Yes points are assigned to each type of WU depending on long it takes to finish on a 2.8GHz P4 system. I dont remember if it has HT or not but I know it would only be with one process running.
Hi Guys. Thanks a lot for the info. Yes, I got the info and the impression re: scoring being worth 110 x days to process WUs from the Stamford F@H FAQ. It's very confusing. I just took another look ... "How do you determine how many points a work unit is worth? Before putting out any new work unit, we benchmark it on a dedicated 2.8GHz Pentium 4 machine with SSE2 disabled (more specifically, as reported by /proc/cpuinfo on linux: vendor_id : GenuineIntel, cpu family : 15, model : 2, model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, stepping : 9, cpu MHz : 2806.438, cache size : 512 KB). This machine runs linux, so all WUs are benchmarked with the linux core.
We plug the results of this into the following formula:
points = 110 * (daysPerWU)
where daysPerWU is the number of days it took to complete the unit. This equation was chosen to match the points for previous Gromacs WUs to the previous point system. The upshot is that Tinker WUs will be worth more than before we set up the new points (i.e. before April 2004)."
But of course I can see now they're using it as the basis of this fixed 'score'.
And just for the record, I'm running a 2.4GHz P4 with 756Mb DDR Ram and my first WUs took about 3 days or so to complete a 24x pointer. Only running one setup of the folding client tho.
Hi Bothered. Thanks for your message. Nice to hear from another Mancunian, even though I'm only resident here rather than born.
My PC stays on 24/7 and has done since the early 90s actually - goes back to the days I suppose when I ran a BBS, before the dawn of the Internet as the preferred means of mass communication. I sometimes play online poker and sometimes chat on messenger (Yahoo or MSN) but rarely push my PC to its limits unless I'm doing some video/DVD work or occasionally playing my game of Football Club Manager 2004. Gone off that a little recently but anyway decided that I could happily accommodate the folding program without interferring with the normal day to day stuff I do on the computer so unless something seriously goes wrong with it (hard disk crash has been known a couple of times) or my Internet connection gets lost, I keep it on all the time. As I have always had it like this, I don't have anything else to compare it to but like I explained earlier, I was under a miscomprehension to begin with - having totally misunderstood the way that the points were worked out. My own silly fault I guess but at least I understand it now.
Welcome - Nice to see more from the UK joining. Seems there is a large North West membership slant... Must be our warm hearts and generous pockets? Either that or we are all bloody mad...
We keep threating to have a UK LAN so keep popping back to the site and we may get around to it if any of us can find the time to sort it out!!
Hey guys. How's everyone? Good I hope. Just came browsing looking for some banners and/or sigs to use in Emails. Am just signing up for a forum elsewhere (Manchester Event Volunteering to be precise) and thoght it would be great to use a team 93 f@h sig so anyone who wanted more info and/or to sign up could do so by clicking on it and going to the relevant site for the info, download etc but you know I couldn't find one. What gives? Does one exist and if so where is it please? If not how about it? If it exists any chance of a link somewhere easy to find to take us there please? This could be good for folding in general and the team in particular, couldn't it? I'm sure there must be something somewhere and I'm no Internet/computer greenhorn but I'm blowed if I can find anything. Please help!
Hello again. Further to what I just said above, here's the kind of thing I mean ... just found it in another thread/part of the forum but this is ideal ... a nice looking banner specifically for the team taking them to a page with links to the program info, a download page, the forum link and so on. This is BRILLIANT and I'd have thought the kind of thing there should be more of (variants and sizes?) for people to put on their own web sites, email sigs and so on. Also other forums in their sigs, similar to this one. Surely there must be SOMETHING like that somewhere, mustn't there? If not why on earth not? If it is, PLEASE can a link be PROMINTENTLY posted where it may be found? I'd love to use the one at the bottom of THIS page .... http://www.joinfolding.com/index.htm but don't know how. Can't cut and paste it or see the HTML. So where did it come from? Why can't it be duplicated? I'm AMAZED ... but still believe it's just that I can't find 'em rather than they don't exist. Always been my problem ... too trusting!
Check out http://www.joinfolding.com/ Team 93 is the one to join, tell ppl that preferably the username should be CyrixInstead. However any username will do To be honest I found that the sig generator has plenty of good banners for folding - obviously you've found it as you have a sig already...
Hmm or am I not getting your question right?
\Edit - Hmm I posted before your last post. But I do like the folding images on the sig generator - you could use one of them and have a link to joinfolding or even our own folding forum beginners thread.
Hi mmonnin. Thanks for the suggestion but that's not really what I had in mind. Seeing my stats sig isn't really going to impart any info and to be frank, my HTML knowledge and understanding isn't really up to the job. I just went to have a look at the sig as it stands but it's too complicated. As I said, there's a great looking one at the bottom of http://www.joinfolding.com/index.htm but I can't find a way to either cut and paste it over or to see/view the HTML to copy it manually. I have to say I'm quite surprised this hasn't been thought of before - most sites have them for people to use on their own sites or in their email sigs etc for various things and yet all I can find is a button on Stamford's site without any links to the page and wouldn't lead anyone to our team either.
Does anyone know if there's a reason why nobody has created any of these? Is it nobody has thought of it or had time to do it or what? I'd offer myself if my HTML coding/programming was up to it but I'm afraid it's not. Just needs to be one like the one I suggested (and/or something similar) that's less than 250 characters but will be succinct and noticable enough that people will want to click on it and learn more. I've seen some where it looks like a black rectangle and you hover the mouse over it and it shows what it's all about but again I can't copy it or find out the HTML.
So am I being naive here and missing something fundamental or does anyone else agree with me this is something which could be REALLY useful for recruitment both to our team AND to folding@home in general?
You will need an answer from the computer wizz's on most of what you asked.
However........You want to know about the black bit in my sig???
Ok, some time ago, one of S-M's gentleman came up with that one. (credit where credit is due, thanks Mondi ). If it wasn't for Mondi, i certainly would be none the wiser.
[spoiler My name is Nick and i fold for Team #93 as Mancunian . [/spoiler
All you need to do is put a square bracket at the end of each and put your choice of wording in. Do this at the bottom of your signature, if this is where you want it.
If i add the square brackets now, you will see it like this.
My name is Nick and i fold for Team #93 as Mancunian .
If you can find a place to host the attached picture, I think I may have figured out how to do it. If and when you get the pic hosted somewhere send me a PM with the URL and I'll PM you back with what (I think!) will do what you want.
Hi Guys. Thanks a million for your help, suggestions and ideas. I really appreciate and yes, mmonnin, that's PERFECT and just what I had in mind so thank you for that. I'll add it to some of the sites which I use (Multiply, Friendster etc) and try to spread the word.
Hey General, up to you of course but how about adding it somewhere in one of the stickies or team pages for others to use, as I've suggested before? I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses other websites and forums and having it/them somewhere easy to find would be a good thing I think. What do you think?
Yes, thank you General, that's great. Much appreciated too.
Just as an aside, I was a volunteer here in Manchester for the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and since then have been doing voluntary work via the PGVP (Post Games Volunteer Project). They have now renamed/branded and have a new site at http://www.mev.org.uk and I'm in the process of getting my forum registration sorted out but teething problem at the moment. Once I get in, I'll be able to add it to my sig there but more importantly, bring it to the attention of the Manchester Event Project volunteers and staff etc at the council and who knows, maybe and hopefully we could see a lot more new recruits soon? ... Fingers crossed!
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I use EM3 and you can get that em-dc.com.
We plug the results of this into the following formula:
points = 110 * (daysPerWU)
where daysPerWU is the number of days it took to complete the unit. This equation was chosen to match the points for previous Gromacs WUs to the previous point system. The upshot is that Tinker WUs will be worth more than before we set up the new points (i.e. before April 2004)."
But of course I can see now they're using it as the basis of this fixed 'score'.
And just for the record, I'm running a 2.4GHz P4 with 756Mb DDR Ram and my first WUs took about 3 days or so to complete a 24x pointer. Only running one setup of the folding client tho.
I started leaving mine on 24-7 for the points, it makes a big difference.
My PC stays on 24/7 and has done since the early 90s actually - goes back to the days I suppose when I ran a BBS, before the dawn of the Internet as the preferred means of mass communication. I sometimes play online poker and sometimes chat on messenger (Yahoo or MSN) but rarely push my PC to its limits unless I'm doing some video/DVD work or occasionally playing my game of Football Club Manager 2004. Gone off that a little recently but anyway decided that I could happily accommodate the folding program without interferring with the normal day to day stuff I do on the computer so unless something seriously goes wrong with it (hard disk crash has been known a couple of times) or my Internet connection gets lost, I keep it on all the time. As I have always had it like this, I don't have anything else to compare it to but like I explained earlier, I was under a miscomprehension to begin with - having totally misunderstood the way that the points were worked out. My own silly fault I guess but at least I understand it now.
No problem. Up here we accept anybody right off. Ask Shorty.
We keep threating to have a UK LAN so keep popping back to the site and we may get around to it if any of us can find the time to sort it out!!
Marcus | PressX
Thanks.
Hmm or am I not getting your question right?
\Edit - Hmm I posted before your last post. But I do like the folding images on the sig generator - you could use one of them and have a link to joinfolding or even our own folding forum beginners thread.
~Cyrix
Does anyone know if there's a reason why nobody has created any of these? Is it nobody has thought of it or had time to do it or what? I'd offer myself if my HTML coding/programming was up to it but I'm afraid it's not. Just needs to be one like the one I suggested (and/or something similar) that's less than 250 characters but will be succinct and noticable enough that people will want to click on it and learn more. I've seen some where it looks like a black rectangle and you hover the mouse over it and it shows what it's all about but again I can't copy it or find out the HTML.
So am I being naive here and missing something fundamental or does anyone else agree with me this is something which could be REALLY useful for recruitment both to our team AND to folding@home in general?
Thoughts please guys n gals.
However........You want to know about the black bit in my sig???
Ok, some time ago, one of S-M's gentleman came up with that one. (credit where credit is due, thanks Mondi
[spoiler My name is Nick and i fold for Team #93 as Mancunian . [/spoiler
All you need to do is put a square bracket at the end of each and put your choice of wording in. Do this at the bottom of your signature, if this is where you want it.
If i add the square brackets now, you will see it like this.
Now go have some more fun.
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Jon :ausflag:
This HTML code will universally work to make that pic show up anywhere that HTML is allowed:
[PHP]<img src="http://www.joinfolding.com/images/joinfoldingad.png" />[/PHP]
<img src="http://www.joinfolding.com/images/joinfoldingad.png" />
To get the web address of a pic: right-click and choose "Copy image location" in Firefox or "Properties" in IE.
To view the HTML code of a page: View -> Page Source (IE is just "Source")
Another note: That "Spoiler" thing is a custom hack on Short-Media. It won't work anywhere else. You'd need to custom-code it.
Thanks, chum.
<a href="http://www.joinfolding.com" target=_blank><img src="http://www.joinfolding.com/images/joinfoldingad.png" /></a>
Spread the good word, Team!
Hey General, up to you of course but how about adding it somewhere in one of the stickies or team pages for others to use, as I've suggested before? I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses other websites and forums and having it/them somewhere easy to find would be a good thing I think. What do you think?
Just as an aside, I was a volunteer here in Manchester for the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and since then have been doing voluntary work via the PGVP (Post Games Volunteer Project). They have now renamed/branded and have a new site at http://www.mev.org.uk and I'm in the process of getting my forum registration sorted out but teething problem at the moment. Once I get in, I'll be able to add it to my sig there but more importantly, bring it to the attention of the Manchester Event Project volunteers and staff etc at the council and who knows, maybe and hopefully we could see a lot more new recruits soon? ... Fingers crossed!