Team CFC: Folding@Home project

[ggganz]

Yep, finished it. Then, after getting to 48% in the next one, my computer crashed again. ARGH. That's AT LEAST 12.8 hours of folding time lost.

 

[AlanH]

F@H should restart from a checkpoint after a crash. It should not have to go back to the beginning of a WU.

 

[ggganz]

I'm running as a service.

 

[AlanH]

Why does that stop it checkpointing and picking up where it left off?

 

[ggganz]

 

[EconomistBR]

Great News!!! A new member for the team: Captain_Carnage

Welcome, Captain_Carnage!!

Well, 4 days ago I manually turned off the F@H (ctrl+alt+del) and it restarted from 0% and a new WU. I don't know if the same thing happened to you but it is possible.

I got pissed because it seems that F@H is a bit touchy.

 

[Captain Carnage]

Thank you

 

[AlanH]

Hmm! It looks like my contribution is going to drop off a bit. I was getting 1760 point WUs and completing them in 20 hours, giving 88 points per hour. I'm now getting 2539 point WUs that take 48 hours to complete, giving 53 points per hour

 

[Marsden]

I only get about 1 WU per week, but I'm not giving up.

Some things I've noticed in case it helps someone else starting out:

The computer, mine at least, defaults to 30 minutes per frame when starting, which can give an estimated finish time of months, but will correct itself after the first frame or two is done.

I don't have a continuous link to the internet, so when my work unit is completed I close the program, log on (dial up) the internet and then restart. It has the results stored and starts to send them in. You could start the internet without stopping the F@H program, but it tries in intervals and my internet time is limited, so I can control how long I have the internet connected much better this way.

I hope this helps, but the important thing to remember is keep contributing, no matter how small. The whole concept of distributed computing is very small amounts multiplied by millions rather than large amounts by a few or even thousands, so 1 WU a month is far better than zero.

Ooh, I'm closing in on 50th! Cool!

 

[dojoboy]

News update at Gamasutra re: F@H and PS3 users.

article

 

[ggganz]

DID YOU KNOW THAT WE AVERAGE 14,638 POINTS A DAY!!??!?!!??!

 

[ggganz]

Yikes! Look at www.HEXUS.net, their team is moving reeeally fast! They're gonna overtake us in 24 hours! I looked at their overtake page, and they have NO THREATS!

By the way, is there any way to see how many points a WU will be before completion? (I think someone asked this before.)

Oh and if anyone is wondering where I'm getting these stats, it's from http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com.

 

[AlanH]

By the way, is there any way to see how many points a WU will be before completion? (I think someone asked this before.)

If you know the Project Number of any WU you can look it up in the Project Summary. It's in the column called 'Credit'.

 

[ggganz]

Does that mean that more than one person is working on any given project? Is it removed from the list when someone finishes it? Can someone recieve that project if it's already completed??

Oh and you did your URL wrong.

 

[Masquerouge]

By the way, could anyone explain the drop in points I've been getting recently? Basically, after I plugged in my PS3 I was pulling around 1,000 ppd for the first 10 days, but since then I'm hovering around 500, for the next 10 days (up until today).

Is that normal?

 

[Godwynn]

By the way, could anyone explain the drop in points I've been getting recently? Basically, after I plugged in my PS3 I was pulling around 1,000 ppd for the first 10 days, but since then I'm hovering around 500, for the next 10 days (up until today).

Is that normal?

My production has been slashed in half as well.

 

[AlanH]

Does that mean that more than one person is working on any given project? Is it removed from the list when someone finishes it? Can someone recieve that project if it's already completed??

Oh and you did your URL wrong.

Each Project has lots of Work Units. The Project Number identifies the research project using the information. You can see descriptions of the projects if you click around the Stanford site. All units for a project have the same Credit, listed in the (now correct ) url I gave.

Each Work Unit within a Project has a triplet of numbers that identify it uniquely - (Run, Clone, Gen). If you want to know what those mean you'll have to do some searching on Stanford's site. I haven't found any information about how many units there are for each project.

When a specific WU has been given to a computer it should not be given out to anyone else unless its time expires without being completed.

If you click on your name in the Stanford list of our team you will see a list of Project Number ranges under your name. Click a range to see how many units you have folded for projects in that range. For example, yours are mostly in the range 3000-3999 at the moment, and I've done 120 units for Project 2605.

 

[Furiey]

There are lots of work units in each project, if you look in your log you will find something like: Project: 2584 (Run 74, Clone 61, Gen 1). Each work unit will be run by only 1 person and will not be given to another unless it is not returned by the recommended time. If it is not returned on time the work unit will go to someone else and the work will be duplicated.

If you want more statistics, Kakaostats also have lots, I like the way it displays the user stats on this one and shows what time you returned units and what they were worth.

 

[AlanH]

By the way, could anyone explain the drop in points I've been getting recently? Basically, after I plugged in my PS3 I was pulling around 1,000 ppd for the first 10 days, but since then I'm hovering around 500, for the next 10 days (up until today).

Is that normal?

Have you been folding for as many hours per day recently as you were at the beginning? I believe the PS3 only folds when you are not playing games.

 

[ggganz]

So the "credit" column means that each WU in that project is worth that many points?