Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by Aaron

I thought it was in an open space, but I leave it on 24/7. It's been months since it's been turned off.

Is this open enough?

I'd say that's pretty open. I would agree with actionhawk and probably put it on the bottom shelf as far out in front of the back and nothing on either side. Mine gets full airflow on all 4 sides and I fold in the basement where it's closer to 65 - 68. But those 60s do run hotter than the 40s and 80s. I would take extra care with them. I can't wait to see the re-designed 45nm Cell PS3s supposedly coming shortly. I would then probably be able to run it upstairs where it's almost entirely enclosed. We shall see . . .

[guitarist155]

alright i am ranked 417 lol, i was going to fold a lot more but i am just wayyy to worried about messing up my ps3. don't know what i would do without it

[reider]

Originally Posted by Aaron

I thought it was in an open space, but I leave it on 24/7. It's been months since it's been turned off.

Is this open enough?

Not really...
1. PS3 should go on the very bottom (warm air goes upward, so all the heat dissipated by the device on the bottom shelf goes right into the PS3).
2. Nothing should be surrounding the PS3 (no disks, no back panel, etc...)
3. Periodically check that all the air intake grills in the PS3 are free of dust. Clogged air intake can significantly (often "fatally") reduce the efficiency of the cooling system.

[dtrush]

Originally Posted by guitarist155

alright i am ranked 417 lol, i was going to fold a lot more but i am just wayyy to worried about messing up my ps3. don't know what i would do without it

If your PS3 died, just purchase a new one of course - Sony needs the $. I'm hoping mine dies in good service so I can pick up a 45nm Cell processor eventually

[PanamaMarco]

Newbie here and just got the folding bug.

318 and moving slowly. Is it okay to just leave it going all day and night?

Ciao for now.

[ecnelis]

for my laptop, can I have the same name as my PS3? IE my name on my PS3 is ecnelis. Can I have the same name and they both count for ecnelis? or do I have to have different names for each?

Last question. Choosing the client for me.

I have a relatively new Core 2 duo laptop. Should I get the SMP beta client? Or stick with the regular windows vista client? Or should I go with the new GNU client? I have a pretty decent video card in this laptop as well, but I don't know exactly what specs would best suit which. I have the Core 2 Duo T7200 With I think the Nvidia geforce 7600

[melikefish]

Originally Posted by PanamaMarco

Is it okay to just leave it going all day and night?
Ciao for now.

Many people leave their PS3 on day and night - I'm one of them; mine has been on constantly since last September (and I have one of the 60gb units).

It is really your call however - you can look through this forum and see issues others have found. It is a good idea to place your PS3 somewhere that has good ventilation, and to clean off the dust bunnies from the air input vents from time to time

[melikefish]

Originally Posted by ecnelis

for my laptop, can I have the same name as my PS3? IE my name on my PS3 is ecnelis. Can I have the same name and they both count for ecnelis? or do I have to have different names for each?

Last question. Choosing the client for me.

I have a relatively new Core 2 duo laptop. Should I get the SMP beta client? Or stick with the regular windows vista client? Or should I go with the new GNU client? I have a pretty decent video card in this laptop as well, but I don't know exactly what specs would best suit which. I have the Core 2 Duo T7200 With I think the Nvidia geforce 7600

You can fold with the same name and team number on all of your machines, and it will combine your credit. I have folding running on my PS3, one windows and two linux boxes, and my points are combined (see below sig)

As far as the client to use, well there of course is only one option for the PS3. For PCs, the GPU client currently runs only on select ATI video cards (X1800/X19xx) which you don't appear to have, so that option is out.

So there are two remaining possibilities for your windows Core2Duo laptop:
1) the standard (non-SMP) Windows 6.01beta5 clients (console or system tray) or
2) SMP clients. The SMP client is a bit harder to set up than the standard Windows client, and it will generate the most heat. However it will get you by far the most points. You have two options here, depending on how technically comfortable you are:
2a) The easiest SMP client to set up on a core2duo or a quad core machine is the Windows 5.91beta6 SMP client. (no working FAH 6.x SMP client for Windows currently exists). The con of the Windows SMP client is that it is arguably not very stable (if you do some googling you'll see that many people lose their work if they stop a unit in progress - so much that a number of free apps have been created that you can use to backup/restore your work to limit this).
2b) Many people have found that if they run VMWare on their Windows machine, they can run a 64-bit linux image and then run the 64-bit Linux SMP client. The advantage of this is it is more stable and it also seems to generate 10-15% or so more points per day. The con of this is it is by far more technically complex: you need to know how to use VMWare, have the resources to run a virtual machine (e.g. more RAM), know how to set up a linux image, and how to get around linux. Also if you are running a 32-bit version of Windows 2000/XP/Vista, the VMWare Player/Server (free versions exist) requires a cpu with the virtualization feature enabled (generally E6xxx+ cpus - not sure about mobile/laptop cpus, check Intel's website for your processor) to run 64-bit virtual machines. There is a lot of info on the web about running VMware and FAH.

Also - think it is worth repeating that the SMP client will generate considerable heat - and with a laptop, you don't have as many options to better ventilate it compared with PCs. I personally tried and then stopped folding on my work laptop because of the heat issue (not sure if I would have continued folding if it was my personal laptop or not )

[savage1984]

yeah. I'm movin' up. I've had my ps3 on for about a week straight. Now I'm 129, just moved ahead of Mystic, sorry Mystic. All's fair... when you're killin' cancer?!

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by savage1984

yeah. I'm movin' up. I've had my ps3 on for about a week straight. Now I'm 129, just moved ahead of Mystic, sorry Mystic. All's fair... when you're killin' cancer?!

Nice. Soon you'll be in the top 100. And someday, maybe the top 10 folders on blu-ray.com. I just hit #9. Granted, icemanbd is about to rip past me, but I'm also about to pass mtl007. So for the next week or so, I'll at least keep my top 10 position and hopefully stay at number 9 for now.

But bluflu, I have you in my sights.

[reider]

Ha! Just burned an old P4 3.2 on a second WU. Should have installed a water cooler before attempting to fold with it.
I wonder how many old PC's F@H already killed...

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by reider

Ha! Just burned an old P4 3.2 on a second WU. Should have installed a water cooler before attempting to fold with it.
I wonder how many old PC's F@H already killed...

I think it killed my AMD chip too. Thing has run like hell since I tried it. Could be coincinednce though. In the meantime it has been running non stop on my PS3, at least when I am not gaming or watching BDs.

[CHSIsupplier]

Howdy all! I'm one of the members of Team XPS (rank 114). About a week ago you guys were forecast to overtake us, which made most of us panic! We haven't been passed yet since we started, so we had to increase our measures to hold you off . Anyway, I just wanted to say that your team is looking great and forcing the rest of us to push harder. Happy Folding!

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by CHSIsupplier

Howdy all! I'm one of the founding members of Team XPS (rank 114). About a week ago you guys were forecast to overtake us, which made most of us panic! We haven't been passed yet since we started, so we had to increase our measures to hold you off . Anyway, I just wanted to say that your team is looking great and forcing the rest of us to push harder. Happy Folding!

You will be whipped! Keep up the good work.


fuad

[powersfoss]

Originally Posted by CHSIsupplier

Howdy all! I'm one of the founding members of Team XPS (rank 114). About a week ago you guys were forecast to overtake us, which made most of us panic! We haven't been passed yet since we started, so we had to increase our measures to hold you off . Anyway, I just wanted to say that your team is looking great and forcing the rest of us to push harder. Happy Folding!

We will pass you guys soon. But you guys will soon be in the top 100 and should be very proud of your contributions to science. I can't wait to see the effect we have after years of folding. The breakthroughs are being reported on their website and are already substantial. This is some awesome stuff!

[actionhank]

Protein folding joke:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fahproject?p=4010

A villin headpiece subdomain walks into a bar. "I'd like a 6 M solution of guanidinium hydrochloride, please," it tells the bartender. "My binding affinity for actin filaments has recently been eliminated by a designed mutation, and, in order to console myself, I'd like to get good and denatured." The bartender replies, not unkindly, "I'm sorry, we don't serve solutions of guanidinium hydrochloride here. How about a beer?" "Come on," responds the protein, "don't break my backbone. If I have some denaturant, my hydrogen bonds might get a little loose, but beer makes me execute a random walk!"

[CHSIsupplier]

I love the confidence you guys have! I say...Bring it on! I think a little friendly competition can only help this great project. I must say though, our team is pretty dedicated, so you'll have your work cut out for you. If you feel like talking a little trash in our forums, you can find us here, or here. Happy Folding!

[powersfoss]

I just checked the team rankings page and learned that blu-ray.com will be passing AVS Forum within 7 days.

Kakao is projecting that within 7 days blu-ray.com will be ranked 118 while AVS Forum has a projected ranking of 119. Good job, guys!

[phlydude]

I just was able to get everything back up and running and am now running the SMP client on my Quad core (had to turn off the UAC in Vista to get it to install).

Now am running 2 single core machines, 1 quad core and 1 PS3

[iceman]

Originally Posted by CHSIsupplier

Howdy all! I'm one of the members of Team XPS (rank 114). About a week ago you guys were forecast to overtake us, which made most of us panic! We haven't been passed yet since we started, so we had to increase our measures to hold you off . Anyway, I just wanted to say that your team is looking great and forcing the rest of us to push harder. Happy Folding!

haha, I actually noticed a while ago that you had gained quite a bit of speed
Let's see what we can do to counter that....