100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted March 16, 2007 Author Posted March 16, 2007 Roster has been updated! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!! Quote
K999 Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 I logged in to this site just to see how this thread is doing. So do any of you guys own a ps3? I heard that f@H was going to be available the end of this month. I am interested in knowing how fast can it run protein stimulations. Quote
The Unsung Plumber Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Now anyone with a PS3 can use F@H! Just download the latest system update and there will be an icon in the network line. Don't forget your team, 48303 Quote
Murmeli Walan Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 ok, I've joined up. Let's cure some diseases! Quote
IckesTheSane Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 The PS3 client is available now, and it seems that it is pretty fast compared to standard CPU's; perhaps around 10x faster! There was a god article at www.dailytech.com recently: http://www.dailytech.com/PlayStation+3+Leads+All+at+Finding+Cancer+Cure/article6609.htm Quote from article: "According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs." The GPU client for some ATI cards seems even more impressive, with 700 GPU's providing 41 TFLOPS. One thing that was mentioned in the comments was that the standard CPU clients can be running on any 'clunker' of a computer, while the PS3 and ATI cards are all very new, so that may skew the average. I'm curious too: Anyone tried a PS3 or GPU client? Should work with ATI X1600, X1800, and X1900, last I checked. Quote
vaxne Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 i recently signed to the OCRemix team on my ps3, im not sure how fast it is compared to pcs or whatnot, i just leave it on when im at school Quote
Jarvi Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 ya, I just leave my comp on all day, chugging away on my 9th WU atm Quote
Drack Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 If only Folding@Home worked with BOINC, or actually gave work to its SMP client, or had an NVidia GPU client, I could be contributing much more. As it stands now, my quad core beast of a computer is only using one of its cores at a time for FAH so CPU usage stays at 25% >_< When I used BOINC it ran multiple instances of the distributing computing projects so it was working on 4 WUs at a time to max out the CPU. Anyway, I'm running FAH on my computer, and my friend Kusabi is running it on his PS3. Both of us set it so credit goes to the OCRemix team. Quote
BlueMage Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 In an effort to cut my power bills, I've not had my win98 machine running. Which also means F@H hasn't been running. I plan to resolve this - my quad-core is being underutilised while I'm at work. And what better way to utilise it? Drack, something you might want to test - running multiple instances as different users. I'm uncertain if F@H checks to see which user initiated each instance, or if it just checks for multiple instances. But something to consider, no? Quote
Drack Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 Actually, I have found a way to use all my cores by doing something similar. I installed FAH in 4 different directories and edited the config for each one to have a different "Machine ID" so they run as if the same user were launching them from different computers - they independently download work and are each crunching on their own WU simultaneously. I'm also running it on my laptop, so now I have 5 processors contributing. I should appear on the list when these finish early tomorrow. Quote
BlueMage Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 Back online. Only going with single instance for now, going to wait for their SMP client to move out of beta stage before using it. Also decided to go with a console version instead of graphical. Hmmm, I smell a use for machines at work. Quote
!Nekko! Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 If they allow !Nekko! as my user name, add me up once I get a work unit or however this works. Quote
100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted April 11, 2007 Author Posted April 11, 2007 Roster has been updated! One of these days I'll go through and organize the roster and make it all nice and pretty Quote
BlueMage Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 Two more boxes running it now. Hopefully, I'll have another two running it within the month. Quote
K999 Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 tends to crash on my computer Try running the console client. It's relatively easy to configure. Quote
zpeterz63 Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 Working at our computer help desk, I realized that we have computers that are on 24/7. Went ahead and threw FAH on them. That's 3 more CPU's. Then, I got the bright idea of the lab computers. Went ahead and threw FAH on for of those babies. So, I am up to a grand total of 1 client I know will stay on always, 2 clients that likely won't get shut off, 4 lab clients that are restarted on weekends (deepfreeze is no fun) and MY computer. I love administrative access. lol Quote
sinowBeat Posted April 28, 2007 Posted April 28, 2007 Running on my home PC and PS3. PS3 only runs every now and then, though, and Home PC is restarted every now and then, too, so only 12 units done so far. Quote
100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted April 28, 2007 Author Posted April 28, 2007 Glad to hear it, Mon Capi-tan! Quote
100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 I leave this on all the time and I only have 9 WU's done.Wtf, m8. Chances are your WU's were processor intensive ones, and as a result they're probably worth a lot more points than lower level WU's. Quote
100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted May 9, 2007 Author Posted May 9, 2007 Bump! Damn 10 character limit... Quote
stapler117 Posted May 10, 2007 Posted May 10, 2007 Hey, I just wanted to say im joing the fah group & could you add me to the list? thanks. oh by the way my comp's on 24/7 and i dont usually do proceser intensive things. my fah name is the same as this one I was so unispired when i made my screen name... Quote
100_PERCENT ROEMER Posted May 10, 2007 Author Posted May 10, 2007 Haha, everybody loves staplers though! Alright, roster's been updated! Quote
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