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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John Pozadzides |
Nov 24 2006, 03:53 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Folks,
Due to the apparant lack of interest from our user community in this program, I'm withdrawing the plan for T-shirts. Without a larger number of participants it simply wouldn't make sense to try to order a bunch of shirts for this project. Having said that, I am pleased to report that the HTMLHelp Folding Team has managed to move into a ranking of 1,689 out of 46,663 teams. That puts us in the top 3.5% of teams contribuing to this worthwhile cause. I would still encourage anyone that would like to participate to join us and donate some spare computing power. I can tell you that I've been running the FAH app on my computer in the background for months and it has never interfered with the performance of anything else I've been doing. John |
John Pozadzides |
Nov 24 2006, 03:59 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Out of curiosity, does anyone have suggestions for how to get more people interested in contributing to this project? What would make it worth people's while?
How about if we had a member group called something like "WDG Folding Team" (linked to the team page) and move members who contribute into that group so it appears under their name / Avatar? |
Darin McGrew |
Nov 24 2006, 11:54 AM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,367 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
This isn't the first "donate spare CPU cycles" program that I've seen. I don't participate because I don't leave my home computer on when I'm not using it, and because I can't install it on my employer's computers (which run 24/7).
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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 |
Dr Z |
Dec 1 2006, 12:16 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 23-August 06 Member No.: 11 |
Thank you John!
I will try to download and do whatever is necessary, as soon as I can get a few spare moments ( as my wife puts it I may have to give up my bathromm privilages!) I am not being lazy, but would appreciate you lhelping with some steps.... when I sign up where the team "identification" comes up, what to enter. and I remember your note tto sign up with the same user name that of this BBS. Please advise and/or correct. Thank you again for your reply |
John Pozadzides |
Dec 28 2006, 11:54 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
I am not being lazy, but would appreciate you lhelping with some steps.... when I sign up where the team "identification" comes up, what to enter. and I remember your note tto sign up with the same user name that of this BBS. Wow! Sorry, but I just noticed this a month late. The install is actually quite simple. After you download the application from here, install it, and launch it you'll have a little red icon in your system tray that looks like a little gear. If you right click on it and select CONFIGURE the first thing that pops up will be the screen to put your user name and the team number in (51056). After that, you're all done! At any time you can right click on that little icon and then select STATUS --> TEAM STATISTICS to see how we're doing. The last time I checked we had made it up to 1,500 out of about 47,000 teams. We can certainly use all the help we can get! Thanks, John |
pandy |
Dec 29 2006, 01:55 AM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,766 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
John, I think dr Z is asking what to enter in the team field. It's 51056, right?
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Frederiek |
Dec 29 2006, 05:16 AM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
John, I think dr Z is asking what to enter in the team field. It's 51056, right? Yep. Are you folding, Pandy? For Mac OS X users, go see InCrease (http://calxalot.net/InCrease/ or http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/16999), a GUI for installing, configuring, monitoring, and controlling the Folding@home command-line client. Comes in real handy. |
pandy |
Dec 29 2006, 03:02 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,766 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Nope, afraid not.
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Dr Z |
Jan 4 2007, 07:39 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 23-August 06 Member No.: 11 |
Thank you John!
I just downloaded and installed it. |
John Pozadzides |
Jan 23 2007, 03:55 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Just as an FYI. The Folding team is up to # 1,404 of 47269. This means we've broken the top 3% of teams, but the progress has really slowed. I'm guessing that we're now competing with the other teams that are fairly serious...
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John Pozadzides |
Apr 16 2007, 11:47 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Another update, we're now up to #1186 of 61017, which puts us in the top 1.9% of all teams!
I have to say that Dr. Z is rocking out with 29 WUs so far, but what the heck is up with Frederick?!? 9,000+ points with only 6 work units! Are you running a CRAY or something? Those must be some massive WU's and that must be a heck of a machine you're crunching them on. John |
Frederiek |
Apr 17 2007, 09:41 AM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
I use Increase on a Mac Mini, which provides me to pause folding temporarily. I just recently changed Mac's, so reinstalled Increase. On my old iMac, I tried things to see what happened, as I'm totally unfamiliar with these terminal-like things. I don't even know what you're talking about when saying "9,000+ points with only 6 work units".
It's been a while now since I last folded, specially when I run several memoryheavy apps at the same time. But, I'll be back as I find this a very good initiative! |
John Pozadzides |
Apr 17 2007, 11:45 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
I don't even know what you're talking about when saying "9,000+ points with only 6 work units". Well, just take a look at the team statistics and you'll see that it shows everyone's stats stack ranked. Your stats are way off the chart for some reason. A work unit is one of the pieces of data that your machine pulls down from the Stanford servers, processes, and then uploads the results. You get a different number of points for each work unit completed based upon the size and complexity of that WU. For example, you might do 3 small Work Units for a total of 500 points, or you might do one medium sized one for the same amount. If you look at your own numbers, your WU to points ratio is off the chart compared to everyone else! This either means that you have such a fast computer that they are sending you massive WUs to complete, or that your computer is just taking a very long time to complete each WU. It's possible that you've checked the option in your folding client that says something like "allow receipt of large work units", but I've also got that checked and I haven't see the same results. So, either way it's a mystery. Especially if you're running it on a Mac Mini! I'm just appreciative that you are participating in this project whenever possible. Take care, John |
Frederiek |
Apr 17 2007, 01:04 PM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
I understand what a work unit is and how it works, but not all options on the folding client. I left all options unchanged, as far as I remember. And I don't think I called for any special sized WU either. BTW, all that ran on the iMac, so probably it ran slow. I have hardly run Increase on the Mac Mini yet, just to set it up.
I'm a very careful person, suspicious of any unknown apps on my computer, but I really hope solutions will be found for those illnesses, if not for us, then at least for our children. Take care, you too Frederiek |
Effovex |
Apr 20 2007, 08:47 PM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 6-January 07 From: Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada Member No.: 1,477 |
My stats do not appear to be updating nor counting for the team. I did a huge WU with the console version (250,000 frames) but it wouldn't register my name, so I uninstalled it, and then installed the graphical client. Which appears to be working and using my username, but I've done two WUs and yet my username doesn't even appear on the page.
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Effovex |
Apr 21 2007, 07:33 AM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 6-January 07 From: Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada Member No.: 1,477 |
Okay, it finally updated. Took a while.
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Frederiek |
Apr 22 2007, 04:02 AM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
Welcome to the folding team, Effovex!
Glad to see long time forum members joining the folding. Take care. |
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