Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 7th September 2007

Many thanks for the news rich - top man as always.

and great work team on that :eek:proformance.

Just added a new E6420 to the farm Friday will be folding 24/7 over the week end (which brings my total to 4 :D) will aim for 30k this week and try to stop deepthough stomping me before the end of the month.
 
theheyes said:
When you've built this "Fearsome Eejit" machine, make sure you post all the specs and prices if possible. I'd like to see how it compares to a Mac Pro. :)
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Favourably I would imagine. Like comparing the strength of a man to a boy, or in the case of a mac user, like comparing the strength of a man to a batty boy.

;)
 
For the basic, and I mean basic (1GB RAM et al) 8-Core Xeon Mac Pro you're looking at £2,650. As much as I like OS X I ain't paying it. And thats without a screen!

I just wonder what you can get for your money with a self build. Power consumption figures while folding would be awesome too. ;)
 
theheyes said:
Awesome. I wonder if we can now consistantly crack 1,000,000 ppw.

412 points from me this week. Hopefully that will be back up to 3,500+ now I have turned the machine back on.

Well done team. Have an extra beer for your efforts. :)
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i'm a coming for you sonny!!!

Another solid week - 11k from single machine is a decent return. Might get knocked down a few places this week with the rampaging quads behind me!! (ITR and friends!):p

Excellent team work all round - fold on team 10 and welcome to the new members
 
shadowscotland said:
Many thanks for the news rich - top man as always.

and great work team on that :eek:proformance.

Just added a new E6420 to the farm Friday will be folding 24/7 over the week end (which brings my total to 4 :D) will aim for 30k this week and try to stop deepthough stomping me before the end of the month.
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Bah!

:(
 
Lost internet last Thursday and after 3 days of trying to get through to ISP to have a moan at them I realised that my DSL modem has died. :mad:

Anyway, new modem purchased and crunching again. :D

Did manage to lose 3 1760 pointers due to deadline expiration....... :(
 
theheyes said:
For the basic, and I mean basic (1GB RAM et al) 8-Core Xeon Mac Pro you're looking at £2,650. As much as I like OS X I ain't paying it. And thats without a screen!

I just wonder what you can get for your money with a self build. Power consumption figures while folding would be awesome too. ;)
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Probably looking at around £1500 without OS and no screen.

For £2650 Apple can kiss my arse! :p
 
This is the node I'd buy if I was building a node-based stompy-esque cluster.
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Each node should be good for 2500-3000 PPD. An overclock to 3.2ish GHz would be relatively trivial. If you have a few nodes you could netboot pretty easily with a master-slave system of one master machine with a monitor and a hard disk feeding the headless crunchers with netboot images. I did not include a graphics card or optical drive since you'd only need each of those once. Steal those out of another machine for the duration of the build then return them when it's up and crunching. 1 GiB of RAM would be enough for one client but if you wanted to run more than that you'd probably want 2.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
This is the node I'd buy if I was building a node-based stompy-esque cluster.
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Each node should be good for 2500-3000 PPD. An overclock to 3.2ish GHz would be relatively trivial. If you have a few nodes you could netboot pretty easily with a master-slave system of one master machine with a monitor and a hard disk feeding the headless crunchers with netboot images. I did not include a graphics card or optical drive since you'd only need each of those once. Steal those out of another machine for the duration of the build then return them when it's up and crunching. 1 GiB of RAM would be enough for one client but if you wanted to run more than that you'd probably want 2.
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I'm not building a cluster. All the machines in my office are crunching including 2 quads running smp. What I am doing is bringing a file/mail server in house and as I am commiting my office machines to f@h I thought I might as well go in for a little overkill, or as they say in IT "scaling". In other words I only need one more machine.

Spec will be:

2 X Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5355 Socket 771 Processor, 2.66 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 8 MB L2 Cache

Supermicro X7DVA-E mobo

16 Mb pcs 5400 ram

500 Gb Raid 5

Running SBS 2003.

All in all its fairly cheap £2000 all in with the OS excl vat

Decent psu

Onboard vid

Obviously the machine will run at stock.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I would run 8 instances of smp through Ubuntu and Vmware, so should be able to give a good account.
 
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Hornchurch said:
Can someone explain F@H to me please. I have noticed it on my ps3 but i've never understood the point of it.
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Stanford's front page gives a pretty good idea of what it is without getting too technical - http://folding.stanford.edu/

Also worth checking out the FAQ and the Scientific Background pages for extra information if interested.

If you want to see what it does then fire it up on the PS3 - you should be able to finish a standard PS3 unit in about 8hours and can use the graphics on-screen to look around the protein as the work is being done.
If you want to see yourself in the stats don't forget to set your own name and whack team 10 in there if you want it to count to the team :D
 
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