Beyond3D_Team and Folding@home

[pascal]

The Folding@home distributed computing project has a great goal. Quick synopsis: Proteins are "nanomachines" that assemble themselves (or fold) before carrying out their biochemical functions. The process of protein folding, critical to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Many well known diseases are result of protein "misfold". For instance Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.


Folding@Home is a distributed computing project using novel computational methods which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. You can help the project by downloading and running the client software. It use the free time of your CPU with no perceptible impact.


The Beyond3D_Team was created with number 32377 with the objective to help this project.

If you want to help/participate then:
a) download the client software here: http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
b) The Windows instalation software will ask your name. My sugestion is to use your Beyond3D username.
c) After the instalation the software Control Panel should be configured to Team 32377.
d) In the control panel configure the advanced->client_type-> Folding@home
e) You may want to minimize the advanced->Graphics->molecule_draw_rate to minimum.

Some points:
- I think some options are case sensitive.
- You can always change your Folding@home name because each user has a unique User ID (The real identifier is the User ID not the name).
- The points/WU counters in the web are not updated imediatelly after you finish a WU. It takes some time, maybe more than one day.
- Some people may prefer the screensaver or the DOS version.

Some usefull links:
http://folding.stanford.edu Stanford´s folding main site
http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html FAQ
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html client download
http://forum.folding-community.org/homepage.php official support site for the project
http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html client console user guide

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=32377 Beyond3D_Team statistics

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=32377 Team statistics

[EDIT by DB] New (don't know if this is long term) Extreme OC B3D stats page:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=32377

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats Top 100 teams statistics

http://www.beyond3d.com/news/images/foldsig.gif The Team sig (by Baraclese)
http://www.beyond3d.com/news/images/foldsig.gif

http://www.beyond3d.com/news/images/beyond3d_folding_link.jpg The Team logo :) (by Baraclese)
http://www.beyond3d.com/news/images/beyond3d_folding_link.jpg


http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=124791&highlight=#124791 epicstruggle explanation about using gromacs core with console in the background.

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4953 Team thread at the folding-community

More links:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/teamstats/team32377.html Fast Teampage URL
http://folding.stanford.edu/serverstat.html server status
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.htmlCurrent Running Projects

Please, when you join post your Folding@home name on this thread.

Team members 2003-11-03:
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69link
AJ
AJ_
amk
Angelo
Anonymous
Avtar
ballero
Bambers
Baraclese
barbos
Basic
Battleaxe
Ben_Luke
betty
Bjorn
Brataccas
Brian_skelton
Brynmor
ByeLaw
bystander
chaotic_cycles
Chris_J
Chris_Overmyer
CingKrab
Claberry
Clashman
Clootie
CMcK
Colourless
coolbrz73
Coop
CosmoKramer
crackle
crimsonwolf
crutchboy3
dan_campers
Dave_H
Deano
Deepak
DeeW
dianA
Dizzy
DrFfreeze
Eolirin
epicstruggle
falcao
Family_Bar
fbg1
Freakn_Big_Panda
Fred
FrodoGrant
Fruitfrenzy
FuzzyBunnyFeet
Gautham_Arumilli
Gaz
Genst
geo
Gollum
Heathen
Horvendile
html_sucks
Hyp-X
Idnewf
Ilfirin
iNfAN
Ipos
Ivve
Joe_DeFuria
Johan_F
Jon_Brittan
Jon_Hykawy
jvd
Kalbaz
Kristof
laRD#7
LittleB
LordRaizen
Lurker
manson909
Markos
maskrider
MaxOctane
McElvis
Mick_Teh'Uba
micron
Mister_BiZZ
Mize
mr
MuFu
Nakers86
Nathan
Natoi
Natoma
Neutrality
Ninelven
nonamer
notAFanB
overclocked
ParkLife
pascal
PegLegPete
Perihelion01
raphael
Rasmoo
RussSchultz
Sabastian
Saelen
Saem
Sazar
Scott_Thompson
Skydiver
Skywalkers
Slides
Starborn
Sticky
Stinky_Cheese_Man
Sugaruss
SurfMonkey
Tahir
tanaka_shingo
tEd
Theoel
Thowllly
Trickster
Tsmit42
Wavey_Dave
Wavey_Dave_
Zaphod
zeta77
zurich


MILESTONES
The 1,000,000 points landmark 2004-05-14 http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12336
The TOP 100 position was during 2003-07-15: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6829
The first 10,000 score was during 2003-05-22. The celebration thread: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5993
The 20,000 score was during 2003-06-03. The celebration thread:http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6236

The first team member to make 100,000 was Joe DeFuria: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5668&start=1560
The first team member to make 10,000 was BoardBonobo: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5668&start=920
The first team member to make 1,000 was BoardBonobo: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5668&postdays=0&postorder=asc&star t=180
The first 1,000 single processor was Basic: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6176

Happy folding :D

I will update this post regulary.

[pascal]

good morning :)

[BoardBonobo]

Having just hit the 1700+ SETI units mark I have decided to swap my machines over to the folding@home project instead.

So I've just joined up with the Beyond3D team. It will take a while to get all my machines swapped over but SETI seems to have run out of steam now and this seems far more worthwhile.

[pascal]

Wellcome to the Team BoardBonobo :D

[SvP]

There is a hope that we'll see SETI and F@H merged "soon" :wink:

[MuFu]

I just joined. Is the stats page bust at the moment?

MuFu.

[Dave Baumann]

I think its because we haven't completed any units yet.

[MuFu]

Ah dammit. Time to overclock the HTPC...

MuFu.

[SvP]

Another link you might find useful: http://statsman.org/

Competition is a nice thing... if you can't beat somebody in 3DMark, you can always try F@H :)

[pascal]

The first WU was completed by Angelo :D

[bystander]

Just joined the team :D .

[pascal]

Wellcome MuFu and bystander :D

Anyone has ideas for the Team logo?
I asked a friend some help but we will have to wait.

[RussSchultz]

Anyone has ideas for the Team logo?


http://www.got2haveit.com/pic2/lgrredhairweeb.jpg

Though I suppose now its a bit obscure (more than it was to begin with)

[pascal]

No thanks Russ, but your property looks like a little old and consumed :lol:

[MuFu]

How about this?

http://muthafunker.homestead.com/files/miscmessageboard/animeav.gif

MuFu.

[pascal]

That is the idea :mrgreen:

[Tagrineth]

How about this?

http://muthafunker.homestead.com/files/miscmessageboard/animeav.gif

MuFu.

:roll: Figures.

That from Ranma?

[pascal]

Ok, lets keep on topic.
Maybe something like this: http://lungo.chem.columbia.edu/biophys/lab_visualisation/1YPI.png

[MuFu]

What are the parameters for the logo?

MuFu.

[Tagrineth]

I've put one school computer on it, with an Athlon XP 1700+. Or at least, it'll be started in a moment... but this system isn't always on or logged in. Oh well, better than nothing.

My home comp will still just do UD though :)

[pascal]

Wellcome to the Team Tagrineth :)

MuFu, there is no parameters. Our statistic page has a logo missing. Maybe something like:
- Lightweight (fewer bytes as possible)
- Relativelly small to be placed in the many places
- Related to protein folding (like a molecule or a protein folding diagram like above)
- With the Team´s name (Beyond3D_Team) and number (32377)

[RussSchultz]

What's our name? Certainly its something like Team Weeble Wobble, or The Folding Ducks.

[pascal]

Our name? I suppose you joined the Team then Wellcome Russ :)

See the post above.

[mr]

Folding is fun. 8)
Just joined the team.

*Imagines cheerleaders*
"Go Beyond3D, Go"
:D

[pascal]

Wellcome to the Team mr :D

[BoardBonobo]

How about Beyond The Fold? Or has that got more corn than the green giant?

And does anybody have good enough 3D modelling skills to make the logo out of a pretend 3D molecular structure type diagram graphics doo dah?

[RussSchultz]

Actually, just use the board logo. Its foldy enough, and has beyond3d right there.

http://www.beyond3d.com/siteimages/logo_small.gif

Already branded, as it were.

[pascal]

The site logo could be an temporary logo (it is done) :)
I think most teams have a personalized logo different from the site logo.
Also the teams logos are volatile and change/improve from time to time.

I asked a volunter digital artist (pro) to design something simple. The problem is always time to do the work.

[BenSkywalker]

Up and running on my rig(my wife recruited me btw, I would have missed the thread :) ).

[pascal]

Wellcome to the Team BenSkywalker :)

[Basic]

How about the Beyond3D board logo, but change the infinite loop to a more protein-like look (still the same basic shape and colour, just made out of "atom-balls").

[Deepak]

How big is F@H installation file....? I ll give it a try ...

[Deepak]

I just downloaded it (323 KB), shall try at home...

[MuFu]

How about the Beyond3D board logo, but change the infinite loop to a more protein-like look (still the same basic shape and colour, just made out of "atom-balls").

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. Anybody here ever used MOLMOL (http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/software/molmol/)? :D

MuFu.

[pascal]

Wellcome to the Team Deepak :)

Basic idea is very good. The B3D protein :wink:

[Deepak]

Hey! Can we simulate a nuclear explosion using distributed computing??? :mrgreen:

[pascal]

Yes, lots of flamewars :lol:

We have finished 3 WU :D Interresting I have finished one WU this morning but it is not in the statistics! :?

[Deepak]

Statistics are not updated immedietaly....it used to happen with me at SETI///

[BenSkywalker]

Going over the F@H site and it seems that WUs aren't the main factor in team rankings but rather score. Found this to be interesting-

http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html

Tells you the difficulty of your WU and how many points it will get you(you have to check your WU number and check for yourself). Some of the WU's are only worth 5.9 points while some others are worth over 70, apparently(and logiacally) based on the complexity of the WU.

[RussSchultz]

Perhaps the mobius strip could be changed to the instantly recognizable double helix of a DNA strand? (Though, I know we're not doing the human genome project, DNA is a protien)

[Bambers]

Please, when you join post something on this thread.



something

:P :)

Really need to sort my cpu and heatsink though. Now its going to be a constant 71/72C :shock: :|

[Deepak]

I just downloaded my first work unit and have joined B3D team....i saw our page also....who are ...

Basic
Family_Bar
Angelo
SurfMonk

I joined as Deepak

[RussSchultz]

The screen saver client crashes one of the computers I use. Oh well.

[Tagrineth]

Hmm... sorry guys, F@H's server was blocked by my school. Oh well, so much for that...

[SvP]

On temperatures: F@H is quite a nice burn-in program due to SSE/3DNow optimizations. A number of users have had crashes due to overheating 8). And when F@H discovers that computer crashed, it disables those optimizations; CPU runs cooler, folds slower.

You might want to check startup parameters of F@H -quite a few interesting options there...

Also FYI We have ~1/4 of the CPUs Seti@Home has. Perhaps more interestingly, we have about the same FLOPS (50TF for us, 54 for them). That's likely because our code is *considerably* more optimized (using SSE, etc) and is constantly updated and improved. So actually, we're pretty competitive in terms of the amount of raw computation. If we can get 10% more CPUs (~9000 CPUs), we'd pull ahead

[pascal]

Wellcome Bambers and Basic :D

Russ, I am using the windows client (not the screensaver) with XP and it has minimum impact with other activities. You can configure the redraw rate, etc, using the control panel.

I have heard that Athlons are perfect for this job (much faster than P3 or P4) because of the 3DNow optimizations and the FPU intensive nature of the application.

Deepak, yeah we have to wait. I was previouslly conected to other team than I changed. My guess my first WU went to my previous team. I uninstalled the client and installed again and configured to the new team just as precaution. My SOHO is 24/7 now :mrgreen:

I will try to have some office computers running it too. The problem now is the firewall.

Different WU have different value/points. People are talking/targeting some specifics high value files like gromacs !!! I dont know the details now.

[pascal]

Russ, from the FAQ: When I'm running the screensaver, it crashes, and says something about a page fault.

If you get something like this:

The error message reads FOLDINGATHOME caused an invalid page fault in module FOLDINGATHOME.SCR at 015f:00420494.

followed by a bazillion dialog boxes you have to click away, there is not enough memory for the screensaver to start. Suggestions for solving this are closing other applications when the screensaver is running, and setting the wait time higher (perhaps 5 or 10 minutes), so that the screensaver won't come on while you are working.

Tagrineth, from FAQ: I'm behind a firewall, can I use Folding@home?

Yes. Please configure your Firewall or Proxy server in the config panel. You can reach the config panel by right clicking in the graphical display or by clicking on the task bar icon.

Also people configure the windows client control panel to folding (not genome, not no preference). thanks :)

[pascal]

I just downloaded my first work unit and have joined B3D team....i saw our page also....who are ...

Basic
Family_Bar
Angelo
SurfMonk

I joined as Deepak
Wellcome Family_Bar and SurfMonk :D

My sugestion is to join using the regular Beyond3D username.
Anyway, all help for this project is great :D

[Basic]

Running XP on a XP 2400+.

CPU ran at 48º on the first and 40% of the next WU. But I just had a spontanous reboot, and now it's stabilized at 44ºC. Kind of confirms what SvP said.
But the "Disable highly optimied assemby code"-checkbox is still unchecked. Is there some way to go back to fast and hot crunching if you want to use it as stability check? Well, at least I didn't loose any data, or the ongoing WU work.

(Btw, I'm a bit dissapointed at my CPU if it rebooted beause of heat at a "measly" 48ºC.)

[Edit]
Btw, this was not with the screensaver, but the drawing window was up.

Deepak:
Basic, that's me. :) Don't know about the others, I couldn't find any posts with those names. I agree with pascal that the B3D username is a good choice.

[pascal]

Basic,

Do you overclock? What about your memory, any manual setup?
What OS ? How do you measure the temp (hard:diode,soft:MBM) ?
Folding maybe dangerous :D
Joking, maybe the spontaneus reboot was just some random reboot not related. Just give more time.

edited: I see you are using XP ! Then it is really strange. Maybe not related.

[Tagrineth]

Pascal: No, my school BLOCKED F@H's server. As in, I can't even access the website from there now.

[Basic]

FSB: 133MHz (no OC)
Mem: (2x)133MHz, even though it's DDR333. (Playing safe for a while.)
OS: XP
Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. Temp measured with ASUSProbe, but I must admit that I'm not sure if it measures on the core or on the mb under it. [Wait] Downloaded and installed MBM, which can measure the core temp. OK, that's a bit higher: 45ºC on mb, 56ºC on core. So 48ºC on mb might mean a hot enough core for the auto protection to shut it down :(.
Maybe I shouldn't run all fans at lowest possible when doing this kind of things, it's not the case/CPU fans that make most noice anyway. :)

OK, back to crunching, I shouldn't spam this thread with non-folding stuff.

[pascal]

Wellcome Natoma and crimsonwolf :D

Basic, have a look at the Asus C.O.P. setup.

[Bambers]

Mines (2000+ XP not overclocked) at a max of 73 core and 48 mobo (thermistor under the chip like tbirds had) so yea, if the bios auto shutdown is low enough 48 degrees is enough.

Also people configure the windows client control panel to folding (not genome, not no preference). thanks

lol I have the console version, need to work out how to do that.

[covermye]

I just got going on one of (2) computers here at home. It's a 2100+ XP overclocked...

-Chris

[pascal]

Wellcome covermye :D

Also people configure the windows client control panel to folding (not genome, not no preference). thanks

lol I have the console version, need to work out how to do that.
Maybe you could try this: in the folding software directory change the string in the file client.txt
[clienttype] type=1

But backup and do it carefully :wink:

To all: I am updating regulary the first post of this thread.
Sugestions are wellcome :)

[SvP]

Is there some way to go back to fast and hot crunching if you want to use it as stability check?

Start the client with "-forceasm"

I have heard that Athlons are perfect for this job (much faster than P3 or P4) because of the 3DNow optimizations and the FPU intensive nature of the application.

This is true for older folding cores, which are using Tinker libraries. These don't have SSE/3DNow optimizations and Athlons are much faster.

Newer cores are using Gromacs, which has optimizations and the difference is not that big (if there is one at all).

Interestingly, the newest core uses SSE for Athlons also to avoid crashes. Details here: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4432&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Folders might want to check out this monitoring program:
http://home.attbi.com/~wxdude1/emsite/em3.html

[Natoma]

Boo!

Quick question. Is score indicative of not only WU difficulty, but how long it took your machine to complete the WU? It took my machine 2 days to complete a 0/600 WU, but I only got a 7.07 score, so I'm wondering if it's just because my machine was slow, or was that WU really not that complicated?

FYI, I have it running on my machine at work. 1Ghz Athlon, 1GB RAM, and the most intensive programs I run all the time are Outlook Express, Trillian, Homesite 5, tons of IE windows (dual monitors yay), with a little smattering of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

We're not talking much CPU utilization here for my normal day-to-day operations as a coder.

[Deepak]

I remember I had once tried F@H 2-3 yrs ago....I downloaded the client and istalled it but it didnt run/I couldnt download the packet....so I gave up.... :)

now it runs at both Office and Home... :D

[SvP]

Is score indicative of not only WU difficulty, but how long it took your machine to complete the WU? I'm not sure I understand the question... but points indicate how much CPU time a WU takes.

[Thowllly]

I've joined the team. Have 96% progress on the first WU.

[Deepak]

The WU is big or my PC speed is slow....current status = 28/400 at this rate it will take more than 20 hrs to complete one WU....

My PC specs...

Office- Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, 128 MB DDR
Home - XP 1700+, 256 MB DDR (2100)

What is the average duration for one WU??

[SvP]

What is the average duration for one WU?

There are many very different kinds of WU's and the average tells nothing. I presume the question you wanted ask was "what is the average points/day for a computer" :wink: You can use a Electron Microscope Protein Calculator (http://home.attbi.com/~wxdude1/emsite/download.html) to find out.

For a reference, my Duron@920MHz does about 9 points a day, whereas P333 does 3.

If you don't know how many points a particular WU is worth, look at the Credit column of this page (http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html)

Edit: Both Duron and P333 are crunching Tinker units. AthlonXP@1735 working on Gromacs ones produces about 78 points a day.

[pascal]

Wellcome Thowllly and Skywalkers :D

Great work SvP :wink:

To all: You can always change your Folding@home name because each user has a unique User ID (The real identifier)

I see the correct name is SurfMonkey :wink:

Wavey_Dave and Basic are folding fast :D

My second WU is 55% now.

[Deepak]

Is there any way to process faster?? In config??? or any tweaks??

[BenSkywalker]

Natoma-

Quick question. Is score indicative of not only WU difficulty, but how long it took your machine to complete the WU?

It's based on computational complexity. You can see how many points you will get for each WU as soon as you start it, go to http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html and check for the number of your WU and it will tell you how many points you will get. It appears that it is based not only on the number of frames you are rendering(400, 600 or whatever) but also on the number of atoms involved. If you are rendering 400 frames on a ~200 atom WU then it it less complex then rendering 200 frames on a 500 atom WU.

FYI, I have it running on my machine at work. 1Ghz Athlon, 1GB RAM, and the most intensive programs I run all the time are Outlook Express, Trillian, Homesite 5, tons of IE windows (dual monitors yay), with a little smattering of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

I'm running it on a 2.1GHZ(XP 2700) Athlon XP running 512MB PC 2700(333MHZ). My typical use is much like yours, although my WU progress pretty much doubles its when my machine goes to 'sleep'. Yesterday between 7 AM and 9 PM my rig crunched around 100-150 frames, between 9 PM and 6:30 AM when it spent most of its time in sleep mode it spit out 230 frames. Nearly doubled despite having ~five hours less time. Also, my core CPU temps dropped by ~10C too(despite being under 100% load the whole time).[/url]

[SvP]

Great work SvP

You're welcome 8)

Is there any way to process faster? In config?

-forceasm is the only thing you can do AFAIK.

any tweaks?

Overclock like there's no tomorrow :twisted:

[covermye]

That's it. I got serious about this today and am currently starting (4) relatively idle computers here at work on our team, to add to the (2) at home. Processors for all six range from a PIII-1.1 GHz for the laptop, while the desktops are T-Bird 1.2 GHz (overclocked), 3- XP 1700+'s, and the home desktop, an XP 2100+ oc'd to about 1850 MHz with 512MB PC 2700...

Also, chalk one up in the "I'm an idiot" category, but I didn't realize I coudln't have a space in my username for the folding program. I complete one folding sequence and got no credit for it, it seems, due to this...


:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[Bambers]

Maybe you could try this: in the folding software directory change the string in the file client.txt
[clienttype] type=1

Ah well I had it on no pref, on folding now, looks like ive got a genome one to finish first though.

[Basic]

I guess my 15 min of fame at the top spot will be blown away soon. :(
:D

Btw, my folding is notably slower now after the crash. And it didn't seem as -forceasm helped. But I probably have a too old core. I'll update it when I come home. Thanks for the info SvP.

[Deepak]

In F@H control panel --> advanced, there is an option.....client type where you can select no preferences/F@H/Genome@Home.....I ve selected "No Preferences"...is that ok??? What is up with Genome@home??? What is it? what other options can I tweak in Advanced panel....?

[SvP]

What is up with Genome@home??? What is it?

http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/using.html#goals

selected "No Preferences"...is that ok?

Yes. By default you are assigned to F@H, but when the servers are down, you may get G@H WUs. I think G@H units give fewer points or something, because quite a number of users demanded that "F@H exclusive" option to wait with nothing to do until the servers would come online again... Search FoldingForum if you are interested in further details...

what other options can I tweak in Advanced panel?

I have no idea, because I'm using no-nonsense console version (with EM3) 8)

[pascal]

Wellcome Johan_F, Baraclese, Chris_J, Chris_Overmyer :D


In F@H control panel --> advanced, there is an option.....client type where you can select no preferences/F@H/Genome@Home.....I ve selected "No Preferences"...is that ok??? What is up with Genome@home??? What is it? what other options can I tweak in Advanced panel....?

The control panel --> advanced --> Graphics --> Molecule Draw Rate you can keep at minimum and graphics will have less impact.

[Baraclese]

Thanks pascal, I managed to get 3 computers to work on protein folding in their spare time now. 8)

Baraclese

[covermye]

Slow down, Baraclese. You're gonna make me have to work harder to get ahead of you!

FWIW, I got my rackmount in the HT going today to complete the transformation on this end... 6 total (but I shut off my laptop at work when I left today out of habit and did't realize what I did till I got home!)

HardOCP's got some hellacious points goin', don't they?

[Tahir2]

I joined.. but it crashes my shitty PC.
BTW I vote for the Ramna 1/2 logo ;)

[Tahir2]

Basic, what PC(s) are you using, you are wayyy in the lead!

[BoardBonobo]

Got a cheese logo :D

http://home.clara.net/surfmonkey/foldlogo.gif

[pascal]

Wellcome Tahir :D

Great BoardBonobo :D Do you have a smaller version?

Basic, You are flying high :mrgreen:

[pascal]

Thanks pascal, I managed to get 3 computers to work on protein folding in their spare time now. 8)

BaracleseThis is great :D

[Baraclese]

I made a new logo, the first one is quite stylized optionally displaying the weblink. The other one is less over the top (=fewer photoshop-effects :wink:). It's actually an H2O molecule, the size is arbitrary but the angle between the atoms should be right (104.5°)

http://www.baraclese.com/misc/beyond3d_final1.jpg

http://www.baraclese.com/misc/beyond3d_final1_link.jpg

http://www.baraclese.com/misc/beyond3d_fun.jpg

[fbg1]

I just switched my machine over to B3D Folding. UID=fbg1.

[Deepak]

My office WU consists of 400 frames and my home WU of 100....whats the difference??

[BenSkywalker]

Deepak-

The WUs are working on different tasks, the ones with higher levels of atomic density or ones that are simulating differing circumstances are broken up differently.

http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html

If you check your WU number you can view details of that particular one by going to the link above and clicking on the Description link to the right of it. If the level of atoms or the simulation complexity are too high, they reduce the number of frames for the WU it appears.

[Deepak]

It seems my PC is processing faster after I did this...

In advanced option....

Molecule Draw Rate = Max
Logos Enabled = No
Main Title enabled = No
CPU usage % = Max

btw why poeple prefer F@H WUs to Genome@Home?

[BoardBonobo]

Pascal, you may as well merge BoardBonobo and SurfMonkey together - they are one. OM.

So when are we starting the competition for best logo? All designs in by next Friday and then a poll to vote for the logo?

[BoardBonobo]

Another logo.

http://home.clara.net/surfmonkey/tlogo.jpg

[Dave Baumann]

Damnit Basic! I'm never going to catch up now!!

[BoardBonobo]

Yeah Basic,
what have you got running in your machine? Or how many machines have you got running? I can barely keep up :D

[Saem]

Damnit Basic! I'm never going to catch up now!!

IIRC, you have a fair bit of computing power. Or is the power bill going to be a bit much if you use it all?

Basic = h4x. ;)

[Deepak]

Cant we have Dreamcast/PS2/GC/XB versions?? :wink: They are ideal machines for such processing...

[Basic]

Fear my AMD on an adrenalin boost. :D

Realy nothing special here, just one XP 2400+ without any OC, and it doesn't even run the optimized code any more (after the crash). I downloaded the newest client, and still can't make -forceasm work. And if I force it to download a new calc core, it just gets an old one. :(

But I do run it 24/7.

OK, XP 2400+ is a nice pice of HW, but I expected a lot of people here to have stuff closer to top of the line.

[Dave Baumann]

I have 2.53GHz and 3.06GHz P4's running it, but they are both part timers. The 3GHz rig is also my benchmark box so when I boot onto the benchmark parition I can't run it then.

[Saem]

Ah, that explains it.

You just need Intel to send you more hardware. ;)

[pascal]

Very good logos Baraclese,

BoardBonobo, maybe some sportive competition for the "official" Team logo could be fun. Lets do it :D
But I think we could have some unofficial logos too.

The Beyond3D_Team official logo contest. Rules:
- The official logo will be used in the team statistics page and members signature.
- Should be free.
- Should be lightweight (fewer bytes as possible)
- Relativelly small to be placed in the many places.
- Related to protein folding (like a molecule or a protein folding diagram like above)
- With the Team´s name (Beyond3D_Team), number (32377) and site
- The presentation deadline is may, 17
- The pool will start may, 18 and end may, 20
Have fun :D


Basic, congratulations for your number cruncher :wink:
But wait for the ants revenge :lol:

[pascal]

It seems my PC is processing faster after I did this...

In advanced option....

Molecule Draw Rate = Max
Logos Enabled = No
Main Title enabled = No
CPU usage % = Max

btw why poeple prefer F@H WUs to Genome@Home?Maybe Molecule Draw Rate = Min will be faster

[Deepak]

It seems my PC is processing faster after I did this...

In advanced option....

Molecule Draw Rate = Max
Logos Enabled = No
Main Title enabled = No
CPU usage % = Max

btw why poeple prefer F@H WUs to Genome@Home?Maybe Molecule Draw Rate = Min will be faster

why??

ideally more Draw rate = faster

[pascal]

IIRC the Draw Rate is for the Graphics foreground presentation but not for the background number crunching.

[covermye]

My wireless Internet antenna got hit by lightning last night. I've got two WU's completed at home but can't get credit for them till that gets fixed. Lightning shut the power off at work momentarily last night as well, meaning I lost enough time on the three I've got going here that they didn't get done on their first tasks yet either.

Curiously, one of the three computers at work lost its place and when I restarted it this morning, started back out on 0/400 frames on the WU that it was 1/2 finished with when I left last night... Anybody else have this happen when power outages interrupt?

-Chris

[Basic]

I agree that Draw Rate = Min should be faster, freeing up CPU power by not doing the unneccesary graphics. But I would be very surprised if it actually made a noticable difference. Same thing for logos and title.

covermye:
It's not surprising if data is lost on a power outage. It seems as the program writes intermediate results to file, so it's possible to restart. But if the power outage was when the file was open, I'd gues it's buy, buy, data. (I was lucky though, and didn't lose anything on my crash.)


Btw, my current WU is a strange one. It's actually two molecules located rather far apart from each other. Wonder if it's something gone bad, or if they simulate how two proteins react with each other.

[Bambers]

bah my poorly xp2000+ (only on in the daytime and then about 60% average) is still struggling through the first unit :(

Only a few more hours and I'll have.... 20 :!: points.

[pascal]

I agree that Draw Rate = Min should be faster, freeing up CPU power by not doing the unneccesary graphics. But I would be very surprised if it actually made a noticable difference. Same thing for logos and title. If you dont have a 3D graphics accelerator it will, specially with onboard graphics.

[Basic]

If you dont have a 3D graphics accelerator it will...
:shock:
Don't understand what you're talking about here. Remember what site this is.
:)

[pascal]

If you dont have a 3D graphics accelerator it will...
:shock:
Don't understand what you're talking about here. Remember what site this is.
:)Some people may have some servers, SOHOs or offices computers with onboard graphics, etc...

[covermye]

Wavey,
I can see it now: Dave's gonna proposition Intel and AMD for a whole range of processors so he can run his new "Folding@Home" Benchmark. LOL.

[Saem]

I can see it now: Dave's gonna proposition Intel and AMD for a whole range of processors so he can run his new "Folding@Home" Benchmark. LOL.

That'd be awesome.

[BenSkywalker]

I was really expecting Wavey to blow by everyone today, surprised we got by him for the moment. Is there anyone else running P4s currently? Basic mentioned he has an XP 2400+, we only have a 2100+(OCed to 2700+ rates though) and like him figured we would be getting beaten pretty well by now.

[pascal]

Skywalkers (BenSkywalker ???) and BoardBonobo are running fast too.
Right now I am at 72% of the next WU and I am using a P3-S 1.13Ghz.
I hope next week I will receive my Athlon XP2100. After some firewall change maybe I can get some office computers to fold.

Baraclese, your artwork is not only good, it is excellent :D I visited your site but could not understand the language.

Congratulations Bambers, 23.6 points :wink:

To all Beyond3D friends: please we need your help. We need to double the number of active processors to get into the Top100 list :D

[RussSchultz]

W00T! I r00l. #15 out of 15.

Damn stinking dell machine. Slow slow slow. (plus, i use my other machine for 12 hours a day at work. No folding during that time)

[BoardBonobo]

Oh well I suppose I had better come clean :D I currently have two XP2100+'s, an XP1900+, and an IBM dual PIII 1Ghz server (1Gb Ram) currently on the case. I will be swapping the rest of my beasties over in due course, but only a few of those are P4's ;)

[Saem]

I'm trying to check the various stat pages via the f@h app and it doesn't seem to like mozilla 1.3. It tries to load up, www.%1.com. :roll:

[pascal]

Wellcome Saem, you are part of the Team anyway :wink:

[pascal]

Wellcome Lurker :D
59.9 points in an single WU :shock:

[pascal]

Wellcome manson909 :D

Good Morning :)

Wake up people. I finished my second WU.

We just passed 1000 points :mrgreen:

[BenSkywalker]

Skywalkers (BenSkywalker ???)

And the Mrs, she did approve my budget to build the new rig(the Mrs handles the household finances, including my disposable income ;) ) along with recruiting our machine(I don't come in to GD often). I have a GHZ TBird rig in pieces I have to get back together at some point, throw that in and it should bump up the production at least a bit.

[Deepak]

90% of my first WU is done....waiting to join party.... :D

[Deepak]

I just finished my first WU and sent it....but my name is not there on the list....hwo long does it take to update the record??

[BenSkywalker]

You are on there now :)

[Deepak]

My name is in tha list/// :twisted: ...but it is that the bottom :evil: ....how are the points calculated??

[Deepak]

from FAQ.....

points = 2 * multiplier * (daysPerWU)

where daysPerWU is -- no surprise -- the number of days it took to complete the unit.

This is not fair....my PC is not up all day.... :cry:

btw are doing both gemone and folding???

[Basic]

DaysPerWU is the number of days it took for a Celeron 500 to do a test run on that project. So the points are roughly proportional to the number of FLOPs contributed. (Assuming that the work done is mostly FLOPs.)

Another thing if you have a slow CPU, and only running it a short time each day, is that a WU can time out. The timeout is calculated as 6 times the time it takes for a Celeron 500 to do a non stop test run on the project (and then doing some rounding I assume). If you haven't returned the WU in time, it will be thrown away, and won't contribute to any scientific results. (They are nice and still give you the credits though.)

Check the credits and deadline for your project here: http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html.

[pascal]

Wellcome Colourless, fbg1, Ninelven :D

Good job Deepak :wink:

[Neutrality]

Just joined and under the same name as my forum name.

-Neutrality-

[pascal]

Wellcome Neutrality :D

[Neutrality]

Ohh, would just like to add that im running it on a P4 1,8 Ghz.



-Neutrality-

[pascal]

Wellcome Rasmoo :D
WOW BoardBonobo (SurfMonkey) probably has a boxes garden :D
Happy Mothers Day ALL

[Dave Baumann]

I see theres some pretty good work going here. Looks like I'm going to get left far behind this week as I'm away.

[SvP]

Why not to leave the computers on? :wink:

[Tahir2]

Why not to leave the computers on? :wink:

I can think of one pretty good reason.

[pascal]

Wellcome Kristof :wink:
I think I lost track of who joined then WELLCOME EVERYONE :D

Right now we have 27 menbers with 40 active processors in a week :D

Please people, join the Beyond3D_Team number 32377.

[Tahir2]

My first WU will be finished in a few months at the rate it is going at (weird considering I am running a 2100+ at 2700+ speeds).

[Deepak]

How to know if my WU is genome or folding???

How much time you guys are taking to finish one WU (in hours)???

[Tahir2]

Configure>Advanced Tab>Client Type

[pascal]

How to know if my WU is genome or folding???

How much time you guys are taking to finish one WU (in hours)???
Maybe the filename will give you an indication. To configure for the next files see the Tahir response.

My guess is that my P3-S 1.13Ghz takes 48 hours to finish a WU, but it varies with the complexity of the WU and the CPU speed.

[Basic]

Tahir:
Are you running any other background processes that can use all CPU? (Like SETI.) Have you tried to set core prority to "slightly higher"?

Deepak:
My last took almost 40hrs, but that was a 70p WU. A more normal 24p WU seems to take ~15hrs. On average I've got ~1.5 points per working hour. (XP 2400+)


Cool, current fold is the first one where I actually can see something happening. All the others where already rather folded. It was impossible to see what happend from frame to frame, because I couldn't locate the atoms from frame to frame. But the current started as one rather straight line, and now I can see how it's a bit curled up in the ends. ...or so I think.

One nice feature to have would be if you could see the result of the simulation at the end of the WU. Just a 15 sec movie, or whatever length it would need to be to make it "exciting".

[Bambers]

All I see is a dos box full of text :P :)

[BoardBonobo]

10 work units :twisted:

Why isn't there a gloat emoticon :D

[Basic]

Bah, you multi CPU cheater! Isn't there a law against bigamy. :D
Just kidding. Good job.

But maybe you should look at Rasmoo's personal log (http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/userpage?name=Rasmoo) before you start to gloat. :wink: He's got 3-4 times Beyond3D_Team's score, just by himself. (Rasmoo is hereby ordered to reveal himself. :))

Btw:
Johan_F, who are you. I noticed your last team. Do you by any chance live in Ryd? Do I have a fellow geek in the neighbourhood?

[Saem]

Okay, I'm confused. I installed the client, it's in my systray, it seems to be doing work, it's currently at 520/600.

I've got the right team number entered, but it doesn't show me under the beyond3d team. I'm using Saem as my name, BTW.

Does my comp have to finish a WU before it shows up?

[pascal]

You have to complete the WU before you appear in the team statistics page.

You can verify your fahlog.txt (log file) in the folding directory.
It should have your User Name, User ID, Team number, etc...

[Saem]

Thanks, Pascal.

[Deepak]

What different sizes do WUs come in?? I got 100 and 400 till now!

[Althornin]

Sorry i've been folding for Rage3D now for a long while.

But as long as you are folding, its all good.

[Saem]

The first one I got was a 600, my 700MHz PIII isn't upto the task. =(

[Saem]

Okay, I'm really annoyed. My computer finished one WU (600) and I still don't show up on the stats list. GRRRR!

I guess I'm missing some configuration or it's some weird router (behind a linksys) issue.

[BoardBonobo]

Bah, you multi CPU cheater! Isn't there a law against bigamy. :D
Just kidding. Good job.

But maybe you should look at Rasmoo's personal log (http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/userpage?name=Rasmoo) before you start to gloat. :wink: He's got 3-4 times Beyond3D_Team's score, just by himself. (Rasmoo is hereby ordered to reveal himself. :))


Wow, that's a few units :shock:

But then again, give me time. I haven't got all my toys working on it yet, some are running simulations that use up all the juice the CPU can provide anyway. Once they're finished... Bwahahahahah :D

Maybe this time next year I'll have a running Beowulf cluster ;)

[bystander]

Looks like trying to stay in the top 10 is getting more difficult, I'm only just clinging on in at 8th place...

What different sizes do WUs come in?? I got 100 and 400 till now!

I've just got a 600 WU but don't know if they are any larger ones.

[pascal]

Saem, my P3 is slow too. And I lost my first WU too. Is this about deadlines?

Right now I have 53% of a 400WU after more than 24hours of continous work.

[pascal]

Sorry i've been folding for Rage3D now for a long while.

But as long as you are folding, its all good.Happy folding Althornin :)

[Deepak]

My office PC has P4 1.6 GHz and home PC - XP 1700+ (~1.4 GHz).....XP is processing faster despite being slower than P4...I guess becse of XP having stronger integer Unit/FPU...than P4....

BTW:

P4 - ~7 mins per frame
XP - ~5 mins per frame

[covermye]

My two workhorses are sitting at home with nothing to do since Friday, when an electrical storm killed my wireless internet antenna. The lazy assed ISP won't send a repair guy till this afternoon... Dangit!

-Chris

[Saem]

My office PC has P4 1.6 GHz and home PC - XP 1700+ (~1.4 GHz).....XP is processing faster despite being slower than P4...I guess becse of XP having stronger integer Unit/FPU...than P4....

THe P4 (Northwood ) clockrate and the QS rating are rougly equivelent, it should be no suprise that the AMD CPU is faster. In anycase I doubt it's the ALU, I'm pretty sure it's the FP power of the Athlon coming into play here.

[pascal]

WOW, We have done more than 500 points per day in the last two days :shock:

Now we have a good chance to go to the Top100 Teams.

Please, join the Beyond3D_Team number 32377 :) Details in the first post of this thread.

[BoardBonobo]

Yeah baby yeah! Sixteen units in a week, I should be able to break the half century by the end of the month! 8)

[Deepak]

Yeah baby yeah! Sixteen units in a week, I should be able to break the half century by the end of the month! 8)

How can you process so fast! I hope you are using some mainframe or something... :D

[Bambers]

What different sizes do WUs come in?? I got 100 and 400 till now!

100 to 400 normally though I've had a strange one that worked completely differently to the rest, it had 600 frames and wasn't in the current project list, nor the betas :shock:

It's failed to register one of the units I've sent in on my profile :(

[Angelo]

I just downloaded my first work unit and have joined B3D team....i saw our page also....who are ...

Basic
Family_Bar
Angelo
SurfMonk

I joined as Deepak

Hello. http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/smiley/wavey.gif

Been lurking B3D for some time now. Had a little problem registering. Sorted out now, though. ;)

[Deepak]

Welcome to B3D family, Angelo! :D

[pascal]

Wellcome Angelo :D

[BoardBonobo]

Hello Angelo, glad you could join us :D

[Angelo]

Thanks! :D

[Joe DeFuria]

Woohoo!

First 400 frame unit completed....this PIII 600 notebook never worked so tirelessly. ;)

[BoardBonobo]

So who's going to deliver the hundredth work unit? They should get a prize, like a bar of chocolate or something :P

And Mr Overmyer will soon be leading the top of the board methinks, 6 processors!! God Damn you sir :D

[covermye]

:twisted:

Yeah, but like I've said before... four of them aren't very impressive processors, and the two at home probably won't be running 24/7 for long, methinks. After the novelty wears off I'm sure I'll talk myself out of allowing the home computers to chug all day and night... and after I get the lead, of course!

All for a good cause though, isn't it? :)

[BoardBonobo]

Yeah it's all for a good cause, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little friendly rivalry. :)

I will concede the top of the board over my burnt out CPU's and fragged to death hard drives :D

I've got eleven more machines I could get on the case, but they're all tied up running sims at the moment, and some probably will be be until the end of July :( Evolutionary Computation sucks when you want to have fun :wink:

[covermye]

I wonder how far I'd get trying to deduct the portion of my electrical bill used in computing time for this project from my taxes and calling it a charitable contribution... :lol:

[Deepak]

My office and Home WUs, both are more than 70% over! Too bad my office will be closed from Thursday till Sunday....will be able to complete office WU only on Monday! :evil:

[pascal]

Wellcome Joe :D

I am waiting my Athlon XP2100 (TBredB) for my SOHO, then I will do some 24/7 Burning stress test 8)

Statistics: 29 users, 44 active processors, 102 WU, 2618 points :shock:
Congratulations BoardBonobo and Chris for your boxes gardens.
Congratulations Basic for the fastest single computer.
Congratulations to all the Beyond3D_ Team for the hardwork :D

[Neutrality]

Finally completed my first WU.

Got a nice 70.9 score out of it.

:)


-Neutrality-

[pascal]

Nice score :D

[BoardBonobo]

Congrats on the score neutrality!

[BoardBonobo]

Mr FrodoGrant has joined the team and he doesn't even know what Beyond3D is!! He works in an office downstairs from me. I just gave him the Beyond3D team number :D

And I've just dug through my box of bits and built a Duron 800Mhz machine and OC'd it to 1Ghz. It's now busily chomping away.

[pascal]

Wellcome FrodoGrant :D
Great work BoardBonobo :wink:

I had a problem with my B3D account but the Reverend helped me. Thanks Reverend :wink:

The statistics is great: 46 processors, 124 WU, 3355 points :D
Please, join the Beyond3D_Team number 32377.

[pascal]

Wellcome Mister_BiZZ :D
Congratulations for your points Saem :D

We are close to 4,000 points :shock:

[Saem]

FINALLY!@

[pascal]

Great Saem :D

[RussSchultz]

Sigh. I'm destined to remain at #15.

[covermye]

Sigh. I'm destined to remain at #15.

Perhaps the multi-box members of the team should consider "helping out" by changing one or more of our boxes to Russ's name for a while.

Everybody's got a price, Russ :wink:

-Chris

[RussSchultz]

Sigh. I'm destined to remain at #15.

Perhaps the multi-box members of the team should consider "helping out" by changing one or more of our boxes to Russ's name for a while.

Everybody's got a price, Russ :wink:


Ha. I've even got two machines running. (One only overnight, the other slow as dirt)

w00t! I'm now 13. My 24 hour slow as dirt machine finished a '100' frame WU in 5 days.

[pascal]

4.028.94 points 8)

Lets go to Top100 :D
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif

[pascal]

A new core is coming :D

http://www.stanford.edu/~pande/5.19.03/5.19.03.html

[Deepak]

Heeeehoooo! I finished my 2nd WU and jumped from last (34th) to 23rd.... :D ...that means apprx 41 points for 2nd WU...hohoho.. :twisted:

[BoardBonobo]

Sigh. I'm destined to remain at #15.

Perhaps the multi-box members of the team should consider "helping out" by changing one or more of our boxes to Russ's name for a while.

Everybody's got a price, Russ :wink:

-Chris

What can I say? I'm deeply shocked that you should imply that I would desert my moral standing simply for an incentive of the *maybe* cash variety...

So what do you think we should charge?

:D

[BoardBonobo]

A new core is coming :D

http://www.stanford.edu/~pande/5.19.03/5.19.03.html

That was a bit scary :shock:

[BoardBonobo]

4.028.94 points 8)

Lets go to Top100 :D
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif

Only another 64,807 points to go then. Should take us, oh.. about a week ;)

[Bambers]

w00t! I'm now 13. My 24 hour slow as dirt machine finished a '100' frame WU in 5 days.

You should be 15th again currently but you're 14th due to it totally failing to register either my 3rd or 4th WU (about 20 points) :) :(

The client is happy to think that I'm on number 7 but the site doesn't seem to want to know :|

[Tahir2]

Wahay.. one week later and Tahir makes it into the stats page with an impressive entry at number 24! Can this guys stats improve? Not unless he folds for 24 hours a day say the crowds. Keep your internet thingies tuned in listeners - this one is going the distance... DJ T

[BoardBonobo]

Well you're welcome to the fold!!

[pascal]

I really dont care about my position, fold is a great cause anyway.

But this team is going to Top100 BoardBonobo. Just wait and see :wink:

Right now we have 50 active processors 8)

To all, the points/WU counters in the web are not updated imediatelly after you finish a WU. It takes some time, maybe more than one day. Right now PC WU count is 3 but my web WU count is 4, it means that my first WU (before client reinstalation) was not lost. This explain what happened to you Saem.

[pascal]

Wellcome Tahir :D

[Dave Baumann]

Wow, nice going guys - we're in the top 1000. I'm going to have a lot of work cut out for my processors when I get home!!

[Bambers]

To all, the points/WU counters in the web are not updated imediatelly after you finish a WU. It takes some time, maybe more than one day. Right now PC WU count is 3 but my web WU count is 4, it means that my first WU (before client reinstalation) was not lost. This explain what happened to you Saem.

I've had 3 WUs register on the score since the one it missed though, one from the same project. not sure if its just missed it completely

[covermye]

I got behind a little bit the past couple of days. After losing my best pal, Kramer (see other post), I cheered myself up by finding out what all the fuss was about re: BattleField 1942. I installed it at home and couldn't stop playing! Cool game.

[pascal]

Hi

Today is the deadline for the new logo presentation.
Please post what you guys have and I will start a pool for it.
Thanks :)

[pascal]

IMHO signatures should be free and I will start to use this one that our friend Baraclese developed :D

I hope host the signature somewhere next week.
Going to sleep now. Lots of work tomorrow ;)

[pascal]

Good morning :)
Wake up people.

We have more than 5453 points.

BoardBonobo is still leading the pack with 826.5 points :shock: , close comes Chris_Overmyer. Also Basic continue with the fastest single computer :D

Aparentlly we dont have new logos. Lets use one of current available (with the permission of our friends :wink: ).

The logo pool is up: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5911

[pascal]

Wellcome Ipos :D

[BoardBonobo]

Well my old steam powered Duron has just completed it's first work unit!! 40 hours after it started.



Woot! Just broke the 1,000 point mark! 1065.29, time for a celebration methinks.

[pascal]

Woot! Just broke the 1,000 point mark! 1065.29, time for a celebration methinks.Congratulations for this milestone :mrgreen:

http://animatedgif.net/seasonal/newyears/kkpopcork_e0.gif

[Heathen]

I'm in :D

[pascal]

Wellcome Heathen :D

[SvP]

You might want to check this quite nice F@H stats page:
http://statsman.org/

And your teampage 8)
http://statsman.org/folding2stats/html/32377.html

[bystander]

You may want to add this link as well:

http://folding.stanford.edu/teamstats/team32377.html

Its the quick version of our stats page, and it does (seem to me) load faster than the "standard" page.

[pascal]

Thanks, links added :wink:

[BoardBonobo]

Yeah 40 WU's and well set to reach my next century :D

Congrats to Chris Overmyer for breaking the 1k barrier!!

[pascal]

Congratulations Chris Overmyer :D

http://animatedgif.net/seasonal/newyears/kkpopcork_e0.gif

Great BoardBonobo, I think we will have more 60k before august :mrgreen:

[pascal]

Take the red pill :D
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/reloaded/

[BoardBonobo]

Pascal we need a central location to link to the logo from in our signatures. I can host it if needs be.

[Kristof]

Whoohoo second unit completed... takes a while to complete the 400 ones when you only run your computer a couple of hours a day :D

:wink: Hmm maybe NVIDIA should start using their Linux farm for something usefull... hmm, flashback to the old 3dfx commercials :oops:

K-

[pascal]

To All,

The new "official" Beyond3D_Team logo is the Stylized BBB developed by Baraclese. See this image:
http://www.baraclese.com/misc/beyond3d_final1.jpg
Maybe the B3D site URL could be added to the logo (could it be done Baraclese? ).

About signatures, have fun with it ;)

Agree and thanks BoardBonobo.
If you can take care of this thanks a lot :D

Congratulations Kristof. This is the spirit ;)
edited: Wow, you got 70 points :)

[Dave Baumann]

The sig is here:

http://www.beyond3d.com/news/images/foldsig.gif

[pascal]

Wow, Dave is fast :D

The new logo is in the Team statistics page: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=32377

Our score is 7,775.0 points :shock:

Lets go people, join the team number 32377 :wink:
See the first post of this thread for details.

[Deepak]

My office WU is 97% complete and home is apprx 70%....going to jump few places.... :D

[Deepak]

The guys at the top of B3D list....you guys own some cybercafe or what?? you are processing at incredible speed/// :shock:

[BoardBonobo]

We are the children of the revolution... I don't know about the others but I have access to a large amount of machines that are usually used for simulations and other weirdness. I could tell you what but then I'd have to kill you ;)

Now and then I get a break where some machines aren't in use, usually when I'm developing more code'n'stuff. So I put them to the fold.

[covermye]

I've got two machines at home, one for our home office and the other in our home theater rack, that usually just sit there doing nothing anyway. I also have a laptop that is generally used for simple tasks like drafting reports, simple number crunching, etc...

At work, I have (3) desktops in my office that aren't doing much most of the time, and all (6) computers are typically connected to an always-on wireless internet connection, so I've got them all working on this for a while.

I had high aspirations of taking over the #1 spot, but today I respectfully admit defeat. LOL.

-Chris

[BoardBonobo]

Hey covermye, I wouldn't give up hope just yet! I've got a big workload scheduled for a within the month start, so I may have to drop out for a while... Besides you're hot dogging me with less WU's, so there's plenty of time yet.

:twisted:

[Deepak]

too bad I have only 2 machines at my disposal.....btw I finished my 3rd WU... :)

[McElvis]

Well, I've now joined up using my machine at work.

It's not looking good though, as so far it's been crunching for 8 hours and it's only 7% done :cry: At this rate it's not going to complete before the June 3rd deadline. Is there a way of asking for simple work units, as its working on a rather complex 400 frame one at the moment?

By the way, the machine is only a Cel 533, so I would'nt expect too much out of it...

[pascal]

Wellcome McElvis :D

from the folding FAQ: http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#stats.howdeadHow do you set the deadlines for the work units?

Each work unit is benchmarked on a dedicated 500 MHz Celeron machine without SSE/3DNow. We look at how many days it takes, and multiply this by 2.5. This corresponds to requiring such a machine to fold less than 10 hours a day in order to meet the deadline. From our experience, the majority of donor machines are faster than our benchmarking machine, and virtually none are slower, so this shouldn't be a problem (if a machine is slower, it may need to fold more hours a day). Occassionally, deadlines may be set longer than the above calculation indicates, but the reason for having deadlines at all is that the sooner we get back work units, the sooner we can put the results to good use. We are looking into, in the very near future, having the assignment server take machine speed into account in making assigments, thereby allowing slower machines to receive smaller work units.
Celeron is good machine for office but looks like you are in the limit and maybe will not complete before the deadline.
But you are in the team anyway :wink:

[RussSchultz]

Whatever happened to the new core software? Was it worth anything? Should we upgrade?

[Basic]

Or will it simply download automatically when you get a WU that needs/can use it? The client checks that it has the required core for every wu, and downloads it if it doesn't exist. I guess the question is: Will they tag all new WUs to need the new core?

[pascal]

I think it is still beta :?
See this page: http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.htmlA 3.25 client is now available here for download. The one change from 3.24 is that if the -forceasm flag is used, SSE will be used, if available, on every work unit run. (You may also view the Change log.)

Update: This beta has looked very stable. It is still available for download here, but the only reason for the delay in putting it on our general download page is that we are working on some additional requested features to include.

[McElvis]

Well, after the dismal folding performance of my Celeron 533, I've gained the help of an Athlon XP1800, which is now folding away nicely :D

[Ilfirin]

Add one more proc to the mix. Unfortunately I have company sleeping in the room with all the other computers, so only one for now. I'll add the others (3 more 1-2.5Ghz) to the mix in the morning.

[pascal]

Wellcome Ilfirin :D

Great, one more boxes garden in the Team :wink:

[CosmoKramer]

I'm in. However, I only process non-imperialist proteins.

[pascal]

Wellcome CosmoKramer :D

[barbos]

Ilfirin recruited me... one more for the team... :D

[pascal]

Wellcome barbos :D

[epicstruggle]

just joined. :) epicstruggle username. will try to get 2 or 3 additional machines running soon.

later,

[pascal]

Wellcome epicstruggle :D

[Basic]

Woohoo!
Top 500!

[bystander]

Hurrah! I'm in the top 4 for the team and I've broken the 500 points barrier. :D

I don't think I'll be able to get much higher though. The next three people are just too far ahead...

[epicstruggle]

wohoo, finished my first WU. starting to climb the charts. Hoping to be in the top ten withing a month. :wink:

later,

[pascal]

Wellcome dianA :D

[Deepak]

I am going to jump some places....two WUs are near completion!!

[Ilfirin]

Woo, in the top 20 with 6 WUs :)


And the team is approaching the top 400 pretty quickly.

[Deepak]

I am on 24th.....woooohooo! :D ...missed 23rd by .40 points... :)

[epicstruggle]

@Deepak&Ilfirin: Damn you both for having more than one active processor running. :wink: Im going to redouble my efforts if im going to overtake both of you.

later,

[BoardBonobo]

I've been away for a while and I missed the party :?

Looks like we're steaming ahead here. In will try and see if I can recruit a few more people to the fold.

SurfMonkey.

[pascal]

I builded the new Athlon XP2100 (TBred B) at home.
I am really impressed with the speed. Folding and UT2003 loves it :mrgreen:

My problem is that it is hot, specially the 7200 rpm disk (burn my finger :shock: )
Now I am trying to solve the thermal problem without much noise, then no 24/7 folding for now.

[Gollum]

Just decided to join the fun, hope to add a few more CPUs over time. Let's fold! :)

[pascal]

Wellcome Gollum :D

[epicstruggle]

@gollum: welcome, glad to see you here. Hope you add alot :). Seems like we are moving pretty fast through the top1000 teams. currently 427.

@pascal: How about suggesting to wavey, a new subsection to the General Forum, appropriatly (in)titled "Folding" or something similar. This would keep discussions relevant to folding easy to find and discuss.

later,

[pascal]

It could be a Distributed Computing forum 8)
Good idea.

[epicstruggle]

@pascal: i like the name you came up better. Sounds like a winner.

later,

[pascal]

This is not a new name, some sites have it.

[epicstruggle]

cool, i looked up a few of the sites at the top of the folding ladder and read their stickies. Whether or not we get a separate section ill try to add a thread on how to maximize cpu cycles. I switched over to the new core and that seems to give me more WU done, not as many points but at least I get some results faster. :)

later,

[epicstruggle]

I builded the new Athlon XP2100 (TBred B) at home.
I am really impressed with the speed. Folding and UT2003 loves it :mrgreen:

My problem is that it is hot, specially the 7200 rpm disk (burn my finger :shock: )
Now I am trying to solve the thermal problem without much noise, then no 24/7 folding for now.
Some simple things you could do, without know how you placed the components, I would suggest giving more space for the hard drive, removing the covers from the pci covers, or even just running the pc with the case off. There are more expensive solutions like adding a HD cooler, using a second fan to increase air flow. Try also looking at whether or not your cables are blocking airflow.

let me know if anything works,