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 ^
I just found (finally) the Fry's in Atlanta! It's the only brick-n-mortar I could find a Parrot CK3100 at.
:O)
P
Alternative evil Fry's site:
http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664
(The place sucks money out of your wallet just driving by!)
I pass a Fry's twice a day, on the way to work and back. (Shudder)
Step 1. We admitt we are powerless over Fry's; that our lives had become unmanageable.
And, and yet although I pass one every day...I stood outside on Black Friday at 5:00am, like an idiot, to save $15 bucks on some ram. I am weak.
Like I said in the last thread, I'm looking into putting together the same type of "folding farm" as in that picture above. The idea in this link looks like a good option for the power. Make ATX Y Cable by splicing two cables together so you can run two MB off a single Power Supply.
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33884
How much power/money is used by keeping a F@H running 24/7 on a computer? Roughly, a CPU uses about as much power as a watt light bulb. Here's a report on computer power management from Lawrence Berkeley government labs, and there are other references on the web you can find. Although power supplies on most computers are rated at 400 watts, average usage is lower.
On average, a Pentium-type computer uses about 100 watts (if the monitor is off). So, the daily difference between off and running F@H is about 24x100 = 2.4 kWh. At $0.15 per kWh ( from PG&E here in California), this works out to about $0.36 per day. In general, lighting and climate control use a much larger share of household power than computers do. So the best bet for cutting costs and conserving energy would be to turn off lights, turn off your computer monitors (which use more power than a CPU), and turn down the heat.
Twillig Donating Member Sun Jan-15-06 05:50 PM Response to Reply #93 99. A vulgar translation for those who haven't joined: We need more ****ing folders if we're gonna make any ****ing ground on the ****ing freepers!
Desperation sets in... (edited to keep this thread PG13 :)
*chuckle*
A question, if you please!
I'm currently folding p764_vin 3.3-0.4nopbc. The link at http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html says that it is worth 39 points and is 100 frames.
It has sent me 500 frames. Do I still only get 39 points for that, do you know?
I've noticed that there are "steps" within frames, right now I'm working on 761 which has also has 100 frames, but is worth 135 points. But, the log shows that I've got 500,000 steps to complete.
I don't have a gui client immediately available to verify that against, but I'll wager that's where the confusion comes in.
I'm using my two home folders to help keep the house warm. I heat 90% with Firewood with a 1500 watt wall heater in the bedroom and a little 800 watt one to help in the Kitchen.
These two machines are doing 250 or so watts 24/7. It never gets all that hot here in the summer so that shouldn't matter much.
More power savings can be had, if the PC is using a shared hard drive (I've got 5 PC's now using drive space on an external USB drive), I've pulled the video card, sound card, floppy and hard drive out of them, so they're stripped to the bone.
If one is really serious about tweaking power settings, you can get variable speed fans, and use the "standby" feature to shut down the network card, when it's not in use.
btw... the experiment worked, and the $3 laptop has now contributed 92 points.
SISD is definately out folding us, but if we can keep getting more stragglers to overcome the eventual drop off, we may be able to close the gap with them some. I may be able to get some more in but throttle them back so I don't cook 'em.
I now have 3 CPU's folding. 2 P166's and 1 AMD 1200.
Thanks for joining us. I'll add you to the ping list if your F@H name is the same as your FR name.
amigatec, can you remember Amiga computers? I see from your profile that you are Linux based.
Are the P166s fast enough to run Linux? They sure don't do well under XP bloatware.
"On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 487"
Movin' on up - YEAH!
Unfortunately - I'm not. My 2nd CPU (a P-II, IBM box) crashed and burned yesterday - won't even power on. Probably the power supply, but I might have cooked the CPU or MB. It had only been folding about a week or so. What's strange is that my main system (which I built) cooked my Gainward GForce 4 (TI4200 with 128mb ram) about a week after I started it on folding. The video card has it's own fan onboard, and the system chasis is aluminum and never gets over 92o, and the AMD Athlon XP 2100 processor has a great cooler keeping it around 120o (both measured in Farenheit) - weird. I never had any problem with hardware before (and I don't overclock - need stability for my business - of course my main system is over 3 years old and I won't even talk about the P-II, LOL).
I didn't have any other apps running on the P-II except NAV & Zone Alarm. I run all sorts of business programs on the AMD, but nothing graphics intensive. I don't have time to troubleshoot them right now (I just installed a back-up video card for the main system & continued folding and working, (like now - posting to FR, heheh). The other one's offline though. When I have time, I'll install Mepis (Linux) to another old system which has an older AMD processor and get it online.
I've got to get more CPU's online - I'm stuck in the low 70s rank on the team, but I'll have to wait until I can afford an 8 port KVM switch before I can try and bring on more. (We might be in 1st place by then, LOL).
But I can brag about folding more WUs than all but the top 38 on our team + BoT who has an amazing 117 and is not in the top 46. (I know, I know - it's the points, stupid, LOL).
Anyway - my congrats to all FR folders - we're whipping DU butt - they'll never catch us.
RT
"A clean, dry protein folds much better."
uhoh - darn, I've been foldin' them wet - do you think that's what might have shorted out my systems? LOL
;^D
RT
Folding and watching the premier of the new "24." Does life get any better?
The downside to folding is that it will certainly stress test computers. Sorry to hear of your thermal issues.
If you build your own machines, you won't have the same issues again if you use Antec Cases and power supplies. For the CPU Zalman CPU/Northbridge coolers take the day.
One of my folders is an Athlon 2700 with 3 case fans, 2 in the power supply plus a thermaltake volcano on the cpu running a massively overclocked Geforce 6800.
only spot improvements are possible, at this juncture..
Folding and watching the premier of the new "24, with a cold beer in hand" Does life get any better?
Patch accepted.
"you won't have the same issues again if you use Antec Cases and power supplies"
Thanks for the advice. Your system sounds very cool (pun intended, heheh).
I don't think it was thermal issues on my main system (the AMD), but I don't know what zapped my video card. Here's my setup (before I replaced the video card with an spare older one):
I have an aluminum Lian Li case with Plexiglas side and 3 case fans and speed screws and slide out MB tray and removable 5 drive HD cage and removable floppy cage, an Enermax 350w EG365P-FC ATX Power Supply with intake & exhaust fans, a built-in south-bridge fan on a Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB, and the Gainward video card had it's own fan. The AMD Athlon XP 2100 has a copper core oversize cooler and fan. I use round cables for both of the 40gb hard drives and floppy and CDRW and DVDRW so as not to impede air flow. I only have 1 Corsair DDR-333Mhz 512MB PC2700 CAS2 Heat Spreader ram card for now.
(These are old links and may not work)
Qty | Component | Brand | Model & Specs | REVIEWS |
1 | CPU | AMD | ATHLON XP 2100+ 1.73GHz Boxed Retail with Cooler & CPU Fan (Dynaeon Industrial DF126010BH1-3 |
Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Athlon XP 2100+: AMD Turns Up The Heat |
1 | Mother Board | Soyo | SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra PLATINUM + SPDIF audio connector + Sigma Box (SB-K7VXBP) Combo Compact Flash/Smart Media reader/writer & 2 front USB 2.0 ports | SourceMagazine.com: Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra - Platinum Edition |
1 | Memory | Corsair | Corsair 512mb PC2700 DDR333 CAS 2.0 (CMX512-2700C2) | PC PowerZone - Corsair PC-2700 review |
1 | Video Card | Gainward | Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200, 4X, 128MB DDR, TV OUT+DVI+VIO AGP4x | Tom's Hardware Guide Graphics Guide: Big Little Sister - The GeForce4 Ti4200 |
1 | Power Supply | Enermax | EG365P-VE FCA 350W | JSI hardware - EnerMax review |
1 | Case | Lian-Li | PC-65 USB Black Aluminum Mid Tower ATX w/3 fans + Plexiglas side + 2 front USB 2.0 ports | Dan's Data - Lian Li PC-65B review |
2 | Hard Drive | Maxtor | Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm ATA133 (6L040L2*) | Mikhailtech - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X HDD Review |
1 | CD-RW | PLEXTOR | PLEXTOR 40/12/40 EIDE CD-RW (PXW4012TASW) | Mikhailtech - Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A CD-RW Review |
4 | IDE/ATAPI Cables | Round IDE Cables: EIDE Ultra ATA/ 133/ 100/ 66 | Rounded Cables - various colors 3 IDE/Atapi + 1 Floppy |
|
1 | FDD | Mitsumi | 1.44 3.5 FLOPPY INT BLACK | |
1 | Monitor | Proview International (EMC) | 15" SVGA | |
1 | Modem | Creative Modem Blaster | V.92 PCI DI5631 (56k Data-Fax-Voice) | |
1 | WebCam | Intel | CS330 Color | |
1 | Color Printer | Hewlett Packard | HP 2000C Pro Series Color Inkjet Printer | ZDNet: HP 2000C: Redefine Your Office Printer |
1 | Flatbed Scanner | Canon | CanoScan N670U flatbed scanner | PCworld reviews Canon Scanner |
1 | OS | Windows XP Pro |
(oooops - forgot this is a political forum - for a minute, I thought I was back on a modder's site, heheh.)
;^D
RT
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