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Folding Cracks the top 100
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And we should be in the top 50 in a few days!
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Yep ... I'm stealing work units back and donating them to Apple Computer Inc. team. I feel sorry for them ...
No idea what that figure is. How the hell can I earn negative units?
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From Apple Learn & Earn course "Understanding Compute-Intensive Problems & Solutions&am
A high-performance computing solution is needed when the amount of time required for a single task to complete becomes unacceptable.
Many scientists are trying to understand how a linear molecule folds itself into a three-dimensional structure. Studying how a protein folds provides insight into how proteins work--such as how hemoglobin is able to fold and surround an iron molecule in order to carry oxygen through the body. Protein folding experiments are very computationally intensive. A single protein folding experiment on a 1 GHz Power Mac G4 can easily take several days. It would be ideal to speed up this process to a more reasonable amount of time, say 1 hour. This would require an HPC solution. Currently, the most cost-effective method of creating an HPC solution is with a cluster of off-the-shelf and readily available computers. This type of cluster accelerates the process by working cooperatively on the same computationally intensive task. The task of computational protein folding is considered tightly coupled, since each part of the simulation affects other parts of the simulation.
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# Meta computing. This solution involves the use of available distributed computing resources for high-throughput solutions. Familiar examples are SETI and Folding@Home--Stanford University's (Pande Group) distributed simulation project to determine how proteins assemble themselves. These solutions require specialized application software, and the volume of processing depends entirely on the number of resources available.
A high-performance computing solution is needed when the amount of time required for a single task to complete becomes unacceptable.
Many scientists are trying to understand how a linear molecule folds itself into a three-dimensional structure. Studying how a protein folds provides insight into how proteins work--such as how hemoglobin is able to fold and surround an iron molecule in order to carry oxygen through the body. Protein folding experiments are very computationally intensive. A single protein folding experiment on a 1 GHz Power Mac G4 can easily take several days. It would be ideal to speed up this process to a more reasonable amount of time, say 1 hour. This would require an HPC solution. Currently, the most cost-effective method of creating an HPC solution is with a cluster of off-the-shelf and readily available computers. This type of cluster accelerates the process by working cooperatively on the same computationally intensive task. The task of computational protein folding is considered tightly coupled, since each part of the simulation affects other parts of the simulation.
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# Meta computing. This solution involves the use of available distributed computing resources for high-throughput solutions. Familiar examples are SETI and Folding@Home--Stanford University's (Pande Group) distributed simulation project to determine how proteins assemble themselves. These solutions require specialized application software, and the volume of processing depends entirely on the number of resources available.
I,ve joined!
After just reading Macrumors.com for a long time, I tought it was a good idea to help you all with the folding thing. So from now on my G4/533 will be folding 24/7, 365 days a year.
Happy folding...
After just reading Macrumors.com for a long time, I tought it was a good idea to help you all with the folding thing. So from now on my G4/533 will be folding 24/7, 365 days a year.
Happy folding...
Welcome MacFocus!!!
Glad to see that we have a new and excited member on our team! Happy Folding and welcome to the boards!
Glad to see that we have a new and excited member on our team! Happy Folding and welcome to the boards!
Thanks,
Now I just hope that i'm actually folding...
There's nothing happening yet.
I'll be patient.
MacFocus
It'll take some time until it shows some progress.
BTW, are you using the Graphical Client or the Folfing Control? If you're using the graphical client, I recommend you to use the Folding Control because it's faster.
You can find it in here.
http://macaddict4life.dhs.org/folding_control.php
It'll take some time until it shows some progress.
BTW, are you using the Graphical Client or the Folfing Control? If you're using the graphical client, I recommend you to use the Folding Control because it's faster.
You can find it in here.
http://macaddict4life.dhs.org/folding_control.php
When I joined the Macrumors folding team we had 90 active processors. I looked today and we have 158. I joined about a month ago. IT would be neat if we could break 200 active processors.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I think I'm going clubing in SF. There's a lot of little Windows users out there that need a good bop on the head.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I think I'm going clubing in SF. There's a lot of little Windows users out there that need a good bop on the head.
if i'm lucky and can get around a few issues with security software and a very irritating firewall i will help bring us up past that 200 until school starts... but i can't really promise...
anyways we're just shooting up the list and soon we'll be in the upper 50... maybe by that time we can start a new thread... this one is becoming quite large
Some of those processors aren't "real". They're duplicates processors on machines where we imaged a lab here, thus changing the client ID. Changing the unique client ID makes a new active processor and ups the count. Expect that number to go up again when we reimage the lab here and then go back down when the two week cycle for active processors retires the old ones.
the number of processors skyrocketed recently, when i added my parents' imac to work for the cause
oh wait.
oh wait.
Ha. Every CPU counts.
Just cause we're running 40 or so doesn't mean you should feel any less special.
Just cause we're running 40 or so doesn't mean you should feel any less special.
Your contributions are even braver than ours! I know of the parents' wrath here when they found out about my "folding". You giveth all that is at your disposal, and I admire that. I think those ambitions are shared, judging by many replies here.
Now that my s900 "broke" they shant be complainin' na mur. All I have is a 7200 here to check my mail.
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Ha. Every CPU counts.
Just cause we're running 40 or so doesn't mean you should feel any less special.
i didn't.
til you said that
jerkass
yeah, it's my parents. but my mom only uses it really. and mainly for just email/web/text docs and whatnot.... so it doesn't matter. nothing big enough that folding would suck up all their power. of course, i leave all her apps going, so it's not at top speed. but oh well. better than nothing
ps. rower- i hate you
wow, that's not cool..... i had to look it up though
pederast
n : a man who has sex with a boy [syn: paederast, child molester]
jerkass
Glad to enlighten you in some way.
Just in case anyone is confused, jello and I are joking around, as we sometimes do. This is not serious.