It's official: Supras vs MR2s: Folding battle!

outofstep

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We'll see if the MR2 board can come up with a crew to challenge our folding team. It's a great time to join the our folding team, help us whip the MR2 guys!

The challenge to MR2OC has been posted:
http://www.mr2oc.com/showthread.php?t=100794

We'll go whip the Rx7 Club after we make short work of the MR2 kids.


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This is a playful ribbing, not a flame. We’re trying to get a friendly forum vs forum competition going here.

Personally we think that you little 4 poppers can’t hang with us. Shoot, who would even want to drive those girlie cars anyways? Not only do our Supras look better and perform vastly superior to your girlie MR2s, but our folding team can whup yours too. Many of us don’t even know why we are challenging you, because everyone knows the MR2 Kiddies can’t step up to the plate.

Supraforums has organized a folding group. We fold for the Folding Supras team; team 43596. Not only do we have fat wallets, but we have big hearts. Folding helps scientists at Stanford University cure cancer, aids, Parkinsons, you name it. Folding has already helped with some cancer research breakthroughs. It’s a tiny, little program that sits in the background of your computer and calculates data that it downloads from a Stanford server. Zero performance hit on your computer. I can run half-life 2 with F@H running and I won’t drop even a single frame per second. Bandwidth is the equivalent of only about 1 webpage per day. You will never know it’s there.

If MR2OC is interested all you have to do is create a team and enroll members. We would run the contest for 2 weeks after your team is ramped up and ready to go. The goal is to see which team can produce the most points in that 2 week period. This would give you guys the chance (however unlikely) to actually say you beat some Supras. So how bout it? If you accept we will set up official dates for the contest. The real winners will be the people suffering from cancer and the countless millions out there that this will help. Well that and inter-forum bragging rights.

Here is Stanford’s page on folding and more info on what it is:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
If you are interested download the app here: http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Supra's folding team: http://www.supraforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=272020
RX7 Club's folding team (just for ref.):
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=344115

Once again, not a flame in anyway. Just trying to rile ya'll up to help cure cancer.



Our folding team is doing great! We're adding 3 - 5 computers every day. We'll soon break the 2000 rank (out of over 37000 folding teams) milestone. That's a real testament to the generosity of our forum's members. Keep up the great work guys!

-edit in - It looks like they are realy interested and jumping on board fast to duel with us. Guys, join our team and help us wipe the floor with them!
 

lagged

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the app runs in the background on your computer, essentially donating cpu cycles to the computers at stanford to crunch data for them.

downloading the app right now! ill have to get my buddy with his mr2 involved in this :)

its nice to see people doing things to help human kind as a whole, even if it is something so small. so what! call me a hippy! :)
 

lagged

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heh, silly windows developers included a .exe extension to the linux port of this thing.

dont they realize we dont need to stinking file extensions?!

i would like to see the source though.... :dunno:
 

lagged

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this WILL use up to 100% of your CPU if other programs in the user space arent busy. while other processes are idle this will increase the load on the CPU:

Code:
joe@mlinux:/home/joe
$> top -b -n 1
top - 13:42:59 up 8 days,  4:05,  4 users,  load average: 1.29, 1.00, 0.93
Tasks:  89 total,   2 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 82.2% us,  1.9% sy,  0.2% ni, 15.3% id,  0.2% wa,  0.2% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    515444k total,   506276k used,     9168k free,    62584k buffers
Swap:  1028120k total,   123144k used,   904976k free,   164588k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
24510 joe       39  19 25644 3120 2248 R 90.1  0.6   1:10.62 FahCore_82.exe
 4306 root      15   0  205m 115m  47m S  5.8 22.9   1902:13 X
24528 joe       21   0  1964  844 1764 R  1.9  0.2   0:00.01 top
    1 root      16   0   596   80  452 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.19 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.19 events/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    5 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netlink/0
    6 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   22 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.25 kblockd/0
   32 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
   33 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:19.66 pdflush
   35 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
   34 root      18   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.66 kswapd0
  618 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
 1543 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.88 reiserfs/0
 2009 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 khubd
 2060 root       6 -10  1360  256 1212 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 udevd
 2247 root      16   0  1432  312 1212 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 hwscand
 3721 root      15   0  1548  548 1376 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 dhcpcd
 3831 root      16   0  1444  592 1276 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.11 syslogd

the programs CPU usage drops dramatically once another user app requests additional cycles:

Code:
joe@mlinux:/home/joe
$> top -b -n 1
top - 13:45:53 up 8 days,  4:08,  4 users,  load average: 1.99, 1.45, 1.12
Tasks:  90 total,   2 running,  88 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 82.2% us,  1.9% sy,  0.2% ni, 15.3% id,  0.2% wa,  0.2% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    515444k total,   513028k used,     2416k free,    55260k buffers
Swap:  1028120k total,   123144k used,   904976k free,   166356k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
24510 joe       39  19 25644 3120 2248 R 36.5  0.6   3:14.80 FahCore_82.exe
 5515 joe       17   0 67616  37m  45m S  9.1  7.5  33:44.09 amarokapp
 4306 root      15   0  206m 115m  48m S  3.7 23.0   1902:25 X
24556 joe       25   0  1964  844 1764 R  3.7  0.2   0:00.02 top
 5367 joe      -51   0 21492 6784  15m S  1.8  1.3 126:39.86 artsd
 5439 joe       25  10 29144  14m  24m S  1.8  2.8  19:59.96 kooldock
 5441 joe       17   0 48348  34m  21m S  1.8  6.9 230:53.35 gaim
22762 joe       15   0 98.9m  63m  45m S  1.8 12.6   7:20.98 mozilla-bin
    1 root      16   0   596   80  452 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.19 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.19 events/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    5 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netlink/0
    6 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   22 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.25 kblockd/0

it is a little misleading, as the folding app WILL have an effect on your computers performance, however its not a BIG deal, and you can always just run it during the day while you are not at your computer if you leave it on all the time (like me).
 

bgrieger

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And is that not the purpose? I always thought the program was supposed to donate any unused cycles possible...
 

Travisimo

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lol whip rx7 group? we are officialy gettin served right now. They are ranked 123 and have 208 processors in the last 50 days.Sounds like a challenge. We'll need big help from all the supra owners out there. If we get a few farmers we'll be able to take em down a peg.