Techpowerup Folding at Home Team Has Made it into the Top 200 Teams

[btarunr]

Finally something that likes quad-core chips. Both x86 and CUDA clients are working

 

[Morgoth]

hey guys i join when i got my nehalem setup

 

[btarunr]

^Just a reminder, that's not a system requirement.

 

[thoughtdisorder]

Woot! I like where this is going! Top 100 here we come!

 

[WhiteLotus]

Downloading the F@H now, I want to join the team!

 

[thoughtdisorder]

Downloading the F@H now, I want to join the team!

Alright! Welcome aboard!

 

[WhiteLotus]

Alright! Welcome aboard!

so far i've completed no steps out of 125000... yay.

 

[dadi_oh]

To be fair it does cost a little. I once calculated out the cost of running an average folding rig 24/7 to be around $10 per month.

Sounds about right. Some people, like me, run their systems 24/7 anyways so my incremental cost is just the power increase of a busy CPU/GPU vs. an idle CPU/GPU. For a high end GPU the difference between idle and load is about 150W from what I have read. So 150W X 24hours = 3600Wh = 3.6 kWh/day. Here in Canada I pay about $0.10 / kWh so the cost for 1 GPU running folding would be $0.36 per day (less than a cup oif coffee) which is pretty close to $10 / month.

At least that is how I calculated it.

 

[Darkrealms]

installed f@h on several of our servers to help reach the top 100

Hey W1zzard any way to merge a team/user into TPUs? I'd only be 59th but it'd help : )

 

[Polaris573]

Unfortunately you cannot transfer completed WU stats because F@H does not allow it. However, all your contributions from this point on could go to the team if you change your team ID to 50711.

 

[rangerone766]

thanks for the recognition of all our folding efforts. its always nice to get an "attaboy"

i've been gaming alot lately so my wu's have slacked, but steady.

 

[suraswami]

I am planning to put a virtual instance with Ubuntu 64 bit on my Server and dedicate the instance for this purpose. My question is no stealing of information right?

 

[Polaris573]

I'm not sure I understand the question? Who is stealing what information and why?

 

[sneekypeet]

I'm not sure I understand the question? Who is stealing what information and why?

He wants to know if he used a sever based client would they see his Pr0n collection, or anything is the gist of his query.

I guess the "they who would steal" being F@H or the uni.

 

[Polaris573]

In that case I seriously doubt they have the time, or inclination, to browse your pr0n collection even if they could (they can't). However, running F@H in a virtual machine might result in reduced performance, but I don't know for sure. You might want to do some research.

 

[Mussels]

thank you, reverend jones.

 

[suraswami]

He wants to know if he used a sever based client would they see his Pr0n collection, or anything is the gist of his query.

I guess the "they who would steal" being F@H or the uni.

I wish married man like me could have a huge porn collection. No what I meant is because its constantly sending and receiving info some can get hold of other sensitive data from my server. Thats what I intended to ask.

And oh running Virtual on VMWare is not going to hinder performance like you think, infact you will be amazed how well it performs.

Download the free version and see for yourself. I run bunch of VM servers and my machine doesn't slow down nor the virtuals run slow.

Thanks.

 

[Polaris573]

It won't leave you any more vulnerable than the rest of the traffic on your server. Just having a server exposed to the internet is a security risk. An extra few megabytes of traffic to a reasonably trustworthy source probably won't increase that risk, but anything is possible.

I have microsoft virtual PC installed so I can play around in linux. It's free for college students. Do you know if there would be any advantage to running it in a virtual linux environment?

 

[ShadowFold]

I run F@H on my E7200 and it runs all day and I still play Crysis, Spore, Oblivion etc fine.

 

[suraswami]

It won't leave you any more vulnerable than the rest of the traffic on your server. Just having a server exposed to the internet is a security risk. An extra few megabytes of traffic to a reasonably trustworthy source probably won't increase that risk, but anything is possible.

I have microsoft virtual PC installed so I can play around in linux. It's free for college students. Do you know if there would be any advantage to running it in a virtual linux environment?

I don't know about that, but I guessed Linux is more secure, so running on it is less vulnerable. Oh well I jump into this.

But I think you will like VMWare ESX server. Register on VMWare.com and you can download a free version. In the new version you can allocate CPU cycles to each virtual instance. That is why I thought I will dedicate 1GHZ of my cpu cycle if needed take it back kind of setup.

You should try it out, its awesome, you can VMotion (manual fail over to another virtual machine) to another machine if the load is too high or you need to do maintenance on one virtual, like increasing memory etc, even mem can be done dynamically. MS Virtual PC, I don't think has all these features.

 

[suraswami]

And oh I am not going to run on my Phenom server, that is powered up on demand only, it will be run on another X2 server that is for Cobian backup and SQL.

 

[btarunr]

Question:

How do you force this thing to use > 25% CPU ? The Client is set to use 100% ?

 

[suraswami]

Question:

How do you force this thing to use > 25% CPU ? The Client is set to use 100% ?

u using VM?

 

[btarunr]

No, directly on Windows.

 

[suraswami]

hmm, don't know.