Folding@Home new TPB & suprbay team

[RobertX]

Well, I took out the Folding@home application from my GNU/Linux box and placed it on my Windows box.

Don't ask, it works best for me that way.

Learning how to fold a shirt. After that, learning to fold a piece of paper.

[Dravial]

Points earned as of December 3rd, 2020
12,397,713(See stats)
12,397,713 go to Team The Pirate Bay - SuprBay's total of 28,209,227.



I sure do hope this does go to finding cures, and not discovering new diseases to keep us locked up! >_<

[BigDadE]

Points earned as of December 3rd, 2020
12,397,713(See stats)
12,397,713 go to Team The Pirate Bay - SuprBay's total of 28,209,227.



I sure do hope this does go to finding cures, and not discovering new diseases to keep us locked up! >_<

awesome job folding Dravial and the results are plentiful!

https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/

[dueda]

Com'on folks! Looks like we're stalling lately. I confess, admittedly stopped for a couple months because I had to replace a computer, but even not running everyday I'm still up.

[RobertX]

BigDadE: I just balked out at how slow my Pentium 4 computer went through these days.

Should I try putting it back again?

Don't get me wrong, I would like to assist in cures of deadly diseases and conditions, but I am stuck with inferior computers, and not in a position to buy better ones, so what should I do?

[dueda]

The following image is a certificate I made 700 Work Units, up for just a month to save IMGBB space (and my points should go up anyway). I hope you guys improve your scores when possible.


Now that's a good question, RobertX; how do a decade-old PC measures up against a brand new. Did technology advance so much, or is it mostly hype? I feel my PC isn't so faster than my very older ones, greatly thanks to Windows becoming every generation more and more sluggish, but I remember my first PC (XT 8MHz with 32MB MFM HDD) was a total dragger, like five minutes to copy a MB.

A quick comparison at https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/In...m440vs4077

I picked the Pentium 4 HT, Intel's first Hyper Threading CPU: a single-core pretending to be a dual-core, using spare CPU capacity to do a second job, much like a "mini-CPU aide". Had one of those.
As contender, the current top mid-tier i7-10700, a 8-core (16 with HT) I think to be a modern equivalent. Both CPUs operate at 3.0 GHz (2.9 for the i7, but then there's turbo mode).

The difference is absurd. P4 is 1207th in the list, while i7 is just 21th. Not only the 10th-gen i7 can do in a fraction of the time but it has a better cache/memory controller and 8 times more core. So yes, there's a huge gap in processing speed even knowing that PC architecture (motherboard, io, storage) still sucks AT-286. Typical GPU for that time, an AGP-slot nVidia MX400 will render 1 frame while a modern PCIe 3 x16 RTX3070 will do at least 100.

I think there isn't much more you could do but keep it up, given the conditions; but keep in mind that I do my part no matter what PC I'm on. Still looking for a decent box just to run FaH and a torrent client, preferably fan-less tiny or mini-tower.

Where it possible to run those apps on a PlayStation II or III, sure I'd buy me a few, they're pretty cheap now - And IMO the developers should think about it.

[BigDadE]

F@h forums stated due to recent increase of users the Windows clients weren't increasing scores due to tabulation errors with F@h. I'm not sure if that is still an issue but I noticed it and don't have the issue with Linux.

[dueda]

Lol I was thinking everybody but me had stop... Yeah, something must be wrong with it.

[RobertX]

How's the folding effort coming along?

[BigDadE]

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/235188

I wish we had more participants however we are making good progress with those that are active.