Folding Farm

Shiz

Shiz

Shiz

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This is a bit of a long shot, but I have seen how generous people are on here before with projects (Like the baby oil submersion one) and I figured I might as well ask.

Me and my business partner are currently setting up a large folding farm and haev managed to piece together an athlon 1.3ghz, athlon 1.0ghz, a celeron 500 and 2 celeron 400s. These are joined by our "Work Pcs" an am2 3800 and a 64 3500+.

Now, we would like to continue to extend this folding farm but are lacking funds to purchase any more parts. So I thought I would ask, if anyone has any parts they aren't using, anything at all that could be used in a folding pc (Most importantly, processors, motherboards, hard drives and network cards), would you consider sending it to us? We would have course pay for postage.

Now, not to be too picky but we would rather not take anything under 400mhz as even our 500 celeron takes nigh on two weeks to finish even simple work units.

So what do you say?
 
Thank you for the interest, and sarcastic comment. I'm not thinking Conroes, Im thinking that old Athlon that you've had stuffed in a box somewhere that might still work. Or that old P3 you havn't seen in years thats just at the back of a cupboard.

If people are worried that I am after free stuff to sell, I will send you pictures of your parts in action.
 
tabs said:
It might help people if you said what your project was about?
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BillytheImpaler said:
So what is this Folding thing anyway?

Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding. The project’s goal is to add greater understanding to protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. Such diseases include BSE (mad cow), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, among others.

Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many thousands of personal computer users who have installed a small client program. The client runs in the background, and makes use of the CPU when it is not busy. In most modern personal computers, the CPU is rarely used to its full capacity at all times; the Folding@home client takes advantage of this unused processing power.
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When it comes time for assembly how are you going to set it up, Shiz? Are you going to have them all boot off of a server? Will they each have their own hard disks? Perhaps it would be prudent to run each off of a largeish flash drive (512 MiB?).

How will you manage them? I'm a fan of SSH. I take it you'll be using a free OS. AM I correct?
 
Thanks guys.

Impaler, indeed each one will and so far does have its own hard drive. They are all running windows 98 as we had a few old copies and we were given a load of old PCs in a disposal job by a company and they allowed us to use the keys that were still with the PCs they gave us as they no longer had use for them.
 
Ok. With Win98 the service installation function will not work so you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way (SETI Classic style) and use MS's srvany.exe tool to make the FAH client a service.

Holla at me if you'd like a copy of the necessary programs and instructions on how to use them. :)
 
Shiz said:
Thanks dude, will do :)
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if you'd like them. :)
 
I may be wrong with this but can't you just install multiple copies of WinXP Pro on as many computers as you want? I have the same copy installed and running on my two desktops at home.
 
Folding isn't exactly enviromentally friendly is it. Just think how many watts your using up with all those crappy pc's, and for what?
 
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