10-25-2010, 02:31 AM
RAMd®d wrote:
Utterly amazing!
Great work.
I do have questions about the process...
As far as we know, have these "civilian" distributed networks returned positive results? If one's churning reveals a discovery, are they informed? Or does this occur farther down the process?
I've no perspective of breadth of the task. I can barely wrap my head around the concept of the amount of energy released in one grain of sand were to be converted to 100% energy.
Good luck to all who fold.
Honestly, we have NO IDEA of the results of our so-called work, as we basically are purely crunching statistical models or shall I say "replicas" of a given protein/disease system/symbiotic process, and the data that we send back to Stanford, WU by WU is just that, PURE DATA, no more, no less, and we have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO WITH IT!
The general gist of the whole game is to do the Folding as quickly as possible, so as to facilitate more study of the same type of WU that you just finished, sort of an ultimate "Add-On" process if you will. My PC's finish the WU's they crunch in about 97% positive "time" respective of what a normal computer would take to do the same task. By that I mean specifically that my PC's fold in 3% or less of the time of a regular PC, again a statistical model PC only, and that is as fast as you could possibly do such a thing to the best of my knowledge.
There *may be* people who are folding "Faster" relative to that standard PC than my PC's are compared to in order to calculate that percentage of completion factor, (and by the way our BONUSES per WU are calculated based on that speed too... The faster we fold a given WU, the bigger the bonus is for that job, so it mounts/adds up, all of it, all the speed adds up to more points per WU, given a standard model comparative) but I actually don't know of any who are doing such a thing. My PC's are virtually going as fast as possible, and maintaining stability that is, vs all other PC's...mine are the fastest Folders that I know of, and I have asked the question at Extreme Overclocking Forum for example, "What speed is your PC doing its Folding at?"...to wit, and no one has ever answered back about theirs being faster than 4210Mhz, not a one, not 4210Mhz 24/7, 365 days a year, nobody has said they fold faster than that.
Now there are other people with PC's that are at 4210Mhz also, so don't think I'm the *only one* at that speed, but I'm certainly one of the few who maintains that speed 24/7 for all my PC's, that way I am different than the other guy's PC efforts with the Core i7 CPU's, of any speed, any variation, any model Core i7 CPU.
Fast is great, and once you are fast the trick is to get them stable and rock solid 24/7 so that they can complete the WU's with the fastest possible completion percentage, thus you earn the highest bonuses possible per WU, and that guys and gals, is what it's all about, why I even go through the trouble of maintaining 3 special PC's that are tuned, running, and stable at 4210Mhz, or 4.2Ghz your choice there. That is the game, 100% of the game, the part that I strive to be best at vs all the other guys with Core i7 computers doing Folding@Home.
I not only want to be fast, but indelibly so...I want my PC's to never falter at their tasks, to go about their high and fast rate of completion with these difficult A3 WU's without fail, without crashing or problems, 100% of the time 24/7, 365 days a year, come Hell or High Water. That is where my PC's are, and they're gonna stay that way too!
