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This thread needs to get stickied on the Graphics card forum....... tomsfolding team has been dropping in rank because the gpu's can crank out the WU's in an hour instead of a day or two for cpu's. I think theres a big graphics card community here that needs to be enlightened about folding proteins!

Anyone know how to do that? I tried sending a PM to a moderator, I havent heard back.
 


Sounds like something else is wrong. If your computer is using that much electricity by folding then you couldn't possibly have been using it much before.

Given that 15cents per KWh is the high side of the national range.

$300 / .15 = 2000KWh

2000KWh/30 days = ~67KWh/day

67 KWh/24hrs = 2.8 KW

So you are telling us that your computer uses 2800 watts who makes your power supply?!?!?!?
 
BTW I have increased my PPD dramatically by switching from SMP client to GPU client on my 2 machines. One is a 8600gt and the other is a HD2600pro they are averaging about 800-900 PPD each.
 


Look a little closer at his post, he's Folding with 21 PCs.
 


Even still, he's got a point. Now multiply that by thousands upon thousands of computers/PS3's running 24/7 unattended. It is not a good thing. That's why I stopped. We Americans waste enough energy as it is. There's too many people already.[/drunken rant]
 
and you're so up yourselves you don't realise. Always thought america was the center of the universe... "We lead the world" seems to be said a lot with america.
 
Don't realize? I live here damn it. I have no false illusions when it comes to how "great" America is. It's a neon sewer. Lot's of pretty flashing, distracting lights, but a sewer all the same...
 
Well i got my q6600 in, and i am thinking of adding all the computers in my department, 18 Pentium D 3000, 16 e8400, and some older junk. And you can count my new i7 920 in as soon as i get it :)
 


So, Folding is wasteful, but bionic is not?

Here is Prof. Vijay Pande explaining a bit about folding:

[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/EZ1XuOgknuE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1[/flash]

 
I signed up to SETI instead, as i want to find some Aliens.

From what i can see Protein Folding is all about eradicating certain genetic diseases and such (Im aware this could be a gross generalisation) and as a fully fledged Darwinist i believe in natural selection.

And Aliens of course....bring on the little green men!!
 



Great. Why don't you start a BOINC thread & quit trolling around a discussion about FOLDING?

 


Okay, perhaps I've given you too much credit here. The use of the term "folding" on this forum refers to the Folding@home project ....

"... (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness, and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.""

In the 2000+ posts in this thread, the word "folding" references Standford's project and the work done for it by clients. So, if you are trying to indicate that Berkeley's Boinc Project, originally designed for SETI's distributed computing project, that's fine, but do it somewhere else. Though that project may "fold" proteins, it is NOT FOLDING@HOME. Therefore, any reference to "folding", as it pertains to anything besides F@H is incorrect within the confines of this thread at least if not everywhere else.

BOINC has a lot of different projects. Not all of them fold proteins. Seti@home became BOINC, then several years later, they introduced other projects capable of running from the same client.

Donating your CPU cycles to a project comes at a price; it is not "free". It costs money, creates heat, and potentially shortens the life of your equipment (mostly just the years of obsolescence, though). I want my cycles to go toward a project that has tangible scientific benefits that couldn't otherwise be done. Projects such as SETI or many of the toy problem projects run by BOINC, such as chess programs, seem to be of questionable scientific value.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Folding left BOINC like 2 years ago because it was not an efficient platform for them. So doesn't that nullify your argument?
 
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