The Folding@Home FurAffinity Team

[Janglur]

Actually, F@H already uses BOINC and others. Everything done in The Grid is also done in F@H for The Grid, and them more. Including mapping the remainder of the human genome project, when there's no other cores to work on (G@H)

F@H is the central hub for protein folding and biological research. More people use F@H, F@H has a larger support base, F@H can support more bandwidth and has more servers to analyze PC's results, and F@H does the widest range of useful research.

Has anyone actually considered running WorldCommunityGrid instead of F@H?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp

The Grid agent not only does Proteme Folding (a la F@H) but it also does;
muscular distrophy cures,
human genome comparisons,
cancer cures
and a cure for AIDS

The Folding project has completed now, so they've initiated the second stage.

Whether you use their own grid agent program; or use BOINC instead (as I do); once you're logged in and assigned to your account, the program will crunch through each of the 5 projects in turn, one after another.

 

[Zippo]

RE: Distributed computing... The Folding@Home FurAffinity Team

I have alot of system recorces, liquid cooling, and top end hardware, it stalls my tv program, halts my mouse for a second or two, kills my torrents ug.. im stingy about my recorces, didnt sink all my money into my hardware just to feed that thing >.< *uninstalls*

-Z

Distributed computing... RE: The Folding@Home FurAffinity Team

the whole point of distributed computing is like to use "100%" of your "Brain" instead of the "33%" we normally use ^_~

That f*ckin thing wrecks hell with my teatimer.exe (safer networking ltd), gives it all sorts of program errors when yrying to exit the prog till I kill the process as its making my cup percentage sky high. This thing is a system recorces hog, beware! :/

-Z

 

[sepffuzzball]

*joins up for a worthy cause*

AMD x2 4400+
3GB RAM

Too bad there's no way to get my GPU in the mix, it's probably more powerful than my poor CPU x3
(GeForce 8800 GTX 768).

I'll help out, my computer only shuts down for updates, or switching from XP to Vista or Linux.

I'll have my Core 2 Duo laptop Up and Running, it's usually on only during work...

And once I get my server up and running as well, it can help out (not in the foreseeable future, need a new server).

 

[Blackwing Dragon]

..the f*ck?This sounds weird...if someone is willing to just uhh, explain what this is gonna entrail, I might do it. But my WTF alarms are goin off right now.

 

[Kougar]

Well, unless ya configured it to NOT use Idle CPU cycles (Which is default) then it probably conflicted with something else running. The console client is designed to only use idle cycles, so except for an occasional brief pause while RAM is shuffled around it shouldn't cause lag. I've run two clients at once on my single core Pentium 4 chip without any lost torrents, and only a little lag from having them use up most of the 1gb of RAM in that system. I actually configured mine to be resource hogs, that is how you gain bonus WUs and higher points.

 

[iller]

It has been shown that the PS3 is about as powerful as 23 average home PC's.

"Shown" by Sony Fanboys I'm assuming? The processors in Platformers are usually same as those in gaming rigs. They just move random stored data faster b/c they're not going through multiple OS layers.

 

[Sphelx]

Oh but it DOES support GPU calculations (almost!)
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-highperformance.html

It uses a system called GROMACS; the GPU acceleration is not yet completed and released; but they -are- working on it.

Too bad there's no way to get my GPU in the mix, it's probably more powerful than my poor CPU x3
(GeForce 8800 GTX 768).

 

[Kougar]

It has been shown that the PS3 is about as powerful as 23 average home PC's.

"Shown" by Sony Fanboys I'm assuming? The processors in Platformers are usually same as those in gaming rigs.  They just move random stored data faster b/c they're not going through multiple OS layers.

I pasted a link previously that went mostly ignored. The PS3 folds faster than any processor or GPU current in anyone's single computer though, unless they happen to be using an 8-core rig perhaps.

The PS3 uses a 7-core processor. Depending on the persons luck, their PS3 will have 6 to 7 working cores in it. While not quite as complex as a CPU, it's the ideal chip for F@H right now and the PPD they generate is the proof.

 

[Sapphire]

This is really really awesome!

D: im afraid I'd melt down my already ancient G4 titanium book though.

 

[Marthaen]

It has been shown that the PS3 is about as powerful as 23 average home PC's.

"Shown" by Sony Fanboys I'm assuming? The processors in Platformers are usually same as those in gaming rigs.  They just move random stored data faster b/c they're not going through multiple OS layers.

I pasted a link previously that went mostly ignored. The PS3 folds faster than any processor or GPU current in anyone's single computer though, unless they happen to be using an 8-core rig perhaps.

The PS3 uses a 7-core processor. Depending on the persons luck, their PS3 will have 6 to 7 working cores in it. While not quite as complex as a CPU, it's the ideal chip for F@H right now and the PPD they generate is the proof.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the GPU client is the fastest client available right now. Just look at the stats for how much TFLOPS each one makes and you can clearly see that only a thousand GPUs are doing about 60TFLOPS of processing where as 22,000 PS3s are doing about 290TFLOPS. Now if there were as many GPUS as PS3s doing this then the GPUs would be doing somewhere in the neighborhood of a 1000TFLOPS

 

[Silver R. Wolfe]

This is really really awesome!

D: im afraid I'd melt down my already ancient G4 titanium book though.

That's hardly ancient. I still use a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet and a Powerbook 1400cs regularly. In fact the G3 is the most up-to-date laptop I have.

 

[robomilk]

The thing is that you can only get major work from this if you leave your computer idling for hours or days at a time, and that's not good for the environment! D=

 

[imnohbody]

Without the monitor on (either turned off or in sleep mode, if the OS and monitor supports it) computers don't exactly take huge amounts of power, in general. It's the image generation that takes up all the juice, particularly if using a non-LCD display device.

 

[Kougar]

Nice catch, that was my mistake. Glad someone at least read it.

 

[CerberusTheHitman]

OMFG! My first post here is to say that I started this up on my laptop. The question remains: Will he start it on his uber desktop of power? Stay tuned!

 

[TacoTai]

I just installed it and joined. Everything seems to be working fine and my sytem isn't slowing down, so were good!

 

[Sapphire]

This is really really awesome!

D: im afraid I'd melt down my already ancient G4 titanium book though.

That's hardly ancient.  I still use a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet and a Powerbook 1400cs regularly.  In fact the G3 is the most up-to-date laptop I have.

Well, I guess I'll give it a shot then! I leave it one most of the time, so it should make a decent contribution.

I just have enough problems with slowdown already. I think I really need to wipe the hard drive. and im sure just running it in sleep would help too.

 

[Shokuji]

I'm onboard.

I used to fold a lot back in the day.
My old team: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=34645

My user page: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=34645&username=Defconn1

Score = 79413
WU = 715

Wootness.

 

[AishaDracoGryph]

RE: Distributed computing... The Folding@Home FurAffinity Team

I have alot of system recorces, liquid cooling, and top end hardware, it stalls my tv program, halts my mouse for a second or two, kills my torrents ug.. im stingy about my recorces, didnt sink all my money into my hardware just to feed that thing >.< *uninstalls*

-Z

I think his major problem is that he

1) most likely fiddled with the default settings. something you should only do if you know what your doing.

2) he runs teatimer, A program I have used and found to be a bit buggy[/quote] and ultimately a waste of system resources.

I suggest (if he even sees this) that he reinstall the program leaving all settings as default (not user name and work group obviously) and I highly recommend he ditch teatimer.

 

[silvermosico]

I've been folding since I've gotten my PS3 due to the fact I have a few friends that suffer from cancer and I want to support all the efforts to find a cure.

 

[tenza]

I was just thinking about SETI the other day, but this is for a better cause. I'm in.

 

[Polarity]

Joined up; got about 10 work units done now. Just left the PS3 on while I went to work.

 

[AishaDracoGryph]

well looks liek we are climbing up thier

we are

1056 of 66419

with 2396 WUs total and 122 active cpus in the last 50 days

 

[drache84]

Count me on too ^^ although it wont use both my cores on my amd 5600 they need to put on multi-threading and enable GPU as well, I am sure my NVIDIA 8800 can do something too ><

 

[tisbod]

Count me on too ^^ although it wont use both my cores on my amd 5600 they need to put on multi-threading and enable GPU as well, I am sure my NVIDIA 8800 can do something too ><

To use both cores, you have to have two copies of the program running (the non-graphic interface version) one of which has to have the machine ID set to 2. Then it will show up on your profile as a second CPU.

They also have a GPU version, but unfortunately for us NVIDIA users, it only works with specific ATI cards at the moment.