My favorite one is GROMACS: GROwing Monsters And Cloning Shrimp
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My favorite one is GROMACS: GROwing Monsters And Cloning Shrimp
:)
I just passed 2 million points for the month of June.
I like broadband. 56K sucks.
:D
oops...
Popped the circuit breaker for my computer room!
Only had 5 quad core computers, 3 atom servers, one cisco switch, 2 dual core laptops, one quad core laptop and then added one more quad core computer... and then the next day... beep beep beep - chaos ensued!
Gonna hafta rethink my strategy!
:rolleyes:
Speaking of re-thinking my strategy... I have my electric bill being paid automatically from my checking account. Just got around to checking it. Last month's bill was $313. This next one is $347!
:eek:
I don't think I'll be fully folding for the rest of the summer. But just enough to keep up with mhanson (techwise).
And dang it... I was closing in at only a million points back!
Holy cow Tex! That's an arsenal. No wonder you are gaining so fast. I was getting ready to concede defeat too.
I really want to do some upgrades but at this point it's only vanity because I just dont need any upgrades for any reason other than folding. These computers these days are just so dang powerful you don't have to upgrade them every couple years anymore.
Here's my list of folders:
Core i5 2500K w/ 2x nVidia GTX550ti
AMD Athlon 64 3200
Core i7 L640
Dual Xeon E5345s at 2.33Ghz
Dual Xeon E5310s at 1.60Ghz
Dual Core P4 at 2.4Ghz
2x Celeron 420 at 1.6Ghz
Pentium PIII at 1Ghz
Pentium M at 1.6Ghz
4x Core i3 530s at 3Ghz
Dual Core P4 at 3Ghz
Dual P3 at 750Mhz
PS3 (not often folding)
Thats actually 17 machines (Im surprised). I have one more I could fire up but its really noisy so I dont. But you have way more total horsepower.
I'm gonna have to switch to GPU's to catch up with you guys, but if bitcoin keeps going up the CPU's are gonna have to do :)
I was wondering what your power bill was going to be... :cool:
I'm down to a single folder and its not even my main box. With temps going past 110F I can barely handle the idle fan exhaust while browsing the Internet. Since rent not own, can't do much but put fans in there which just blows the heat in a circle. I'm pushing $180 and I don't use much energy. A/C set to 75 when home, 80 when not and still it's like 65-70% of the pie chart on the smart-meter (seriously, after A/C and water heater I show like 4% usage sigh). Gah, c'mon October-November.
Meep... Meep...
http://dev.forums.justlinux.forums.r.../2012/08/2.jpg
Except me. I have noclusters but a quadcore smp at stock 4.2ghz and a media computer OCd to 3.5 on one core.
What? :confused:
You don't need a money tree...
http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/...-paper-lrg.jpg
:D
:cool: I worked a Linotype long ago and far away. Melted the lead, made the lines of type, blocked them up like that...
I wonder if I could use a 3d printer for that... ;)
Have any of you messed with folding and distributed processing? It is already setup as a distributed network where Stanford is the controller and your PC the client, but would like to make the executable a sub-controller in charge of LAN network clients - so one WU divided amongst n nodes similar to it's SMP build on mutli-cores.
Hardware wise, I was considering expanding on my single Raspberry Pi to a 2^n cluster (start with 8, then scale) since they only drain 2W each and are easily cooled passively (compared to my 1,000W desktop, sigh). I've found packages on Debian that can be installed and configured for MPI execution (MPICH2) - so I know I can do it hardware wise, just not sure if their clients can with slight modification be run distributed. The nodes would be networked together via ethernet and a gigabit switch - SMP uses localhost to communicate as a network locally on multi-core chips.
I haven't messed with it with FAH because dealing with their binary blob is too much of a headache for me. I'll bet there's a discussion about it on their forums though.
Just passed 30,000,000 points and closing in on 25,000 work units.
I haven't been looking at my electric bill.
Dang it... One of my main PCs crapped out. And, it's a Windows Vista machine... I know, I know... But it's been chugging along fine for a few years.
Now, BSODs all over the place. BSODs in Safe Mode, BSODs when trying to boot a Recovery Tools CD, BSOD's when trying to repair with the Vista DVD, BSODs when trying to restore to a previous restore point...
It's an ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard with something called Express Gate that comes up prior to loading the OS. Even that started saying it was no longer fully installed.
Not sure if it's a memory problem or a power supply issue or some other motherboard issue. I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend....
...crushing things with a hammer... ;-)
:rolleyes:
Flash the BIOS firmware - if you get lucky your EEPROM is not damaged, just corrupted. This won't solve the BSOD, but if works will at least give you a machine you can recover.
And I stopped looking at your folding stats... Must be nice to drop an entire paycheck on electricity.... :rolleyes:
I'll be kicking in to gear soon with fall/winter approaching, but doubt I'll run all my hardware 100%. Stats are great for bragging, but I'd rather be able to afford to go out drinking on the weekend over having a higher score on an Internet board. :cool:
I'm still limping along on my dying Q6600, and the fact that my backup drive just died isn't helping my budgeting for a new system. On the plus side, I caught a WD Red drive on sale so hopefully it will be a long, long time before I have to replace that again.
Dang it... :D (I bet if we searched this thread I would have 20 -dang its- in here!)
I downloaded the new bios and a bios install utility and went around and around in circles trying to get something to boot so I could get to a command prompt. When I finally did, I got an error that the bios utility had to be run in ms-dos! Not just a command prompt.
Then I finally came across an option in the BIOS that was something like Easy BIOS Update utility! d'oh..... Put the bios .rom file in the CD, ran that utility. Easy update! And, that seems to have solved my blue screen of death problems.
I usta be a better geek than I am today in my old age! :rolleyes:
To be fair, it is a pain in the neck that Microsoft won't let you create a true DOS boot disk from Windows. I ran into that way back in the 95 days when I had a virus and the AV software needed to be run from a clean DOS environment. Even back then it was hard to find one.
That said, I'm a big fan of the new BIOS update utilities built in to the motherboards. No more having to mess around with MS software to do BIOS updates.
Hey.. maybe, if things remain unchanged... we might hit 100,000,000 points by the end of the year.
I would like to see more info published (layman's info) about how this folding research is directly being used in the medical community.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hoping that all this folding sees some new advances in the coming year.
Oh, and Happy Holiday Day too... ;-)
Well... we passed 100,000,000 points with over 133,000 work units.
I passed 40,000,000 and almost 30,000 work units.
Is anybody else still looking at this thread?
Yes I'm looking at every new post.
Periodically I try to find a good paper that explains the advances due to the distributed computing project folding@home in LAYMAN's terms, but they are few and far between.
When I come across one, I'll link it here.
Y'all stay home tomorrow night and have a -
Happy New Year!
Yeah, I'm still planning to get back to folding at some point, but a $5000 shoulder surgery in a couple of days has put my finances on hold for the moment, so I'm still limping along on my Q6600 that needs replacing. Since I'm going to be incapable of working on my hardware for a couple of months, I really don't want to do anything that would hasten its demise.:rolleyes:
I had surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff a few years ago. It was no fun for sure. But, that shoulder is now in better shape than my other shoulder!
Yeah, fortunately mine's not a rotator cuff so I think the recovery won't be quite as bad. But when I dislocated it in my sleep I decided it was time to do something about it. :)
Well, looks like our stats are gonna take a deep plunge for a while. I'll be turning off my little folding farm for a while. I moved back to Texas last year and started a new job as the IT guy at a company here, but they have decided to take the IT stuff and outsource it into the cloud... I think. So, today I became unemployed.
Beep beep... anybody still on here? Hello? Is this thing on?
I'm back out on Kwajalein. I may start up folding again here in month or two.
bs
I'm still here and slowly climbing the ranks. Got a job yet?
Yep, working again. Actually, I got my old job back. The guy who replaced me when I left turned in his notice and I replaced him when I got back. Timing was perfect in this case.
I'm a Field Engineer II in the Comm Center.
We're out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, sorta. Marshall Islands, between Hawaii and Australia. All of my computer/networking stuff is still on a barge heading this way. I guess it has a few stops to make along the way. It probably won't arrive here until close to the end of September.
We still have dial-up modems for internet access, but that is supposed to change soon, or so we are told... so we hope.
I see that only 3 people are folding today. I guess interest has just died off, eh?
I'm slowly but surely getting settled in at my new location. Thinking about folding again.
Anybody with renewed interest?
I'll get on it tonight!
Thanks for reminding me :)
Stats manually turned off in preparation for early Tuesday morning shutdown
October 22, 2013 by Vijay Pande ยท
One of our primary server rooms will be shutdown for service tomorrow morning. Most of FAH will be operational, but we’re taking the stats update off line now so there won’t be complications tomorrow morning. WUs returned will still get credit, but the credit will not show up until the stats update is re-activated.
http://folding.stanford.edu/home/sta...ning-shutdown/
So, who is folding on Linux? I tried it previously but had nothing but problems with some 'newer' at-the-time versions. Maybe they have improved the use of their software with Linux by now. I'll try it out again once I get a couple more computers set up... oh... and once I get my network set up and connected to the internet. :rolleyes:
I've been encoding a lot of video, sucking up the CPU.
I checked foldingathome and it's broken somehow - I'll get it fixed and get back in gear soon :)
Thanks for reminding me!
Can you surf out there on the island?
Later
There's a small group of people here who go out to one area around the island and surf, on the southwest side, generally. The waves aren't very big typically, but apparently it's enough for them to get their fix. ;-)
As far as surfing the web... we still have 56K dial-up!! But some wireless hotspots have been setup for us and we are supposed to get 'broadband' somewhere near the end of the year.... like we haven't heard that before. Last word was that we might get 3 Mbps DSL in our rooms for about $40 - $60 / month. We are calling it the possibility of low speed broadband! Instead of finding a way for us to get actual high speed internet access, the mantra is mostly.... well, it's better than dial-up. :rolleyes: