The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer |
The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer |
John Pozadzides |
Aug 22 2006, 06:08 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
One month ago I announced the formation of the new Folding@HTMLHelp team (# 51056), in support of the distributed computing program at Stanford University. Researchers at Stanford have devised a unique program which allows individuals to help by running a small application on their PCs at home that runs unobtrusively in the background. There are nearly 45,000 teams participating in this project with over 1,000,000 PCs processing data. I'm proud to announce that in the past month the Folding@HTMLHelp team has gone from last place to the top 10% of contributing teams. Here are some links to current projects and progress to date:
I believe that the HTMLHelp team can make a greater impact towards finding a cure than any other team! And to help us get started we are going to have some custom team T-shirts created. The first 500 team members to submit 20 Work Units will receive a team T-shirt! The shirts have not yet been designed, but as soon as we have a prototype we'll post photos for all to drool over. (If you want to submit a design for consideration, please do!) In order to claim your shirt you only need to do two things (other than using team #51056 of course):
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Dr Z |
Nov 27 2006, 07:50 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 23-August 06 Member No.: 11 |
Quick question to John:
How much internet connection time needed vs CPU "on" time needed? I can leave my computer on, for allpractical ouroses 24/7! However, I only have a diai-up connection, and my connection time to the internet is very limited. Please advise. |
John Pozadzides |
Nov 30 2006, 05:45 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
How much internet connection time needed vs CPU "on" time needed? I can leave my computer on, for allpractical ouroses 24/7! However, I only have a diai-up connection, and my connection time to the internet is very limited. Dr. Z, The vast majority of the time the application is not using Internet connectivity. It spends 99% of the time crunching numbers. When it has completed a task it then needs to upload the results and download a new work unit. I've noticed that on my broadband connection it usually takes only a few seconds to upload or download, so I think we're only talking about +/- 1MB of data each time or something like that? But I can't find the average update size anywhere. According to the F@H FAQ: QUOTE At this time, there may be problems if your computer is only connected to the Internet sporadically. We are working on better support for these cases. Only the console version currently works at all over a modem connection, and there still may occasionally be a few bugs with that. So, you would need to install the Console client as opposed to the GUI, and you can find them both on the download page. John |
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