Is anyone interested in helping in cancer research. It will not cost you anything, no contracts to sign, no, nothing. All you have to give up is your CPU idle time. You just download a small program which only uses your CPU idle time to... Well, read more about it here if you are interested.

I have a suggestion, as many people here are interested in silent PCs, why not join this team 31574, its a fairly new team which is growing at an alarming rate.

As 2 teams are better then 1, why not join them and try to become the No 1 folding team ???

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WHen your CPU is idle, all the processing power is waisted, so why not put it to good use! You could save someone

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Yep, I think I'll put my new P4-3GHz to good use. This SETI@Home project seems a bit too far fetched, and they have enough processing power anyway. And it's very likely that they wont find any evidence of ETs anyway..

I remember they listed their results. Check this and this. It's quite and an evidence actually and AFAIK they did not start analyzing pulses, spikes and triplets. There're many such projects : Distributed Folding, folding@home, genome@home, Sengent D2OL...

JohnV

No one seems to be interested in helping out in cancer research. This suprises me because once the program is installed on your computer, you will not even notice it. It does not affect pc performance at all. It does increase CPU temp by about 5C, but thats it!

How about creating a HydrogenAudio team @ folding@home ???

Just a thought

Yeah, some companies will make money on my cost (power! I wll cool my cpu instead of starting seti o folding - less power usage and longer CPU live). This companies will not share their e.g. cure for cancer as we share our cpus poer - they will sell that, and i`m pretty sure, that price for this cure will be high enough (too high) to pump some companies with cash.

Someone could give link to REALLY FREE such program. One of links: http://www1.distributed.net/

Naah.. I don't trust anyone who use automatic translation for their webpages. Barely readable, but at least it gave me a good laugh.

I've participated in Seti@Home now for some 4 years, i.e. right since it started. I still have a bunch of machines running it at work. At about a year ago I stumbled over folding@home and switched over some of the machines to that. Maybe this will be good for something....

What's for sure is that running such a process will increase your electricity bill by an enormous amount if you have it running 24/7. You might be interested in that when you do it at home.

The administrator of Silent PC Review used a watt-meter on his collection of PC's, from 700MHz to 1.8GHz, and he said they were drawing 60-90W when idle, and 110-130W when running the folding@home program.

An Extra 50W per hour is 36KWH/month for a 24/7 PC. Where I live, 1KWH costs about $0.13, so running folding@home on a PC that is already on 24/7 (and doing nothing) costs an extra $4.50 per month. If you only run folding@home when the PC is on, let's say for 8 hours a day, that's only $1.50 a month. For most people, the difference in power draw (between f@h and no-f@h) will be less, and the cost of power will be less, so folding@home will be cheaper to run than this.

I thought running a distributed client would wallop my wallet, but it's really not too bad. I'm just more conscientious about turning off the house lights.

Edit: updated numbers.

A costly cure is better than no cure, believe me.

Now I leaved Seti and started cracking RC5-72 together with largest Polish team - http://rc5.kernelpanic.pl/.

Distribute.net client have cool fetures like sending logs via e-mail, completely hiding client and more. Now i`m using three machines, but i`ll use five soon.

Maybe someone (best if Dibrom/JohnV) could make HydrogenAudio team, ppl from community could join )There is 2000$ to win, so 1000$ will go to team (here: ha.org), 1000$ for happy user...

http://www.distributed.net

I generally like the idea of distributed computing, especially if the project is actually working on something interesting like folding@home or distributed.net (both interesting/useful in their own way). But if there is ever going to be a HA team, it should concentrate on one project.
dev0

Ok. This is HA's Folding@Home team number: 32639

I'm in

Me too

If everyone in this forum joined, this team would have the potential to be the greatest !! I say this, because hydrogenaudio has quiet a bit of members! I think more then the average forum

Finally someone brings this up on HA!!! I been doing this for the pass 3 months but with another team OCAU I think this team is ranked 3rd on the list, not sure I don't check it no more as I am just interested at getting the WU processed, and looking at the molecules hehehe.

Join the team and help try to find a cure for cancer and other diseases. Also make sure you select the F@H and not Genome one

Right now to decide which team to go for!

Cheers
AgentMil

We need some cheerleaders as well carrying the logo of Hydrogenaudio

I'm in and ready for some serious scientific research...

Drop all your teams and join this one for encoding's sake

Looks like there are only 3 computers in the HA team, it could be over 6000 !!!

I will add two machines tonight and probably some more at my school later next week...
dev0

They let you do that at school?

How about HA.org team for distributed.net? It has better client, also 1000$ to win for Ha.org...

Yeah. I'm doing the administration of the ~ 100 client Win2k network there and the school administration basically allows me to do anything legal, especially if I can somehow combine it with my research projects (and folding@home definetly fits there). Additionally I might even be able to get some spare machines to work on it 24/7.

dev0

I'm gonna join up as well. Out of curiosity, which appliaction are you all running, screensaver, GUI or console. I am going to run th econsole becase i had problems with the GUI when i gave it a try at christmas!

2.53GHz of watr cooled power coming HA's way


Kristian

Jen, of course!



I use gui with CPU usage limited to 60%. else my MPEGs/DivX play jerky.
And I drop it to 30% when watching DVDs

Im no cheerleader, I have brains!

I am using the windows client version 3.24, but its not supposed to interfere with anything. If you are playing dvd, the console should stop working. Its only supposed to work whenever your CPU is free, i.e. idle time ???

> Its only supposed to work whenever your CPU is free, i.e. idle time

Yes, but in reality it does affect the machine.

An example...

Using AutoCAD 2000i and having it do real time rotation of a rendered 3D model while Task Manager was running resulted in jerky motion (due to polling). Closing TM smoothed out the display. This was on a dual 933 MHz Xeon (PIII) machine.

xen-uno

I'm using the screensaver.

The Tech Report has an article up testing the performance impact running Windows console client as a service:
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/4341

At least using the console client and running it as service with firedaemon, the performance hit seems to be practically non-existant.

No problems running it on my computer... it just idles when you are using the computer to do something and then starts to process when the computer idles again. I would like to see a percentage slider bar in there so you can set it to process at a percentage of CPU cycles, cause normally anything making the CPU work will stop the F@H program. I normally just surf and listen to music and that normally stops the F@H program from processing. I found out the hard way cause no matter how long it took to process my WU did not move % wise, found out that the computer must be completely idle before it will process again

Sorry ppls I won't be able to join HA team, as I am already affiliated with OCAU. If I can setup another computer at home to run it then that machine will join Team HA, but currently all other computer are being used by my siblings hehehe so need their permission first.

Cheers

AgentMil

I can't imagin this team going very far, how about joining the SilentPCReview team ???

Since I'm going on Vacation to Rome for the next five days, F@H will be running 24/7 with little else being done at the same time on two computers (PII-300 / Celeron-1400). Hopefully this will boost my stats a little.

dev0

Well i've been processing a WU for the last 23 hours!! I'm on a P4 2.53 and i got quite a big core to process with a lifespan of 15 days, so it does take a while, i only have a few hours left though!

There's no point, now that a team is starting up, to jump onto somthing else, you'll probably find even the initail people who showed intrest will not bother. Give it time, at least a few weeks and see what happens before changing.


How about starting another thread(poll), to guage who is active, who will consider it, and who never will. That way you can better estimate the level of participance!


By tommorow though, we will at least have my work of approx 36 points!

Kristian

Leave it on high priority and make sure that processor is cooled enough...

If it is left on idle priority and you are not using the PC it should be calculating just as much as with High Priority enable. Of course if you are doing intensive tasks on the PC at the same time Low Priority will slow down your calculations, but High Priority will then make the tasks on your PC very slow!!!


Kristian

Has anyone tried the commandline version setup as a service under WindowsNT 4, 5 or 5.1. Its as if its not even installed! However, I can tell its still running by checking the CPU usage, or CPU temp, or unitinfo.txt

The advantage of this is, if you have multiple accounts on your computer, it will always run, it will even run when no one is logged in !!!

Neat idea...
I joined...

I like your idea with the signature. Good for advertising this team. I think all folding members should do that, which will "hopefully", attract more people

[edit] Just noticed JohnV has the same, so I don't know who started it? [/edit]

JohnV did.
And I ran into the same problem as you with my sig...
I hate the fuckheads that force dibrom to remove formatting of sigs.

I had retired from grid.org and joined the team.

I joined An AthlonXP 2000+ and a P3 733 workin' away...

I'm currently running GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search). The nice thing about it is that it's enough to let the client contact about once a month (plus whenever assignments are completed). I'll finish my current assignment which would take at least 18 more days. After that I will join Folding.

I affraid my PC doesn't qualify to join the SilentPC team
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Ge Someone

//I'm in, assuming people haven't noticed my sig yet.

//C'mon people, what's a few CPU cycles?

Edit: Apparently more than my Duron wants to deal with heat-wise in the summer. Bleh...

Heh, obviously since they thought people might think Folding@Home is not as "sexy" as Seti@Home, they decided to make a nice little advertizing flash movie:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/f...lding/reloaded/

Yep, I joined immediately after reading this thread

Too bad completed WU's won't follow an user in and out of teams with Folding@Home.

Right...I've now added myself too. Athlon XP2000+ running 24/7 anyway, so i thought I might as well.

I guess you guys can count me in. Ive got plenty of wasted cpu cycles. Ill be contributing my p2 400mhz server along with my xp1900+ desktop, they are usually chugging away all day while im at work so i might as well contribute to a good cause. Ill set up the clients when i get home from work later today. B)

Here's a very nice and simple service installer, which makes the console client run as a service.
http://www.shroomery.org/files/fahsi/

That matrix theme is cool FOLDING@HOME RELOADED

Have to tried firedaemon? If yes, which do you prefer?

I haven't tried firedaemon with folding console client. The Folding@Home Service Installer version 0.2 is very very easy to use, and does the same thing.

However, seems that the console as service is bringing down the performance of my hyperthreading system. Although the process priority is set to idle, it takes practically the other virtual processor to itself (50% all the time), and wont give it up even if I do something else. This decreases performance considerably (my video encoding performance dropped 10 frames/sec). If you are running a dual processor or HT system, I recommend using the screen saver client instead.