Daily Update.

[Boli]

Woot... first time I've been "oranged" (more than 600k a day) I take it back this protein is slightly faster than the last one.

~ Boli

[ftjandra]

Woohoo, finally broke 100,000,000 in total points... Joe, here I come

--Ferdi

[Joe]

hahaha I am waiting for you baby!!!

[imagex]

I'm kick'n up there myself, I'm trying for 2cd place

[jaydee]

Heh, I noticed the network cables got disconnected from one of my comps. Nice little 350,000 point dump. Must have been unhooked for a while.

[Groth]

I wondered what that was. I'm already needin' a new box to catch up to satanicoo (satanicoo TEAM? ), and I was worried that I'd need two more to stay ahead of you.

Any bets on how long after the stampede it will take for us to regain our rightful place ahead of the cows? If they drop back down to pre-stampede folding, I'm thinking only three months.

[satanicoo]

EErrrrr, im "recruiting" some friends to help me (and some factory computers also), but they where a litle hard to convince, so i changed the name to satanicoo TEAM so that they accept it better

[Groth]

Ahh, that makes sense.

Congratulations to cabmeister for the best fold of the current protein. Stats

And congratulations to Joe, who at long last is beating the rest of the team combined!

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Groth

I wondered what that was. I'm already needin' a new box to catch up to satanicoo (satanicoo TEAM? ), and I was worried that I'd need two more to stay ahead of you.

I will not be catching you. I am shutting them down Sunday night as I have a road trip for work starting Monday the 19th. I will not be back untill the 28th. Going to shut everything down so the power bill isn't so steep this month. Giving it all I got untill Sunday night though.

[Groth]

jaydee, ya need a bunch of laptops to take with you. That way you can crunch with company/hotel electricity.

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Groth

jaydee, ya need a bunch of laptops to take with you. That way you can crunch with company/hotel electricity.

One of my comps is a laptop actually . It doesn't use much power though. The problem area is it is winter here and my electric heaters are on alot, and I calcualted my spending on my computers with the water cooling gear and came up with a $30 extra a month just to run the 4 comps. $10 of that is just from one of the pumps. Last month there was an extra $40 for the heaters being we had that spell of -20F weather. The power bill was just about $100. On an average summer month the power bill is about $20 without the comps running. Right now I am not exactly flurishing with extra cash so I got to watch it a bit. When I get back I am going to order a good air cooler and replace the one water pump that causes so much power usage. It uses about as much power as 2 standard comps. My other water cooled comp only has a 28watt VIA pump so I am not to worried about it but still may replace it with a air cooler. Non the less I need to shut them down while I am gone this trip. Will save me a good chunck of change better spent on other things right now.

[imagex]

$100 electric bill, I wish mine was that low. Mine is about $450 a month with 10 pc's running 24/7. I'm finaly getting up there after adding another pc on that I had lying around, it a car pc "demo" 1.2 gig, lol

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by imagex

$100 electric bill, I wish mine was that low. Mine is about $450 a month with 10 pc's running 24/7. I'm finaly getting up there after adding another pc on that I had lying around, it a car pc "demo" 1.2 gig, lol

$450???? My rent is just a little more than that. My child support is just a little less. I do ok money wise when work is full time but this time of year it is work a day off two days. Glad they are sending me on a road trip. 9hrs a day 6 days a week +$3 more an hour than regular.

[Boli]

I'm glad I'm on cheap power, £10 ($20) a month - well it is £40 ($80) for all of us combinded .

~ Boli

[imagex]

I do have room mates that I rent to that helps some but its still alot, but its the price I pay for haveing all the toys. also I live in south FL and its hot as hell, we still have to kick on the A/C one or two times a week, but I work from home so that save abit. I wish we'd get some more of our team folding, were only at about half our team active.

[Groth]

Less than half are active: 120 have signed up, 87 have produced points, 44 are active on the current protein.

It would nice if we could get everyone in the forum to fold, but some people just lack the proper altruism and competitiveness, to those people I offer a one fingered salute.

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Groth

Less than half are active: 120 have signed up, 87 have produced points, 44 are active on the current protein.

It would nice if we could get everyone in the forum to fold, but some people just lack the proper altruism and competitiveness, to those people I offer a one fingered salute.

Alot of people just move on aswell. I used to be big for SETI at amdmb, I finally gave up for lack of any real potential from the project. It is actualy a good thing if 50% or better of the members are active. Most teams have less. I have a feeling the Dutch team will slowly fad away. We will see though.

I might leave my air cooled comp on while I am gone.

[satanicoo]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

I might leave my air cooled comp on while I am gone.

You better, or you'll get a finger

[jaydee]

Looks like overclockers Australia got snubbed out.

[imagex]

The main thing most people ask me about folding is what do you win? I tell them its for the good of mankind to find cures " I hope they have a cure for cancer before I get it, cough cough". Joe maybe if you offer some small prize for 2cd and 3rd place like a procooling fan grill ,case badges or T-shirt some might work alittle harder. and for 1st place could be a new car or a date with joe from procooling, lol
"if its a date with joe I'll be sure to stay in 2cd place "

[pHaestus]

Depends on who you talk to imagex. In all honesty, "cure for cancer" is pretty misleading. Let me explain. I study trace metal chemistry in contaminated soils, waters, and sediments. Through understanding the reactions that take place in the environment, we learn how to (a) better evaluate where the true risks to humans and ecosystem are and (b) manipulate reactions to better remediate contamination. Many of these metals are carcinogens (cause cancer). Would it be fair to say I am working on a cure for cancer then? Nah not at all.

What the distributedfolding and folding@home projects are doing that is important is open source science in my opinion. There's no possible way that problems like "can we mathematically model how proteins fold to eventually predict what proteins SHOULD look like?" can be done by a single computer or supercomputer even. Sure one day waaay down the road it may correctly optimize a protein useful in cancer research, but it's providing a wealth of good results on HOW scientists and overclockers and IT people and average joes can come together and benefit from technology and the internet. The world is becoming a renderfarm in some ways.

As this research gets closer to actual product development, I would suggest that we find out what pharmaceutical companies are involved and who will profit from the drugs produced. They should be paying for our electricity and water cooling since they'll make billions off our efforts

[imagex]

I found it easier to explain to lay persons that I put foldit on there computer that its a research on proteins that could help to find a cure for cancer one day. it's a little too deep for some and it saves a lot of explaining, I allso add that Iam on a team "procooling" and this one way computer guru's "I dont like to be called geeks" can flex there computing power.

[jaydee]

I picked up a 60mm to 80mm fan adapter at CompUSA today for $6. I put it on an older HS that the 60mm died on and dropped on one of my 25CFM 80mm's. Then removed the water cooling from the comp that uses that huge pump. I had to un-overclock it to stock (XP1700+, was running at 1800mhz) and it is working fine. I will leave that and my other aircooled comp on while I am away. That will be two XP1700's at stock speed.

Bah, got to get up at 2:30am and get on a plane that leaves at 5am. Fly for 4 hours, drive for 2 hours and work untill dark. Going to be a long dy tomorrow.

[Groth]

At least it's work. :shrug:

Good to see you're heating the apartment in a useful way.

[Blackeagle]

Originally Posted by pHaestus

As this research gets closer to actual product development, I would suggest that we find out what pharmaceutical companies are involved and who will profit from the drugs produced. They should be paying for our electricity and water cooling since they'll make billions off our efforts

If I were to dwell on the chances of drug companys making a fortune off of this, I'd shut down my systems right now. They may well do so, but I don't find that thought very motivating. :shrug: