Folding questions

[Byte 2.0]

How long should it take to work a Unit in Folding@home?

My 1.91 ghz Barton Core(333mhz) with 512 meg of 3200 ram seems to take forever to do a unit.

It can do a seti unit in 4 hours, but I think the Folding takes all day, am I doing something wrong or is that about right?

I am under user 'vontar'

[ghost2003]

depends, my system usualy does 2 of them, side by side, in about a day, my old P4 1.3 takes days to do 1.

[lil Jimmie]

It really depends on the WU, some take just a few hours and others can take almost 2 days, but for the most part the longer they take the higher the point value.

[Byte 2.0]

ok, then I shouldn't be concerned when they take the better part of the day on my system. whew, I was starting to think out of all things my new AMD was slow, but it only seems slow on Folding.

Right now I have a xp2600 Barton core, which a I am selling to a guy at work and replacing with the 3200 barton core.

I want to see what the diff is between 333 and 400mhz fsb and the extra 300 mhz.

[lil Jimmie]

With folding it is pure MHz not FSB, memory or fast HDD's that gets the job done, but yeah the 300Mhz will help a lot.

[Kov-Ice]

Byte, if you want to compare speeds, post the full name of the protein you are currently working on and its frame rate (amount of time between steps in your log file) in a new thread. Others who are working on that protein can post their specs and speeds to give you an idea on the rate of work.

[lil Jimmie]

Those of you that use Electron Microscope to monitor your rigs can create a html document of your production and upload the results as a zip file so other can compare their production. If you do it would be helpful to include stock speed as well as any overclocks, AMD or Intel, hyperthreading or running single client on an HT cpu also what version, graphical, text, as a service or screen saver version.

[Vigo]

Or you can compare your results with the credit formula from Standford. They use 110*Number of Days (im assuming they break it down into hours to reach credit scores below 110). They use a p4 2.8 gig running linux to benchmark.

So using their formula a 44 credit WU (100 frames using 523 BBA5) takes them a little under half a day.

Which is funny because I did that WU in almost 2 days. However, theyre probably dedicating that machine to Folding at Home where as mine is only idle about half the day.

So I guess its really moot to compare machines since people use their machines differently. You can compare it to Standfords benchmark machine for a shot in the dark though. (assuming it is indeed dedicated completely to foling at home)

[lil Jimmie]

That is a good point I know 2 of mine are used a good bit and the rest are deticated folders but with mine being hyperthreading I don't lose as much as someone using a standard cpu.

I have uploaded a log file of some of my output over the last month on 3 of my rigs and the one named Hellion gets used a lot.

Edit: it looks like the p523_BBA5_pf takes about 8 hours on a 2.6 HT running dual instances The box named Belle's services is a 2.6C