post it in General Software, where there are less stickies. Not sure whether it'd be welcomed though.
 
magicman said:
I'm really itching to join the team, I wanna get to 20,000 pts with Custom PC Mag, then I get my name in it and I'll join u guys.

Just a thought, if it takes off enough, perhaps we could get a real-time updated sticky of the team's stats, perhaps post it in General Software, where there are less stickies. Not sure whether it'd be welcomed though.
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Heya,

that matter is being discussed as we speak. I thought it would be a good idea too becuase it's basically charity and can give cofo a name.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Heya,

that matter is being discussed as we speak. I thought it would be a good idea too becuase it's basically charity and can give cofo a name.

JAN :D
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Great minds think alike! ;)
 
any way to make my lappy do it but still let it go into sleep mode? It usually just sits on my desk in hibernation not doing anything, but I don't wanna keep the screen up and on all the time...
 
Hehe

Just have to say that I finished my first WU, the other one (10,000 frames) is to be done in some 3 days given the fact that I shut my PC down overnight. On my sister's PC, the 20,000 frame WU will take considerably longer to complete but we will get some 500 points for it alone. I am glad to see the team growing. We still need more people.

COMMON GUYS and GIRLS, JOIN! - We have to rank higher :)

Check out our progress here: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=44358

JAN :D
 
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I'm working on my 1st WU now, i've had to set my cpu at 30% as my cooling isn't very effective and it goes to 60C if its on 100% :eek:.
 
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