The NGEmu Folding @ Home community

[Cid Highwind]

Driven by the desire to heat up the room on a cold winter night, the NGEmu folding team was born. Being started by a small but fanatic team, it soon attracted members from all corners of the Emuforums, offering their idle CPU cycles and unused GPU power. As the months progressed, team 161326 soared to great heights. Before we knew it, we hit the top 5000, and as of yet we are still steadily climbing towards the top 1000 of the world.

As I write, what was started as a way for heating the room in a geeky way, the determination of the team has lead us to rank 1347 (out of more than 150.000 teams), having completed over 2600 work units we have accumulated a score of more than one and a half million points!

Hereby a big thanks to all our current contributors:
Masta.G.85.
D.D.
Ahielia
Dax
Samor
Runawayprisoner
ChainGuy
Skoreanime
Schumi_4EVER
Thanakil
Phil
BlueAmethyst
AEN-85
BobTheGoldfish
Squall-Leonhart
Prafull
Nosound.97
shaunhoare

As you see, with only 18 members we have been able to reach the top percent of the folding community. Our next milestone will be breaking into the top 1000, only to pound onwards towards the top 500 and possibly even higher. For that, we need all the help you can offer! It doesn’t matter if you’re running the latest i7 with 2 GTX295 cards, or simply an Athlon X2 with an ATi HD 3870, all idle cycles can contribute.

So, what is it you can do, and how do you join? And why should you join us?
First, a little explanation from the Official F@H FAQ:

What is Folding@home? What is protein folding?

Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding. Protein folding is explained in more detail in the scientific background section.

What is distributed computing?

Distributed Computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program, or different portions of data, are processing simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network or through the Internet.

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What happens if proteins don't fold correctly? Diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to result from protein misfolding. When proteins misfold, they can clump together ("aggregate"). These clumps can often gather in the brain, where they are believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer's disease.

So what we're doing is we're combining our CPU/GPU power for the cause of aiding in the search for an answer to Alzheimer, Creutzfeldt Jakob and Cancer.

How can I participate?
Simple, all you have to do is to go to this page to download the regular client, or to this page to download the high performance client. The difference here is that the standard one runs on the background and gives you the least amount of interference to worry about. However they don't get you as much result as the high performance clients after all. Additionally, the high performance clients allow you to do the calculations on your GPU or even Playstation 3.


So which is the fastest?
In terms of raw calculations, the scale is as follows:

GPU > > Playstation 3 > > CPU

On the other hand, when it comes to flexibility, the order is reversed. The CPU can do a much wider range of calculations than GPUs are capable of at this moment. In the end, all work has to be done, so we would appreciate every type of processor you can invest in the project!

Anything else I need to know?
Well there's deadlines for the WU's (Work Units) to be handed in/uploaded.

Originally Posted by Masta.G

Under the standard client, you usually have 45 days.

Under the SMP client, you usually have 15 - 30 days.

Under the GPU client, you usually have 15 days.

These deadlines aren't something to get overly worried about, especially with the GPU client as it can complete WUs in a very timely manner. Running your GPU client while you are surfing the internet, checking your email, etc. for just a few hours each day will have the WU completed in about 5 days or less.

Okay, I signed up, now how do I join [NGEmu]?
All you have to do is enter our Team ID in the client's settings, which is: 161326. Have fun, and feel free to join us in the forums to chat about! Also, if you have any questions, or would just like some general advice on how to optimize performance, feel free to ask.


Additional information
Daily updates team statistics
Chainguy on running two GPU instances on one nVidia card
If you have any suggestions for the additional information, please send a PM

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CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz
GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000
Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1)
SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz
HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB
PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W
Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 1920*1200

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Last edited by Cid Highwind; July 11th, 2009 at 01:22.. Reason: big update for main page

[makotech222]

Already on the EVGA team, sorry ngemu. im ranked 55 right now on the team,and ranked 7865 in the world. i love my 260 gtx

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[masta.g.86]

As a note, using the advanced, experimental SMP cores can net a lot of PPD for those of us (including me) without a GPU that supports CAL or CUDA.

I'll contribute if a group is formed...

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Join the NGEmu Folding@Home Team! Info
Download the standard client here OR preferably download the GPU or SMP client here.
Set your team ID to: 161326
NGEmu Stats Page: Here

[Exodus]

The name of the program still reminds me of laundry, so I refuse to do it.

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[raksmey1309]

I dont know if my 8800GT has the horse power to light some bulbs here.XD

[masta.g.86]

An 8800GT is ridiculously powerful in Folding@Home...

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Join the NGEmu Folding@Home Team! Info
Download the standard client here OR preferably download the GPU or SMP client here.
Set your team ID to: 161326
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[strike105x]

Originally Posted by Exodus

The name of the program still reminds me of laundry, so I refuse to do it.

Same thing here, it also reminds me of laundry.

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[Phil]

whats wrong with laundry?

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[redlofredlof]

What is folding@home?

[Dax]

Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding. Protein folding is explained in more detail in the scientific background section.

Folding@home - FAQ-main

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[redlofredlof]

I never would have come to know about it if I hadn't seen this thread.

[Dax]

If you leave your PC on 24/7, do this.

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[redlofredlof]

After I disconnected my dsl conection I keep my laptop ON for 24x7 and the desktop rests.

[Phil]

The only time my desktop has been on for 24 consecutive hours is when I was testing my loop for leaks

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[Dax]

Originally Posted by redlofredlof

After I disconnected my dsl conection I keep my laptop ON for 24x7 and the desktop rests.

If memory serves, you can do Folding offline and then when you go online, you can send in the work you did.

Edit: woot, 2000 posts!

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[masta.g.86]

FAH saves the current current workload until an internet connection is detected at which point it will upload the completed work file and download a new one.

FAH can also be configured to operate as a service and run during your CPU's idle cycles.

Keeping your computer on 24/7 is not a requirement as FAH will save its progress and continue the next time it runs.

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Join the NGEmu Folding@Home Team! Info
Download the standard client here OR preferably download the GPU or SMP client here.
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[Dax]

True, but if you leave it on 24/7 like some do, there's no reason not to do something productive with your PC.

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[Phil]

Its not wise to have my PC running 24/7....a leak could always be a danger if some accidently bumps into my case

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[masta.g.86]

Originally Posted by Dax

True, but if you leave it on 24/7 like some do, there's no reason not to do something productive with your PC.

I fully agree with this statement. Anyone who leaves their PC on 24/7 for the sake of not having to sit through POST and OS startup really should have FAH installed...

Originally Posted by Phil

Its not wise to have my PC running 24/7....a leak could always be a danger if some accidently bumps into my case

An internal leak can occur even if your PC is off... :/

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[Cid Highwind]

Fair enough Makotech

Originally Posted by masta.g.86

As a note, using the advanced, experimental SMP cores can net a lot of PPD for those of us (including me) without a GPU that supports CAL or CUDA.

I'll contribute if a group is formed...

Folding@Home

Consider it done. Our Team ID is 161326

Also, which do you mean? I have simply installed the GPU client, I know it's supposed to be faster but is there a client even faster than this?

As for my contribution, the one paying the bills won't agree with me leaving on my pc 24/7, so I'll just contribute when its on and when I'm not gaming.

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PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz
GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000
Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1)
SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz
HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB
PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W
Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 1920*1200

Geometry Wars: 198.400
Lumines: 999.999

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