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KnightElite
12-18-2002, 10:21 AM
If I were to bring over 51 P4 1.8GHz, that being 91.8GHz (Willamettes I think, not sure, it's a computer lab at the university, with SDRAM :() as well as a dual 1.2GHz P3 Xeon box, a dual Alpha 666MHz box, and 15 to 25GHz of other random boxes, how fast do you guys figure I could crunch work units? ;).

Right now my friends and I have all this stuff crunching SETI@home, getting an average of 252WU/day. For reference, the P4 boxes take about 5.4 hours per work unit for SETI@Home.

Since SETI is finishing at the end of March, at least according to their timetable on their website, we'll need a new distributed computing project to work on. I can't guarantee my friends will want to fold for team 3365, or if we'll even do folding, but if we do, I would like to know how much crunching power this would be :banana:. Thanks guys ;).

EDIT: We may also be able to add another 120 machines in some of the other computer labs (my friend works for the department of computer science) ;).

N8
12-18-2002, 10:44 AM
KnightElite,

Stop teasing :p

That's some SERIOUS folding power...bring it on, we surely could use it! :)

Tweaked!
12-18-2002, 11:52 AM
Let's put it this way, with that we'd stomp 2cpu. Like N8 said, quit teasing us... That's like me asking if anyone wants a new xp2800 for free;) In other words, it's a no-brainer, bring em on:D

Dapper
12-18-2002, 02:41 PM
OH lets see depending on what protein you got I would say each one could do say 3 WU's a day with no problem that would be an average of 153 WU's per day and if you only got 5.7 points per WU (although some will be higher) 872 points per day, Yea sounds good man. :)

Thats just for the 51 1.8's

DDTUNG
12-18-2002, 03:20 PM
Bring it on and catch me!:D

DDTUNG:cool:

KnightElite
12-18-2002, 03:23 PM
Alright, well I'll try and convince my friends to switch over to folding. We're all going home for XMas shortly, so I won't see them until the new year most likely. But I'll get to work on trying to convince them to switch all their stuff over to folding ;).

Tweaked!
12-18-2002, 03:44 PM
Please do...:D

Tedinde
12-18-2002, 10:22 PM
and extra 3000- 2500 points per week easy. That would put this fued to an end once an for all!!!!

Crazymofo
12-19-2002, 08:53 AM
Man I would be thrilled just to see 10 of those machines folding for the team. Good luck convincing them!!