Folding@home - Make a Diffrence With Those New Computers

Folding@home at Stanford University ^ | 11/23/2007 | Texas Booster

[dfwddr]

Looks to be someone playing during Thanksgiving. Check it out now.

[Drango]

Yeah....the boss came back and said...WTF???

[dfwddr]

Well, I’m within 15,000 of you again, for about the fourth time.

I must be due for a tornado, lightning strike, and/or a fried board.

I’ll send you the bill. :p

[Egon]

Hah!

Yeah, I’ve fallen off my high of 8th place, down to 12th, and I’m falling fast. Nice to be on a project where, even when I lose we win!

Need to find some more Macs...

[texas booster]

The Extremeoverclockers stats are back online, but you may want to take the results with a grain if salt.

Its showing that I have completed 144,000 points in the last day. Probably not correct.

Check pout your inflated stats here:

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

[texas booster]

Top 20 Producers
Rank Team	User Name	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total
	Klutz_dohanger	945,059	13,112,349
	lrenh	560,595	7,654,195
	Malsua	316,272	4,390,068
	andyk	228,165	3,166,234
	josephw	190,911	2,630,829
	Texas_Booster	144,831	1,985,279
	Chris_Primavera	125,364	1,734,191
	mouser	79,038	1,073,370
	GOPBiker	72,047	976,722
	NAPA_Laurel_MS	65,720	898,529
	LanPB01	58,899	794,555
	EasySt	56,665	724,188
	Egon	56,575	783,798
	dfwddr	54,735	752,842
	dbender5555	49,930	642,012
	zeugma	46,039	636,050
	davemaher	45,113	631,582
	Dr_Quin	42,825	591,654
	Linda_Geiger	41,599	574,472
	LSimpson	39,694	553,722

[brityank]

Geeez! I asked them to double ME up, not everyone !!

LOL. I do notice I didn't move up the ladder any.

Looks as if they've added the total points and WUs into the 24Hr add-on, giving us all double points. I'm sure there are lots of emails slamming them about it, so it will probably get corrected by tomorrow.

My real stat:

To see when it matches:

[texas booster]

BTW, I really like your F@H signature.

Where is the code for that, and how do you store it for easy access on the web?

[brityank]

Thanks.

Made it up on my own, using Mr. Robinson’s Preview sandbox. I’ll send you the info in FReepmail. :^)

[HKMk23]

...or you could just right-click and pick "View Source" (yeah, I know that's IESpeak, but Firefox has similar capabilities).

But here it is "in the clear":

<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/" target="new"><img height="70" src="http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAHlogoML.jpg" width="468" /></a>

[brityank]

Thanks; I always get screwed up putting the & lt; in for the <.

Also, I just C&P it from a Notepad off my desktop, somewhere buried under all the rest of the clutter! Enjoy.

[HKMk23]

I’m just enough of a bitHead that I actually USE the documentation from the guys at W3C. Discussion is now underway concerning HTML5.0, but the current “stable” implementation is 4.01 It’s interesting stuff.

Here’s a document that outlines the guiding principles philosophies that underlie the development of HTML 5.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/

The Site Index reads like a bibliography of web development:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/siteindex

All kinds of pertinent documents are referenced here, as well as hardcopy-published books on related topics. From this page, you can either navigate to an on-line document for further reading, or link to a page where you can buy a book; like this page, for instance:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/

(That one will simply CRUSH Algore, so don’t tell him it’s in print.)

To kick off with, though, if you’ve the interest, I’d recommend simply downloading the PDF version of the HTML 4.01 sepcification document, here (right-click, Save target As...):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/html40.pdf.gz

[You’ll need WinZip or a similar GZip decompression tool]

[Uri’el-2012]

Thanks for the sig code also the eye catchers in the code

[EasySt]

Thanks, I stole it from brityank... ;-)

By the way, that’s a nice “About” page you have there!

[Uri’el-2012]

By the way, that’s a nice “About” page you have there!

Thanks !

Been working on it for a couple of years.

[twntaipan]

I'm charging ahead!

[texas booster]

I saw that you have some huge points the first couple of days. Is that from running SMP work units?

SMP units have shorter times to return them so turn the monitor off and just let the system crunch the WU.

Don’t worry about the small points on occasion. Those are Early Unit Ends and happen to all work units. If it happens to often there may be an overclocking issue or a memory problem.

Or you could have just all the luck!

[brityank]

Hey All =

Found a couple of good articles in the December issue of Economist.com:

Spreading the Load ^
Another development that is boosting volunteer computing is the use of devices other than PCs, in particular games consoles and the powerful processors they contain (see article). This has been demonstrated most spectacularly by a project called Folding@home, run by Vijay Pande and his team at Stanford University, which simulates protein folding and mis-folding—a cause of diseases such as Alzheimer's. In September the combined computing capacity of the project passed one petaflop—a quadrillion mathematical operations per second—something supercomputer designers have dreamed of for several years. With just over 40,000 PlayStation 3 volunteers, Folding@home entered the record books as the most powerful distributed-computing network on Earth.


Playing or processing? ^
The next logical step for the Stanford team was to adapt their software for the hugely powerful Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. This chip, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, also turns out to work well for the Stanford protein-folding program. With Sony solidly behind this project—even preloading Folding@home on to some PlayStations—adoption has taken off fast. Sony's motivation is not just philanthropic: for some young gamers, the fact that their machine will do serious science in its spare time is a useful argument to convince reluctant parents. Such is the power of the Cell chip that in less than a year the PlayStation has become the dominant source of processing power for the project, despite much larger numbers of contributing PCs.

Both are very good reports on the overall health of F&H and other distributed projects. Enjoy, and keep folding!

[shadowscotland]

Congratulation of joining the seven figure club tb, Looks like we both got their at the same time :o)

Keep ‘em folding

S

[nina0113]

ping