E-Goat Folding Team - Using their PCs spare capacity to find medical cures

[TrenchardsLoveSock]

Personally I still say it is Malware! If it is running processes -even in the background and reporting back to an overseas server! Sounds like a ripe place to pilfer details by an unscroupulous hacker.

I (Personal opinion) believe this type software has no place on my home PC and I do not trust the site to hold details it gets from my PC secure (if it has a wire out of the back - there can be a hack... Bill Gates)DT_Xtremez_32:

When it is working away using your chip, you assume it is up to no bad deeds, but other Malware does this too - how will you know the processes involved?

Nah, not me mister!::/:

Take of the tinfoil hat and think about it for a minute.

1. Folding@home is hosted by Stanford University, a very well respected establishment.

2. This project, and its' predecessor (Genome@home) have pick up shedloads of awards for innovation and for the results of the project. The scientific community is unlikely to give academic prizes for telling Mr Gates who is running hooky copies of Windows or for "breaking da interwebz".

3. Projects like this and SETI@home are a big deal in the geek community. Programmers, web designers and all manner of clever and informed people run this and display results in their sigs on forums. These are the sort of people who will strip down the code and analyse it for fun. There is a good chance that someone would have flagged any problems with it before now.

4. Big companies (like Google) also allow it to run on the clients on their networks. I doubt that they would willingly run malicious software.

5. Sony support it for the PS3 ffs! Now we all know that they have repeatedly bungled the development and release of the console, but even they aren't stupid enough to endorse their console running dodgy programs.

6. Same with ATI (including the comments about dodgy new products).

There is probably more, but I can't be 4rsed to dig it all up.

 

[wobbly]

And no doubt if the breakthrough for curing Altzeimers and other protein related diseases does come from all these people who HAVE used their computers spare capacity I bet you would be the first to benefit from it if you got the disease. For gods sake man, its called distributed computing. The reason they do it is because it accelerates the time needed to carry out gazillions of experiments. Imagine if they had to fund the computers themselves. In reality the University may well be able to fund 100 super computers to do all these calculations. However, using kind hearted people you get to use the sort of processing power that a million super computers could provide....at **** all cost, thus providing quicker results and hopefully a cure for diseases well ahead of the time you would with your 100 supercomputers sitting in your campus.

Take a read of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@Home

The problem with people like yourself is your paranoid of the internet and anything on it. My father is the very same, he guards his computer security like its a ferking Nuke Silo. I personally don't do internet banking and to be honest, if malware gets on my system then I clean it using spybot search and destroy. Its no dramas and who gives a monkeys arse who knows where I surf on the internet.....I will leave that to someone that has something to hide.

 

[Scaley brat]

Bugger! I knew I forgot something after I re-formatted.DT_Xtremez_42:

Best get this back on and running again.

Bump !

Mine is still on the OLD machine DT_Xtremez_42:
Does it run happily on Vista ?

Joker, I am almost as paranoid as wobbly's dad, I won't even tell mrs brat a password over a mobile phone. I had this running on my old (XP) machine very happily, didn't even notice it was there except for one time when it sent a unit back as I was downloading a large file..... I paused the download, let F@H take the helm and when it finished I resumed my download. I'm not saying it's harmless because I don't know enough about the subject, but I have had no problems with it.

 

[jack brew]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7074547.stm

F@H has more than one Petaflop of processing power! Good news, now what on earth is a Petaflop!?

 

[metimmee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7074547.stm

F@H has more than one Petaflop of processing power! Good news, now what on earth is a Petaflop!?

A measure of Floating Point Operations, see here. The 'peta' bit means 10 ^ 15 see here.

 

[Heilan]

Hi Guys!!

Just to let you know, I am now folding!! ::

 

[Edzar]

Help!!

Help!!

I am getting a wee bitty annoyed with this FAH on my laptop.

Last night it completed the latest WU and now it won't download another one. I keep getting the following message:

+ Attempting to get work packet
[00:35:27] - Connecting to assignment server
[00:35:58] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[00:35:58] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[00:35:59] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[00:35:59] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[00:35:59] Loaded queue successfully.
[00:35:59] - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

Anyone got any ideas??

 

[monobrow]

Try switching off the "Use IE settings". If you upgrade to IE7 it causes some security issue with connecting with stamford to send and receive units.

 

[NFTR]

sorry not read 11 pages, does this use the BOINC software? I use it to run seti@home

Likewise, been running Seti@home (both classic and now BOINC since '01). I promise however, the next time I upgrade or if I add another machine to my 'farm' I'll install the client and run Folding for e-goat.

 

[Edzar]

WU receiving problem sorted

WU receiving problem sorted

Try switching off the "Use IE settings". If you upgrade to IE7 it causes some security issue with connecting with stamford to send and receive units.

Thanks for your help Monobrow but I already tried that and various other connection combinations, including re-checking firewall settings.

I eventually worked it out after a bit of reading on the forum at the Stanford site. (http://forum.folding-community.org/portal.php)
The server I was trying to send it to had a status of 'accept' only meaning it would only accept WU's and wouldn't send out more work. It turns out I had my F@H configured to deadlineless which is why it was trying to connect to that server. And Stanford have stopped sending out 'deadlineless' WU's so I was never going to get one of those back!
A quick tweak in the configuration settings to accept any work units and it's off folding away againDT_Xtremez_28:

Happy days...lost almost 2 days of folding cos I must have fcuked about with the settings (probably after a small intake of alcohol recently!!!) DOH!!!DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Flipper0465]

Happy days...lost almost 2 days of folding cos I must have fcuked about with the settings (probably after a small intake of alcohol recently!!!) DOH!!!DT_Xtremez_42:

What a poor excuse for almost falling out of the top 10 !! Catching you fast!!

 

[Ex-Bay]

On another computer?

On another computer?

I am trying to resurect a 'mature' PC which will do very little apart from when I need the extra service. It's not a fast box (1Gig plus), but I wonder if it would be of use for the folding protein problem.
I have has a PC connected to that line (a small home network), so physical connection should not be much of a problem.

I run Win XP one one machine, Win ME on the older one.

Any guidance would be very welcome.

DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[vim_fuego]

Well done to all the goaters who are using their machines spare capacity to help in the cure for Alzhe.... Altzheimer.............fekk me I can't remember how to spell it now.......Curing old people

The e-goat team have now joined the elite ranks in the top 2000 wordwide

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=20

We are even ahead of the freemasons - which is nice

1,984 BLT +1

-30

65 0 236 236 280,725 3,872
1,985 e-goat +6

+3

781 500 872 872 280,654 1,035
1,986 Palindormo -13

416 343 629 629 280,482 1,424
1,987 Overclockers@Columbia +1

-7

542 0 372 372 280,318 1,826 1,988 Mr. Murph's 6th grade -4

-33

13 0 0 0 280,301 1,472
1,989 EllenCameron -2

-25

218 0 0 0 280,030 2,389
1,990 Freemasons +5

+22

1,047 250 550 550 279,503 1,722
1,991 Protein S Deficiency -1

-24

178 0 186 186 279,432 2,709
1,992 Think Hardware -3

-30

71 0 0 0 279,417 2,364
1,993 Swiss Folding Force -17

315 0 500 500 279,376 1,152
1,994 F0ldStati0n +3

+6

298 289 589 589 279,346 950

The E-Goat team is now up to 1746 in the world rankings...we jumped up 4 places in the past 24 hours and thats with still only 26 active CPU's in the past month...

If you're new to the Goat then take the time to read this thread and maybe sign up and help find cures for diseases...

 

[simplysystems]

Windows vista Home Premium.
How the #@*! do I get it to run as a service ?
Apparently Bill's evil child doesn't think I should be allowed to be THE administrator on MY computer !

Just found this out myself and it is quite annoying.

To get it to install the service you need to Right Click the FAH***.exe (*** = what ever version it is) and select Run as Administrator.
You'll get a few warnings from the User Account Control thingy asking if you're sure, then if you're really sure, just click Yes, Ok or the equivelant and continue the Setup as normal, after you restart your system Folding should resume without you having to do anything.

Hope this helps.DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[wobbly]

Thanks SS.

I have also got my ps3 running it now.

Check out this link too.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=54234

thanks to everyone for all their efforts over the last year. I have been a slacker but not been around much.

Now at 1723

 

[tats]

Now I've actually paid attention to what this is, my computer has it downloaded and its running, apparently the first WU will be done at 00:26 tomorrow morning. DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[CodeMonkey]

linux server

linux server

Just set m little miniITX server going on it to see how well it handles the workload. If it does ok i'll leave it running.

 

[monobrow]

Got it running on Linux now (hopefully!!!)

 

[tats]

Well its now changed to Tuesday for the first WU and my fan seems to be on overdrive, although it doesn't sound a huge amount different to when a full virus scan is being done.

 

[Ex-Bay]

Erm . . . "team" ?

Erm . . . "team" ?

A question or two please.

Machine 2 now runs and I've put Folding on it. I assume this software works in the same way as SETI (BOINC)?

I don't get the idea of "teams". Has this charitable endeavour turned into a competitive sport ?

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