Arr, This here be a boarding party

Goodspeed(TPF) · 29 Jul 2008 at 15:52

Come on ya mangy currs.

Give us all ya got. We dare ya. Hell, we DOUBLE DOG dare ya. If ye be MAN enuff that is. MUAHAHAHA!!!

Berserker · 29 Jul 2008 at 17:11

magman said:
If we decided to go a'chasin these scurvy knaves, who dared to cross our bows, what sort of production could I expect from a Q6600 in Rosetta.

Dunno - but I'm very tempted to find out. See what these 'pirates' are made of.

Biffa · 29 Jul 2008 at 18:45

I've started to switch already

diogenese · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:01

Q6600 @ 3000 engaged, Four cores at 100%

Mattus · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:05

My quad is Folding 'til it dies (which probably won't be long in this weather!) but I may have a Core Duo 1.66 which could do some Rosetta for a few days

verbal · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:28

Now crunching rosetta with one E4600+ at stock and one E6550 at 3.2ghz. These pirates need to learn to let sleeping dogs lie!

MikeTimbers · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:32

squeeks said:
Arrr, all ocuk base be belong t' (TPF)
Gar, Where can I find a bottle o'rum?

"squeeks" as in used to occasionally frequent TGC? If not your boarding tactics seem terribly familiar

Ah, I just saw the post confirming you smelly lot as ex-OCN. Had to go off and play with little projects did you?

I don't know, it's just sad to see how some once great teams have fallen so low

Berserker · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:32

I was planning to retire my folding account at 4mil anyway as I can't advance further without throwing money at the problem (something I'm just not prepared to do), so I might just shuffle along a little earlier (will still leave the Linux fleet on Folding for now).

That'll be a quad @ 2.88 and a couple of duals @ 2.4. Going to let current WUs run out first though (some may have died anyway due to turning most of the farm off courtesy heatstroke and thunderstorms).

I *may* also add Rosetta to Team OcUK. I have archived stats already. This is not a quick job though.

diogenese · 29 Jul 2008 at 19:57

magman said:
If we decided to go a'chasin these scurvy knaves, who dared to cross our bows, what sort of production could I expect from a Q6600 in Rosetta.

I've had my Q6600@3GHz on for 12 hours now and I seem to have amassed a whole 800 points.

Godcopp · 29 Jul 2008 at 20:22

MikeTimbers said:
Ah, I just saw the post confirming you smelly lot as ex-OCN. Had to go off and play with little projects did you?

I don't know, it's just sad to see how some once great teams have fallen so low

OH, now that wasn't very nice. How great do we have to be to beat this mess of an unorganized fleet? :eek:

Apparently you still hold the scars of our first boarding party if the memory has lasted this long...

A.N.Other · 29 Jul 2008 at 21:48

Godcopp said:
OH, now that wasn't very nice. How great do we have to be to beat this mess of an unorganized fleet?

Apparently you still hold the scars of our first boarding party if the memory has lasted this long...

Pah having a hack at the rosetta fleet is like sinking a scout boat for the main flotilla of folders. There will be repercussions.

Away, you scurvy dogs!

Biffa · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:10

On another note rosetta seems quite "foldy" in its objectives which cant be a bad thing right?

Mattus · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:12

I always saw it as a less popular and technologically-advanced BOINC version of F@H

. Folding is way ahead of the game with the GPU and SMP clients.

1fast6 · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:56

Mattus said:
I always saw it as a less popular and technologically-advanced BOINC version of F@H . Folding is way ahead of the game with the GPU and SMP clients.

maybe f@h has a more advanced client with GPU capabilities... but regarding the science, the rosetta team has placed very high candidates it the last 3 CASP competitions... not sure if the F@h team has entered or placed... but for what rosetta does, the UW team does it very well...

Godcopp · 30 Jul 2008 at 00:59

Enough with the excuses already, geez what a bunch of whiners!

Move your ships into the battle or admit defeat and we'll go find a worthy opponent.

Biffa · 30 Jul 2008 at 02:04

I meant from a science point of view compared to S@H which everyone who does FAH seems to look down their noses at

Anyhoo switched production on the farm to 50% to Rosetta, shame that the WUs are worth less, I think I could almost have matched those landlubber pirates PPD on me own if they were equivalent

MGP · 30 Jul 2008 at 10:12

Me thinks if these were genuine pirates, they'd have treasure for the taking. I vote for a dismasting to leave them up a creek without even a paddle. It's assimilation time.

Berserker · 30 Jul 2008 at 10:15

My fleet, small though it be, is on the way. Resistance is futile.

shadowscotland · 30 Jul 2008 at 13:11

Care of the 'not always accurate' wiki

Of all the major distributed computing projects involved in protein research, Folding@home is the only one to not use the BOINC platform. Both Rosetta@home and Folding@home research protein misfolding diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), but Folding@home does so much more exclusively. Instead of using structure- or design-based methods to predict amyloid behavior, for example, Folding@home uses molecular dynamics to model how proteins fold (or potentially misfold, and subsequently aggregate). In other words, Folding@home's strength is protein folding, while Rosetta@home's strength is protein design and prediction of structure and docking. The two projects also differ significantly in their computing power and host diversity. Averaging about 2 petaFLOPS (2000 teraFLOPS) with a host base that includes the Playstation 3 and graphics processing units, Folding@home has more than a 30-fold advantage in computing power over Rosetta@home, which averages 66 teraFLOPS with a host base consisting only of PC-based CPUs.

Pumpkinstew · 30 Jul 2008 at 13:36

Hmm, I'm not getting the return from Cosmo that I'm used to anymore. I reckon those cycles could be used to boost my Rosetta score quite happily.

Come about, hoist the mainsale, run out the guns and make ready.