Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

[FlyingDutchman]

Originally posted by 4th gen@19 March 2004 - 07:56
Just got my first 2500 part WU. My other 4 up until now have been 500 parts, so this one is gonna take a long, long time...

Just out of interest, how long (on average) does it take you chaps to complete a 500 part WU, and what CPU have you got?

The amount of frames contained in a WU says nothing 'bout how long it will take to finish the WU.
You can have a 2500 frames WU finishing faster than a 100 frames WU.
On the Summary page you can look up the WU you are working on; find out how many points that one earns you.
My rig (AMD 2400+) is capable of earning me about 3 points an hour.

All WU's are benchmarked on a slow PC (Pentium II 500 I think), and points are given to that particular WU according to the outcome.

Fold on B)

Edit:

Just got me this morning a "Protein: p858_p53dimer858"
It's 160 points worth, and takes 25 minutes to complete a frame
----------> almost 42 hours to complete this WU
----------> 160/42 = 3.84 points per hour!

I want more of these !

[4th gen]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchman@19 March 2004 - 09:36
The amount of frames contained in a WU says nothing 'bout how long it will take to finish the WU.
You can have a 2500 frames WU finishing faster than a 100 frames WU.
On the Summary page you can look up the WU you are working on; find out how many points that one earns you.
My rig (AMD 2400+) is capable of earning me about 3 points an hour.

All WU's are benchmarked on a slow PC (Pentium II 500 I think), and points are given to that particular WU according to the outcome.

Fold on  B)

Edit:

Just got me this morning a "Protein: p858_p53dimer858"
It's 160 points worth, and takes 25 minutes to complete a frame
---------->  almost 42 hours to complete this WU
---------->  160/42  = 3.84  points per hour!

I want more of these ! 

Funnily enough, that's exactly the same one I've got...
Currently got 525/2500 done, taken just over 9 hours of CPU time
edit: Athlon 2700

[thewizeard]

Those were the days....

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[FlyingDutchman]

Originally posted by nigel123@20 March 2004 - 18:57
Those were the days....

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Nigel, look at it this way:

In those days you had 7% of the points the leader had,
now you have 26% of the points the leader has.

You ARE making progress

Fold On B)

[lynx]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchman@19 March 2004 - 09:36
Just got me this morning a "Protein: p858_p53dimer858"
It's 160 points worth, and takes 25 minutes to complete a frame
----------> almost 42 hours to complete this WU
----------> 160/42 = 3.84 points per hour!

I want more of these !

I've got that one on my main pc, and P859 on my XP1700. That one is going to take about 56 hours, so there won't be any changes to my stats for a couple of days.

On the up side, a friend is going to GIVE me a dual Athlon mobo and processors (1 Ghz I think), then I will really be able to raise some dust.

Btw, anyone got any info on ocing dual processor systems?

[FlyingDutchman]

Ok Lynx,

I see you in the rearview mirror now, and assume you see me too.



That's close enough, keep your distance please!

[Livy]

kinda got started on a page for the team, i knwo theres nothign really on it, but what about the layout etc? and also what you would like on the page.

http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

[lynx]

Originally posted by Livy@21 March 2004 - 02:29
kinda got started on a page for the team, i knwo theres nothign really on it, but what about the layout etc? and also what you would like on the page.

http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

OK as a start.

I think it would be better to give a link to the F@H downloads page for downloads rather than host it. That way it will always provide a link to the latest version, and provide the versions for linux and Mac too.

Spell and grammar check on the about page might be useful. :-"

[Livy]

i'll add a link to the download page for people running other versions, i just put that up as somehting to put on the page the now.

i know the spelling a bit dodgy the now, i done it at about 12.30 last night.

[4th gen]

I had to format my comp the other day so I lost that big juicy WU