Folding @ Home

Thermodyne · #1 November 13th, 2003, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
Thermo,

Currently giving spare cycles to SETI@home project. I have almost 25K WU's! (Used to see you there - you zoomed by my stats then dissapeared about a year ago from submitting new WU's).

Can you tell me why I should switch? Not looking to start anything - just looking to see if this one is better.

In fact, I think that any machine that has any idle time at all (while it's powered on) should run some kind of "public service" process. It doesn't cost the CPU owner anything (in the vast majority of cases) and helps out good causes...

Hey rdouglass, it�s been a while since I was chasing you down

I set a goal of 10K units in seti and when I got there I quit. Well, I ran over a little. Actually, it was too easy and I got bored. Folding is a little harder, but not a lot. Four weeks has gotten me into the top 4% using the same systems I was using on seti.

As to why I started folding, it was because of the other people on the team. I net/know most of them and it was kind of sporty at first. No challengers of late. As to why you should join, there is no good reason. Both projects are raw science and distributed computing is more or less the same everywhere. One thing you won�t see with folding is the problems, cheats, and other BS. If you did join up, then perhaps you could give me a run for my money

Better hurry, FX51 goes on line this weekend.

[ November 13, 2003, 18:07: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

rdouglass · #2 November 14th, 2003, 11:46 PM

Hmmm...I have a Dual 3.06 GHz Xeon server on order that isn't due to go Online until Feb.

I wonder how many folding units I can do in 2 mos. with that. I might try it...

Thermodyne · #3 November 15th, 2003, 03:01 AM

Cool, Bring it on over, you'll enjoy the crowd.

I just fired up a new FX 51 Hammer. So far it's sweet, and a 3DMarking monster.

http://Groups.msn.com/ThermodynesPlace/fx51244ghz.msnw

rdouglass · #4 December 2nd, 2003, 02:19 AM

According to my stats, that new box (Dual Pent Xeon 3.06 GHz) did 13 WU's with 809 score in 1 week.

How does that stack up? Don't really know what the 'benchmark' is and I'd be interested to know how that box performs on something like that....

Instar · #5 December 1st, 2003, 09:03 PM

I just joined your team, as anonymous though. P4 1.8 ghz. Im going to try and overclock it again to around 2.0 soon.
You have nine processors? What are you running? A whole friggin farm of computers?

[ December 01, 2003, 19:06: Message edited by: Instar ]

Thermodyne · #6 December 1st, 2003, 09:41 PM

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Originally posted by Instar:
I just joined your team, as anonymous though. P4 1.8 ghz. Im going to try and overclock it again to around 2.0 soon.
You have nine processors? What are you running? A whole friggin farm of computers?

A few nice workstations and a bunch of second hand servers.

Thermodyne · #7 December 1st, 2003, 09:45 PM

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
According to my stats, that new box (Dual Pent Xeon 3.06 GHz) did 13 WU's with 809 score in 1 week.

How does that stack up? Don't really know what the 'benchmark' is and I'd be interested to know how that box performs on something like that....

Work units vary a lot from one to the next. But you are doing them in about 13 hours on average, which ain't bad by any measure.

DL 3DMark 2001 and SiSoft Sandra if you want to run bench marks on it. They are both free to use for the limited Versions. It should put up some real good numbers.