hostgator.com does folding@home

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by Clinton

Well... Here's three of my computers, have a few more but don't feel like listing out their specs, as these three I have the specs saved.

Power Supply: 600W Thermaltake (SLI Compatible) (Silent PurePower Edition)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (1066MHz FSB) (8MB Cache)
Motherboard: nVidia 680i Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 680i SLI) (A1 Revision)
Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 800MHz XMS2 (Dual Channel) (Extreme-Performance)
Hard Drive 1: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB (By: eVGA / Asus) (PCI-Express)
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE (Up to 7.1 Channel)
Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 3 (Silent Artic Cooling (TwisterBoost Overclocked)
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Power Supply: 1200W Thermaltake (Triple and Quad SLI Compatible) (Toughpower Edition)
Processor: 2x Intel Core 2 Quad QX9775 3.20GHz (1600MHz FSB)
Motherboard: Intel Skulltrail D5400XS V8 Platform
Memory: 4GB DDR3 Corsair at 1800MHz Dominator DHX (Extreme-Performance)
Hard Drive 1: 150GB Western Digital Raptor (10K RPM) (16MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Hard Drive 2: 150GB Western Digital Raptor (10K RPM) (16MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Raid Option: Setup hard drive 1 and hard drive 2 in a Raid 0 Stripe Configuration (Expert)
Hard Drive 3: 1TB Western Digital (7200 RPM) (16MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Video Card: 3x SLI Triple (nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB)
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi FPS Fatal1ty Champion (Includes Front I/O Unit)
Physics Card: Ageia PhysX P1 128MB
Cooling: Liquid Chilled FrostBite Dual Loop System for CPU & Triple SLI
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My old crappy computer
450Watt Power
AMD Sempron 3300+
320GB Hard Drive
512MB RAM
Onboard Sound and Graphics

Man that 2nd machine is some serious hardware. The question of course is : "Can it play Crysis at full resolution and max settings?" If so, what kind of frame rate do you get? Just curious as I recently updated my machine and am thinking of going a bit further when I have the resources to do so.


PS. Thanks for getting onboard calum. Up to 311 active CPU's now. Serious stuff

[Clinton]

I don't have Crysis haha :/ I'm thinking about getting it though, then I get to put the system to the test.

[Kazper]

Nice idea I've signed up my PS3 and desktop computer for the team ^^

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by Kazper

Nice idea I've signed up my PS3 and desktop computer for the team ^^

Yeah the PS3 is incredible, I have mine running all my folding units. It's been on for god knows how long now. Probably upwards of 50 days.

[calum]

I keep trying to do this, but on my Vista PC it never gets started.

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by calum

I keep trying to do this, but on my Vista PC it never gets started.

There's your problem right there. Vista!

[striddy]

Originally Posted by calum

I keep trying to do this, but on my Vista PC it never gets started.

Works fine for me on Vista

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by striddy

Works fine for me on Vista

Guess you just have all the luck, or perhaps you just downloaded the correct client.

Are you trying the Vista client here :

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...ng@Home503.EXE

Or one of the *high* performance Vista Clients?

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

I would be willing to bet one of them would work.

[calum]

I had the normal one made for Vista but it gets stuck on "Waiting for Core: #" and everytime I minimise and maximise the window the number goes up by 2. It is really weird, I kept doing it and it went past 100 but nothing changed.

I will try the high performance one.

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by calum

I had the normal one made for Vista but it gets stuck on "Waiting for Core: #" and everytime I minimise and maximise the window the number goes up by 2. It is really weird, I kept doing it and it went past 100 but nothing changed.

I will try the high performance one.

You're probably having a firewall issue. I'd check Vista's extremely restrictive firewall rules and see if you can whitelist it. This forum thread I found has some pretty decent details as well on the issue and you might be able to find a fix there :

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=213587

And on the brighter side, the hostgator.com team is about to break the 1,000th ranking mark out of all 100,000+ folding teams :

http://kakaostats.com/tsum.php?t=122600

[calum]

Woohoo fixed it, my Firewall wasn't letting it download the stuff it needed.

I whitelisted the application and port 8080 and now it works, thanks Ford

[IronWarrior]

I don't have a super computer like most of you guys, but I thought I join in, since I pretty much waste my time doing none productive stuff, I thought I might as well help in whatever small way I can.

Running under the same name in folding.

[jakeruston]

Well done guys, get as many points as possible! http://www.jakeruston.com/image12.jpg

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by IronWarrior

I don't have a super computer like most of you guys, but I thought I join in, since I pretty much waste my time doing none productive stuff, I thought I might as well help in whatever small way I can.

Running under the same name in folding.

In this battle it's not the size or strength of each individual unit, but the combined work power they can accomplish. Anything and everything helps (except maybe a machine slower than 650mhz)

Thanks to everyone here for helping a good cause. If anyone has any ideas on a "hostgator for humanity" logo or banner I'd love to see them.

[Kazper]

Originally Posted by GatorFord

Yeah the PS3 is incredible, I have mine running all my folding units. It's been on for god knows how long now. Probably upwards of 50 days.

It certainly is Although I was a bit surprised when I checked it this morning. Until now my PS3 has only been given small (100k frame) projects that it finishes in about 2 hours, but this morning it was given a 1.2M frame project that'll take about a day and a half to complete!!!

Perhaps it's because I've had it running so much that they figure I can return that size project in time. Anyway it's pretty cool, but my jaw dropped when I saw it! Also I guess that's evidence that the PS3 doesn't only do small WU's.

Originally Posted by GatorFord

If anyone has any ideas on a "hostgator for humanity" logo or banner I'd love to see them.

I do know someone that might find that an interesting little challenge. I'll just mention it to her and see what she says

[GatorFord]

Originally Posted by Kazper

It certainly is Although I was a bit surprised when I checked it this morning. Until now my PS3 has only been given small (100k frame) projects that it finishes in about 2 hours, but this morning it was given a 1.2M frame project that'll take about a day and a half to complete!!!

Perhaps it's because I've had it running so much that they figure I can return that size project in time. Anyway it's pretty cool, but my jaw dropped when I saw it! Also I guess that's evidence that the PS3 doesn't only do small WU's.

Plus you just can't beat those visuals
I think I get around 500,000 units consistently now.

[striddy]

Just a tip for those using Vista / IE7

If seeing an error like this

+ Attempting to send results
[xx:xx:xx] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[xx:xx:xx] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[xx:xx:xx] (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx)
[xx:xx:xx] Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.

then check out this wiki.

http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Common_..._.28wininet.29

[sheptech]

Inching closer to that project ranking of 1000.
Very cool

[GatorFord]

We should have the official blog post up later including a competition for prizes including free hosting. Be sure to check out http://blog.hostgator.com later tonight or tomorrow to see how you can get in on this!

Striddy thanks for the tip for Vista users. Very helpful!

[Kazper]

Go us!

I'm not sure I can get higher than my #8 position in the team though. You guys left ahead of my are pulling some serious points

But this made me finally (after several months) go fix up my broken down Mac-Mini dual-core just so I could run F@H on it

Rank
1,013 2008-05-21 14:00hostgator.com

1,007 2008-05-21 20:13Rice University


Look out rice here we come. LOL Go Cougs.

[striddy]

Team hostgator.com breaks into the top 1000



http://kakaostats.com/index.php?col=...=hostgator.com

[sheptech]

Was 999 when I looked earlier... already at 997.

Spiffy!

[Goddess Dix]

i never managed to get my username in the config file. guess i oughta figure that out....it has been running smoothly on my dedi since i set it up, though.

[GatorJess]

We're at 977!

A special thanks to all of you for helping out a great cause! Keep up the wonderful work!

Jess