Folding at Home

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:44 pm

[QUOTE=arno_v]The file says:
Current Work Unit
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Name: p1413_polyQ36x2 in water
Download time: November 27 11:06:31
Due time: February 5 11:06:31
Progress: 17% [|_________]

But the program says it's going to be ready by friday, but sometimes, when I just start up my computer, it says something like January.
Too answer your questions, my computer is running bout 6 hours a day, and it is using full CPU.[/QUOTE]
Everything is fine, then - it's just a rather large work unit

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:14 am

Don't forget to fold, everyone! I just noticed at the statistic webpage that Gamebanshee has climbed to 1555 position, and that only 10 CPU:s have been active the last 50 days.

Fold, fold!

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:33 am

1 C_Elegans 14409 63
2 C_Elegans_lab 9157 39
(...)
7 ik911 1998 23

YOU CHEAT

!!!

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:42 am

You're all still folding right?

--------This is a bump for the sake of mankind--------

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:19 am

I just recently got my firewall to accept folding@home again, but again - my computer dosen't idle much on weekdays, so I'm not that terrible active.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:59 am

I am folding at work, but not so fast because I this computer for a lot of heavy calculations, often overnight. My game machine at home used to be the fastest, but since I moved 2.5 weeks ago I have had no internet, and I won't get internet at home until next week I think

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:10 am

We may be proud of ourselves. Our team folded over 75000 points!!!!

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:44 am

A better indicator would be that we are team #1412 of #37048. Not to shappy

But of course, it isn't about that - it isn't a competition (gotta leave my computer idle, gotta gotta gotta leave my computer idle)

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:01 am

[QUOTE=Xandax]But of course, it isn't about that - it isn't a competition [/QUOTE]

Not at all *dammit I still don't have internet at home, grrr, grrrr*

Recently there was an article about climatology published in a fine scientific journal, where this kind of community effort has been used to make calculations. Climate modelling requires a huge amount of processor power, so it was nice to see the researchers managed to get high quality science out of a community project

arno_v · Post by **arno_v** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:08 am

Too bad it didn't work for me some how. I installed the program once, but after 2 months I haden't even finished one work unit. So I decided to uninstall it.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:19 pm

It took me almost 2 months to get a decent internet connection at home, but finally I am folding at home again. Now we are team 1287 of 38220

Fold, fold

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:23 pm

Xandax has not folded for over a week... Bad, bad Xandax. Have you forgotten to fold? Could it be Alzheimer?
...

Quick everybody! Fold for Xandax!

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:25 pm

[QUOTE=C Elegans]It took me almost 2 months to get a decent internet connection at home, but finally I am folding at home again. Now we are team 1287 of 38220

Fold, fold

[/QUOTE]
You don't need a decent internet connection. The data it sends is supposedly very small and the client can be set up to ask you before it sends it so there's no excuse even if you're on a 56k

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:05 pm

I too have joined the folding effort

Although it has me down for October before I finish a WU

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:09 pm

[QUOTE=Vicsun]You don't need a decent internet connection. The data it sends is supposedly very small and the client can be set up to ask you before it sends it so there's no excuse even if you're on a 56k

[/QUOTE]

I should say: an internet connection. The dial-up modem I used at home only worked 1/5-6 times and the time it took for me to check the mail was shorter than it took for the F@H to connect, it seemed. In any case, now I'm back in business with both my high-end computers (the laptop has broken down).

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:13 pm

I would, but my computer is my insomniatic fidget toy, and there really is no downtime of any significant length. It's rare this thing is idle for more than an hour or so at any given time unless I dissapear for a party somewhere.

Would it be worth it to bother if my system is nearly constantly in use?

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:37 pm

From what I can tell Magrus it uses your CPU very efficiently. It will use any spare power even if there are applications running (computer doesn't have to be completely idle).

Ofcourse while your playing a game I doubt it will be able to do much "folding", but while you're spamming, should be able to get some done. And you seem to do a fair bit of that

.

I've made a fair chunk of progress already while I've been browsing the boards

. I'm down for completing this Work Unit on Thursday now

Not the 150 days it first predicted

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:02 pm

Well I installed it, and it's doing something that says "waiting for core" and on step 34 ATM. Whatever that means, I've no clue, but it can just run on it's own I guess.

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:13 pm

When I want to play games, I have to quit folding, cuz else it minimalizes my game all the time. Strange.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:21 pm

Well, for some reason it isn't registering as using any of my idle process, which is at 97-99% ATM. Maybe it's doing work and such to get things set up on my computer before it actually kicks in fully?