folding at home!

neGev · 25-11-2004 05:11PM

That's a hell of a lot of processor time Praetorian.
I can't help wondering how long it'll take the guys at Stanford to use F@H (or any other distributed computing program) for their own nefarious ends. Think of the world domination schemes you could come up with if you had ~160 million processors doing your thinking for you...
Dr. Evil take note!

Nietzschean · 07-12-2004 02:30AM

uhhh Evil FAH thing went for weeks without giving an error, though it seems it never submitted anything(i never looked at the stats)......seems to have thrown em mostly out.....have to start again

neGev · 07-12-2004 03:03AM

Are you sure you set your username and other stuff before you ran it and submitted units ? If you didn't, it will just submit the completed units under anonymous user.

SantaHoe · 07-12-2004 05:17AM

Khannie wrote:

but I like to think that if ETI was found, even a few hundred light years away, that it would help to unite humanity in some way.

Either that, or destroy us all.
Feckin' extra-terrestrials comin' in here and takin' our jobs and our women :mad:

Nietzschean · 07-12-2004 01:04PM

neGev wrote:

Are you sure you set your username and other stuff before you ran it and submitted units ? If you didn't, it will just submit the completed units under anonymous user.

yeah twas an incompatability with the FAH client and my squid setup, should know if its fully sorted in a day or 2 when the diskless boxes start returning their results

neGev · 07-12-2004 05:33PM

Cool beans, best of luck

Nietzschean · 09-12-2004 08:29PM

*bump*

damo u stopped most of ur boxes?

Praetorian · 10-12-2004 12:11PM

It's the bump time of the month again!

Very special thanks goes out to the new user Ianoc with a very impressive 29 active cpus!

As you can see we are steadily moving up the team rankings, we should have a top 1000 spot within a few days

24th Nov team boards 1681 of 34577
26th Nov team boards 1625 of 34610
30th Nov team boards 1503 of 34683
2nd Dec team boards 1425 of 34721
6th Dec team boards 1339 of 34803
8th Dec team boards 1281 of 34854
10th Dec team boards 1140 of 34888

TacT · 10-12-2004 02:14PM

It's about time I gave up on seti after so many years anyway

Nietzschean · 10-12-2004 03:22PM

Praetorian wrote:

Very special thanks goes out to the new user Ianoc with a very impressive 29 active cpus!

no problem

should go up soon enough as our users all leave for xmas and i can get the servers donating cpu cycles to it

neGev · 10-12-2004 03:27PM

Fantastic stuff, welcome to the team SkyLynx

Praetorian · 10-12-2004 07:34PM

It's about time I gave up on seti after so many years anyway

Yea you didn't fine one single alien!

Nietzschean · 10-12-2004 08:31PM

wasn't their some scientist that said seti wasn't very likely to find any aliens at all considering on earth within 50 years we will have moved from radio signals for transmission to laser based systems ? So leaves only 100 - 150 year span on a planet assuming the same technology evolution to find them.......hrmm...

Nietzschean · 11-12-2004 03:57AM

Praetorian wrote:

Very special thanks goes out to the new user Ianoc with a very impressive 29 active cpus!

33 damo, and its on the up n up

Btw what u at this weather? same ole stuff?(if u don't remember who i am, shame on u....last time i sell u a fone)

Praetorian · 13-12-2004 11:23AM

Ahh I do now Ian. I thought your alias was Serial though

40 active cpus? Do you buy dell Limerick or something?

We have 30 other pc's in our other office, but they don't have net access, so there is no point setting up F@H

Nietzschean · 13-12-2004 11:57AM

Praetorian wrote:

Ahh I do now Ian. I thought your alias was Serial though

Went thru a phase of randomly changing it

40 active cpus? Do you buy dell Limerick or something?

not quite, did get a few new toy's ~40 diskless 2.4/2.8ghz boxes so are on and idle 24hrs a day.........

We have 30 other pc's in our other office, but they don't have net access, so
there is no point setting up F@H

I don't suppose you could route the connection through a box that does have the net? or possibly get one box to dl all the work and share a drive n then upload completed stuff?(though thats assuming the other office is connected to ur's some how..)

Praetorian · 13-12-2004 03:01PM

I'm in charge in this office so I can do what I like with the pc's, the other office is accross the hall, but I don't really like the manager, and he doesn't want his staff to have net access, so they don't.

I'm happy enough that 11 cpus are contributing

Nietzschean · 13-12-2004 08:05PM

fair enough, hrmm we should have that 1000 spot with in a day or 2, 1013 now..

Praetorian · 15-12-2004 05:27PM

954 of 35001 now. Of course, we won't make big leaps and bounds up the league table indefinitely. There are a lot of very strong teams we'll never catch. I reckon we can do a lot better than just 27 members (some inactive of course)! Boards.ie probably has over a thousand active members with b/b connections, all of which could join the team.

We could ask for a forum, which may generate some interest, but to be honest there isn't a whole lot to discuss. We could ask an admin to make an announcement, but the more I think about it, the more I realise they probably wouldn’t…

Any ideas?

neGev · 15-12-2004 08:18PM

Mass streak down O'Connell Street on the last shopping day before Christmas?
With body paint.

Nietzschean · 17-12-2004 05:32PM

872 now, we broke the 900 barrier...can't imagine the 800th will be as easy..

JohnK · 17-12-2004 06:03PM

I'll try and get another 2 machines up and running the client this weekend. Maybe that'll help boost us up the list. They are pretty crap machines though so probably wont do much for us.

neGev · 17-12-2004 06:54PM

I'll not be able to fold over Christmas, I'm heading home today and I don't have a net connection to speak of at home.
Merry Christmas you lot!

Praetorian · 20-12-2004 06:07PM

Now that I think about it again, we'll probably creep up the table for a while longer, because we are such a relatively new team.

Farls · 20-12-2004 10:29PM

Just after starting folding@home there, i often thought about doing the SETI one but never got round to it, i'm gonna be slow to start on this with an average pc and 56k dialup but january brings me bak to top spec pc's with bb!

Farlz

Nietzschean · 22-12-2004 02:14AM

Praetorian wrote:

Now that I think about it again, we'll probably creep up the table for a while longer, because we are such a relatively new team.

hrmmm those top 100 spots look juicey, tho we'd need over 2million unfortunatly.....anyone got a few hundred cpu's handy ? could ask for that anouncement to try get a few more i spose..

BabyEater · 22-01-2005 05:34PM

Found a nice site with folding statistics and trends and such and as the page below shows that at our present rate we will have 1 million points as of April the 30th
team_summary.php?s=&t=39432

JohnK · 22-01-2005 05:47PM

Thats quite impressive

Nietzschean · 22-01-2005 10:21PM

BabyEater wrote:

Found a nice site with folding statistics and trends and such and as the page below shows that at our present rate we will have 1 million points as of April the 30th

nice

.. 655,000 by april 30th jebus, the pressure...

BabyEater · 22-01-2005 11:14PM

There is also only 3 other teams between us and 200 that produce more than us.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=4

folding at home!

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