[ Folding ] We only need 13,000ppd more to start catching ABXzone

verbal · 20 Sep 2009 at 21:17

If we can up our average just a bit we can re-take ABXzone who are just 4,000,000 points ahead of us.

Anyone up for increasing their production? There's not been much said about folding on here recently.

Fold on...

Marine Iguana · 20 Sep 2009 at 21:21

Damm i'm not folding at the mo and my average was 12000ppd

dekez · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:12

Yeah I'm doing the seti gauntlet as well :rolleyes:

I'll stick the PS3 on and I've and ATI card I can get folding again for what it's worth, should give around 2K in total.

sir-les-mp · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:13

im doing my best i cant seem to squeeze anymore out of my rig
unless someone here wants to give me a third 9800 gx2 for pennies that is

Happy · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:23

Well I noticed that WJA96 has started folding for us again

But after the Seti gauntlet we should easily be able to take them

Pickett · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:28

I will try to fold a bit more on my GTX260 which gives about 5-7,000 PPD depending on WU.

Biffa · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:43

Its only a few weeks then we can all go back and stomp the proverbial out of em

shadowscotland · 21 Sep 2009 at 09:32

Was thinking of taking over the news - Fridays and weekends are out (family time) but should be able to knock something up over a lunchtime or two.

I'm also in the Seti gauntlet but will be folding again when that finishes.

A.N.Other · 21 Sep 2009 at 11:20

I'm now in my own flat and paying the bills, so folding it out for the moment

Hopefully I'll be able to return at some point in the future, as it's worth it for the science if nothing else.

dekez · 21 Sep 2009 at 11:35

shadowscotland said:
Was thinking of taking over the news

I think that's a good idea, the news always helps to encourage people to fold. I haven't seen the news for ages.

vertica · 21 Sep 2009 at 12:06

Well after a three month break i'm back! And have stomped 5 places in a week :cool:

Should be outputting ~18k ppd for the forseeable future.

I do miss the news

Would happily contribute but wouldn't know where to start!

.walls · 21 Sep 2009 at 12:18

I'm pushing out about 25k ppd at the mo, don't think I can go too much higher though.

On an unhappier note though... we have a few contenders looking to stomp us real soon...

vertica said:
Would happily contribute but wouldn't know where to start!

Have a look here and play with some of the links

Marine Iguana · 21 Sep 2009 at 14:40

vertica said:
Well after a three month break i'm back!

Yay good to see, looks like the old squad will get back on it's feet after next month

rincinDub · 21 Sep 2009 at 23:26

dekez said:
I think that's a good idea, the news always helps to encourage people to fold. I haven't seen the news for ages.

What ever happened to the news.

I was just about to stomp Vertica, then he upped his game.

Happy · 21 Sep 2009 at 23:30

Nice going .walls! (What hardware you folding on?)

News wise, Rich hasn't been as active recently

Marine Iguana said:
Yay good to see, looks like the old squad will get back on it's feet after next month

Exactly, after the gauntlet and with some new/old guys back we should be good for 300K+. Though KE1HA (40k+), Ataro (25k+), Tomo (25k+) and Senture (20k+) etc would certainly help

One thing I believe puts people off, including me is how crap the clients are. Take Bionic for example, it's brilliant. You can pause stop, switch projects around etc, all from one main program. However with folding is just a mess of programs that aren't particularly friendly to set up or maintain with closing pausing for gaming etc.

dekez · 21 Sep 2009 at 23:43

Happy said:
One thing I believe puts people off, including me is how crap the clients are. Take Bionic for example, it's brilliant. You can pause stop, switch projects around etc, all from one main program. However with folding is just a mess of programs that aren't particularly friendly to set up or maintain with closing pausing for gaming etc.

I know what you mean, I've written little batch files now to start them all up and set the affinitys, but you still have the console windows at the bottom of the screen.

I'm surprised you can't do folding through boinc, anyone know the story there? I would have though it would have made sense, unless they were worried people may move away from folding if they had more options for different projects?

Happy · 22 Sep 2009 at 00:05

I had a google and can't even see any other discussions on it, maybe no one else has thought of it... :eek:

Seems strange though, since it would be far easier if it were possible.

shadowscotland · 22 Sep 2009 at 09:25

from memory bonic and all the various modules (if that the right word) are open source code - hence the lunatics optermised files.

F@H software is copyright (I think) and not allow to be 'tweeked' so it can't use Bonic as a distrbution method - rosseta is simular to folding but open source.

If you think about it F@H is used as a tool for science papers - if you allow anyone to tweek the code the peer review of an new paper would question it's 'fairness' due to unreliable data. It's much easier to lock the software and remove the problem by design.

Seti, or primegrid or many other don't have the same issue - as a focused look with a scope or caculator an confirm/deny the 'possative' result in hours.

I would guess that the other more practical science projects are either very open with there experimental method - or as with seti it used to narrow down the 1:infinity chance of finding something.

dekez · 22 Sep 2009 at 09:38

Thanks, that makes sense

.walls · 22 Sep 2009 at 10:11

Happy said:
Nice going .walls! (What hardware you folding on?)

Cheers - 5x X7350s...

Got a 720BE that I could fold on as well... can't do anything with my 8800 gts 512 - don't have windows installed. They really should write a linux gpu client as well