Maximum PC

With the instability of software/availability of WUs, as well as the changing tides of point calculations, not to mention the rising costs of utilities I am bowing out of Folding@Home.

I'll still be around periodically, and I may come Fold again when the program as a whole is more stable.

n0b0dykn0ws

Feel sad

+1

Thats too bad too hear, but I know how you feel.

I feel your pain and quite possibly joining you in the boat ride.

Sorry to hear about that.

But at least you are sticking around.

But you just got your badge! lol

Starting in December, I probably have to start paying for my electricity use. I'll probably bow out of the program as well. It's too bad, as I have 10 cores across 3 machines dedicated to folding.

n0b0dykn0ws,

My future with Folding is also becoming unclear for the reasons you stated. I really want to contribute, but with the announcements of the forthcoming changes in January 2012, the cost of electricity and if I choose to continue, the costs associated with upgrading to an über machine I just don't know. Time, as with all things, will tell.

Danners

Sorry to hear.





Ted

I guess that is the nature of a volunteer project, that people will reassess the resources they expend, their ability to expend them, and how they feel about what it contributes.

I'm on the fence about the changes with the BigAdv announcement. I hate to see changes that exclude many of us from something we have been a part of, and at the same time I don't want the project to stop moving forward with hardware advances. I guess we will all look back on this time when the price point of tech allowed us to play with the big boys. How we choose to remember it will be a matter of perspective.

I think my tipping point was the good old console client bombing off.

I read a number of threads on the official Folding forums, but nothing I tried helped.

That was what made me take a step back.

Then I read about BIGADV. I understand that they want results back as soon as possible, but if the 8 threads can accurately crunch the WUs, albeit slower, then why should they be removed as an option?

To me that tips the points towards businesses that allow their admins to Fold.

Yes, there are home users that buy dual/quad socket boards, and run them at full throttle, but the average user, the backbone of F@H, can't afford that (initial cost, electricity, cooling).

That shows me that Stanford/Pande has lost sight of who is carrying his program.

n0b0dykn0ws

They are likely bumping SMP to compensete a bit, but I'm not too thrilled with the news either.

I will likely turn at least one rig off and if i can find a buyer, sell one or two rigs to put together something that will get me some bigadv love. Being short on cash myself, I don't want to cut down on folding, but such will likely be the case.

As seen in another forum ([H]):
Blame Moore's Law!!

As much as I hate to, I think I'm going to join you. I have spent over $400/month for the past 3 years just for folding, and it's just gotten too expensive. I will probably still run GPU clients on my two rigs that I run all the time anyway, but my 3 backup rigs are going to start being turned off when I don't need them. I guess 47 million points is enough.

atr

This thread makes me sad .

For me it was when they got graphic cards involved.

Sorry. That was not my intention at all.

If others are still happy and motivated to continue Folding, then by all means do so.

But the fact that my 2600K is now viewed as 'too slow for BIGADV', my feathers are a little ruffled.

n0b0dykn0ws

Not my intention either. But the fact is that I have spent countless hundreds of dollars on electricity to run anywhere from 3-5 rigs 24/7 to do nothing but folding. I just can't afford to keep doing that. And rates are going nowhere but up. Like I said, I will most likely continue on the 2 rigs that run 24.7 anyway, but those spare ones are not doing anything other than making me feel good for contributing, and feeling good doesn't pay the bills. Oh well.

Hey Hack, you really in KCMO? We need to get together, I'll buy you dinner.

Yep, I'm in Kansas City, MO, but I'm about as far away from Overland Park, KS while still being in KC that you can get.

(Probably about 30-45 minutes)