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Stanford University ^ | 01/29/2006 | Texas Booster

[papasmurf]

Have you had ANY Program Control pop ups or balloons, any at all?


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[fanfan]

Nothing seems to be registering.

I have to go for the night, can I ping you all tomorrow?

Thanks for your help.

[TChad]

I'd love to be able to check Folding progress on my home computers from work or on the road

http://www.logmein.com

[ken in texas]

Ping any time you want... if we're here we'll try to figure out what's going on.

[HangThemHigh]

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out
http://www.logmein.com

[SC Swamp Fox]

So far today we have generated 28,068 points.

...and we finished the day with 45,816 points, two record days in a row.

[papasmurf]

Yeah, but they've got us right where they want us, what're we gonna' do now? LOL


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[colinhester]

Should be adding one or two more machines this coming weekend......Colin

[TChad]

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out

Good luck. I see that they are now sort of hiding the free version of Logmein. Look under "Products" in the top right menu bar.

[ken in texas]

Yeah, but they've got us right where they want us, what're we gonna' do now? LOL

Yeah, it's getting pretty tough... do you think we should cut and run??? :-)

[papasmurf]

LOL.

Have you looked at Klutz's cpu count lately?


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[RebelTex]

bttt

[ken in texas]

Have you looked at Klutz's cpu count lately?

Looked at it??? I don't have glasses that will let me read numbers that big!! At least he didn't hurt me too much when he kicked me off to the side. :-)

[Straight Vermonter]

Thanks for that link. I didn't know previosly how many points I would get for my WUs.

Now I have another question, though. The WU I am currently working on is twice as big but only worth 44 points compared to the 241 for the previous 2 WUs. What's up with that?

[Ladypixel]

Been lurking quietly and letting my one, lone PC happily fold proteins... and man, I must not have been paying attention. Somehow, we've almost reached 300. Last I noticed, we were just at 400. Wow!

... then again, I finally hit 1750 points, and I'm rather happy 'bout that, even if I'm not even 1% of Klutz's point total. :)

Just goes to show I oughta pay attention more often. :)

[BreitbartSentMe]

Sometimes the WUs are 'larger' meaning that they have more steps or frames, but are worth less (fewer points) usually because they take less time to complete the entire WU. I've had some that take 23 minutes per frame, and some that take 8 seconds per frame. The one I'm working on has 250 frames, and will take about a day to complete. One other computer is munching away on a WU with out 30000 frames. I don't know the points they're worth, I'm obsessed enough just with the processing time of the different WUs, I'd go crazy analying the points (average points per frame/points per hour, etc, etc, etc)

Proteins, they're a weird thing. Some are much more complex than others. Hence, some of the WUs are more complex than others, take more of your CPU cycles to process, so they reward you with more points...

[TheMightyQuinn]

Here's something I've noticed and maybe someone else can confirm it:

I can gain the most points by configuring F@H to fold deadliness WU in batches. In other words, if I let F@H download WUs with deadlines one at a time (the default behavior), then I will get less points.

FYI, I allow large WUs in both cases (I don't think that should matter though).

Has anyone else seen this?

[Clara Lou]

I'm interested to see what you find out about this. I haven't read or heard anything anywhere about it.

[HangThemHigh]

" I can gain the most points by configuring F@H to fold deadliness WU in batches"

I don't understand the 'in batches' part of this. If you chose deadlineless WU's, they are automatically done in batches, or do you configure the program somehow to run batches?

Gives me some details on how you set this up so I can give it a try.

[dfwddr]

For one of my machines, this is true. It was getting 33-41 pointers, and taking just under a day to complete. After I set it to timelessness, I get 239-244 pointers, that take a hair over two days to complete. It doesn't take much math to figure that one out.

I just brought another box online that should start reporting today, and I'm going to time it so it works opposite my first one, so I'll get reported points everyday.