Team Engadget Folding@home enters top 60 in 2006
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 10th 2006 3:07PM
posted Feb 10th 2006 3:07PM
We know we've
been pretty distracted, but for those not following Engadget's Folding@home team progress, we're now in the top 60
cancer-busting teams worldwide! Congratulations to everyone donating those spare cycles! And don't you worry -- we
didn't forget about our last Team Engadget Folding@home contest. For everyone who plugged away to meet our 2,000 point
goal we've got a winner for ya: roder, will you please stand up? You won yourself a Tokyo Flash watch!But we aren't done yet; everyone who makes it to 8,000 points by President's Day (that'd be Monday, the 20th) will automatically be entered in the running for a sweet Tokyo Flash watch, with the winner to once again be picked by our good friend, the random number generator. So get cranking everybody, we've got some diseases to beat!
Want to know more about Folding@home? Go here.
Want to check out our team page? Go here.
Ready to join? Ok!
Team Engadget's F@H team ID is: 39227
Will it use my multiple cores?
Yes the program will, but don't add flags.
The instant Folding@Home is on BOINC, I'll join, but not before. Sorry. I'm already running SETI and Einstein in timesharing, and I'd love to add Folding (it actually has tangible benefits!), but not as a separate app. My 1.33 GHz iBook couldn't take it.
Not to steal any potential Folders... but I wanted to offer up the *unofficial* Engadget FightAIDS@Home Grid project as an option. We're only 94 members strong, but we pack a lot of computing power!
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=21FG4T4VRP1
Seconding on FightAIDS@Home.
Actual Reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!
I dunno about dual cores, but I just have hyperthreading and Folding only uses one side..CPU at 50% all the time...weird
100% cpu usage on F@H is talking about one core. so if you run 2 cores, the CPU Usage will be half. I've got Quad core so it'll use 25% CPU usage. But if you download the SMP client for F@H then It'll use multiple cores.
Even though fighting AIDS easily seems like a more worthy fight, I remain pretty unconvinced of the actual benefit behind it. Where are all the research papers for it? Their one link to the "it has already had a dramatic effect on the lives of people living with AIDS" is broken. I hate to be a cynic regarding anything to do with AIDS, but the only appeal I see for AIDS@Home is the better "do gooder feeling"
Besides, learning more about how proteins fold isn't just for cancer, but can have benifits for protein based illnesses like mad cow's disease, and the host of noncommunicable degenerative diseases that will increasingly plague humanity as we continue to increase the human lifespan.
I was listening to a few podcast some weeks ago and didn't at first realy get what you meant with Folding... :P Then I figured out after some search on Google that it was this Folding@Home you talked about. I have been a member of the SETI@home (Classic) community since 2001 so this was a natural step to join this now when the SETI@home-classic have closed it's doors. Have folded 13 WU:s so far for Team Engadget.
Karl: Why not switch to SETI@Home on BOINC?
to get folding@home running on multiple cores (SMP or hyperthreading as well), you need to run multiple instances of the command line clients with the -local flag. you also need to go into the advanced config and assign unique machine id's for each instance. kind of a pain in the butt, but you'll get more use out of those spare cycles.
on my work quad core mac, i have the f@h screen saver installed and i start up 3 other command line clients for overnight-weekend processing.
Crap. I don't have a chance in hell. My computer takes about a solid week to finish one unit. I don't have any points and have only completed one unit.
People are working on a cure for AIDS...
Yup, no vaccine, a CURE.
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3482712
Timerider
what version are you running and what flags are you using? linux or windows?
#10 Why don't you use the client "InCrease"? It can handle up to 8 cores and has some nice advanced features.
what do you mean by points? frames or sent WUs? Cause if it's WUs, that takes me more than a day to compute on Athlon XP 2.8+, so I could meet the threshold in around 25 years :-))
Skippi,
All WU's have points
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-points.html
maybe we need a forum?
Sup guys?
I don't have multiple cores..but this is the first time for me to join such a large contributing group and for the good cause...I am excited about this...glad to join
I'm folding!
Good Times!!
big fan of the whole folding thing. Always glad to help however I can. After all, folding has done quiite a bit for me, imagine how all that newspaper would look on my porch in the morning. Now though, with folding, it all fits conveniently in a plastic bag.
Thank you folding@home
oh, kidding, of course, yay protein!!!
wow, want one, need one
I have a network server at a small buisiness that is doing FAH. Dula Processor Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz, Dell PowerSuck 1800. 2GB RAM, Raid 5, 3 80GB drives, that thing completes a WU about every other day or so, pretty close to that, then I have my G5 1.6Ghz, 756Mb Ram, 80GB Serial ATA, doing it also, completes about every other day, but i also go into terminal and set the fahcore priority to -20, maximum, and i can barely tell i did it, everything still chugs along as if it didn't exist, I love my Mac!!!
looks nice
maybe if you guys were to fold for team hackaday, you could enjoy the support forums @ teamhackaday.com... and our team hackaday autoborg program... for you folks with labs out there it makes mass install every easy.
http://mikenathan.net/hackaday/borger.zip
(support at www.teamhackday.com ) :)
A note to Timerider: right click on the main screen, go to "Advanced" and change CPU usage to 100% then click "OK". Also, I'm team 49831 "Team Chikin Kuiarajin" if you'd like to join. http://teamchikinkuiarajin.blogspot.com
my computer takes 9 mins/frame to fold. is this normal?
my system: 2.8ghz/1gb ram.