FR Folding@Home Project Update - 2 MILLION points & we're in the Top200

soccer_maniac | 2-21-06 | soccer_maniac

[soccer_maniac]

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

While this folding@home team is not officially sanctioned by Free Republic, it's 250+ members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).

Currently, the team is in 204th place, having reached more than 2,000,000 points!

This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 8 folding threads)

[Klutz Dohanger]

Cool... between your jump, and my Mardi Gras weekend updates, now until Wednesday, we should see some healthy daily stats.

Of course, mine will drop back down, wednesday night, when the energy czars have their way.....

[Malsua]

I just hope I dont come across as an ASS since I Instructed my ops NOT to shut idle machines down.

We'll see. heh. I can tell them not to do it, if they behave, we'll see. :)

[Klutz Dohanger]

woo hoo... a 24,000 point day for the KLutz... looks like my lab instructors, followed directions for a change :)

[Clara Lou]

Observations:
1) Yay! We had a HUGE 24 hour point total! 61,000+! SISD, for those who care, is seeing us a lot closer in the rear-view.
2) The DUmpster is so far behind, they can't even smell the exhaust of our afterburners, although this one doesn't get it:
ribofunk Donating Member
6. Finally Got Around to Signing Up
we'll catch up with those freepers yet.

[houeto]

Points last 24 hrs. 61,918!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[houeto]

Oh yea, and we changed colors! Average daily points: 51,018!!!!!!!!!!!

[DocRock]

Saturday Bookmark

[soccer_maniac]

6AM update - 9,221 points

9AM update - 7,531 points

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

[soccer_maniac]

Team "CHIP ASIA - Folding@Home" (#194) ahead of us by 6,201 points

We may overtake them with the next update

[ken in texas]

FYI -- I've seen a few people ask about extra electrticity usage while doing their Folding but don't recall seeing any discussion about it.

A few weeks back I bought one of those fancy Kill-A-Watt devices and decided to check it out.

While idling, my main machine draws about 124-125 watts, as soon as I crank up Folding the consumption rises to 150-151. So, running Folding on this machine is about the equivalent of a 25W light bulb. Obviously, your mileage will vary depending on the processor in use. :-)

[Drango]

Seems correct. From the FAQ http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#misc.power

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.

[Thom Pain]

Thread on the U.S.S. Reagan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585391/posts

[RebelTex]

Weekend bump

[abner]

Thanks for the power usage thing... My other half wants to shut down the computers at night. I've been keeping mine on and he turns his off at night... But, if he sees mine is on, he will turn it off. .. .

[SC Swamp Fox]

Team "CHIP ASIA - Folding@Home" (#194) ahead of us by 6,201 points

We may overtake them with the next update

We passed 'em.

9,057 points in the last update. We could hit 60K points today.

[Drango]

My other half wants to shut down the computers at night

$0.36 per day

But for many of us it's not an electrical cost issue! In earlier threads, it was noted that most geeks and many large corporations keep their 'puters on 24/7. That's because turning a 'puter on and off is the most destructive thing you can do to it. Think of a light bulb. When does it fail? When you first turn it on and the power surges through it. Now think of the miniature circuits, resistors, capacitors etc on a motherboard. The power surge isn't good for it at all.

[papasmurf]

How in the world do you get only 1 point on a wu?

That just sucks!

278 Cincinnatus 1 1


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[houeto]

While idling, my main machine draws about 124-125 watts, as soon as I crank up Folding the consumption rises to 150-151. So, running Folding on this machine is about the equivalent of a 25W light bulb.

Very interesting. Thanks.

[houeto]

How in the world do you get only 1 point on a wu?

Weird!

[papasmurf]

Yeah, it is. Looking the the protein noun, I see it is supposed to reward 404 points.


2107 171.64.122.141 p2107_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011 1258 78.00 114.00 404.00 100 GROMACS

Wonder what happened?

:O)

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