Author Topic: Folding Team 50178 Established! (Read 7044 times)

Buddabing · « **on:** April 21, 2006, 03:28:32 pm »

Hello,

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

The goal of the project is to accurately simulate the "folding" of proteins. This is the process by which proteins assemble themselves.

Protein "misfolding" can lead to many diseases that are currently not understood very well, such as Alzheimer's disease and certain forms of cancer.

In order to participate in the project, you go to the Stanford folding website and download a piece of free software. I use the "no-nonsense" client. This software runs in the background and does not disrupt normal operation of your computer. Once you run the software, you enter your user name and team number. Our team number is 50178, you can enter whatever user name you want.

Then we collect points for our team and move up in the standings!

Hopefully a moderator will sticky this post. If enough people join, Saint can start a new forum for folding-related topics.

Regards,
Buddabing

mccoy178 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:28:42 pm »

You lost me after: Hello,

Buddabing · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:48:31 pm »

Quote from: mccoy178 on April 21, 2006, 10:28:42 pm

You lost me after: Hello,

Heh. Go to http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding, it will explain what folding is and what you can do to fight cancer and other diseases.

pointdablame · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2006, 12:32:24 am »

I used to have a small folding farm setup with 6 computers for one of the [H] teams a while back, but it made my room unbearably warm.

PCtech · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2006, 02:40:20 pm »

I've heard of this before...been around for years...do you know if they've gotten anywere by using this method?

Buddabing · « **Reply #5 on:** April 24, 2006, 11:52:46 pm »

Quote from: PCtech on April 24, 2006, 02:40:20 pm

I've heard of this before...been around for years...do you know if they've gotten anywere by using this method?

From the FAQ:

What has the project completed so far? We have been able to fold several proteins in the 5-10 microsecond time range with experimental validation of our folding kinetics. This is a fundamental advance over previous work. Scientific papers detailing our results can be found at papers.html. We are now moving to other important proteins used in structural biology studies of folding as well as proteins involved in disease. There are many peer-reviewed and published in top journals (Science, Nature, Nature Structural Biology, PNAS, JMB, etc) which have resulted from FAH. Current, more than all of the other major distributed computing projects combined!

Fuzi · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2006, 09:12:00 pm »

Wouldn't help Stanford fold boxes; sorry.

shmokes · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2006, 02:33:33 pm »

Quote from: Fuzi on April 28, 2006, 09:12:00 pm

Wouldn't help Stanford fold boxes; sorry.

Erm . . . neither would I. Luckily for Stanford, folding proteins is much more important than folding boxes.

Buddabing · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:16:43 am »

Here is a link to our team's page at Stanford. We have about 10,000 points so far.

cdbrown · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2006, 11:05:11 am »

If I could get some more rigs going I would fold for BYOAC but I'm already on another team (have so far provided 835,035 over the years). Need to convince the IT people to put it on some of the machines.

Buddabing · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:02:51 pm »

I added another box just now. It quite literally took less than a minute.

Please hit the link and start doing something with your computer's extra computing cycles.

Paladin · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2006, 12:36:58 pm »

OK, since I have my MAME cab running 24/7 but only play it about 1/2 hour a month I've decided to do something usefull with it so I've joined the team. I also put it on my primary PC, but I'm not sure if I'll start keeping it running all the time.

Years ago I used to do the SETI distributed project, but it seems to me that helping find cures for diseases is much more likely to get results. Of course if we find some aliens that can cure all diseases, I'll be the one with egg all over my face!

Buddabing · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2006, 10:49:04 am »

Welcome to the team, and thank you!

Our team is currently ranked 6616 of 45755.

nullb0y · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2006, 11:54:03 pm »

i ran my own team for a while then it started interupting my pcs operations lol (i run way to much)
but i will have 2 pcs soon ill run this on the secondary for this team i think

Paladin · « **Reply #14 on:** October 08, 2006, 11:32:37 pm »

Man, I think the room I keep my computers in may heat the whole house! I just started folding on my fourth tower. One is in the arcade machine in the game room, but the other three are in my computer room. Lots of fan noise, and it gets toasty in there now!

I've only ever had two hard drives go bad since I started with computers back in the VIC 20 days (yes, I know they didn't have hard drives) and only lost one motherboard due to me messing around with it. My fingers are crossed that I don't get any heat related problems.

Buddabing · « **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2006, 09:38:28 am »

Paladin has taken the lead!

But not for long.

Our team is ranked 4xxx now. Once we get to under 2000, we will be included in the Extreme Overclocking stats, which is fun. The team has about 46k points now and about 151k points are required for the top 2000.

Paladin · « **Reply #16 on:** November 23, 2006, 02:36:56 pm »

I had to throttle back because my computer room is across the hall from the bedroom, and the fans were just a little too loud and the computer room would get pretty toasty with the door closed. I dropped from 4 machines to 2.

Then I read up a little more on my core2duo machine, and found that I had only been running the app on one proc. I now have it going on both, so I'm back up to 3 instances even though it's only on 2 physical machines.

The core2 is also WAY quieter. The case is steel with just one intake, one exhaust and one proc fan. My other cases are clear sided multi fan monstrosities that I tossed fans into without abandon. I bet they'd run just fine with some of the fans yanked, as I've never gotten into overclocking.

I think I'm over the whole case modding thing now, thanks to the silence of my new PC. I guess there's always watercooling if I decide to get back into it.

Some pics of my PC's:

Buddabing · « **Reply #17 on:** February 21, 2007, 04:22:09 pm »

Our team rank is now under 3000. Pretty soon we will be on the extreme overclocking folding stats.

Someone unstickied this page, I should contact Saint.

I've had to shuffle parts around some of the home's computers, hopefully I should start catching up to Paladin soon, especially once I get my GPU going.

Paladin · « **Reply #18 on:** February 22, 2007, 08:36:07 am »

The going was pretty easy as we passed the "casual" teams, but now that we're getting up there with the more serious groups it's going much slower.

I've also decided to scale back to just one PC for the time being.

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** February 22, 2007, 09:01:26 am »

I'm going to have a look and see if this is viable for the machines I run regularly.

EDIT:

Quote

Current Work Unit
-----------------
Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011
Download time: February 22 14:20:15
Due time: June 12 14:20:15
Progress: 0% [__________]

Appears to be able to communicate with the servers from my work laptop... good stuff.

ChadTower · « **Reply #20 on:** March 01, 2007, 03:33:39 pm »

First unit returned and I'm already 5th out of 7 team members.

ChadTower · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2007, 09:19:43 am »

Woo! Third place!

Havok · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2007, 11:16:50 am »

Just grabbed the client and joined up. I used to do Seti, but I think this is a much better use of my free computer cycles. Now let's see how quick I can move up the list...

ChadTower · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2007, 11:19:23 am »

I did SETI for years but stopped a while back when the version of the client I was using became less friendly for proxies, firewalls, etc.

Havok · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2007, 11:23:37 am »

My previous place I was at had a training room with 20 computers that were rarely used. Somehow, the Seti client got installed on them. (Being in the IT dept has its privileges) I was returning a data unit every 15 minutes - shame I can't do that now...

Havok · « **Reply #25 on:** June 01, 2007, 08:13:49 am »

Starting in 7th!

Buddabing · « **Reply #26 on:** June 01, 2007, 09:23:00 am »

Bring it!

The team lost Paladin for some reason, so our team rank has suffered.

cdbrown · « **Reply #27 on:** June 02, 2007, 05:19:39 am »

After hitting 1M points for another group, I've changed my laptop over to BYOAC - not really much power but all the other machines that are folding for me are back in Australia in my old work. I'm not sure they even realise what the machines are doing.

Havok · « **Reply #28 on:** June 16, 2007, 04:41:04 am »

Moved up to 4th!

Buddabing · « **Reply #29 on:** August 17, 2007, 09:27:06 am »

I have passed Paladin and taken over the points lead!

Link to team stats

Havok · « **Reply #30 on:** August 17, 2007, 01:48:10 pm »

The force is strong in this one, but you are not a Jedi yet!

** Havok moves up to the third position **

Cakemeister · « **Reply #31 on:** February 21, 2008, 05:48:49 pm »

Our team is now listed in the Extreme Overclocking site which tabulated statistics from the various teams.

Link to team listing

If you leave your PC turned on all the time, why not do something with the idle cycles?

JONTHEBOMB · « **Reply #32 on:** February 24, 2008, 10:40:26 pm »

I just hit 14 workunits.

shardian · « **Reply #33 on:** February 25, 2008, 08:23:05 am »

I joined up with the team. I'll let my work pc and my home laptop do some work overnight.

ChadTower · « **Reply #34 on:** February 25, 2008, 08:34:53 am »

I should check to see if this will work for me again... it worked for a while, but then was unable to get through my work firewall to report results suddenly.

Stobe · « **Reply #35 on:** April 12, 2008, 12:47:00 am »

Shame on us.

Only 2 members appear to be active anymore. We've dropped under team rank #2000 now.

This is a call to arms! Lets get back in the game, and get back over 2000 (so we'll show up on the EOC site again)

I know all you fellow BYOAC'rs have multiple computers. And I know they are always on (just check your BYOAC online timer, lol) Lets let the computers do something!

I challenge the members to get 10 active folders for BYOAC by the end of this coming week!

Cakemeister · « **Reply #36 on:** June 30, 2008, 12:45:01 pm »

I'm #2 on the team now, Stobe passed me like I was standing still.

Stobe · « **Reply #37 on:** June 30, 2008, 01:10:28 pm »

I credit my success to 2 things....

1. A good deal on a Dell Quad Core Q6600 computer.

2. Using the beta version of the multi-processor folding program. It takes advantage of Cor2 CPUs, or dual core AMD CPUs also.

I had set a personal goal of Top-10,000 personal scores, and am on track to that. In the process, I'd like to see the team ranking go below 2000 soon.

Here's a great site that makes tracking your progress funner.

http://www.kakaostats.com

It shows each user's and team's current ranking, and a projectect ranking for the next day, week, and month.

Here's is our team's page:

http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=50178

We need more folders. I'm assuming that there must be more folders that visit this site, that must be folding for another team. 'Cause its hard to believe that our membership can't spare a few CPU cycles here and there.

-Stobe

Cakemeister · « **Reply #38 on:** July 23, 2009, 09:25:46 pm »

I've installed a new graphics card which is capable of folding (ATI 4770)

Team 50178 FTW!

shardian · « **Reply #39 on:** July 24, 2009, 08:20:38 am »

I did have this on my work computer, but it was interfering with my CAD program.


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