Flutterz Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 So I've recently remembered that Folding@Home exists, and wanted to see how much better I'd do on my PC now as opposed to several years ago, and what better way to donate processing power to science than to do so in the name of Fuwanovel? For those of you who don't know what F@H is, it's a project by Stanford University that uses the processing power of a bunch of volunteer computers from around the world to simulate protein folding and a bunch of other extremely calculation-intensive things, and a lot of the research goes towards understanding various diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's. There is a bit of a competitive side to it, because for every work unit you complete you get a number of points based on how complicated it was, and those points go toward both your individual ranking and your team's ranking. If anyone wants to join me, simply go here: http://folding.stanford.edu/ Install it, and when it asks you for an identity pick a name you like and use 227716 as your team number. Our team stats: http://fah-web2.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=227716 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Meogii Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Seems interesting. Will give it a look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nayleen Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 What is this, the year 2005? Will consider wasting power on this once I have my PC back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0X0R Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Count me in! This looks really cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryechu Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I started it up. Let's see what sort of magic this thing can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0X0R Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Going to install it onto my broken laptop as well. The thing still works but the screen is off of its hing. That thing is on 24-7 and has no purpose... until now, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 We now have some points now so our team's stats can be found here: http://fah-web2.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=227716 Apparently we're better than 180k teams already! Just 33k more to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0X0R Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Good job everyone! Keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Been running it for a little while, but as usual, I have to say I am always concerned about if it will have a negative effect on my hardware. Considering its using CPU 100% almost constantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nayleen Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 That's pretty much what this does, run heavy computing on volunteer PCs - crowdsourcing. There's no CPU beefy enough to not get pushed to their limits. It should only run when idle though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ah turns out default option was, always on. Now set to idle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure as long as you've got sufficient cooling nothing should explode. Of course it will have some negative effect in the form of just being used more, but that's to be expected. A CPU that you use from time to time will break faster than one you have hidden in a box somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arakura Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Downloading this right now edit: How does the 'on idle' function work? Does it start folding if you dont touch your computer for a certain length of time? edit2: What power do you use? Is full advised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Downloading this right now edit: How does the 'on idle' function work? Does it start folding if you dont touch your computer for a certain length of time? edit2: What power do you use? Is full advised? About the idle function, I think that's how it works, but I'm not sure. I use full, unless your cooling system is broken or something or you want to do other CPU/GPU intensive things while folding I don't see any reason to use anything other than full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Once we get onto the extremeoverclocking.com rankings which only have the top 6000 teams we'll be able to do cool stuff like signatures! We're around #8000 right now, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I've got two laptops gathering dust right now.... I'll try this out when I get them back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I think the only concern is that this means you are using a hell of a lot more electricity than you normally would. So it's something to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Sub 6000! http://i.imgur.com/vJC0N93.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Yup, now we can do sigs, although they haven't recorded the contributing usernames yet: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php/un=Flutterz/t=227716/sigimage.gif http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php/t=227716/sigimage.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 1 MILLION!! http://i.imgur.com/apV0h0e.gifv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flutterz Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Oh, and here's how to customize them: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/?nav=IMAGES Edit: Oh, and I've found this which looks like it gives you much more freedom with how you customize it, up to and including a background image. I just need to play around with it a little first. http://www.dcsig.com/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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