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Well, I finally got my PS3 back from my grandparents so rather than it continue collecting dust as it has been since March I figured I might aswell fold...

However, I don't really understand what it is or why it should be done or why people even do it? It appears there is a league, which is odd cause I thought it was Cancer research... I dunno, I'm confused.

Anyway, I can F@H on either my PC or PS3 (or both sometimes - though for some reason the PS3 is a LOT quicker, 3-4 times faster, is this normal?) so I should always be able to have something folding.

Now the next question is, who should I fold for? There is OcUK which I know of, but there are loads of people already doing it it would appear so I wouldn't make a dent? There's that other team who got 300,000 points award recently, are they better?

Any help on what I should be doing or who for, or why my PS3 is faster etc... would be much appreciated :).

Thanks,
Karl.
 
It is medical research but it's a competition too. The very core of the project is pure scientific research. However, in order to keep people interested there is a points system where people have usernames to which credit is awarded upon successful completion of work. People come for the science but stay for the friendly competition, camaraderie, and fun. You should definitely join team 10. Just because it's a large team with a lot of producers doesn't mean you can't make a dent. :)

As far as what it is is concerned, FAH is essentially a computer simulation of molecular dynamics especially relating to protein synthesis. The client, the program you downloaded, manages user settings and is the parent process of all other parts of FAH. The client asks the servers for work which it downloads. It then downloads what is called a core. The core is the actual program that does the scientific calculations. There are a lot of cores currently in use, about a dozen. The projects are programmed by scientists at Stanford to represent a particular protein or situation. These projects are split into many smaller parts called work units that are divvied out to hundreds of thousands of donors like you and me. No two work units are exactly alike.

I hope this answered most of your questions. :)
 
Could have put it better myself, If you use OcUK or it's forums you might as well fold for team 10.

I say this for two reason. One we are a really friendly bunch of people that quite frankly 'rush' to be the first to answer someones question :D
Our members are wide ranging in age/tech knowledge/IT owership with at lease 5 regulars, runing ever client available, so their always someone that knows first hand what to do.
On top of this some of the official F@H top bods also pop into our forums to swap notes/give help (which in it's self speeks highly of us)

Secondly - this team is going great things in the league (especially for a team of it's size) and your already a member of the forum!

I'm sure one of the PS3 folders will be along shortly to add their 2p worth, but in the meantime read the sticky as it's got loads of info on the What/why/when & how of folding.
 
I recently started folding on my PS3 for team 10, in the past 4-5 days I've gotten through about 12 WU. As I've never tried folding on my PC I don't know how good that is. I imagine all PS3's to take the same amount of time per WU (8hours), every bit helps!
 
Depends on the WU. Im running the windows SMP on a dual core E2140 and it takes a touch over 2 days to do 1 WU, thats folding 24/7. At around 800-1000 PPD. Current one is 977 PPD.
 
shadowscotland said:
Could have put it better myself.
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Not to be modest or anything ya know :p

Very few of us make "dent" in the team listings, however all those small "dents" make one almighty "dent" equalling position 27 for our team :D

PS3's are massively different to PC's and are completely standardised (every PC is different) which means the PS3 Core can be completely optimsed.

I think PS3s also have 7 or 8 cores where as the average PC proc is only 1 2 or 4 at the moment.
 
NokkonWud said:
Now the next question is, who should I fold for? There is OcUK which I know of, but there are loads of people already doing it it would appear so I wouldn't make a dent? There's that other team who got 300,000 points award recently, are they better?
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The other team being Team ms9cw by any chance?

They are just a part of the overall OcUK team, a subteam.
 
Is anyone folding on loads of machines at once? I have access to 8 servers at work which are currently not doing a thing... I'm tempted to install folding on them... is it right that for dual core processors you must run two instances of folding?

If thats the case the servers I have access to have 2 dual core cpu's on each box... 4 instances of folding per server?
 
Mr_T said:
Is anyone folding on loads of machines at once? I have access to 8 servers at work which are currently not doing a thing... I'm tempted to install folding on them... is it right that for dual core processors you must run two instances of folding?

If thats the case the servers I have access to have 2 dual core cpu's on each box... 4 instances of folding per server?
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SMP for the win :p
 
if you have access and more importantly if you have permission running the smp client on a server is a very good idea (for the points and science) but not the electric bill.

SirusB has a quide for smp here that should answer/help with any questions
 
Mr_T said:
I have no idea what that is?
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Options:

2 standard clients - one on each core.

1 SMP Client - Will automatically use up to 4 cores.

The deadlines on the SMP client are pretty tight so what kind of dual core's are we talking about here? :)
 
The server specs from dell are...

10 2x XEON 5130 2.0GHZ/4MB 1333FSB
10 4GB FB 667MHZ MEMORY (4X1GB DUAL RANK DI

And there are eight of them in total... might help push team 10 a little higher up the rankings.

Does the SMP client only run through Linux, because these machines are running 2003 Server
 
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Tho be sure to seek full permission first. The leccy bill will be quite substantial.
 
Mr_T said:
The server specs from dell are...

10 2x XEON 5130 2.0GHZ/4MB 1333FSB
10 4GB FB 667MHZ MEMORY (4X1GB DUAL RANK DI

And there are eight of them in total... might help push team 10 a little higher up the rankings.

Does the SMP client only run through Linux, because these machines are running 2003 Server
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My guide - for the moment - only deals with the Linux version of the SMP client. The reason being at the time of first writing there was no Windows SMP client.

You can run Linux within Windows using a virtual machine. The guide details how to do this using VMWare. However this will use up more RAM and other CPU resources. Probably not the best option for a server.

The WinSMP client is easy to setup and there is a small batch script floating around somewhere that takes care of some of the problems/bugs that seem to haunt the WinSMP client.

As has already been stated get permission. 8 servers will drink a lot of juice.

Question: why does your company need 8 dual xeon servers if they "don't do anything"? :p
 
The servers are part of a bigger project that is currently on hold for at least a month. They will be used eventually, but as they are sitting there doing nothing at the moment they might as well contribute to team 10! I'll have to look up the windows SMB client.
 
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