Folding@Home: Team OCIA.net [Archive]

playafly187

10-13-2004, 04:55 PM

Do you commonly leave your computer on for long periods of time doing nothing? Why not join the OCIA.net Folding@Home team and make good use of those CPU cycles by combining them with our teams effort to help fight disease!

Check out our Folding FAQ (http://forums.ocia.net/viewtopic.php?t=768) thread.

You can download the client program from Stanford (http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html).

Once you have the program installed, it will ask you for a username. Any name that is not already taken should work just fine. Next, you have the option to enter a team id. The OCIA.net team id is: 12913

At any time, you may visit the OCIA.net Team Stats (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=12913) page to see how you rank.

We look forward to having you on the team, working side by side with OCIA.net staff to help potentially find cures for these life threatening diseases.

ViperX883

10-13-2004, 04:58 PM

I have a pretty through FAQ that I prepared for F@H if you would be interested in that Playa. Let me know... it's a simple matter of copy and paste.

playafly187

10-13-2004, 04:58 PM

sure thing, that would be excellent :)

ViperX883

10-13-2004, 05:09 PM

Aright, I put it up. I may need to add some thigns to it once in a while, so pleae leave me some editing privileges if you do anythign to it.

Thanks!

playafly187

10-13-2004, 09:51 PM

just for reference, we as of this posting, we have 38 members and ranked 423.

ViperX883

10-14-2004, 12:14 AM

I did do a check though, and it looks like only 3 of the members are still actively contributing. I hope that number grows over the coming weeks.

playafly187

10-14-2004, 12:16 AM

yeah, i hope to get several of the older members going at it again, as well as some new faces :)

ViperX883

10-15-2004, 02:02 PM

Caj Darkmoon

10-15-2004, 02:21 PM

Oh fine, I'll let it abuse my poor little computer. :(

playafly187

10-15-2004, 03:33 PM

siq

10-15-2004, 03:39 PM

well honestly i tried to start doing it and come to find out my prescott core doesn't like it. so until i can keep it from frying (i did reduce the % of cpu it uses down to 10%) i can't do squat.

Caj Darkmoon

10-15-2004, 03:45 PM

Gee... no 'Welcome to the Team!' or 'Hey, that's cool caj!'. Nope, I'm unnapreciated.

:barf:
:vomit:

playafly187

10-15-2004, 04:10 PM

Gee... no 'Welcome to the Team!' or 'Hey, that's cool caj!'. Nope, I'm unnapreciated.

:barf:
:vomit:

hehe, welcome board! :) :)

ViperX883

10-15-2004, 07:41 PM

Gee... no 'Welcome to the Team!' or 'Hey, that's cool caj!'. Nope, I'm unnapreciated.

:barf:
:vomit:

Sorry, haven't been on since earlier. SO....

Welcome to the team!!! It's good to see that we have some people here interested in the program.

ViperX883

10-15-2004, 07:43 PM

well honestly i tried to start doing it and come to find out my prescott core doesn't like it. so until i can keep it from frying (i did reduce the % of cpu it uses down to 10%) i can't do squat.

There's no way it can make your comp run that hot at 10% or even 50%. I mean, games use more than 50% of teh cpu... what temps are you getting???

ViperX883

10-15-2004, 10:43 PM

I can't believe only one member has posted in here so far... that is really kind of a letdown. I thought peeps would be more interested. Maybe you should make some of those contests for folders only... that would get people to join up. Just a thought...

yeah, i have thought about that in the past, but not sure how it could be done effectively.... people could just join for a week then quit...

Yeah, some would. That's what happened at EOC. But folding is good competition, and that makes it kinda fun. I have no doubt that if you held a couple things for folders only then some of them would get hooked and stick around. Heck, how do you think I first got interested?

playafly187

10-15-2004, 10:44 PM

hehe, good point... i cant actually remember how i got started with it, but i do have a passion for it, as it is something that i hold close to heart

silenze

10-19-2004, 10:43 PM

Starting back up...

2 right now:

P4-E 2.8Ghz / 800Mhz FSB / 1MB L2, 512MB PC3200 DDR2, Windows XP

P3 800Mhz (no, not FSB, that's the clock :lol: ), 320MB SDram, Slackware linux

Don't know if I'll be running it on this machine...

more starting soon...

one for sure soon is: P4 2.53Ghz 533FSB 512MB PC2700...

Maybe a couple/few P4 2.0Ghz 512MB machines too.... :twisted: :twisted:

playafly187

10-19-2004, 10:46 PM

woohoo!

[smilie=hello2.gif]

ViperX883

10-20-2004, 09:45 AM

Welcome aboard Silenze... that's a decent amount of power you have there. I suspect you will quickly become th enumber one producer on teh team.

silenze

10-20-2004, 11:24 AM

welcome aboard? hehe.. look at the team statistics.. :mrgreen:

ViperX883

10-20-2004, 01:03 PM

Perhaps I should have said welcome back??? I wasn't here for the previous folding endeavors, so I wasn't sure...

silenze

10-20-2004, 01:05 PM

silenze

10-26-2004, 03:00 PM

Update on machines folding (at night by task schedular):

P3 800Mhz / 330MB SDR linux (24/7)
P4 B 2.53Ghz / 512MB DDR xp pro
P4 E 2.8Ghz / 512MB DDR2 xp pro
P4 E 3.0Ghz / 512MB DDR xp pro

Still might add a couple more... we'll see. :mrgreen:

playafly187

10-26-2004, 04:15 PM

woot!!! [smilie=icon_rr.gif]

ViperX883

10-26-2004, 05:01 PM

Good job Silenze. KEEP FOLDING!!!

Caj Darkmoon

10-26-2004, 10:50 PM

Darn, so how does my XP2100+ matter again? :P

ViperX883

10-27-2004, 12:37 AM

Darn, so how does my XP2100+ matter again? :P

Every little bit helps!!!

silenze

11-01-2004, 01:37 PM

Heheh I'm winning on the production side.. :mrgreen:

Smoke

11-11-2004, 10:23 PM

I now support F@H

wOOt!!!

playafly187

11-12-2004, 09:57 AM

I now support F@H

wOOt!!!

hehe, team OCIA.net i wonder? ;)

siq

11-12-2004, 12:06 PM

I for a while couldn't get mine to work as it would lock up my computer. I've worked on it for a while and finally it works almost flawlessly (has the occasional lock up). So I'll set it up for our team and fold away.

playafly187

11-12-2004, 02:59 PM

what was causing the problems?

siq

11-12-2004, 09:36 PM

I haven't a clue. Still haven't figured it out.

playafly187

11-13-2004, 11:40 AM

Hrm, I just dont get it. The team has had 15+ active processors the past few weeks, but our team ranking actually dropped 2 spots?

How is this possible?

KryoNexus

11-15-2004, 09:52 AM

because other teams are folding more than we are

ViperX883

11-23-2004, 02:53 PM

Keep gathering those members and I guarantee you that you will start to rise up teh charts.

silenze

12-29-2004, 11:37 AM

So um, anyone folding? Doesn't look like it:

Only activity in the last 24 hours..

http://www.fawkit.org/fah_24hr.jpg

Hmm I need to add more machines...

ViperX883

01-07-2005, 03:18 AM

I don't really understand what needs to be done to attract new members... hopefully time will bring them. I'm fresh out of ideas.

silenze

01-21-2005, 12:23 PM

Update on the number of machines I have going... all doing at least 6 hours of folding per night via task scheduler..

P4 B 2.53Ghz / 512MB DDR xp pro
P4 E 2.8Ghz / 512MB DDR2 xp pro
P4 E 3.0Ghz / 512MB DDR xp pro
P4 E 3.0Ghz / 512MB DDR xp pro
P4 2.0Ghz / 512MB DDR 2000 pro

Should start making some good points soon... :twisted:

ViperX883

01-23-2005, 04:13 AM

Good to hear silenze... we need some power coming from these forums. I know all those overclocked machines are aching to fold.

achilles

01-23-2005, 05:07 PM

Now I'm folding looks interesting and since I have tons of time where I can't use my computer (school,work,Sleep) I'll let the thing do tons of folding.

01-25-2005, 02:50 PM

Achilles, welcome aboard the team!!! It's great to see that we are getting at leats a few new members form time to time. If we pick up one new member each week, then we will have 55 by the end of teh year. Hopefully the number of members will increase exponentially as well.

ViperX883

01-25-2005, 03:05 PM

playafly187

01-27-2005, 01:34 PM

odd, i thought we had guest posting disabled...

Skypilot

06-21-2005, 02:52 AM

I will start runnin' this deal on my old junky computer. Glad to help.

GriMo

06-21-2005, 03:08 AM

just found this, also started it today... looking threw the stats tho i see overclockers australia seem to be killing it... given im an aussie who should i be going for??? although in saying that they seem to have approx 5000 members... should just get my uncle to run it at work, thatll bump us up the ranks a wee bit....

playafly187

06-21-2005, 04:24 PM

glad to have you guys aboard! yeah, overclockers australia and other huge sites like hardocp are way high up there in the rankings. perpahs one day we will make it there too, hehe

silenze

06-21-2005, 04:38 PM

My Intel p4 minions are generating points nicely. :twisted:

GriMo

06-21-2005, 06:11 PM

*shakes head while thinking about all the old crappy pc's that have been burnt shot stabbed and runover at my discretion*... it would seem they now have a use....

FunkZ

06-21-2005, 06:17 PM

Well, not really. There's a law of diminishing returns. You get a system much under a Ghz and you're not going to be very productive. Down around 500Mhz and lower it's probably not worth the electricity to run it.

silenze

06-21-2005, 06:29 PM

FunkZ

06-21-2005, 08:31 PM

I ran it on a Pentium 200 once and it took 4 days to finish a wu. And that was probably 2 years ago when the wu were worth like 10 points, and a 2 Ghz machine could do one in about 4 hours.

GriMo

06-21-2005, 11:13 PM

p1154_L939_K12M_298K_DT_250ps 393 46.00 68.00 241.00 400 TINKER

thatd be right... first one i get is the 3rd biggest they have:P.. well, when i wrote this it was anyway

Skypilot

07-13-2005, 03:01 AM

I just d/led F@H, Im doing the first thingy hopefully get on the board when I finish the first thingy. Glad to be on the team

ViperX883

07-21-2005, 11:57 AM

Good to see some more people jumping onboard. I ahven't been around very much to post because I have been looking for a job something nasty recently, but I do check in from time to time. You guys are doing quite well. Just don't give up and remember that everythign helps, except maybe that Pentium 200 someone was talking about. The pollution generated as a result of its use of electricity would probably more than negate any positive effect from folding.

El_Seano

09-13-2005, 10:26 PM

I just joined up. Ive been folding for a few days(used to use SETI @ home) now but im not showing up on the team page. I can check the stats of the team and on the screen saver it even displays the team number. Does it take a few days to update or something?

silenze

09-13-2005, 10:40 PM

Should update the night after you submit your first work unit I think...

What nickname?

El_Seano

09-14-2005, 06:38 AM

using the same one

El_Seano

09-15-2005, 02:26 PM

im listed on the page now. 8)

silenze

09-15-2005, 02:52 PM

Yey :!:

El_Seano

01-09-2006, 09:25 PM

entered top 10 baby!

silenze

01-09-2006, 09:32 PM

I completely forget about F@H..... because it's running/stopping automatically on some machines at work.. looks like I'm doing pretty good though. 8)

El_Seano

01-09-2006, 09:34 PM

yeah, I would say you are doing reasonably well

royalk4

03-06-2006, 08:55 PM

I just signed up and I am a little confused. I joined the OCIA team and F@H is running now. My WU is expected to end in 10 days. Does this seem weird? I am running at 2.6GHz also how do I set up F@H so that I can run it while I go to school and then stop it when I come home??? Any help would be great

FunkZ

03-07-2006, 01:03 AM

The simplest method would be to use the Windows graphical client. This puts an icon on your taskbar and you can start or pause it from there.

10 days to complete a folding unit seems unreasonably high for a 2.6 Ghz machine. Did you change the priority F@H runs at or any of the other default settings?

royalk4

03-07-2006, 02:36 AM

no... it eventually lowered so that it would be tomorrow. I had to pause it though while I was doing some homework and such

silenze

03-07-2006, 11:41 AM

Woo I'm close to reaching 100,000 points 8)

royalk4

03-08-2006, 01:20 PM

Alright I just entered the top 35 of OCIA hopefully when I come home today I will be in the top 30

zip

03-11-2006, 05:34 AM

I know this may sound stupid but I wanted to ask you guys, what does this folding mean.....and how does it work?
If you consider not answering please give me a link.........

silenze

03-11-2006, 04:40 PM

This explains it well :mrgreen:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

I have an X2 3800+ w/2Gb of ram dual-folding 24/7 at work now too. :P

kcaverly

03-19-2006, 10:26 PM

Well, I joined up for team OCIA.
However, my video card has been RMA'd so I'm running on 8bit color, the F@H screen is just flat black most of the time, i think its running though
What does it normally show?

Zenphic

03-25-2006, 05:55 PM

Team Number, your name, how many projets you've done, frames completed, ETA and some molecular graphics.... Something like this:

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2634/13jl1.th.png (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=13jl1.png)

Not much interesting information. You can check the unitinfo.txt (% completed) and FAHlog.txt (Which frame completed), which are in the F@H folder, to see your status instead of the graph

Avalanche

04-07-2006, 06:42 PM

FYI, I have also join you guys in F@H...

Avalanche

04-07-2006, 06:43 PM

I have an X2 3800+ w/2Gb of ram dual-folding 24/7 at work now too. :P

Is this because it is a daul core Processor?

silenze

04-07-2006, 07:23 PM

Yes, each core is running it's own folding@home process. 8)

Avalanche

04-07-2006, 07:25 PM

Sorry I read the post about it after I replied.. But anyways that is way cool that the dual core can do things like that...!!!!

kcaverly

04-07-2006, 08:51 PM

yup, I've got my x2 @ 2.6 dual folding all day while im at school and work

Kevin

SHaCK

05-29-2006, 04:36 PM

I now support F@H

wOOt!!!

same here! , i've been viewing the site/forum for a damn while now but never posted or contribute in anyway ( all my questions allready had answers ;) ). I decided to let my prescott @ work folding over the night! As well as my XPs rigs at home.. I heard of team Mac OSX being ranked higher then ocia right ? Guys.. we must take them down! :twisted:

robaita

08-04-2006, 04:23 PM

I heard of team Mac OSX being ranked higher then ocia right ? Guys.. we must take them down! :twisted:

...down with that fruit company... im in.

KnottAnneEmo

06-10-2007, 12:40 PM

is this still active? if so i'll join in

IvyBat

06-10-2007, 12:57 PM

there's a few processors going

i'm on and off sometimes

you should join in though, if for nothing else the motive behind folding@home itself

KnottAnneEmo

06-10-2007, 01:24 PM

is the team number still the same ie: 12913?

IvyBat

06-10-2007, 01:56 PM

roger rabbit (yes)

KnottAnneEmo

06-10-2007, 03:41 PM

the links in the guide dont go to the ocia team standings

FunkZ

06-11-2007, 12:57 AM

Try EOCF's stats
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=12913

My rigs have been stuck doing 340x projects lately... all those 206 point Gromacs. Cores that should be doing 300-500ppd are getting like 70-130.

KnottAnneEmo

06-11-2007, 12:49 PM

well i found ocias stats, just wondering if there is someone who could fix that, i almost put in the wrong team number

FunkZ

06-11-2007, 02:51 PM

the links in the guide dont go to the ocia team standings

By guide, do you mean the #1 post by Playafly in this thread? He lists the team number and the link worked for me, unless it just got changed recently?

KnottAnneEmo

06-11-2007, 03:27 PM

the ones in the "Folding@Home FAQ, Links, Programs, etc." thread

Avalanche

06-11-2007, 04:02 PM

I have not looked at the stats in a long time... Woohoo I ma in 6th place... Man Funkz you are off the chart. 12 CPUs? Wow!!! You go!!!

FunkZ

06-11-2007, 04:09 PM

the ones in the "Folding@Home FAQ, Links, Programs, etc." thread

Thanks for the tip, should be fixed now! There was also some outdated information and links which I cleaned up.

Man Funkz you are off the chart. 12 CPUs? Wow!!! You go!!!

LOL, thanks. I have concentrated all of my folding powa for team OCIA.net since around Christmas. It's actually only 7 machines, but 5 of them are dual-core.