Posted on 01/15/2006 9:32:31 AM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week.
First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.
Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 456 processors and 209 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.
Special mention to Klutz Dohanger, who has quietly volunteered over 100 systems to fold. That is 20% of all of the Free Republic Folders systems actively engaged in research. Klutz is the first to earn 100,000 points.
We now have ten members who have contributed at least 10,000 points each. Malsua, Ken in Texas, Andrewksu, LSimpson and kingu have all reached this milestone, and Uriah will join them next week. Great job!
Even more impressive, our team now boasts 113 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of CPUs folding for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 487. We are poised to overtake (today):
MaximumCPU (these guys are serious overclockers)
BadgerBadgerBadger
ECU-SCIS-Cluster (82 CPU cluster in Australia)
BensCustomCases
Greenland HS in Winslow, AR Tech Labs
and the Univ of Stoney Brook Math Club, Stoney Brook NY
As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:
Top 400 by next Friday
Top 300 by the end of the month
We have 610,000 points so far and have folded over 5,000 WU. We will reach:
750,000 points by Jan 24
1,000,000 points by mid February
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic ^
That happened to me at 36%. Just stopped and loaded a new WU. Has not happened on any other projects.
'Fraid I ain't smart enough fer all that.
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So, how long does it take your laptop to do those 241 point units? It takes my PC at least 10 days. My G4 laptop downloaded a Tinker core WU worth 241 points, and I sure hope it isn't going to take 10 days. Tinker WUs go soooooooo slooooooooooowwww. I was really hoping my G4 would do the job faster.
My laptop (1.2GHz Athlon 4 Palomino) takes a little over 2 days per 241 point work unit. There are 400 frames, it takes about 8 minutes per frame.
I have a bunch of old boxes in the basement; P75, 486s, 386s, a 286, an 8080, Commodore 64, Apple IIc and others. I wouldn't even try to get it to run on them. I have NetBSD on a few, but haven't powered on most of them in years.
Take one look, make choking gagging sounds and keel over dead? :)
One of my thoroughbreds is taking the night off...have to re-install XP, ya'll got a chance to catch up. ;)
On a somewhat related note, this guy I knew bout 10 years ago on CompuServe bought this surplus "486 cube" that was some sort of 32 or 64 486 cpu cluster for a super computer. I'd be willing to put forth that Single, modern computer would STILL outperform it.
Ok, so I looked up Mflops on a 486/33. Anywhere from 2 to about 7, but lets be generous and say 10. 64 486/33 machines would be 640Mflops. I looked up the Mflops on my AMD 64+ 4000. Anywhere from 3000 to 6000s. Let's just put it at 5000mflops then.
So, to answer your question..
what my little Dauphin 486 LC33 would do
The answer is, what my AMD 64+ 4000 would complete in 24 hours, that same machine would take, 2 months, 10 days(being generous on mflops). The reality is it would probably take 2-3 times longer than that.
That said, not sure how the folding team handles low end cpus. I know my lowest cpu a 1.6mhz usually takes like 4-5 days for very low point proteins. I say give it a shot, I'd be curious what it comes out as.
Well, both my old PC and my relatively new G4 take a half-hour to do a Tinker frame. I really wish that I wouldn't get any more Tinker core WUs. I read in a post above that the Tinker WUs aren't "optimized," whatever that means.
DUmmies are talking about us
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=164110&mesg_id=164110
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Rofl, let them. It hasn't set in yet that despite their passing up chumps in the 2000s, they aren't gaining ground on US. They're losing ground at a pretty good clip actually.
Besides, most of those DUPES are socialists that either work sustenance jobs or are on the gov't dole and won't ever have the money needed to buy enough cpu power to pass us.
The fourth time was a charm :o) I finally finished that job I was stuck on, completed another while I was gone today, and FINALLY started a 5th!
Wow - 1.6 MHz? I think even the original XT started at 4.8 MHz :)
It could be worse. My 2GHz Athlon 64 is taking 1 hr 10 min per frame on a 400 frame project, ugh. Wonder what would happen if I blocked that server at my firewall?
It took me a second, but LOLOLOL
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I think that's Mal's secret here - a farm of about 80 million TRS-80s :)
Commodore 64s I picked up on surpless for 1 penny a gross :). Electric bill is 10 grand a month, but hey, it's worth it. heh.
That doesn't sound right. My 2.2GHz Athlon 64 (overclocked to 2.28GHz)takes 4.5 minutes per frame on the 400 frame tinker work units. Maybe you have a process in the background using your cpu.
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