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Till
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Looks like i get to finish one more WU and then it's off to vacation. Yahoo! 
I have a few spare parts, which i could piece together to a 133MHZ machine. Do you guys reckon it'd be worth it? Don't want to waste hours assembling it and installing an OS, just to find out that it will need months to complete a single WU. How long are your Celerons taking Igloo?
I have a few spare parts, which i could piece together to a 133MHZ machine. Do you guys reckon it'd be worth it? Don't want to waste hours assembling it and installing an OS, just to find out that it will need months to complete a single WU. How long are your Celerons taking Igloo?
Speedo said:What servers are you running it on, out of curiosity?
Btw, you guys haven't seen anything...
I remember talking to one guy who spent $12000 on computer equipment solely to run Seti@Home. That's devotion... or insanity.
They're Dell PowerEdge 2850's, single 2.8 or 3.0GHz Xeon processors, 1 or 2 GB RAM. I'm throttling them down to 90% utilization, as that seems to allow zero delay in keyboard/mouse reaction when you first grab them remotely. One is running Exchange2003, another SQL2000, but neither actually have any loads so they'd just be idling if not for the folding app.
Till said:Looks like i get to finish one more WU and then it's off to vacation. Yahoo!
I have a few spare parts, which i could piece together to a 133MHZ machine. Do you guys reckon it'd be worth it? Don't want to waste hours assembling it and installing an OS, just to find out that it will need months to complete a single WU. How long are your Celerons taking Igloo?
They all started with 600 point work units (which are apparently some of the largest), and they're 70-90% finished with them, after about six or seven days of uninterrupted work. So the math works out to about 75-80pts per day. Assuming you have 128MB of RAM to put in your machine, it probably will take a couple weeks to do the bigger work units each. It is critical in machines with our specs to specify deadlineless work units, as otherwise they'll probably have expired before you complete them and you'll be crunching them for nothing.
By the way, here's a map of where folding PCs are located. Given the internationalism of OT, if anyone is folding that doesn't have a dot in their neighborhood, we could point out the error:
I'm there! Look at my little dot!
The difference between eastern and western United States leaps out to me. Anyone have a theory on that? And look at California, with their progressive views on biotech.
The difference between eastern and western United States leaps out to me. Anyone have a theory on that? And look at California, with their progressive views on biotech.
Furiey
No Longer Just Lurking
My dot is lost in the large splodge that is southern England, and yes, my PC did finally complete a work unit without crashing and restarting. I'm surprised it doesn't back up the file rather than overwrite all the time to avoid problems on incorrect shutdown.
There's a setting to determine how often it saves. Have you adjusted that?
Till
Adventurer
Thanks for the info and opinions guys. After thinking about it i decided to leave the ancient number cruncher in retirement.
As all of Germany is covered is dots, i can't say i have been left out
As all of Germany is covered is dots, i can't say i have been left out
Furiey
No Longer Just Lurking
I have, but it's not how often it saves (I can start and stop it without any problem), it's if the PC is not shut down and the program terminated correctly I get a checksum error when it restarts and it starts from the beginning of the work unit again. This is a problem that's mentioned on the folding at home forums and there are backup utilities that have been written which can help that I'll have to look into. In the meantime I'll manually back-up the directory every now and then and try and remember to stop it before playing Civ.El Machinae said:
VRWCAgent said:
Have you ever seen the movie Canadian Bacon? Anyway, those dots make it look like you're getting ready to invade Quebec.
Godwyn, the beauty of the internet and distributed computing is that your contributions are just as good as everyone elses. I really can't wait to see the tracking of the folding@home research reports. My hope is that this research will build a good foundation into other research regarding cancer and Alzheimers.
There are a couple more distributed computing projects being designed in the next few years that will advances our sciences awesomely.
Yep. The only good movie MM ever made. Absolutely hilarious.El_Machinae said:
We are. Do you think we'd forget so soon the humiliation of failing to capture it during the Revolutionary War? Hardly!
But anyway, back to folding. I will have my final computer switched over to the CFC team after the weekend. That'll make four desktops constantly crunching away, one desktop that turned off at night and on weekends, and two laptops that I just threw a deadlineless setup on, so they might throw a completed WU in here and there. That's all I can muster, and I'm only able to do that by forcing my family members (or just not telling them about it) to accept it as a condition of me being their family go-to geek on all things related to computers.
You're essentially doing it for charity. I've wondered if there's a tax write off here, anywhere?
VRWCAgent said:
Wow, you'll probably be staying even with me then. I have three servers running it 24/7, but none of them is going to be around for long. One workstation running 24/7, two turned off nights/weekends, and four old Celerons chewing on deadlineless WUs about to be joined by numbers five and six that I just dug up today. Perhaps a seventh one, just so I can name them after days of the week (five 500s, a 466, and a 433).
I can probably cobble together more of them, but I'd prefer not to have my boss ask me what is up with all the beater workstations I'm messing with lately...
No.... you're voluntarily donating your [computer] time. I don't know how they do it with F@H, but in Seti@home you would be credited if your comp "found" anything that they used in published papers or etc. There have been several several seti@home members credited in such a way.
I put F@H on my home server the other day, looks like it'll tear out about 1 WU per day... I may play around with clocking it up slightly, but nowhere near full speed, it just puts out to much heat.
I also pulled a PIII 1.0Ghz CPU from a junk machine at work that I'm going to swap into the Celeron 1Ghz, should give it at least a slight pick-me-up
Edit, I just check and it appears that they don't have the ports for F@H blocked here at work, so I'll put it on my PIII 1Ghz box here also.
Careful. Remember that a work computer is not your property. If you abuse your work's rules regarding computer use, you can be fined and sued.
IglooDude said:
Kind of doubt it. Your servers can probably kick the silicon any of the systems I have it installed on.
Mine is approaching 5 years in age and is a 1.53GHz Athlon 1800XP. Funnily enough, the only reason I got it was so I could play Civ III, otherwise I had been happy with my old 333MHz K6-2! Every single one of the other desktops are Pentium 4 Dells.- Status
