The ICx Project

What is the ICx Project?

The ICx Project is an effort to create dedicated Folding@Home machines through cash and part donations to Team Icrontic. Computers are assembled using these donations and hosted by a team member with the expectation the host care for it and have it run nothing but Folding@Home 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The first computer went online January, 2002.


ICx-related links and donation info

Inquiries about part donations should go to Sledgehammer70.

Inquiries about cash donations should go to ghoosdum. You can donate via PayPal by buying a "subscription" as an ICx Donor.


Host Requirements:

1) Team member must be in good standing and have shown dedication to Team Icrontic and the Folding@Home project for the long haul. Past participation and contributions are taken into account.

2) The member must be able to provide the computer with a safe and secure environment for an extended period of time - this means an indeterminate period.

3) You must be knowledgeable in building computers and loading operating systems, and all that is entailed. In the event the rig should fail, the host is expected to make a good effort in trying to repair the rig and report to the team what is going on.

4) Dedicated, "always-on" Internet connection 24/7, 56K and up, and a free port on an existing network (we don't normally supply routers/hubs/switches with the ICx rig). If the internet connection should fail, the host is expected to make good faith efforts to get back online as soon as is possible.

5) The computer must run and "fold" 24/7. (Yes, the Team is generous enough to allow you to go on vacation and turn it off.) Keep in mind that 24-hour operating will increase your electricity bill by up to a few dollars per month. The Team expects the host to make good faith efforts to keep the rig running as much as is possible.

6) The computer shall fold for Team #93 under the user name of "ICx" exclusively unless it has been voted on to make it differently. The team will monitor the rig’s output through Stanford’s statistics.

7) In the event the host can no longer host the ICx rig or he/she is not able to run the rig for an extended period of time (due to things like being called to duty in the armed forces, for example) the team must be notified so that a new host can be found by normal host selection process.

8) What does the host get out of this? The pride of being able to host a ICx Folding rig, one of very few to earn this privilege. To be able to help Team Icrontic be the best team and the F@H project find cures.

9) Hosts must provide contact information such as phone number and address in case an emergency contact needs to be made.

10) Hosts must sign the hosting contract before the computer will be shipped to them.


Disclaimers:

1) All Team-donated parts that go into a ICx donated Folding@Home computer are property of the Icrontic.com Folding@Home Team.

2) Icrontic.com, and/or its owner(s), and/or administrator(s), and/or moderator(s), and/or member(s), shall not be held responsible or liable for any losses incurred either directly, or indirectly as a result of hosting any ICx rig. The host selected shall bear full responsibility for said rig. By applying to be selected as a host, you acknowledge you understand, agree with, and will abide by these rules as set forth here and as may be amended in the future as required.


Note:

This entire project and the rules set forth above is/are based on TRUST. We, the team, trust that you, the host, will do all you can to keep the rig folding as much as is possible, in its name, for the Icrontic.com Folding Team. You, the host, trust, that we, Team Icrontic, support you in every way we can.


Host Selection:

1) All hosts are selected by a vote from the ICx Committee. Each member of the committee ranks the hosts in the order they feel they are qualified. Each first place vote received 5 points, each second place vote receives 4 points, third receives 3 points, fourth receives 2 points, and fifth receives 1 point. Ranks after fifth receive no points. Scores are tallied from all the members’ rankings and the highest total receives the rigs.

This system is used so that disagreements are taken into account, as opposed simply taking a poll on who should receive it. This way, if a minority thinks that the person that everyone else is voting for is not at all qualified, their no-point rankings could shift the selection to the person who was the second choice. An example:

Member 1 ranks like this: 1) Joe 2) Tom 3) Sara 4) Fred 5) Luke
Member 2 ranks like this: 1) Joe 2) Tom 3) Fred 4) Luke 5) Sara
Member 3 strongly feels Joe should not have a rig and votes like this: 1) Tom 2) Sara 3) Fred 4) Luke and chooses to not rank Joe at all.

In this situation, the points would total this way:
Tom: 13
Joe: 10
Sara: 8
Fred: 8
Luke: 5

Because the third member disagreed, the vote went to Tom whom they all more or less agreed upon. This method is useful for finding the member that the most people can agree upon, rather than simple majority.

2) Team #93 Icrontic Committee Members are as follows:

• GHoosdum (Treasurer)
• QCH2002 (Chairman)
• Sledgehammer70 (Parts Manager)
• csimon (a leading team member)
• Kwitko (host of IC4 & Great guy)
• mt_goat (a leading team member)

The Committee elect new members to committee.



The Hosting Contract: