Folding @ Home: TG bands together to advance disease research - Page 7

**Spyder228** · 05-10-2009, 11:17 PM

Come on people! Kakao says that TG is going to start falling in the folding charts in 7 days. We need to get some more processors online! I've already borged my girlfriend's machine and I'll have a media server coming online in the next couple days, but those are both old crappy CPU's with no GPU processing power. We need people with good rigs to start folding.

**browna3** · 05-11-2009, 10:15 AM

i put mine in

**draeh** · 05-11-2009, 12:09 PM

My rig was offline for the weekend, but is back at it as of last night.

**Spyder228** · 05-11-2009, 01:59 PM

Man now it says we'll fall one place in the next 24 hours. Some one out there is folding like crazy! I could put an extra 2800 points in if I left my PS3 on, but I don't know if I want to do that. It doesn't have very good ventilation.

**DrBeat** · 05-11-2009, 04:00 PM

I fold on both my graphics card and my CPU. I don't leave my computer on 24/7 but I do when I leave the computer idle.

**Spyder228** · 05-12-2009, 03:00 PM

There's seriously only 11 active processors on the TG? Five-six of those are mine!

I gotta get that media server up and running. Wish it had an 8800 in there though.

Seigman · 05-16-2009, 01:53 PM

Joined

**Spyder228** · 05-21-2009, 12:50 AM

Nice! TG is up 4 spots to 613 and is closing on 612! Keep folding everyone and if you have a computer, be it at work or home, that's on all time - make sure you fold on it.

**Spyder228** · 06-08-2009, 10:12 AM

Update:

TG Folding is currently at 604 and is projected to reach 603 today and move up an additional 7 places in 7 days!

However, we've lost 4 active CPU's.

Nice work everyone, but we can still do better. Remember, if you've got a computer that runs all day fold on it! My work comp folds all night and all weekend.

**MrShawn305** · 06-11-2009, 05:03 PM

How do you make it multi-core aware? I fold, but it only sees one core so I only use 25% of my proc. If we could get it going, I could put it on some idle servers here at work!

**Spyder228** · 06-11-2009, 06:26 PM

Well you could run 4 separate instances in different folders. I do it this way running 2 instances because my Q6600 runs hot with no AC.

You can also go here and download the SMP client. It takes some monkeying to get it to work but it will utilize all your cores.

**MrShawn305** · 06-12-2009, 05:39 PM

well bad news is Im not having much luck with the multi core stuff. Ill make a thread if I continue to have probs, but the good news is, my wife is trying to sell some hardware I got so I can by a Dell server with dual AMD quad cores in it! She really wants me to get to folding!

**Spyder228** · 06-12-2009, 06:25 PM

If you can't get the SMP client running (I couldn't) just install the console client 4 times into different folders, then manually run each of them. Just make sure they all have separate machine ID's.

PM me if you're having problems.

If that server has a PCI-E slot in there, you could throw a nice GPU in there and have a folding behemoth!

**draeh** · 06-15-2009, 01:42 PM

What is Folding and Why Does it Matter?

Quote:

Folding@home is a distributed computing project based at the world-renowned Stanford University in the USA and is used by research scientists to run medical simulations in order to work out how and why proteins (one of the building blocks of life) fold. Folding is the medical term for the process proteins undergo when they interact with each other. Many diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Mad Cow Disease (BSE), are caused in part by proteins misfolding.

**Spyder228** · 06-15-2009, 01:51 PM

Nice link. Was reading that this morning but got bogged down with work.