Folding Farm

Although I think trying to build a farm is a good idea, I don't think asking for spare parts for a farm is a good idea.
Mainly because anything considered spare (IMO anyway), is going to be too old to run folding with any reasonable gain.
All your going to be doing is wasting leccy on crucnhing a dozen units that stanford are going to be waiting weeks for instead of days.

Don't get me wrong shiz, I admire what your doing, I just think your going about it the wrong way.


Oh @BTI, have you spoken to your friend about changing his program to let you choose your team?
 
Shiz said:
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?
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are you folding for the right team mate? If you are you might find hardware comes your way a bit quicker ;)

all that said you are still MUCH better off using decent hardware to fold. I recently stopped folding on my XP 1800 as it just isn't worth it with the power used to fold 24/7.

Paul
 
happytechie said:
are you folding for the right team mate? If you are you might find hardware comes your way a bit quicker ;)
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Don't want to sound hostile or anything, but he's right, you can't expect team ocuk members to donate hardware for use with another team. ;)
Plus i think you'll find the competition side of things more entertaining competing within team ocuk with the rest of us.
Lanz said:
Just give the money you save each year in electricity to medical research, I'm pretty sure hard cash given to proper researchers would be more beneficial than chucking out all that carbon.

PCs do use a lot of electricity, probably about 150-200w for your average folding machine under load, multiply that with a farm and you're spunking a lot of cash that you could just give to cancer research (or something) whilst saving the enviroment.

Entertainment is different, its a worthy use of electricity, having 10 PCs on in your garage 24/7 is stupid.
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Are you saying these aren't proper researchers? Thats a serious allegation to make towards people who have practically given their working life to medical research. I think you need to do a little 'proper research' yourself. You can start here.

Entertainment is a worthy use of electricity and medical research working towards saving lives is not?
What a ridiculous, offensive thing to say.
How exactly is your entertainment different or more important than medical reaserch?
Regardless of how useful folding may or may not be, to say that entertainment is a more worthy use of electricity is absurd.

What evidence do you have that this research isn't beneficial?
Since when did folding require the use of 10 dedicated high power pcs?
Your spouting utter rubbish.

You may or may not have much faith in the research that they do, but its still research and its well respected.
Whether you prefer to give to charity by giving money to cancer research or buying pcs and paying for electricity depends on which charity and method of giving you prefer. As a computer enthusiast i prefer to build pcs and pay towards electricity rather than give that money to another charity.
The folding project is very well respected and the researchers have picked up a number of accolades for their work.
Plus unlike giving to a charity such as cancer research folding is also very entertaining and its enjoyable to compete with others in the name of medical research. So it is in fact a worthy cause, regardless of whether you think its better or worse than other charities.
Insulting people who donate to a respected charity simply because you don't see the worth of the work they do is disrespectful and offensive and completely uncalled for.
 
Joe42 said:
Entertainment is a worthy use of electricity and medical research working towards saving lives is not?
What a ridiculous, offensive thing to say.
How exactly is your entertainment different or more important than medical reaserch?
Regardless of how useful folding may or may not be, to say that entertainment is a more worthy use of electricity is absurd.
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I don't mean to egg on a holy war, but to me Folding is entertainment. It's pure and simple.

@Whitestar: :o D'oh! Check your inbox. I suck. :eek:
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
I don't mean to egg on a holy war, but to me Folding is entertainment. It's pure and simple.
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Same :) (fixed your italics for you ;) )
me said:
Plus unlike giving to a charity such as cancer research folding is also very entertaining and its enjoyable to compete with others in the name of medical research.
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Joe42 said:
Fill it with 8 way dual core opteron systems for 16 cores per 4u module x 10 = 160 cores. :D
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You can play many family games such as Which Opty Didn't Get TIM or a classic such as Spot the Exploding CPU.

160 cores... fun and games when summat WILL go **** up.

SiriusB
 
Yup... that's what data centre technicians do. And that's why they usually have lots of redundancy.
With that many of everything, something will go wrong regularly.

Its more like 'spot the board with the flaky stick of ram causing random errors every 10th wu'. :p
 
Thanks for the generous offers to join OCUK people, but my team is gradually making its way up the boards. We are something like 1150 now and steadily climbing so I will stick with them thanks.
 
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