kainchick Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 So when you first start folding does it always start at a REALLY far away date? cause otherwise im not gunna be done with this one until October of '07 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 So when you first start folding does it always start at a REALLY far away date? cause otherwise im not gunna be done with this one until October of '07 It can because it hasn't properly computed the correct completion time. My box initially spits out a rediciouls date then after a few minutes reduces to about a day and a half away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainchick Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 So when you first start folding does it always start at a REALLY far away date? cause otherwise im not gunna be done with this one until October of '07 It can because it hasn't properly computed the correct completion time. My box initially spits out a rediciouls date then after a few minutes reduces to about a day and a half away. Okay, so hopefully in a little bit this will put out a little more closer date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 It is still configuring with the date, and also the date is also made from your CPU usage atm. CPU usage changes all the time, and so will the date... Adding this to the wiki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Hey, think about it this way: It took evolution billions of years to fold it up right, so a year really isnt unreasonable to fold it isnt so unreasonable in the grand scheme of things. Unfortunately, the grand scheme of things doesnt exactly refer to the lives of humans. Damn it all. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainchick Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Heh, well now its down to about 3 or 4 days, I guess it did just really need some time to configure how fast it could go etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 The F@H group was mentioned in 2x02 so hopefully it'll get a nice influx of group members. :) hopefully. I think it's a wonderful cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 Are you participating Darren? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n3xg3n Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 my question about this is exactally how does it work? dosnt it say that they've been calculated, but you have to complete it under the time + 10% they did it in on a Pent4... so how does this help science? if everythings already been calculated out... im confused... has this cured anything yet :? :x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leetabix Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 The F@H group was mentioned in 2x02 so hopefully it'll get a nice influx of group members. :) hopefully. I think it's a wonderful cause. He's probably using all his spare processing power to finalise 2x02 hopefully ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I dang well hope so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I joined and have it running! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Sweet! the more, the merrier. I can't spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 my question about this is exactally how does it work? dosnt it say that they've been calculated, but you have to complete it under the time + 10% they did it in on a Pent4... so how does this help science? if everythings already been calculated out... im confused... has this cured anything yet :? :x Honestly, man, I think I know the answer to this. I really want to dig for it, but as of right now, and everytime I see it, I procrastinate. I will deifnately have the answer to you by thursday. Maybe tomarrow morning if I don't do anything in my programming class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans_schwanz Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Hi! I just joined your folding group. It's a better cause than SETI@home. Greetings from Germany! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Thanks for joining, and welcome aboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 YAy ... i have now joined :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Welcome aboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 Man, this is really taking off. Good job everybody. Oh, and do some viral folding advertisement (tell a friend). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 This is fantastic. Not long ago we only had around 5 people folding, now we're at 32 (as of this morning). I'm truely impressed and excited, I hope we can get even more people involved and become a competitive, high-ranking group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted September 9, 2006 Author Share Posted September 9, 2006 Shoot for the top 100. I think that all of the way that proteins fold correctly has been calculated, but we are focusing on the ones that don't fold correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I ment to ask this a while ago, but I didn't becasue I'm slow. Any way, dose clustering actualy work with Folding@home? It's probably more efficent just to run seperate clients on each computer, but if you did cluster some computers together and ran Folding@home on them, would you get a segnificant performance boost or would the overheads compleatly out balence the processing power that is eventuly used by the cluster for folding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I ment to ask this a while ago, but I didn't becasue I'm slow. Any way, dose clustering actualy work with Folding@home?It's probably more efficent just to run seperate clients on each computer, but if you did cluster some computers together and ran Folding@home on them, would you get a segnificant performance boost or would the overheads compleatly out balence the processing power that is eventuly used by the cluster for folding? I'm not entirly sure but if you were to create a cluster that had double or triple the computing power of an amd 3200+ (what you - I believe I once read had you had a 3200+, and I are running), it should be a significant increase. I'm guessing at least 30-50 percent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Dose any body know if the folding client is multi threaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 If it isn't, just start multiple instances of it. Just run it and check that Task Manager graph to see if the other CPU is getting loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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