F@H (folding at home) team thread.

[123bob]

Archer has started a F@H team. It is team number 165421. Folding is a different team from the WCG team. It uses a different client and operates a bit different. So, in order to try to keep us from mixing up F@H with WCG, we can try to post folding topics here, at least for now. If you start threads relating to folding, please begin them with "F@H" in the title. Thx.


The F@H home page is here. A very brief extract on what this is about is quoted below.

"Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. "

Archer and I have joined this team. We hope others join us. (...After you've joined up with the WCG team, of course....) It is possible to do both WCG and folding. WCG on your CPU, folding on your GPU.

Regards,
Bob

[Archer]

Yeah my system is slow on my GPU compared to bob but it is ok something got done.

Bob beat me down I think it is time to check out the PS3 wonder what it can do? He, He, He I am also checking into the Wii as it might go boinc.

I love competition

No Go for the Wii ATM but I will get systems up in the coming weeks up to 7 cores 1.6-(~3.2) Ghz at times for grid, and 2+ gpu's and ps3 for folding.

The PS3 is folding for our team

fold with PS3
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3
900 point per day limit with this sooooooooooooooo not fair

[drizzt5]

The wii is so underpowered how could you crunch with it? :/

[Archer]

The wii is so underpowered how could you crunch with it? :/

GPU/cpu combined

[123bob]

Cool! You're crunching with your PS3 on F@H. Very nice. I have a single GTX 260-216 on right now. I don't think an Xbox can do it, can it? I'm also not sure I'd want to with how hot the sucker gets.....

[Archer]

I saw a little about hhe xBox and I think you can run Linux on the box with a Linux client but no direct client on http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download IDK if it is worth it.

[123bob]

Yeah for me it's probably not worth it. I had the whole "ring of lights" problem with it so I'm not tempted to push my luck on it. If I screw up my daughter's "guitar hero" capability, she will not be quiet about it...

[123bob]

Here's a stats page for our F@H team. There are other stats pages out there, they don't seem to be listing our team yet. As they do, I'll post up a few more. For now, this one is certainly better than the F@H page.

Bob

[Archer]

Guys let us remember we can do both Fold and WCG, the WCG client Bionic uses the cpu but you can fold on your GPU so lets help research as best we can and I promise when you are running and not gaming you will never notice Any info you need on the folding LMK and I will get back with you ASAP. You can also fold on the PS3 if you have problems I can hook you up

http://estoniadonates.wordpress.com/...-choose-today/ (link to relative GPU performance for folding)

[Archer]

Not bad for two people almost in the top 10 percent. Remember if you have an ATI 2XXX hd GPU (some older modles as well) you can fold while you crunch as the don't work with bionic.

[Archer]

Top 10% and my results are skewed because of the ps3 The army of two has done well. Please join us

[jcool]

I just switched over my 4870X2 to team TR
Let's try and get this team started shall we

[Archer]

Thanks j lets see if we can make top 5% I have been doing some reconfiguring with my systems as well so we will see how that pan's out.

[jcool]

How to fold on your ATI card without high CPU utilization:

here

Brought my cpu load for 2 FAH clients down from 25% to around 6-8% total CPU and increased PPD

[Archer]

techREACTION-Folding
This is our new team name and page top, team number is the same.