FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're Now 62 of all teams

Stanford University ^ | 10/18/2006 | Texas Booster

[mad_as_he$$]

Actually I prefer the more humanoid type aliens over the bulbous ones!

[texas booster]

Looks like someone at Extreme Overclockers has an X1900XT working after a config issue.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?s=d1356ab296398398048c0d2b68559adf&t=237623

Currently the only GPU work unit is p_2711GPU, p_2712GPU and p_2713GPU. Here are Stanford's remarks on the unit:

Project 2711

p2711 : lambda repressor, a fast-folding mutant. This is an exciting project because if everything is right we should see a LARGE proportion of these suckers fold because of the huge increase in simulation time the GPUs afford us. This means we have to make less approximations in describing the process and rate of folding. The physical system is a bit naive, however: the implicit solvent model is extremely basic.

p2721: same as 2711, except the solvent model is a bit more sophisticated.

p2722 and p2723: same as previous two, just simulating at higher temperature, so that we see more exploration of conformations. (More data!)

points 220 deadline 4 days

[texas booster]

< Sigh.>

I was hoping to reach 300,000 points first before giving up the #5 spot. I had to give up most of my 24/7 systems when I changed jobs last month.

Meet me in Dallas for a long tall iced tea sometime. You've earned it!

[JCEccles]

I have two dedicated boxes sitting in my hobby shed running dual core CPUs 24/7 on the F@H projects. For the most part I cobbled them together from scrap and salvage I found lying around.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

How 'bout you meet me in NY for a Long Island Iced Tea?

[Drango]

Tonight, to make the top 20 list http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
you had to have over 500 points average. Wow. And kudos to the power folders!

Still the majority of points come from ordinary FReepers producing 50-300 points average. Fold on!

[Malsua]

Still the majority of points come from ordinary FReepers producing 50-300 points average. Fold on!

Absolutely correct!

The top 5 folders have produced 45.6% of the points total. The majority has produced more.

We're producing 50,000+ points per day. MASSIVE numbers. I added 6 more machines yesterday. Eventually I'll be "all in" but it's a work in progress!

[Malsua]

Looks like someone at Extreme Overclockers has an X1900XT

Ok, so it took me a few minutes to figure out what that meant. I'm like...what the hell, someone is folding on a graphics card? Yeah...someone is folding on a graphics card ;).

Since my gaming rig has a 7800GTX video card in it(for the uninitiated, that's not the hottest card any more, but it's damn close) I'm going to have to figure out how to run a GPU client in my gaming rig.

I'm running a 4800+ dual core and a 7800GTX video card...that's 3 processors and currently only folding with one. Seems like I should be able to figure out how to crank my numbers :)

[Drango]

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

Still in beta and limited to X1900XT series.

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html

[HKMk23]

Thanks for the new thread.

I was just nosing around the team stats and it's noteworthy to me that we've a comparatively high percentage of Active Users, we're just a shade below 38%, but, for all of the teams with more points than us, the percentage is lower.

Currently at 395 Members, we're the 81st largest team, but we're the 34th Most Active, with 149 Active Users. Team Ukraine is at 79th with 420 Members and 163 Active Users. But from there you've got to slide all the way up to 54th place to find a team with more Active Users that we've got -- KCIX.com with a Membership of 616 and 179 Active Users -- but, at 29%, they still don't beat our percentage of Members who are Active Users. It's not until you get above the 28th largest, Team Lithuania, that most teams listed have more Active Users than we do; and all of those teams are more than three times our size.

Now, if we can just multiply our Membership while maintaining this level of efficiency...

[dfwddr]

Interesting numbers,

THANKS for pulling that together.

[texas booster]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1731273/posts

Hey, we will hopefully receive an influx of queries from this Alheimers post. Please help answer when you have time. I will be off the net until late tomorrow. Also be starting a new thread this weekend for the newcomers from Election Night.

This thread is also a great read.

[JCEccles]

It's been six months and I'm on the verge of crossing the 100,000 point marker.

Bump!

[Egon]

My shameless self-promotion for this thread:

If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.

Available features include:

• Timely snapshot of each machine's progress on it's current project
• Point values for project
• Estimated completion dates/times
• Warning indicators for machines that appear to have stopped communicating or folding
• Warnings for machines that won't make their deadline
• Team ranking status box (courtesy of EOC)
• Machine stats like PPD (points per day)
• Project comparison stats: PPD, average time taken to completion, etc.
• It's free-- and always will be
• ...other features as time permits, and people request

[JosephW]

Egon,

I love the tracking that you have for us. However I have no idea on how to turn on the Team ranking status box. By adding that one little item to my page I'm bound to hog up just a little more of your bandwidth - no wonder I'm catching up to you, I'm using all your CPU cycles :)

[Route66]

Readers:

Since I started folding for the Free Republic team, I have had yet another friend diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Putting unused computing power to use aiding scientific research into diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is an easy thing the average person can do to help.

It's simple and rewarding. I've done this for nearly a year with the software running in the background almost all the time. Users have total control over the software. You may shut it down at any time and, if you prefer, you can run it only during times you are not actively using your computer.

Despite starting later than many others, our team is now at number 62 and steadily moving toward the top 50 among tens of thousands of teams. The cause is good and the fact that a lot of academic liberals have to watch our team name moving up the chart is not a bad thing, either. ;-)

Please join the team....
Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan
Team number 36120

[Egon]

However I have no idea on how to turn on the Team ranking status box.

This is your EOC number: 185671

If you plug that into your scripts under the m_szUSER_EOC_NUMBER value, it will automatically display that box for you.

[Drango]

Also, if you are making changes to your configuration file put Drango1 in as your user name.

[JosephW]

If I did that then JCEccles would soon pass me (not to mention yourself)

[JosephW]

You're right on the edge of 100K as I write this. As I will be mostly off-line tomorrow and won't be able to do more than look in, I congratulate you on a lot of good work that was well done.

Let's continue the race to 200K (as we slowly upgrade and replace machines it will be a race).

JosephW