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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.04 04:00:00 -
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Ranking and team stats
Home site of Standfords Folding@Home
We encourage you to give it a try and help out the team and more so the science. If your new to folding try out one of the single cpu clients, they require very little resources in the background. As your experience grows you can try out multi-core clients or gpu clients, these yield more points but require more customization, maintenance, and can put some wear on your machine. You'll find instructions for setting up the client on Standford's website our team # is 75407. Start out slow, we find people that go all in on their system stressing it with multiple clients usually find it inconvenient to keep participating, while we appreciate the short term support we would like to build a solid base of persistent members.
Thanks for your support.
(Need help setting up the client or have any questions feel free to ask, I would recommend reading the forums on Standford's website for configuration issues or exotic setups but we'll do our best to get you running.)
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.05 07:03:00 -
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 Originally by: defiler
Damn you Derik, I had planned to bump the old thread next week when we will pass 500 in the rankings, but now you've ruined that. 
Ehh sorry dude, thought I'd make a more general thread that one kinda died out couple months ago. Am pretty stoked we are getting ready to break that 500 rank though. Going to pickup another 470 GTX soon ^^ hope you don't mind 
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.07 16:33:00 -
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Ohh might have changed my mind on the GTX 470, check out this piece of sexy kit GTX 570 Review
Will most likely wait a little bit until Newegg offers some good deals on them but already available at the original 470 entry price.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.11 04:28:00 -
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Well... killed the psu in my heavy folder, yippy for warranties but will be about a week before its back online  Luckily all system components check out, including the twins, and were unaffected but don't have a big enough PSU on hand to drive the system.
Don't let this scare you away from folding lol. Other thoughts... will have to find an alternative heat source for my house dammit. 
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.12 02:33:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
Read title as "fondling" and was disappointed
May I fondle your video card in the name of science?
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.12 19:11:00 -
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Yeah... we're taking a little PPD hit atm hope to have all my folding operations backup and running soon. Might team a couple psu's to get the twins back online.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.12 21:10:00 -
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Originally by: northwesten
I use my PS3 for this and dam these PS3 are awesome for this.
The PS3 have definitely added alot to the F@H community, they were at one time the highest contributors behind Anon and while they still contribute alot of work sadly their architecture is way out dated considering a sub $100 graphics card can put out more ppd. Not knocking mind you a box that can crank out 900 ppd 5 years later is still impressive. Assume even with the removal of linux and hardware downgrades across the generations that F@H is still included and runs at the same speed. Haven't been a console gamer since the Sega Genesis but was very impressed by the PS3's flexibility and usefulness in research oriented projects and look forward to their next installment of awesomeness. Maybe MS will take note and make a similar move but I find that unlikely as I've always heard the consoles themselves are mostly a loss to break even with the real money made on the software and 3rd party licensing.
Happy folding!
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.14 05:48:00 -
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Originally by: Siigari Kitawa
We've got a guy making close to 400k PPD. I have to admit it, this is insanity.
This is awesome, reminds me of the Atlas Folder guys vid card farm little smaller and more power efficient though lol.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.15 21:39:00 -
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Been using Kakao Stats for awhile to monitor our progress but someone posted a link to this site that has team stats as well, its a little quicker loading but basically same info http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=75407
Got the twins back in action so we'll get back on track for breaking that 500 rank barrier here soon. Thanks for all the contribs noticed we picked up a few folders over the last few days welcome aboard and happy folding.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.20 02:26:00 -
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YES!!! We broke the 500 team rank barrier!!! Many thanks to all our supporters it has taken quite awhile to get here. So what do we do now... break 400 of course that is an even longer way off but we have a good team going and I have confidence we can easily break that in under the projected four months. Thanks again to everyone and happy folding!!!
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2010.12.24 00:08:00 -
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Wow we hit 82,459 ppd on the 21st that is awesome, had several other high days around that too, team records. Going to hit Team Rank 480 in the next few days I'm impressed, keep up the good work guys and thanks for the support!
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.07 03:32:00 -
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Ranking 473, over 25% completed to hit our next goal! Nice work. Looks like rest of the 400s we're just grinding points as our daily average ppd is one of the highest.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.16 09:42:00 -
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Congrats defiler on hitting the 3mil milestone!
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.16 09:45:00 -
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Originally by: Master Blade
just joined team. been meaning to join one for a wile now but the fact that eve-people have one pushed me into it:)
Sorry missed this, I get lazy when we fall off the first couple pages, welcome aboard you've been busy thanks for the assist.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.19 06:14:00 -
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Yay for trolls keeping us on the frontpage!!! Thanks for the help and extra notice we will hopefully get.
To your troll... each their own this a project that I find worthwhile, I may never see, understand, or gain direct benefit from it but I believe that somewhere down the road it will benefit someone. Added bonus keeps the karma shark at bay  Cheers and thanks again.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.21 00:01:00 -
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Originally by: Pan Crastus
Originally by: Derik Wildstar
but I believe that somewhere down the road it will benefit someone
yup, your local electricity provider.
Well I wouldn't want them going out of business then I couldn't fold anymore .... I suppose your right I will purchase additional gpu's to fold more to increase my electricity bill to support the employees of the utility company. Oh snap trickle down theory I just helped the coal miners since they will have to mine more, helped the doctors who have to treat them for black lung, the insurance companies as they raise rates to offset the cost of insuring coal miners, the tree hugging hippie agenda as they scream for carbon balancing.... can't believe I didn't realize this sooner I'm saving the world and increasing the quality of life for thousands of people... I am going to sleep well tonight!!!
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.24 02:29:00 -
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So... just got home and I see this on our stats page...
DuramaxDiesels -11 189,114 -220,634 01.24.11, 4pm / 20.6 Hours
we are getting passed by diesel truck enthusiasts that also fold 
Apparently the local sample I've been exposed to was not representative of the group as whole but I'm having difficulty picturing Bubba, Billy, and Buck in their country getup, discussing the best way to skin a varmit, how their baccer crop is fairing this year, and blowing out my eardrums as they gun the light in a hurry to get home to check on their folding clients. I'm guilty of stereotyping and cultural profiling apparently and need to go pay my dues to the karma shark.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.24 05:25:00 -
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Edited by: Derik Wildstar on 24/01/2011 05:29:54
edit: CCP, never asked but I doubt they would be willing to spare any time lest they invoke the rage of their denizens. Might look at advertising in EON not sure how that works or ingame having an event/tourney or something to drum up new folders.
Originally by: Master Blade
doing a little reserch and it seems that the sr-2 is considered to be one of the ultimate single rig machines for folding. looking forward to starting my build. saw a guy getting over 200k ppd on an sr-2 with 8 gpu's
Lol I think your going to spend alot of cash, board was running around $600, no idea what the xeons that go in it cost, then naturally your going to fill it to brimming over with GTX 580s ($500x8) , prolly need some water cooling, a wall of PSU's to drive it, and several 20amp breakers just to turn it on 
We expect a build log with lots of sexy pictures...
I keep teasing defiler I'm going to add another GTX 470 on my end but I'm "that guy" everyone brings their comps and parts to when they don't want them so I've cobbled together a decent mobo with 2 x16 slots, an old dual core cpu, and some junk memory... have it on burn in now to test it out.... let it run for a week or two and if it stays stable I might have to run up a bill with newegg for a pair of gtx570's.... going to have to do a little house wiring and bring a fresh 20amp plug out. I often wonder what the thermal image of my house looks like from one of those drug choppers.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.25 00:04:00 -
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Edited by: Derik Wildstar on 25/01/2011 00:09:04
If your really interested in your own participation's electrical usage you could pickup a killawatt pretty cheap and actually see... or you can use something like PSU Calc to get a decent rough estimate on what wattage your pulling (considering pretty constant 100% load and allowing for aging) break out a calculator and do the following maths- ((computer wattage x 730)/1000) x .12 = monthly electrical cost. (This converts watts to watt-hours (730/mth) and uses the US national average kwh adjust if necessary)
There are lots of tables that give the different values of components potential draw under folding I'll have to find references hardwarecanucks used to have a decent list iirc.
Was a little surprised convo took this turn as I figured up the cost of running my dedicated folder before I ever built it, I figured on worst case maximum power draw but the realized increase on my bill was not as great as there are downtimes, my cpu is actually close to idle, and other system components are in lowered states of operation.
edit: Using my original calculations I had allotted for around $50/mth but my bill only increased about an average of $23/mth, year over year not month over month. The summer months it increased slightly more as the AC had to work a little harder to dissipate the extra heat the winter a little less since I have a folding furnace
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.25 01:11:00 -
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Pretty sure only x86 based processors are supported along side the CUDA from Nvidia and limited OPENCL from AMD, I haven't checked the Standford forums lately for their stance on this but ARM and other embedded processors wouldn't yield enough project results to merit the time to support additional client designs. This may change in the future as some of these are getting more and more powerful and we are starting to see trending towards generally lower power designs. The clients themselves are optimized for Intel processors so your likely to find your performance per watt there. The gpu client is optimized for Nvidia I haven't seen the specs on their low tier based on the GTX500 series yet but willing to bet there is a winner in there somewhere.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.01.29 15:25:00 -
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Woot Ranked 450, halfway to our next goal! Thanks for the continued support.
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Derik Wildstar
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Posted - 2011.04.05 19:56:00 -
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Took us awhile but finally got here \o/ thanks to everyone for contributing.
Sadly going to have to start regulating my main folder to post processing work will continue folding when its not busy, one of these days I'll head over to newegg and get a pair of 570's to play with :D
Happy folding!
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