Our folding@home prize now has competition! The graphics card maker is following our lead and providing incentive through prizes. It would be great to see this become a trend.
Edited by maestro949, 11 December 2008 - 06:51 PM.
Posted 11 December 2008 - 06:51 PM
Edited by maestro949, 11 December 2008 - 06:51 PM.
Posted 11 December 2008 - 06:56 PM
eVGA also encourage their users to fold.Our folding@home prize now has competition! The graphics card maker is following our lead and providing incentive through prizes. It would be great to see this become a trend.
Posted 11 December 2008 - 07:33 PM
eVGA also encourage their users to fold.Our folding@home prize now has competition! The graphics card maker is following our lead and providing incentive through prizes. It would be great to see this become a trend.
Those companies are using this F@H to improve their public image.
Posted 12 December 2008 - 05:23 PM
Posted 12 December 2008 - 06:32 PM
Posted 13 December 2008 - 01:11 PM
You know what I keep on saying on the issue? We could be buying or renting Bluegene/P or similar clusters for that money to get the best carbon footprint... or even better wait 10 years until the same performance is available at 1/100th of the carbon footprint. Or we could fold, now! There's always a slightly better option around the corner when it comes to hardware. And anything that we can do now involves certain trade-offs (renting a supercomputer is not easy nor will it give us easy PR that folding@home can gives us, nor would it enable a pretty neat and friendly competition).eVGA also encourage their users to fold.Our folding@home prize now has competition! The graphics card maker is following our lead and providing incentive through prizes. It would be great to see this become a trend.
Those companies are using this F@H to improve their public image.
Which might backfire considering the carbon footprint these puppies leave!
Edited by kismet, 13 December 2008 - 01:11 PM.
Posted 13 December 2008 - 06:40 PM
You know what I keep on saying on the issue? We could be buying or renting Bluegene/P or similar clusters for that money to get the best carbon footprint... or even better wait 10 years until the same performance is available at 1/100th of the carbon footprint. Or we could fold, now! There's always a slightly better option around the corner when it comes to hardware. And anything that we can do now involves certain trade-offs (renting a supercomputer is not easy nor will it give us easy PR that folding@home can gives us, nor would it enable a pretty neat and friendly competition).
The only issue worth mentioning (for imminst users) is IMHO: What's better, paying energy costs for folding vs investing the money in SENS? Both? What percentage to spend on each?
Edited by maestro949, 13 December 2008 - 06:51 PM.
Posted 16 December 2008 - 02:52 PM
Posted 16 December 2008 - 03:32 PM
I made a very simple calculation some time ago max. FLOPS/power draw of the best bluegene/P system back then, versus FLOPS/estimated power draw of FAH. I think the difference was one or two orders of magnitude, but the calculations were probably flawed.Bluegene is expensive, about 5.5 times that of PC solution. It consumes about 40% of the electricity as equivelant amount of PC's if my calculation were right. This difference isn't big enough to make a good solution.
Nice catch. Interesting explanation of those project involving a top-down respectively bottom-up approach. So those two are basically independent and synergistic?The key is rearchitecting projects to leverage these concepts. F@H is one of the best examples we have under our meme's umbrella but it's bottom up science and alone, has a long-term ROI inflection point. SENS is a top down model, also with a similar inflection point. Where the two meet in the middle, i.e. the seemingly impenetrable complexity barrier to both their success is where our longevity singularity will emerge. Thus I would reprhase your question as to:
How do we invest in expediting the slow collision course these two approaches are on?
My Opinion? Invest in a middle out strategy as well. i.e. systems biology where we build bigger and better tools to aggregate the wealth of biological data into computationally accessible means for the sake of building the models that bridge the gap, which I believe, will finally allow us to engineer cost-effective aging treatments.
Edited by kismet, 16 December 2008 - 03:34 PM.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 02:24 AM
Posted 22 December 2008 - 03:23 AM
Carbon footprint... is it my fault that coal plants are still used instead of nuclear power?
Posted 27 February 2009 - 10:20 PM
Posted 28 February 2009 - 12:00 AM
Hopefully that does not mean you will be leaving our team.They finally got this contest up and running. It starts March 4th. I'll be trying for a spot in the top 10. Wish me luck
Posted 28 February 2009 - 12:49 AM
Posted 28 February 2009 - 12:54 AM
You better be. I'll be checking back every 1,000 years or so to make sure.Nope. Don't need to. I'm here for eternity
Posted 28 February 2009 - 01:52 AM
Yes, here's wishing you good luck and most importantly 'good folding'.... I'll be trying for a spot in the top 10. Wish me luck
Posted 02 May 2009 - 06:39 PM
Posted 02 May 2009 - 11:18 PM
Posted 03 May 2009 - 03:05 AM
Not sure. They had problems out of the gate with the data transfers from F@H to their db so the stats were all fubar. I stopped paying attention after that . I did win a random prize though (flash drive)!
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