folding@home

[hanser]

I noticed that you people aren't too interested in folding@home. I was curious as to why not? If you think that there isn't any team competition, I would say that you're wrong...


Just wondering why it has been ignored....




hanser

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[Chipster22]

Dial-up users will have trouble with Folding@Home because the console client doesn't cache any work units. On my C548 the client wants to call out about once an hour. The screen-saver version doesn't support dial up at all according to F@H documentation.

Earlier AnandTech BBS threads mentioned that a specialized computer was being built to do the same simulations F@H is doing but at a much faster rate which has discourage some from the project.

At times I have been running F@H and Gamma Flux at the same time. When F@H is done with a unit Gamma Flux takes over until I dial-up.

Stats shown for F@H today(10/27/2000):

Rank User Units
778 Chipster22 (Team AnandTech) 82
2820 Hellburner (Team AnandTech) 9

Which gives TeamAnand Tech 91 Units in 74th place.

According to F@H statistics were last updated on Thu Oct 26 09:51:51 PDT 2000.

Darrel

 

[hanser]

I read all of those other posts. I happen to do it full time on dialup. What you don't realize is that the faster you churn through units, the longer WUs you get from f@h. You can see my post over at Arstechnica (the #2 team and #1 WU producer ? I started the team...

The Monster Post



<edit> Now the #1 team

 

[Hellburner]

Running on a dial-up is a pain in the butt, I have five machines that can finish wu's in about an hour. Their data servers suck, I get perpetual timeouts half the time meaning that my line would be tied up 24/7 if I ran the thing as intended. I also use this line for personal and business calls. S@H dumps once a day at 3 AM, pretty much invisible to me.

From the threads over at Ars it sound like F@H can't even be cached. If/once I get a cable modem I might reconsider send some time their way...

 

[hanser]

That's OK. My caching program is almost done. Besides, I wrote that thread.

f@h is include gzip compression in their next release, making WUs 10x smaller. Their data servers have been upgraded, i haven't had a timeout in three weeks (i did for the first 2 days or so, until 1.12 was released).



hanser