Kick Off the New Year by Folding@Home for Team Maximum PC!
Kick Off the New Year by Folding@Home for Team Maximum PC!
Posted 01/03/2011 at 1:11pm
| by Paul Lilly
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What are your New Year's resolutions? Did you vow to shed those holiday pounds you put on the past couple of weeks? Perhaps you promised to finally use this year's tax refund to put together that dream machine build you deserve. Whatever they are, here's an easy one to add to the list: start "Folding" for team Maximum PC.
We're referring to Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project. The ultimate goal is to better understand (and find cures for) diseases like Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntingtons', Parkinson's, various cancers, and more. If you're new to Folding, or distributed computing in general, the way it works is you download a piece of software that taps into your spare CPU cycles to study protein folding. One machine by itself isn't very helpful, but collectively, it's like having access to a supercomputer.
Points are tracked and there's a lot of friendly competition (and trash talking) between sites. To join Maximum PC, you'd input 11108 in the Team number field. Hit up the links below for more info.
Stanford Folding@Home Homepage
Team Maximum PC Folding@Home Forum
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knipfty
January 03, 2011 at 2:21pm
You need to plug this client. Run this advanced client on any machine with 4 or more CPUs (2 real and 2 virtual will work too). I upgraded my machines that would support it and have cranked up my PPD (points per day) from around 1200 to over 15000. That's how good thses clients are. These machines include 2 laptops, a desk top, and a server. The desktop is a quadcore with hyperthreading. It regularly produces 11,000 PPD alone!
I now rank as #142 nad climbing on the MaximumPC team.
It would be great if MaximumPC included a folding benchmark with all the other benchmarks it does.
JE_Delta
January 03, 2011 at 4:01pm
Folding benchmarks are way to inconsistent. because the PPD vary between WUs
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