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Half A Million Points! |
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It's
that time of the year again! Hauling out the decorations from the attic
or basement; buying or even cutting your own tree; last minute
shopping, and maybe one last turkey in the oven!
Meanwhile,
millions of
computers worldwide are running complex computations in the background.
There's
office parties on the agenda, dreams of sugar-plums dancing in heads,
and dreams of a White Christmas for some; it's the time of year we call
the Season Of Giving.
Thousands of
computers
have made a connection to a central location and received further work.
A growing number of Castle Cops members' computers are
participating in this running of complex computations and connecting to
servers, but this is not the action of a Hijack in progress. These
members have found a way to continue giving past December and January.
In fact they do it all the time, sometimes twenty-four hours a day,
seven days a week! They have all joined the F@H Team.
In six short months, the team has completed over Five Thousand Work
Units, accumulating over Five Hundred
Thousand Points.
Less than Two Hundred Fifty teams can say that. Many of the top One
Hundred teams have ten times as many members. One of the things that
makes this team unique is the high level of active participants, and
the fact that those active participants average a little over two
computers doing work.
What is even more exciting is knowing that what we do is starting to
make a difference. Dog Genome Findings
May Benefit Human Health was one of the recent items to make
news, but the last one was even more exciting; The
war against cancer focuses on a key gene
In addition, within the past three months Stanford University,
which runs the Folding program under the direction of Vijay Pande had
this news about the program.
referenced: Folding@Home
News/weblog
9/9/2004
FAH breaks the 1,000,000
CPU and 100 TFLOP barrier
We've pased the 1,000,000 total CPU mark. See the OS stats.
Client
statistics by OS
OS Type
Current TFLOPS
Active CPUs
Total CPUs
Windows
172.676
143897
936088
Mac OS X
7.004
8755
65485
Linux
12.257
14409
103656
Other
0.0
0
0
Total
191.937
167061
1105229
Total number of
donators = 397824
Last updated at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:38:23
Active CPUS have returned WUs within 50 days.
TFLOPS is actual flops from MD, not the peak
values from CPU
specs.
We also have included new stats on the number of
TeraFlops (Trillion FLoating point
Per Second)
done by FAH. At the moment, FAH is one of the most powerful (if not the
most powerful) supercomputer in the world (most supercomputers are at
the single TFLOP level and FAH can do ~200 TFLOPS). How can we reach
this level? Lots of CPUs (over 150,000) and very highly optimized code
using CPUs to their fullest (eg SSE).
To see a short movie about Folding@Home, visit this link.
F@H Flash Movie!
http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html
To learn more about F@H and information about joining our team,
Click here for all
the important links
The Folding Forum
is open for non-members to post questions in, or to say hi! Either
myself, another staff or team member will help with your questions to
the best of our ability.
If you consider becoming a member of Castle Cops, you can head on down
to the CCSP
Tavern and help us with our special rendition of
The Twelve Days of Christmas
(Sing Loud  )
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