Distributed Computing

[Kip_6666]

Originally Posted by swek

^ Thanks, I think I'll pass.

Trust me, you won't notice anything. And its for a very good cause, doing research for cancer cures.

Theres a screensaver version, pretty cool to watch.



It moves and stuff


And you can limit the cpu usage to what ever u want. It only uses spare cpu cycles, thus if any other process on your computer needs some it'll stop untill your computer is doing nothing again.

[Overheat]

Originally Posted by swek

^ Thanks, I think I'll pass.

That's a very defeatist attitude - don't you want to help the world and the human race to evolve?

[swek]

Originally Posted by Overheat

That's a very defeatist attitude - don't you want to help the world and the human race to evolve?

No, I'm afraid of the things we might be capable of
Seriously, I think I've misunderstood the 100% CPU usage thing you said.
I'll give it a try.

[ESPNSTI]

I'm running SETI on several computers and the Proteome Folding one on one computer.

[Cruzz563]

Been doing the Johns Hopkins DC for two months, here's some other from download.com

http://www.download.com/3150-2001-0....04&tag=sptlt_s

[hokiethang]

I will join up as well if you all decide to make another group, I have about 5 - 8 (fairly fast) machines at my disposal to help out. I used to do a LOT of folding for another team, and have since kind of slacked off. I would rather join a team with a fairly active forum, than the one I am/was in before.

[bigfoot1942]

ill stay with DPC...
ive been quite active on their forums, so i wont leave easily.
and besides that, i got 42.000+ points (and thats quite a lot afaik) and i cant take them with me...

[Dark_Templer_102]

I might do it when my basement is done...i really don't know what they doo..unless its illegal or something

I'm getting 4 new comps (a Lan room ) and i have a laptop i can connect

comps have 3.0 GHZ and laptop has 2.4 GHZ

Though, can someone write something or find something in the computers in idle won't take up alot of power and proof its helping for cancer, etc.?

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

What is the goal of the whole thing?

[bigfoot1942]

just ripped from the folding@home frontpage:

Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.

and about the CPU-load: you absolutely wont notice, it has lowest priority, so every move you make has a higher priority so that goes first.
im running it as a service, since it runs faster (otherwise some cpu-cycles would be wasted by generating nice (but useless) images.).
Normally the client uses about 30MB RAM, but you can allow the program to use more memory, if you do that it will use 100-110MB. (which i do on all my pc's, but i wouldnt recommend that for workstations with 256MB RAM or less.).

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by swek

No, I'm afraid of the things we might be capable of
Seriously, I think I've misunderstood the 100% CPU usage thing you said.
I'll give it a try.

Yeah, the idea is to make use of the rest of your processor. You rarely use 100% of your CPU, so thise DC programs use the rest of your processor for a good purpose.

They set (or should) set themselves with a "Idle" priority though so that that way any other program has priority over it and can take back the CPU power if need be.

You should never really notice that it's even open.

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

It sounds worthwhile, if we set up a group I'm game - I could probably just add it to my sisters' laptops etc. and get about 10gigs of processing power.

[Viper007Bond]

I'll look into a setting up a group. Anyone will be welcome to join it.

[CanadianLoonie]

Look what I've started...

So it looks like Team ShortMedia only got my new 2.3Ghz of overclocked AMD folding power for six weeks...

So make it happen Viper.

[andyhui01]

I'm definetly in with my 2.4ghz p4... I just use it as a FTP server so why waste the rest of the power

[Viper007Bond]

If you have the Google Toolbar, Folding@Home is built in. You just gotta turn it on: http://toolbar.google.com/dc/aboutdc.html

And I made a team. I'll be joining it in a moment.

The team ID is 42134.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=42134

[CanadianLoonie]

Darn...a little too fast Viper...I'm in the middle of a giant WU and it'll take me a few days to finish it.

[Viper007Bond]

No problems. I'm having my own issues as I have Hyperthreading which means I have to run the console client with the -local tag. Problem is I can't seem to edit the Windows service to have the -local tag. I started both copies of my console clients without the -local tag and even though I used different client IDs, they worked on the same WU I think:

[mrkrazzy]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Yeah, the idea is to make use of the rest of your processor. You rarely use 100% of your CPU, so thise DC programs use the rest of your processor for a good purpose.

Hrrmm thats wierd, absolutely everything I do, well gaming wise allways uses up my processor 100%, but i guess when i aint doing gaming i dont use all of my cpu power.

[Kip_6666]

I think I should add it won't do your power bill anygood, your computer will be useing more juice than normall. But I can't exactly say how much more.