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[Godwynn]

is the 3D image you see on the folding thing just random, or does it have anything to do with what its working on?

I believe it really does show you what your CPU is working on at that moment. Otherwise it would be completely arbitrary and would only waste your CPU's power.

 

[ironduck]

It shows the protein you're working on.

 

[El_Machinae]

I found a link at their forums that details how to speed up your computers wrt folding.

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=14471

And in other news, IBM is working on a 1.6 petaflop supercomputer. I'm not sure exactly what a flop is (mainly because I don't know how many flops my laptop generates), but it's a neat statistic.

 

[Abaddon]

ill be back running soon, getting a new lappy!

 

[ironduck]

FLOPS - flowing point operations per second, it's a common index for math-sciency heavy calculations.. your laptop can probably do a couple of gigaflops (10^9) so it will take a million of those to reach the IBM's petaflop (10^15)

 

[El_Machinae]

For new people; you should be reminded that the predicted 'completion date' is not accurate until you've returned a few work units.

That said, is there a place to let me know when the due date for a work unit is? My next one will be done on Friday, but I want to know if I'm going fast enough.

 

[schmiddi]

Just look for the project description (under stats me thinks) on stanfords folding page.

 

[Sahkuhnder]

That said, is there a place to let me know when the due date for a work unit is?

Here is the current WU list.

As an odd side note the finishing ETA doesn't work when the frame number/100 is not a whole number (250 frames for example, vs. it working for 400 or 1000 frames). The problem is that the work is saved for most WUs at every one percent completion, as shown in the log file. When a WU has a odd number the clock used to compute the WU end time always uses a rounded up or rounded down number of frames. With the 250 frame example a log entry is done every 2.5 frames, but the 'new', wholly completed frame count is either 2 or 3, so the computing time per frame is always slightly wrong. The WU end time is based on the time it took to do the work on your last log file entry and as the amount of work actually done is off so is the end time estimate.

 

[El_Machinae]

Thanks you two.

So, it says that the deadline days for my project is 44 days. I guess my system is doing okay if I'm punching out a WU every 3 days.

 

[Sophie 378]

Every three days?

My computers take weeks per WU! Although they are off for most of the time, to be fair.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Mines normally 3-5 days. Some of the games I play don't like the program and I need to turn it off. Then it's just a case of remembering to open it again when I'm finished

 

[El_Machinae]

We just leave on the laptop; I turn down the intensity when I worry about the heat.

 

[schmiddi]

depends a little on what WU you get, some of them take little more than one day, some other about a week on my PC

 

[ironduck]

A FAH client for the PS3!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/09/18/playstation.folding/index.html

 

[Abaddon]

oooh gudygudy!

still cant get it to work anymore on either of my computers! (both at home and uni!)

 

[El_Machinae]

Don't abanddon us, abaddon!
Have you checked the FAQ or asked at their forum?

 

[IglooDame]

Farewell, HP&H, we hardly knew ye.

 

[BCLG100]

Think we need to start another recruiting drive soon.

 

[Abaddon]

Indeed, i would be more for it if i could only get involved again myself!

 

[Sophie 378]

I have used the Comments and Suggestions function on my university's website to plead for a distributed-computing project to run on the hundreds of campus computers. I gave Seti@home as an example, and a link to Folding@Stanford. Hopefully we'll see University of Birmingham climbing up the charts in a month or so!