Personal computing discussed
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Dirge wrote:Gday mate, well I have been an on again off again contributor in the past. I stopped because I didn't like running my CPU hot all day and the extra expense of power. But there are lots of dedicated folders and every now and again I check the stats to see if UGN has taken over the world.
StuG wrote:Has folding accomplished any major milestones? I don't mean to be dissing it at all, I think its a noble cause but I just have never heard about it accomplishing something major.
Flying Fox wrote:StuG wrote:Has folding accomplished any major milestones? I don't mean to be dissing it at all, I think its a noble cause but I just have never heard about it accomplishing something major.
Has it done anything that casual people can find on your local 6 o'clock news? No. Even pseudo-mainstream geek sites like Engagdet? No. However, there have been a steady stream of papers being published and presented so the scientific community is well aware of its efforts and the results.
just brew it! wrote:a few quit in disgust when the SMP client remained unstable for so long (FWIW it is significantly better now);
just brew it! wrote:I also can't speak for the GPU client, but may be soon.I can't speak to the GPU client, since I don't run it.
just brew it! wrote:I have been running LinuxSMP 6.29 for months in VMs and for the most part they have been quite set-it-and-forget-it. Sometimes the WU servers went out of units or went down but the built-in retry mechanism pretty much dealt with those. My only problem is when I need to reboot the host (or a long power outage that even my UPS can't cover) then I have some manual babysitting to do.The Linux SMP client seems to have been (relatively) smooth sailing since the 6.29 update a few months ago. I think the expiration thing was for the beta clients, because they didn't want people to continue using old betas. AFAIK there's no expiration date on the client now that it has reached "production" status.
Well found this tool; FAH GPU Tracker V2, which has been serving me well so far. Provides a convenient tool to manage SMP and multiple GPU client - I am currently only running 1 GPU client with it (no problems so far, I think 4 WU in) and will try SMP once the current WU's are finished.
Flying Fox wrote:I thought I gave you enough information to look for your own. Must I do everything for you?
Dirge wrote:Flying Fox wrote:I thought I gave you enough information to look for your own. Must I do everything for you?
Thats not quite what I was getting at... my concern is the community effort could be turned into profitable patents for big pharmaceutical companies.
Dirge wrote:Flying Fox wrote:I thought I gave you enough information to look for your own. Must I do everything for you?
Thats not quite what I was getting at... my concern is the community effort could be turned into profitable patents for big pharmaceutical companies.
Flying Fox wrote:Where it crosses the line IMO is if they try to patent the publicly available info as if it is their own.
just brew it! wrote:...a few quit in disgust when the SMP client remained unstable for so long ...and some have scaled back due to the cost of electricity and/or heat output.