Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

[pinion]

I just hit team rank 42 with Folding@Home. Did a lot of people jump ship? Please come back to the fold. Join team 38910!

[gabester]

Yeah, ever since that guy got arrested and sued by his school district for loading the software, I've been a lot less excited about running this kind of thing on anything but my own computers, and my own computers I'd prefer to keep things powered off or sleeping when not in active use these days.

g=

[pinion]

That's more important than the cure, you're right.

[Don C]

I am down two machines. When I retired at the end of the year, I left my G4 Mac and my IBM running, but the IBM will not restart F@H if it gets rebooted for any (of many possible) reason. I was last Mac holdout in the department so it is quite likely that that machine has been disconnected by now.

Speaking of F@H, the personal progress page stopped posting the last report and the number of clients so I cannot monitor if these machines are still at work. Is there a way to find out?

[C(-)ris]

pinion wrote:
That's more important than the cure, you're right.

Do you have any idea how much electricity FAH wastes? You might be surprised.

[CJsNvrUrly]

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em...

[space-time]

C(-)ris wrote:
Do you have any idea how much electricity FAH wastes? You might be surprised.

But at least you got a chance to help in a useful project, much more useful than SETI@home for example.

[Spock]

C(-)ris wrote:

Do you have any idea how much electricity FAH wastes? You might be surprised.

F@H doesn't waste any electricity. It may use electricity but it certainly isn't a waste.

[Mini 9]

Do the folding at home team take any stance on religion?
Or put another way, has any religious group come out against folding at home?

[JoeH]

Don C wrote:
I am down two machines. When I retired at the end of the year, I left my G4 Mac and my IBM running, but the IBM will not restart F@H if it gets rebooted for any (of many possible) reason. I was last Mac holdout in the department so it is quite likely that that machine has been disconnected by now.

Speaking of F@H, the personal progress page stopped posting the last report and the number of clients so I cannot monitor if these machines are still at work. Is there a way to find out?

They turned those stats off at F@H as they were taking too much to process on their old statistics servers. The stats servers are in the process of being upgraded, hopefully the information about machine numbers and other personal stats will get turned back on.

But, by looking at your stats on extremeoverclocking.com, it looks like you just have the one Intel Mac still folding and sending in about one unit a day. No small point units like your former Mac and PC at work would have turned in show in the daily stats going back to the 18th. The weekly totals for the couple weeks before that are also consistent with just a single Intel Mac turning in 5 or 6 units during the week. Best I can infer from the numbers showing for you.


As for this:

Do you have any idea how much electricity FAH wastes? You might be surprised.

Yes, I do have an idea what it costs me extra to keep my and my son's Mac's folding. It is a fraction of what it costs to keep my fridge running over the course of a month. I don't consider it a "waste".