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10-27-2009, 02:30 PM #1
The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
The TG Folding@Home team needs your help and your otherwise wasted cpu cycles!
The TG folding teams is currently ranked 581 out of 167427 with only 10 active members. We would love to crack into the top 500 teams by the start of 2010. That's where you come in.
This is a perfect opportunity to spread our name around in the outside world, and help a cause that's right up our alley and obviously deserving of all the support we can give it, especially if it's otherwise wasted computer cycles.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to their goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. They aim to solve these problems with distributed computing.
Both PC and PS3 owners are able to contribute to the team by downloading the Folding @ Home software, and putting the TG team's number (#78445) in the configuration panel of the client software.
If you're really looking to rack up the points, click here to download a GPU client!
Thanks Spyder228 for the article.
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10-27-2009, 10:03 PM #2
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Re: The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
Doing it now.
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10-28-2009, 01:28 AM #3
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Signed up, will run the GPU client overnight and see how it goes.
May fall back to CPU client, though, considering I'm running on a laptop...
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10-28-2009, 01:57 AM #4
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Excellent! The more the merrier. Any folding you can do will help us reach 500!
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10-28-2009, 02:59 AM #5
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Re: The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
Got it running as i type this out and will have while at home ^.^ useing the GPU
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10-28-2009, 05:43 AM #6
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Im up and running too using the GPU client.
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10-28-2009, 04:04 PM #7
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OK..in less than 10 hrs I have 9 work units done and 3339 score. Went from 105 to 56th place! Woohoo!
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10-28-2009, 04:09 PM #8
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Keep it up jim!
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10-28-2009, 08:27 PM #9
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Gonna do the GPU now.
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10-28-2009, 11:42 PM #10
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I am downloading this right now, can't stand the idea of wasted anything especially cpu cycles!
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10-28-2009, 11:59 PM #11
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Wow if I keep up at this pace I may just take the #13 spot tonight. That would be around 20,000 points in a day. Of course heres what Im running from the other thread:
Originally Posted by MrShawn305
haha your gonna have to do better than that heres what I got so far:
Dell PowerEdge 2970 with dual AMD Opteron 2435 2.6GHz 6-cores each
ATi Radeon 4870 folding at home on my rig to keep the apt warm
Dual Nvidia Quadro FX1700 512MB folding at the office 24/7
Department music server P4 3.4GHz hyperthreading folding 24/4
Company terminal server running one instance of FAH (Dell 2850 with Xeon 2.8GHz)
I think thats it for now. Ill see what else I can fold on.
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10-29-2009, 07:06 PM #12
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The GPU client should support more cards so I can donate twice as much time.
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10-29-2009, 08:39 PM #13
Re: The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
The GPU clients are only limited by the cards that the chipset manufacturers (NVIDIA & ATI) wrote third party libraries for (CUDA for NVIDIA and CAL for ATI). Originally Posted by ednos
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10-31-2009, 07:54 PM #14
Re: The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
Hey , how come when I look at my stats: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=78445 there is none reported, even though on my taskbar icon it shows like 90/500 ?
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11-01-2009, 02:17 AM #15
Re: The TG Folding@Home team needs your help!
Your taskbar icon is telling you that you have completed 90 iterations out of 500 to complete the current work unit. Once that work unit is complete, it gets sent back to Stanford and then you will get credit for it. Originally Posted by Housekeeper
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