Anyone interested in a bit of folding ?

[loki]

Maybe this has been done to death since the birth of the internet. However I was thinking last night that I have six systems all laying around doing naff all except taking up space and being an all round general pain the ricker for Mrs L.

So part justification in keeping them and part wanting to put them to good use I was thinking of getting some folding going with the systems I have and with the PS3 as well. I have at least two systems on 24/7. The X360 TekHeads may know if the 360 offers any kind of folding facility :confused:

So would anyone be interested in setting up a folding team ? I think it looks pretty straight forward to do.

Edit. I might be jumping the gun here, if this is pretty well established, is there a team already set up

[Pumpkinstew]

Well, the OcUK team is well established.

Not sure about any BD team. Mark would know.

GPU Folding is the big thing at the moment. You get loads more points from running jobs on your graphics card than you do on a CPU. No X-Box Folding at the moment.

[Admiral Huddy]

We raised this a few years ago, but we were still quite young at the time and not enough of us to make any impact. As PS says, many are folding for well established teams such as CPC or OCUK.

Not sure it will work.. but may get us some publicity. I'm sure most of us have a few spare CPUs/GPUs to fold on.

[Mark]

I'd just like to concur with the above.

We do have several members who fold and/or BOINC, but not for a BD team (because there isn't one). Experience has shown that you need the competition factor (either within the team or among nearby teams) to keep the interest level up, and though we have quite a few more people who would be interested now than there were previously, most of those are already involved elsewhere.

Having said all that, I'm sure a team could be set up if there was sufficient interest in having one.

[loki]

Some good points made there guys.

How about we propose a Boat Drinks Folding team, keep the thread open for a week and see who would be interested in joining ? If anyone is interested then just express interest in this thread :)

[NokkonWud]

It's definitely handy if you have a PS3, they are monsters.

[Stan_Lite]

I've given up Folding due to the instability of the SMP and GPU clients. Working away from hom a month at a time means I can't be there all the time to nurse these perpetual beta clients along and that's just no use for me. I'm currently running Rosetta on BOINC (for the OcUK team) as that's nice and stable.

If a BD Folding team is established and Stanford finally get these clients stable, I would be interested in switching at least some of the farm over, if not all of it - but not until I could be reasonably sure that all my rigs would stay working for the months I'm away.

[loki]

Who are the resident experts at BD for folding ?

[Stan_Lite]

Who are the resident experts at BD for folding ?

Off the top of my head. Mark, myself, Huddy and Garp have all dabbled - there are probably more that I haven't mentioned. Not sure if I'd use the word expert for myself but I have a rough idea how to set it all up.

[Haly]

I used to fold for the OcUK team but lost interest. These days only one PC is ever on a lot and I just use a laptop so doesn't seem much point in returning.
Pity there's no X-Box folding, that's on enough to make it worthwhile for me.

[Darryn]

I also used to fold for Team OcUK... was quite high in the stats (still 9th in the team) when i decided that it just wasnt worth the electric. :p

If BD do start a team ill get my 3 systems (14cores) up and running for a month or two and help get some scores on the doors. :)

[divine]

Off the top of my head. Mark, myself, Huddy and Garp have all dabbled - there are probably more that I haven't mentioned. Not sure if I'd use the word expert for myself but I have a rough idea how to set it all up.

I was at it for around a year, albeit only with my single core athlon 64, battling away for supremecy in the single machine / single core league on ocuk until it became virtually worthless doing it.

My machine manages in a week, what an SMP/GPU machine can knock out in about 3 hours now, it's not worth the electricity bill.

[Fayshun]

I'm in.

[Wyrdo]

I used to fold and before that Seti but I gave it all up with the ridiculous electricity prices, I'm too tight these days :p

Was great where I used to work, I had dozens of PCs running SETI over night for months :p

[Desmo]

I've got BOINC set up on a machine here. Don't know much about all this though and wouldn't be able to contribute much but I'm happy to add it to any team we get running :)

[Mark]

Like Stan, I'd rather do Rosetta, but I do have VM images available to run the more stable Linux SMP client.

[Stan_Lite]

If you fancy doing rosetta, you can count me in.

Maybe a poll would be in order to guage interest and preferences :confused:

[Feek]

I tried to get boinc/seti running a few weeks ago when it struck me that I have eight cores sitting here not doing a lot but it didn't do anything so I'd probably cocked up somewhere.
Didn't try the Rosetta thing, more than happy to give it a bash.

[loki]

Can anyone point us in the direction of Rosetta and what the advantages are over Bonic etc ?