Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

[magicman]

I just joined up, its a good cause and my PC is generally on all day. BTW, does folding speed depend on your pc's specs?

Yes it does, but almost exclusively the cpu. Having a terrible gfx card, for example, wouldn't make any difference.

 

[P11]

oo, I wonder how a Quad-Opteron would hold up

 

[tweaker]

Good work guys!

I've not done any folding at all this summer and dropped from second to fifth place.

oo, I wonder how a Quad-Opteron would hold up

You would run several instances of the client, contributing to your personal donator nick.

 

[Burgerbob]

I just joined, i do a WU every eight hours or so... dont expect much from me

 

[tweaker]

I just joined, i do a WU every eight hours or so... dont expect much from me

8h is nothing, wait til you get the 2 or 3 day units.

 

[DCIScouts]

Hey, this current work unit is going to take me over 4 days yet, and I've already spent over a day on this; probably almost 6 days total. Better be getting beaucoup points from this

 

[Motoxrdude]

8h is nothing, wait til you get the 2 or 3 day units.

I had one assignment that was 40,000 steps and it took about 5min per frame. Crzzzy.

 

[DCIScouts]

Yeah, this one's 500 frames, but over 16 mins. per frame

 

[Bobo]

Mine's 500, but 45 min per frame. about 5 days

 

[DCIScouts]

How does that compute? That should be 375 hours total, or a little over two weeks.

 

[Bobo]

How does that compute? That should be 375 hours total, or a little over two weeks.

It will end up taking about 5 days...I guess the estimate is just a little off.

 

[DCIScouts]

Yeah, one of the two obviously has to be, unless it's not showing the one in the tens column for the days...

 

[4W4K3]

Still folding here, even though I'm not too active on the forums.

 

[magicman]

Aidan's just joined with his first work unit under his belt. Is that you Burgerbob or you P11?

 

[bball4life]

I'm mad at Stanford right now, they are releasing a gpu version so you can fold your your video card, which will do stuff a lot faster, but its only gonna be available for ati cards. Come on stanford, what about us poor nvidia users, now my new 7900gt is just gonna sit there, while I am not playing games.

 

[Bobo]

Will the GPU and CPU versions be able to run simultaneously? And would the WUs be the same? Or would it be a separate thing totally?

 

[jancz3rt]

Update

Date of last work unit 2006-08-30 12:17:17
Active CPUs within 50 days 22
Team Id 44358
Grand Score 111958 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 616 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2326 of 45157
Home Page http://www.computerforum.com

P.S.: Great to see some action again. Keep it up guys.

Magicman: thanx for heading the effort

JAN

 

[Motoxrdude]

Yea, i sold my computer so i dont have a computer to do some folding. Once i do get my new comp however, then i will.

 

[magicman]

Magicman: thanx for heading the effort

My pleasure, although in many ways Yeti is still doing a sterling job there.

By the way, I've been keeping the graph updated daily, are people generally finding it useful or a waste of space? Only if it's just me who's finding it useful I'll stop uploading it.

 

[jancz3rt]

I think..

I think the graph is great. At least for the few of us active ones

JAN