Folding@Home - Turning Up the Speed!

Departments of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University ^ | August 4, 2008 | Dr Vijay Pande

[andyk]

2005828

Still alive and folding :)

It must be about 3 1/2 years now. The first million came so fast, lol. I haven't checked on any systems in over a year now, but they're still folding away!

</shameless kudos>

[texas booster]

I find that the 6.2x is generating about 20% more points on an Intel dual core. E2140 I think, so its not one of the new barn burners.

To get multiple 6.2x cores running you must chose Advanced options at the end of the main install. Even if you accept the defaults, there will be a choice to name the machine ID after about 8 choices.

One item from default that I always chose is the “Allow advanced work units” and I select Yes.

I have only installed 6.2x on systems that I can touch often. When you have a F@H beta that expires every two months, it will need attention.

[texas booster]

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120

Hey, one of your systems is registered as astyanax, not astyanaxFR.

Better catch it before it completes any more work units.

If it is a GUI version, it is easy to change.

If it is a console version, just stop the kernel in the Services windows, and run the F@H core with the -configonly CLI.

[papasmurf]

Texas:

Tech4Less.com has a (Refurbished) Lenovo 3000 J115 - Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2 GHz - RAM 1 GB - HD 250 GB - DVD±RW (+R DL) - Memory card reader - LAN EN - Fast EN - Gig EN - Modem - Vista Home Premium (search model # 7387-A11 on their site)

It was 230.00, then I asked for a Folding@home discount and after explaining what F@H is, he gave me an additional $20.00 off. :)

Subtotal: 210.00
Sales Tax: 0.00
Shipping: 30.32
Order Total: 240.32

I just bought one, they have 17 left. 1 year manufacturer’s warranty.

Further to that, I bought another nVidia 8600GT for $44.95 at Fry’s (after rebate).

My little Dell 530 (e2160 1gb) with the other (now overclocked)8600 is workin’ very nicely, thanks for the recommendation and assistance.

[astyanax]

Yea, thanks. I caught it earlier, but not before it had uploaded once.
At least it went to the right team...

[texas booster]

Wow, the points really drop when a hurricane crosses your path.

Any adventures to talk about?

Any headway with the Energy Czar?

[astyanax]

I’m not uploading from any machines,
or receiving any new work packets.
Anyone have info (or know where to check)?
Stanford’s servers, I assume?

[texas booster]

I had a system this morning that retried many times before it made a download.

Let me check on the forums to see if it is a general outage or if they are just picking on you ...

[astyanax]

For almost 6 hours there was nothing.
New install finally managed to download.
Others still won’t upload however.

[EasySt]

Congrats to NAPA_Laurel_MS on passing One Million Points!

Laurel was the closest Freeper name I could find.
Apologies if NAPA_Laurel_MS != laurel...

[EasySt]

Congrats to Malsua on passing Three Million Points!

[EasySt]

The “Life with PlayStation” integration with the Folding@Home client has just been released on the PlayStation 3.

The next time you stop and start your PS3 Folding@Home client, you will be prompted to update.

Life with PlayStation has a globe, but this one shows real color (Like Google Earth). It also has limited zoom like F@H. There are limited cities highlighted across the globe and each shows the local weather by its name as an icon for sunny, rainy, or cloudy along with the current temperature. The bottom left of the screen shows a list of headlines from news (From each city, sort of...) powered by Google.

It's pretty cool, overall. You can still get back to the view you are used to by switching to the “Folding Channel” which is done by using the “Square” button on your controller, along with the directional controls.

I did notice that the install did NOT lose my work units in progress, but it DID turn the music back on. I find that the music costs a bit of performance, so I usually leave that off unless I want to actively listen to it.

My son just got a couple of his PS3 owning friends to start running this new client on our team, so our little EasySt group may start climbing up the Free Republic Folders charts a little bit more aggressively... ;-)

[texas booster]

Don't look now, but F@H is closing in on 4 TeraFLOPS of sustained production in the search for a cure for Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

Amazing!

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	206	216040	2188147
Mac OS X/PowerPC	6	7484	120547
Mac OS X/Intel	23	7552	64356
Linux	57	33343	333176
ATI GPU	488	4434	10987
NVIDIA GPU	1474	13404	31275
PLAYSTATION®3	1646	58373	618765
Total	3900	340630	3367253

Total number of non-Anonymous donators = 1083865

Last updated at Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:04:10

DB date 2008-09-26 05:00:02

Active CPUS are defined as those which have returned WUs within 50 days. Active GPUs are defined as those which have returned WUs within 10 days (due to the shorter deadlines on GPU WUs). Active PS3's are defined as those which have returned WUs within 15 days.

*TFLOPS is the actual teraflops from the software cores, not the peak values from CPU/GPU/PS3 specs. Please see our main FAQ, PS3 FAQ, NVIDIA GPU FAQ, or ATI GPU FAQ for more details on specific platforms.

 

[EasySt]

Congrats to lrenh on folding past Six Million Points!

Anyone know lrenh’s FR name?

[EasySt]

Actually, that's 3900 TeraFLOPS... I think that equates to almost Four PetaFlops, making F@H possibly the fastest supercomputer on the planet!

[texas booster]

Congrats on hitting 6 million points so quickly.

We appreciate that you have been so faithful for the last few years to Free Republic!

If ya’ gotta fold (and we all do), then ya’ gotta fold for the Gipper!

[texas booster]

You are very correct - F@H has nearly reached 4 PetaFLOPS, and may pass it before the weekend is over. This is a sustained speed not a "peak" or "theoretical" speed.

Simply amazing. Thanks to all the FReepers that have donated their sustems to the advancement of research!

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	206	216924	2189793
Mac OS X/PowerPC	6	7451	120580
Mac OS X/Intel	23	7528	64456
Linux	57	33354	333389
ATI GPU	494	4488	11115
NVIDIA GPU	1495	13589	31705
PLAYSTATION®3	1679	59527	619954
Total	3960	342861	3370992

Total number of non-Anonymous donators = 1084837

Last updated at Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:04:19

DB date 2008-09-27 05:00:02

Active CPUS are defined as those which have returned WUs within 50 days. Active GPUs are defined as those which have returned WUs within 10 days (due to the shorter deadlines on GPU WUs). Active PS3's are defined as those which have returned WUs within 15 days.

*TFLOPS is the actual teraflops from the software cores, not the peak values from CPU/GPU/PS3 specs. Please see our main FAQ, PS3 FAQ, NVIDIA GPU FAQ, or ATI GPU FAQ for more details on specific platforms.

 

[papasmurf]

I'd like to point out another Folding Stats website, www.hardfolding.com.

It's different and useful, and is a good additional source for monitoring our Team and User stats.

[colinhester]

Cool site. Thanks for the link......C

[antiRepublicrat]

Read a couple of early threads - they are fascinating with excitement of competing with the (UN)Democratic Underground team.

Not much competition left anymore. ;^)