Who wants to cure disease for team 36362?

[jimwah]

Always great to see new faces @ XS folding team A warm welcome to Exal, phcjpp & Kaze06

[Leeghoofd]

K folding for you guys now ...

greetz from Belgium

[Sparky]

[GAM]

[sc00p]

Yes! New Folders

Anyone know any reason why it is taking so long to update/retrieve the project details?

I know beta (like p2610 which I've been folding recently) projects aren't displayed at project summary... but p2614 still is at psummary already
What if one could manually set the details to the fahmon, if updating isn't working between fahmon and stanford servers

[GAM]

I'm on my second one now and still no details in FahMon

A strange quirk too; instead of just specifying the percentage complete as '(XX)' for this project it specifies '(XX percent)'.

I know it's 287pts and that it's NOT a 'nice' WU.

[Kaze06]

I've been on a 250,000 step WU for a day and a half now. 75%...should be done soon. Major points ftw.

[Druggedpolak]

Just started folding today for the first time!
Im on my x2 4000+ at 2.7 running on both cores and my 1800xt.
Don't know what most of you are talking about and need to learn this lingo lol
I'll try to get a few more pcs running it and get a couple of friends. I tried registering for wcg but the registration is down.

[Sparky]

druggedpolak

[GAM]

@DruggedPolak,

...and don't worry about WCG, get yourself established folding for XS and look into that down the track

[bronx_klokr]

i just put my ps3 to fold for team xs

[Sparky]

sweet, glad to have you bronx

[Datalogger]

I'm looking into purchasing some cheap used P4 systems from Ebay to set up for Folding. Is processor speed the most important thing to look at? Or should I consider type of P4 (HT or not) and Ram size. Anything else I should consider?

Thanks!

[Sparky]

HT doesn't make a lot of difference, heard that you can put two CPU clients on but I don't know how well it performs.

If you can get your hands on C2D or AMD systems that would be better for power consumption and heat output.

[jimwah]

Hey Datalogger, running 2x client on P4's with HT was alleged to increase output by 20%, compared to just running 1 client. Athough Stanford always prefer a quicker turnover of units, and prefer you to run 1 client on HT boxes; and with P4's just go for high Mhz & big cache, check the specs of chips on the Intel sSpec Finder RAM size is not too crucial on the vanilla client, most of my rigs have had 512mb but I wouldn't expect any problems running with 256mb to be honest.

Personally I'd look at a budget AMD x2 or even C2D system, in place of a few P4's, however if you are hell bent on getting older kit off ebay, I'd go for Semprons or A64's, for that gen of chips AMD have better power/performance imo. Having run a few benchmarks in the past, my Sempron 1.8Ghz/256k(iirc) is a better cruncher than my P4 2.66/512k. Hope that helps man

[turtletrax]

Just picked up a PS3 and just needed to get the XS team number, look forward to putting one of my machines to a GOOD use

[Datalogger]

Hey Datalogger, running 2x client on P4's with HT was alleged to increase output by 20%, compared to just running 1 client. Athough Stanford always prefer a quicker turnover of units, and prefer you to run 1 client on HT boxes; and with P4's just go for high Mhz & big cache, check the specs of chips on the Intel sSpec Finder RAM size is not too crucial on the vanilla client, most of my rigs have had 512mb but I wouldn't expect any problems running with 256mb to be honest.

Personally I'd look at a budget AMD x2 or even C2D system, in place of a few P4's, however if you are hell bent on getting older kit off ebay, I'd go for Semprons or A64's, for that gen of chips AMD have better power/performance imo. Having run a few benchmarks in the past, my Sempron 1.8Ghz/256k(iirc) is a better cruncher than my P4 2.66/512k. Hope that helps man

That is really great info, thanks!

[oublie]

Just picked up a PS3 and just needed to get the XS team number, look forward to putting one of my machines to a GOOD use

good stuff turtle that should get you about 800ppd on average

[mawsoccer]

I got 20 iMac Core 2 Duo's running wit my name and Team XS! I managed to snag the 8th position in only a few months.

P.S. Where do you get those siggy folding things?

[Sparky]

Hey mawsoccer, glad to see you pop in here finally! Very nice output you've got!

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?un=mawsoccer&t=36362

Put that with the IMG tags around it and you get this

[sc00p]

Welcome mawsoccer... currently the top producer of our team

BTW: Very nice nick that Druggedpolak has

[mawsoccer]

Haha, I should have those and possibly 12 more at my high school for two more years. (I graduate in 2009) I might also be able to get around 20 iMacs for folding at my old elementary school!

This is mainly a PC forum, but I must say, DAMN those iMacs coupled with an SMP client can really do some massive folding!

[jimwah]

Great work mawsoccer; that some serious SMP thrashing there

[BCHurricane89]

Hello, I signed up on the website a while ago, and read about folding, and how it can help cure disease. I didnt think much of it, until recently I was diagnosed with a rare form of heart disease, which has no cure at the moment. I dont know if this folding can help find a cure for that, but maybe it can find cure's for other needy children. I have an AMD 3000+ Venice, and a 6600GT graphics card, and would like to know mor einformation about folding, and how I can get into this whole folding thing. Thanks, and let me know if you need more info, or how to get started on this.

[sc00p]

Hello... and welcome to the folding, to team.
Yes, we cannot be sure if f@h finds a cure to your disease soon enough... which I'm sorry to hear you got this. But anything (=any cpu cycles) helps we tend to say which I actually really think is true. If everybody would fold with their cpus the data output would be huge.

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html <- there you can download application and on jimwah's sig has couple of cool links move onto this. I suggest you setup a service install with normal 5.04 ("no nonsense") -client.

Maybe you are thinking sometimes: What are we actually work on? (<-DanEnsign's post #3)