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If I had to complain about something, it would be the 24x7x365 electrical costs. There are advantages to having your machine on 24x7 (like you can have a daily save at 3 am when you're most likely asleep!). On the other hand, all my machines were taken down in anticipation of IKE. I have verified th...

I'm folding on a ThinkPad T61 (2.6 GHz processor) and Intel's improvements between early Conroe and recent Merom (including, but not limited to, more cache) makes the T61 fold like it's running at about 3.2 Conroe MHz.

None of them are folding at the moment, they were in the path of Hurricane Ike.

I dug up an old Shuttle Box I had laying around with a P4/2.4 Ghz, 1 GB RAM and an old Geforce 3 card. Might as well get some use out of it. Just wondering if GPU2 is really that much faster? Since the Shuttle only has an AGP slot, I could probably pick up a ATI 26xx or 36xx card for $80+ on Newegg...

I was curious if anyone has considered running notebook farms. I was just thinking about how dirt cheap old used laptops are and since they're all in one, gathering a whole bunch and running them to fold would be fairly easy I imagine. If I did this, what would I need to do, run each one seperately...

John Naylor wrote:I think that the Pande Group said they will have enough work to last a lifetime - I hope that is true because I don't want to have to switch

If we get the proteins figured out we can do a cell next.

Next is I have a console x86 client that is always getting FAH core download errors. I read that with Vista it may be necessary to lesson security. How do I do that? What worked for me was to right-click the fah client executable. The second tab (IIRC) is named "Compatibility." Check the ...

science man wrote:You mean project 2665 if so, it's about IBX being in water whatever that is.

IBX is 2-Iodoxybenzoic acid. It will oxidize an alcohol to an aldehyde, among other things.

Don't ask me why you'd want to put IBX in water, I'm not an organic chemist.

VijayPande wrote:Most of the brain's power compared to a computer is in the visual cortex, not in doing math.

The brain consists (IMHO) of a huge collection of tightly targeted processes running on custom hardware. Math takes a huge time just for brain I/O.

Project 4555 WUs really wiz by - and 500 PPD too - whoopee! You must be using an AMD chip, on AMBER calculations my one AMD (which is the slowest of the three on GROMACS) takes off. So does the CPU cooling fan. When only one core is folding, you can tell because there is a strange silence in the ro...

it's a struggle to save up anything for the next upgrade to a PC, rather than having to save up enough for one tank of gasoline. Perhaps the RoadRunner will study alternative forms of energy, who knows? Department of Energy has it, it'll be used to study nukes. Enormous amounts of calculation to an...

The totals should be taken with a huge grain of salt. The current are the numbers you should look at. For example, I'm probably responsible for a hundred or so of the CPU total i'm responsible for about 15 of CPU installs. Those virgin Vista installs on new hard drives eat up the CPU count, partica...

I understand this may happen sometimes if the assignment server thinks there are no other suitable WUs to send out. I *just* put the WUs online when you posted, so maybe I just "surprised" it. I'll keep an eye on it -- hopefully the assignment server isn't low on work. --Vince One core on...

I would be surprised if the entire project consumed much more than 50MW. For comparison purposes, that would be barely enough to run 300,000 TV screens tuned to Sex and the City. Which use of 50MW do you suppose is more beneficial to mankind? Since 300,000 TV screens turned to SATC will result in 3...

I hope I'm posting this in for correct place. I was looking at the Folding@home website and I stumbled across getting a passkey. So I entered my username, e-mail address and retrieved the passkey. But after I relised that I needed the v6 FAH client, and I've got version 5.03. Can I delete my passke...

You had an unclean termination. F@H tried to resume from the checkpoint file but it was corrupt -- so the only recovery path was restarting the protein from the top.