I now have this on my system. Wow it is cool to watch. The graphics are awesome and for me most interesting.

you all might just wanna check it out. It has not slowed me down at all. No lag times on other programs ect.

I used to run Seti years ago. Now that I've got a computer (on monday), with lots and lots of computational power, I think I have to do it. Either that or join the Folding team again (if you guys are still alive)

Yep, the folding team is alive - just. I know that four people (Including myself) are still folding for the team, but we're returning more units and getting more points than four people alone can account for. Our folding stats also say that they have received units from eight separate computers in the last 50 days, so there's got to be more people hidden out there.

The BOTF2 team folding number is 46574 for anyone that wants to join.

Thanks to myself and Winterhawk, here are images of the two programs:

Folding@home:


Seti@home

looks like seti may have updated. When I used it last it had pretty graphs but looked more like folding.

That's another reason why I posted this thread, Nem.

I got the image from Winterhawk. I haven't got Seti installed as i've got Folding. It would be nice if we had BOTF2 teams for both projects though.

I think I'm still on the folding rankings, though probably pretty far down there. I wonder how fast I can catch up...

(edit: I just checked, I have 1% of Ringold's, and 2% of Matress')
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I recommend we focus on one as a team since then the rankings go up twice as fast. Of course, we can always have two teams though.

I only check in once in a blue moon, happened to see this thread.. thought I'd just let you guys know I've put one machine back folding. Depending on how much work it does in a given day, looks like it's pulling in 500 to 1600 points a day. Average hasn't stabilized yet, only been doing it a few days.

http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=46574

One nice thing about the projects on the BOINC platform is that points are more firmly attached to an account you own, rather than a name in a team, so if you change teams the points move with you. F@H doesnt have that. I bounce back every six months or so between the two. Currently bouncing from boinc back to FAH.

May or may not remember to swing back by, but just wanted to say I'm contributing to the team again.

We already knew, Ringold!

Stumpy sent me a text message to check our folding points on the weekend, and there you were. Glad to have you back on the team, mate, our points were really dragging us down. We were dropping about 9 places a week on average before you showed up.

You guys already knew over the weekend?

A cloaked Romulan warbird would have no chance with you guys

Yep, he saw you all right. Eyes and ears everywhere...

I would join back up, but Folding doesn't have quad core support (unless you do console, which I don't want)

< public service announcement >
If you run linux, the SMP client works great there, huge point-per-day advantage over all the other platforms.

The Win SMP client I'm running now, it supports quad core, but it's also beta, and very tempermental. Note the 1700+ point WU's I'm starting to crank out though, heh. One more in the oven about done.

It doesn't install itself nicely as a service, they want you to watch it for bugs, but it can be done manually.

Their linux, mac, and windows SMP clients prefer quad core but run okay on dual-core as well (it still spawns 4 threads, but a future version of GROMACs, their science core, will support n threads; future-proofing). They've got tight time deadlines though, so have let it to run 12-18 hours minimum a day to hit the deadline. They'll slacken it a lot once it's no longer in beta.

BOINC will run 4 WU simultaneously, but so far only F@H has a native SMP app. The difference, of course, is purely philosophical from the user perspective.

</ public service announcement >

I guess I'd recommend BOINC for ya, though. If for whatever reason you don't like running it as a service, you'll absolutely hate the beta SMP client. I love the console client, and I dont even really like the SMP client. I just like the work units..

I like GUI. I don't want to run the console version, and I wouldn't run it as a service

http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=46574

I return.

I kneel before my master, the NVidia GPU client running on my 8800GTS.

This one is a GUI client, with a display you can open to see whats its doing (like the GUI cpu client and Seti), but when its open the display is a CPU hog and really slows the work unit down. They're fixing that in the next version apparently, though. It eats, on average, about 7% of one CPU core. Have to be running certain driver sets, though. The full rundown is over on their website & forums. Until they nerf it, the 8800GTS is giving 18 - 20k points / week.

Btw, the forums, websites, and games look amazing compared to January when I was here last. Sweet!

Hey Ringold, long time no see!

How the hell do you manage to do so much folding? I fold near 24/7 and i'm barely doing 600 points a week as you can see. You must have a supercomputer!

I'm not running a GPU client at the moment. I had to reformat my computer a week or three ago and I lost the client; when I went on the folding website, I couldn't find the client for my computer!

I've got a 512mb Radeon X1650 Pro if you know where I can get the client from...