11th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season 3-way Race

[TennesseeTony]

Please at least do for the first week, to support us against Tom's Hardware. We got them Canadians whooped. Six million is pretty darn respectable though!

I do hope you contribute to some sort of Distributed Computing though, if not Folding. Most don't use GPU, so you may feel you are making more of a difference with one of those CPU only projects.

Also, it's heat, and it's getting cold, yeah? So why not?

 

[Markfw]

Everyone matters, alpha. All are welcome! Bring what you can, I'll go ahead and speak for the team and say that no matter the size of the contribution, it's appreciated just the same!

ditto, and its you and the other 144 people that are making out team look good. The few that are making high numbers total only part of the teaam, and every day less and less. Example. a few eeeks ago, I was 67% of all of the team. Today I am down to 25%, due to a lot of people like YOU. Please keep it up ! its all for cancer research

 

[TennesseeTony]

Time to check the stats and I'm off to bed. I've got weekly stats to do in a few hours.


Anybody run Collatz Conjecture? Go to the homepage and search for, then message, the following users (they are TeAm Anandtech members), and invite them to join our Folding Competition:

Perry Maskell
James C. Owens
plimogz

 

[biodoc]

So here's a serious and practical question - based on the best projections, I'm likely only to generate about 6 million points for the entire month what you guys will do/be able to generate in a day.

Is it really still worth it for me to participate?

Absolutely. Everyone's contribution is important and appreciated by all of us and by the scientific team at Stanford.

 

[Ionstream]

Welcome Ionstream! Is your folding user name Ionstream as well?

Yes it is

 

[alpha754293]

Please at least do for the first week, to support us against Tom's Hardware. We got them Canadians whooped. Six million is pretty darn respectable though!

I do hope you contribute to some sort of Distributed Computing though, if not Folding. Most don't use GPU, so you may feel you are making more of a difference with one of those CPU only projects.

Also, it's heat, and it's getting cold, yeah? So why not?

Thanks.

Sidebar: I'm Canadian.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I meant "them other Canadians".

 

[TennesseeTony]

I have run through all the different preferences, and all I get are either cancer or Cystic Fibrosis tasks, ......There is no known way to avoid the lower paying 92xx tasks it seems.

Amazing what some sleep will do for problem solving. So, here is the description for 9210 task, which will drag any Nvidia GPU into the dirt, step on it's back, and give pennies for it's toil.

Disease type: Unspecified. The one project preference I did not test yesterday: Cancer. They're almost all cancer, why try that? Silly me.

Maybe selecting cancer will at least prevent 9210 workunits.

 

[Kiska]

Well my E5606 and the associated mobo probably won't come until like after the challenge with Tom's hardware, but I do have 12 CPU cores ready to enter the race

 

[Orange Kid]

So here's a serious and practical question - based on the best projections, I'm likely only to generate about 6 million points for the entire month what you guys will do/be able to generate in a day.

Is it really still worth it for me to participate?

YES YES YES I 'only' did 7 million last year. have only added a 1070 to the fray for this year so will see where I end up this year.

EDIT: where did I go (avatar)?
EDIT; never mind found a new old one.

 

[crashtech]

Amazing what some sleep will do for problem solving. So, here is the description for 9210 task, which will drag any Nvidia GPU into the dirt, step on it's back, and give pennies for it's toil.

Disease type: Unspecified. The one project preference I did not test yesterday: Cancer. They're almost all cancer, why try that? Silly me.

Maybe selecting cancer will at least prevent 9210 workunits.

I wonder how quickly a 9210 has to be caught to get ahead by dumping it? If you catch it at over 50%, that much work would be thrown away.

 

[iwajabitw]

Got a 9211 overnight. Its at 31.53% with an ETA of 6hrs 48min to go. PPD is 356733

 

[VirtualLarry]

So here's a serious and practical question - based on the best projections, I'm likely only to generate about 6 million points for the entire month what you guys will do/be able to generate in a day.

Is it really still worth it for me to participate?

Yes! 6 million points per month is still significant. It took me several years of crunching to get my overall F@H score that high. Doing that in a month is still fairly impressive. You don't have to have a mega-fleet of GPUs to participate.

I've only got three AMD GPUs going right now, for maybe 250,000-300,000 PPD if I'm lucky. So maybe 8 million points per month?

You can contribute as much or as little as you want, but I say 6mil/month is a pretty good contribution. Welcome to the TeAm!

 

[NesuD]

So how do I get added to the list? Posted last wed but don't see my name in the list. I guess if you don't want me I don't really have to do it.

 

[HutchinsonJC]

Folding@Home and other distributed computing projects that will ultimately lead to the curing of various ailments are some of THE best ways to heat your home.

If you've got a thermostat kicking heat on in your house, then there's almost no point not to fold. A HUGE percentage of those watts you're burning while folding are in the form of heat... dare I say "Intelligent Heat". Running a distributed computing project in the winter essentially turns your pc into a heater that supplements what your actual heater is trying to do. If you aren't burning watts in the form of distributed computing, you're burning them on your central heat, personal heater, etc, anyway that are all set with thermostats to turn on at a certain temperature. By using a distributed computing project as part of your home's heat source, the actual heater's on/off cycles will be subtly affected due to the additional heat being created by the computer.

In the winter, don't think of it as money wasted running a computer... think of it as potential lives saved by intelligently heating your home!

The only folks who should be 2nd guessing the worth of folding@home are the folks whose heat comes from gas, a fireplace, woodstove, etc. And even then, I'd say it's still worth at least considering to supplement those forms of heat with the 200 to 800 watts most folding rigs would be eating up... maybe in a far off room that doesn't get a lot of love from the fireplace!

 

[Orange Kid]

So how do I get added to the list? Posted last wed but don't see my name in the list. I guess if you don't want me I don't really have to do it.

An oversight I'm sure.
We'll get you on there.

 

[petrusbroder]

And I agree! In some races the difference between the teams may be as small as 0.59%. And that may be as little as 500 000 points ...
Every point counts!

 

[petrusbroder]

Added two more racers: Ionstream and NesuD.
I'll prepare the subteams and the spreadsheet November 29, do a testrun November 30, and we'll go hot December 1!

 

[petrusbroder]

The only folding name I am missing is the one of "KingstonU". Does anybody know anything?

 

[alpha754293]

Folding@Home and other distributed computing projects that will ultimately lead to the curing of various ailments are some of THE best ways to heat your home.

If you've got a thermostat kicking heat on in your house, then there's almost no point not to fold. A HUGE percentage of those watts you're burning while folding are in the form of heat... dare I say "Intelligent Heat". Running a distributed computing project in the winter essentially turns your pc into a heater that supplements what your actual heater is trying to do. If you aren't burning watts in the form of distributed computing, you're burning them on your central heat, personal heater, etc, anyway that are all set with thermostats to turn on at a certain temperature. By using a distributed computing project as part of your home's heat source, the actual heater's on/off cycles will be subtly affected due to the additional heat being created by the computer.

In the winter, don't think of it as money wasted running a computer... think of it as potential lives saved by intelligently heating your home!

The only folks who should be 2nd guessing the worth of folding@home are the folks whose heat comes from gas, a fireplace, woodstove, etc. And even then, I'd say it's still worth at least considering to supplement those forms of heat with the 200 to 800 watts most folding rigs would be eating up... maybe in a far off room that doesn't get a lot of love from the fireplace!

Unrelated to folding, I've got two systems that's folding, one that's running computational fluid dynamics (CFD) right now, plus two data servers with a combined raw storage capacity of about 90 TB, excluding bulk data storage on each of the systems.

So, my total power consumption if closer to about 1500 W spread over two circuits. That also means that my electricity bill is already between $300-350/month.

The difference is if I wasn't going to fold, those two other systems would go back to their regularly scheduled programming (running for CFD for me, as I am currently trying a couple of experiments between meshing and solving an external aerodynamics problem).

Hence the question - if people are able to return what I can contribute for the month in a day, would it be better for me to return those systems back to their regularly scheduled programming early because of that?

That's why I asked because looking at what people are talking about generating 6 M PPD, it makes sub 300k PPD seem like piddly-squat, you know what I mean?

 

[borandi]

At this rate, according to EOC, we're set to overtake Tom's by the end of the the year.

 

[Markfw]

Hence the question - if people are able to return what I can contribute for the month in a day, would it be better for me to return those systems back to their regularly scheduled programming early because of that?

That's why I asked because looking at what people are talking about generating 6 M PPD, it makes sub 300k PPD seem like piddly-squat, you know what I mean?

But 20 people doing 300k=6 million ppd, and we have over 144 people ! So please fold away, this is to cure cancer

 

[crashtech]

Unrelated to folding, I've got two systems that's folding, one that's running computational fluid dynamics (CFD) right now, plus two data servers with a combined raw storage capacity of about 90 TB, excluding bulk data storage on each of the systems.

So, my total power consumption if closer to about 1500 W spread over two circuits. That also means that my electricity bill is already between $300-350/month.

The difference is if I wasn't going to fold, those two other systems would go back to their regularly scheduled programming (running for CFD for me, as I am currently trying a couple of experiments between meshing and solving an external aerodynamics problem).

Hence the question - if people are able to return what I can contribute for the month in a day, would it be better for me to return those systems back to their regularly scheduled programming early because of that?

That's why I asked because looking at what people are talking about generating 6 M PPD, it makes sub 300k PPD seem like piddly-squat, you know what I mean?

If the CFD generates income, you might be better off to buy a GPU like a GTX 1060 that can produce 400K/day.

 

[TennesseeTony]

So how do I get added to the list? Posted last wed but don't see my name in the list. I guess if you don't want me I don't really have to do it.

Terribly sorry about the oversight NesuD. You are joined up now.

You posted here? Or maybe in the comments on the front page article?

I don't know if anyone's been checking the comments on the front page article, an oversight for sure if not.

 

[petrusbroder]

OK I'm in. Just loaded up two of my personal systems and my work system. Since I am the boss I gave myself permission to do that. Will do one more once I am home and get it powered up. Oh I will be throwing an old radeon 280x I've had laying around into my homeserver as soon as i get home as well.

Sorry NesuD, I missed your post ...
You are in now.