BPN Committed to Helping Cure Disease w/ Folding Team

[Schlup]

I'm sure many of you have never heard of the term "folding" in it's intended use here.  I hadn't either until about a month ago.  

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

I have attached the software below so that you can download the folding client and help Team BPN help the world.

Remember our team ID is 163009

You can see our team by checking out this link...
BPN Folding Team

Get the software here (this is the high powered stuff) then use the "Installation Instructions" for a step-by-step on how to configure it.
Download & Install Regular Clients
Download & Install High Performance Clients (Gets more points)

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BPN Committed to Helping Cure Disease w/ Folding Team

BPN Committed to Helping Cure Disease w/ Folding Team

Scores attached

[Monkey_Grill]

I'm on Team BPN!!! W00t W00t!

[Silvir]

I don't understand what the client does, please explain this.

[Schlup]

In short it saves lives!  In long you'll want to take a look at this website for an explaination...
http://folding.stanford.edu/

[Schlup]

Are you folding for a team on there?  You should put BPN's team number in...

[Schlup]

We need to get back into this again!  64, can you change your team number to help BPN's team ranking out?  I'm going to install again tonight when I get home...the high performance client...

My goal is to hit 1 million points by year end...we have a long way to go!

[Schlup]

Welcome The Geek, TheBigChicken, NavyChief, and Fallen to the BPN Folding Team...thanks guys!

[NavyChief]

Last night I installed the software and completed my first WU.

I plan on fine-tuning it to work better.

[Schlup]

On the downloads page there is an icon of a "little book" if you click that and follow the instructions for setting up the console version you will get great output!

[Monkey_Grill]

Updated!

March 2, 2010

[NavyChief]

I turned on my old computer (Core 2 Duo with a GeForce 8800GT) and am folding it with a SMP and GPU client. My main computer does not even blink with the GPU client running in the background. I leave the older unit running 24/7 but my main one is turned on only when I am using it.

[NavyChief]

Thought I would try the below signature since the BPN Folding Team is now progressing nicely.

[Schlup]

Yeah, if you make a bigger one I will upload it to our stats page at Folding@Home...just make it the same size as the one in there.  Also, you should link to the folding team stats page with your sig.  So when you click on the picture it takes people to the BPN Stats page...if you need help with that let me know.

[NavyChief]

Yeah, if you make a bigger one I will upload it to our stats page at Folding@Home...just make it the same size as the one in there.  Also, you should link to the folding team stats page with your sig.  So when you click on the picture it takes people to the BPN Stats page...if you need help with that let me know.

I modified my signature so that it now links to the BPN Folding Stats page.

I also emailed you a larger version (1024x248) for the BPN Folding Stats page. Let me know if you get it.

[Schlup]

Nice work!  I was looking at the stats page...how are you running 6 clients?  The way I figure it you could run 4 between the two systems unless I am missing something.

P.S. I got the graphic, thanks for doing it!

[NavyChief]

I think some of the clients were from some experimentation.

I tried the normal CPU package and the SMP DEINO package to see what works. I am trying the SMP version over the weekend and the normal one has been removed. I am also doing the GPU package on this computer. So the 3 reported clients are really only 2.

I did the same thing with my main computer. I ended up keeping the GPU going since it doesn't even slow it a little. I tried both versions of the CPU package and found that the SMP version slows the computer too much while gaming. The normal one is operating on this one but only when I am not gaming. So once again, the 3 reported clients are also only 2.

It seems that the GPU versions are far superior in the awarding of points than the CPU versions. They also affect the system less and are quicker to complete. The CPU versions are slower and don't award many points. That is why I have a lot of Work Units (WU) completed but a low score.

[Schlup]

Yes, this is all true, however, with the latest nVidia driver (the one that they took off because it was causing issues) has increased my GPU output about 150%!!!!

[NavyChief]

Yes, this is all true, however, with the latest nVidia driver (the one that they took off because it was causing issues) has increased my GPU output about 150%!!!!

I have not removed the new driver yet so both machine's GPU must be cranking out the WU. How do I measure the output of the GPUs?

[Schlup]

IDK, you'll just have to watch the stats page.  I measured with the amount of time it takes to do each percent of a work load.

[NavyChief]

I looked at the Status > Logfile and can see that the GPU is completing 1% every 52 seconds.  

The CPU version takes 14 minutes to complete 1%.  

And these are on my older/slower unit. You have to love the GPUs!

[Schlup]

I'm doing 1% every 1 minute on my GPU and 1% every 12 minutes on my CPU.

[Schlup]

Ok Navy, I made the logo change, not sure how long it takes to take effect though.  Thanks for making it!

[NavyChief]

I made a smaller folding signature to help reduce the graphics that are constantly being reloaded in the forums. It stills links to the folding stats page.

[Schlup]

Now that our folding team has broken under the 6,000 ranking level we are listed on the Extreme Overclocking site.

Here is the link: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=163009

Schlup, here is some code for a stats box:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?t=163009&c1=00FF00&c2=000000&c3=000000&c4=0000CC&c5=F4A460

Here is what it looks like:

BPN Committed to Helping Cure Disease w/ Folding Team

The stats are updated every 3 hours.

This might look good somewhere on our homepage so that everyone will know that we are contributing to the folding project.

Done, added the code under the game servers.

[SuperTim]

I've installed the software and have been running in.  It put in our team number but for some reason my name doesn't show up on Team BPN
Any idea why?

[NavyChief]

If you just installed the software then you will have to wait for it to complete a few work units for your name to show on the team roster.

[NavyChief]

The team ranking information looks good on the home page.

Adding the code so that the text has color makes it a little easier to read. Just a thought.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

you should add something about being a folding team
as of now it shows some stats

co.co.

[Schlup]

Yeah, IDK, I think the white on black background is pretty easily readable.

CoCo, I wish we could but it is a bit limited as far as what it will say.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

what about having a banner above it or infront of it

co.co.

[Schlup]

I guess that would be possible...

[Monkey_Grill]

LOL

[NavyChief]

Oh yea, by the way, I have my PS3 online and folding each night also! 

[Schlup]

Dang It!  How am I supposed to compete with that?!?

[Schlup]

I have decided to go ahead and get the GTX 480, I will then use the EVGA step up program when the GTX 495 is released.

[NavyChief]

Be careful with the EVGA Step-Up program.

The eligibility period is only 90 days from purchase date and the step-up products are very limited.

As of now the only graphic cards available to step up to are:
- GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - 55nm  (896-P3-1255-AR)
- GeForce 9800 GT  (512-P3-N973-TR)
- GeForce 9500 GT  (512-P3-N954-TR)

Not exactly top-of-the-line cards. I doubt that the GTX 495 will be a step-up possibility. Might be safer to either get two GTX 480 and SLI them or wait and get the GTX 495 when it is released.

[Schlup]

That is only the current case because all of their cards are discontinued...they have eligibility for all products that they have stock of.  Currently they only have stock of 9500, 9800, GTX 260.  It will be updated when the 400 series is released.

[cygnus]

I have to jump on the wagon for this.  As soon as I get my OS reloaded (I am still running the trial version of win7 and need to install my true OS) so until I get around to doing it, no sense in loading it...I think it's great that BPN is helping out on this!

[Schlup]

I have to jump on the wagon for this.  As soon as I get my OS reloaded (I am still running the trial version of win7 and need to install my true OS) so until I get around to doing it, no sense in loading it...I think it's great that BPN is helping out on this!

Let us know if you need any help setting it up!

P.S. This forum topic is getting so big it's about time to setup a Folding@Home forum section!  I'll have to work on that!

[AngryYankee]

I am now folding with my PC and PS3 24/7

Let's rock and roll.

[Schlup]

Sweet, welcome to the team Yank!

[Schlup]

I'm thinking we're going to hit 2 million points by the end of the month!  Woot, go Team BPN!  Thanks to everybody that has helped the cause.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

good job guys!!

co.co.

[Arethius]

I just set up F@H on my file server since all it does is nightly backups and is on 24/7. Hopefully that helps us out some!

[Schlup]

It sure will...but if you have a video card they can do a ton more work than processors can...like 5x - 10x as much...

[Arethius]

The server is running windows server 2008 and although the drivers work for the computer the F@H-GPU version doesn't recognize them.

[Schlup]

Hmmm, I'll look into it and see if I can find a work around.

[chinokim]

i just DL'ed it and im now running it on my spare cpu. tried to run the high performance one but it freezes this cpu. i might run it on my beast one of these days. im paranoid someone is going through my cpu.

[Arethius]

all the software does is fold proteins. They don't dig any information off your computer. It's Stanford even; I mean it would be one thing if this was something from those crazy guys at M.I.T.

[Schlup]

all the software does is fold proteins. They don't dig any information off your computer. It's Stanford even; I mean it would be one thing if this was something from those crazy guys at M.I.T.

LOL...true!