I just folded my first protein

[bs_texas]

Where'd everybody go?!?!

I just passed into the 50,000 range. I should pass je_fro sometime in November.

And I also have a Dell PowerEdge with a 1.8 Ghz Xeon processor in a rack mount available to me now. As soon as I figure out what all the switches and toggles on the front of it do, I'll get it started. It has Windows 2000 server on it. I couldn't start Ubuntu on it. ?? Maybe that's because it's 64 bit?? I need to pop the case and see what I have.

[je_fro]

I'm still here!
I have to stop foldingathome on my main rig very often because sometimes I do "foldingforwork" as I like to call it.
I wish we could get sun binaries, then I'd be able to throw about 6 more cpu's at it, 24hours a day.

[cybertron]

I just more than doubled my folding power on my main rig. Dual core at a higher clock speed than my old single.

Ubuntu should be fine on a 64 bit CPU unless that's some screwy Itanium processor. But I didn't think that anyone except HP still used those.

[bs_texas]

Two of my daily URL checks:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=36480

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=135110

[je_fro]

Here ya go tweekers:
This guy wrote a few utilities so you can have a little eye-candy while the folding is going on... http://linuxminded.xs4all.nl/mirror/...m/rph/fah.html

If you're a gentoo user, there's an experimental ebuild here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.c...71&action=view
try it in an overlay if you want....(it's not perfect, but it works for now and you can uninstall when a better ebuild is written)

If you don't use gentoo you can just grab http://stier.dynu.com/~myportage/dis...0060903.tar.gz unpack it, and do 'make DESTDIR="/" install'. Then cd to your foldingathome/clientx directory and run them.

Some of the deps include:
>=sci-chemistry/rasmol-2.7.2.1.1-r1
>=media-gfx/povray-3.6.1-r1
>=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.8.0

The rest of the deps you should have...and if you grab the precompiled versions make sure they are on your PATH, (i.e. /usr/local/bin)

[je_fro]

P.S. I'd be folding right now except for this:

# uptime
07:46:12 up 1 day, 16:53, 11 users, load average: 3.73, 3.72, 3.14

[dalek]

je_fro,

Isn't that the same thing that finstall gets for you? I have seen that before somewhere. I never got it to work though.

[dannybunkins]

Hey, i just folded my first protein late last night and i have 4 more proteins at 30-50 percent.

[cybertron]

Welcome to the team!

[dannybunkins]

I am sure that this has been said somewhere and i just havn't been searching log enough but i was wondering, What determines your score?

[cybertron]

I believe that each work unit is assigned a certain number of points, so when you send back the result you get that many points. I assume the number of points is based on the complexity or length of the work unit you get.

[dannybunkins]

This is beginning to become an addiction, ive gone from folding on 3 cpu's to folding on 7 cpu's.

[happybunny]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/29/fo...e_to_use_gpus/


"Palo Alto (CA) - Stanford University's Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating point horsepower of graphics chips and hope to see a massive jump in processing power that can lead to more research results in less time."

[cybertron]

Bah, only runs on high-end ATI chips. No way I'm spending that much and then having to deal with ATI drivers.

[nabetse]

Yay. Just joined the team.

I had to swallow my pride as this project is from Stanford and I went to UC Berkeley. But, I believe Stanford's project to be more noble than Cal's SETI@home.