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Posted By: AllenAyres Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/10/2007 7:08 AM
Team UBBDev, in our effort to work together to help fight cancer, MS, Parkinsons, Alzheimers and other diseases, has risen to the occasion once again!

What is Team UBBDev?
"Team UBBDev" is our entry in the Folding@home Research Project. Team UBBDev, otherwise known as the Semi-Official UBBâ„¢ Protein Haxxors is made up of fellow UBBDev members who have joined our effort to help search for a cure for many diseases - cancer and alzheimers among others. All are welcome and encouraged to join up! yay

What is the project
The Folding@Home project ("FAH") is dedicated to understanding protein folding, the diseases which result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general.

How can I participate?
You can participate by donating your brain. Not your brain per se, but spare processing power that your computer isn't using. All you need to do is download and install the Folding@Home Agent program. The program runs in the background without disturbing your computer, where it performs computation chemistry. After the program finishes with its sequence of molecules, the results are transmitted to the Folding@Home server, and a new work task is downloaded. The program is secure and will not detect or transmit any other files from your computer.

What are Points?
Each participating member generates points based on their contribution to the project. Points are awarded based on a calculation using the CPU time used to complete a task along with the power of your machine. By joining Team UBBDev, your results will also be added to our team total. Points are also used for promotional programs, such as contests and for charitable donations.

Where can I get the Team UBBDev Haxxors avatar?
Your points will also determine your Avatar ranking. When you join the team and generate your first results you will be rewarded with the Blue Avatar. When you have generated 10,000 points for Team UBBDev, you will be rewarded with the Bronze Avatar. When you reach 25,000 points you will receive the Silver Avatar and upon reaching 50,000 points, you will be rewarded with the Gold Avatar. Moving up the ladder... there is Platinum at 100,000 points, Coffee at 250,000, Code Red at 500,000 and Jolt at 750,000. We've recently added a few additional levels for our Power Haxxors.... Emerald at 1 million, Sapphire at 1.5 million, Ruby at 2.5 million and Diamond at 5 million, Uranium at 7.5 million and Plutonium at 10 million. Remember, you have to continue to participate in order to retain your Avatar. When you need your image updated after reaching a new milestone, please leave us a post in the "Team UBBDev Haxxor Image Updates" thread. It'll be sticky at the top of this forum here.. After confirming you've hit a new level your Avatar will be updated!

Where can I get more Information?
Complete information and instructions can be found here:
https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/haxxors.php
or by clicking anyone's haxxor image.

Where can I see current stats for our team?
If anyone wants to see the team stats go to ou team page.

If you have further questions post them here.

Please help us by joining in this worthwhile cause. It's easy, it's free, and it's completely painless. wooga
Posted By: blaaskaak Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/15/2007 4:06 PM
And my first ever work unit is in finally smile
Posted By: Ian_W Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/15/2007 11:26 PM
Well done & thanks for taking part smile
Posted By: Ian_W Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/15/2007 11:30 PM
Don't forget to add your Haxxor member name to your profile if you take part smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 09/18/2007 7:57 PM
Sweet, we're moving on up:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963

thumbsup
Posted By: Stephen G Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 09/19/2007 12:26 AM
Woo-Hoo !

smile
Posted By: Gizmo Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 09/19/2007 1:44 AM
Nicely done! heeh
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 01/23/2008 12:53 AM
Still moving up, they do have a beta version of the next cruncher out and versions for computers with multiple gpu's thumbsup

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
Posted By: Gizmo Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/10/2008 12:09 PM
Heh, I have my brothers PS3 diligently processing units since Thursday wink...
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/15/2008 12:12 AM
How's that cranking? They're supposed to be extremely fast at it.
Posted By: jgeoff Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/15/2008 12:32 AM

If you guys were using BOINC I'd join you. Been doing SETI@home since '99 and Rosetta@home since last year smile
Posted By: Gizmo Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/15/2008 1:09 AM
I don't like BOINC, it's no where as fun as the old SETI client... Then again it had a ton of plugins, including ones to process where the units where found to have positive data...

The PS3 seems to be working pretty good... I had to disable processing on my laptop after an issue with peer guardian i was having 20gb files generated with dummy backup data... which is bad considering all i have is a 50gb hd lol...
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/22/2008 4:25 PM
hehe, I know what you mean - this pc I am working on has 2 16gb HD's in a RAID1 (it's an old server I'm using until we can get actual pc's in) - needless to say it fills up quickly and I can't run F@H on it. The Dell that should be in today has a couple cores, it should run F@H nicely smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/22/2008 8:50 PM
i'm on another team, but been folding for 6months now..

with 3 quads bangin out the big WU's, i'm getting about 7K points/day. those new advanced FAH installs run great.

Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/23/2008 5:49 PM
Originally Posted by sirdude
i'm on another team, but been folding for 6months now..


bah... smash

I added my new pc on it today thumbsup

and we're up to 4,320 out of 122,428 teams. yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/23/2008 9:25 PM
Linky Poo™

Soon, we'll be able to get the Nvidia GPUs cranking on it too!

Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/23/2008 9:37 PM
Very nice, will it run on my 8800?
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/24/2008 12:25 AM
dunno -- i have the current GPU one for the ATI card running in tandem with the SMP one, so i can get one machine to crank out over 2.5K points per day with it..

i'd suspect the 8800 should work... it will be interesting, when it works.. cuz i have a PC with 2 8800's in it to run the multiple monitors.. maybe 2 GPU clients ? i can only hope laugh

can't confirm though..
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/27/2008 11:32 PM
I wasn't paying attention - I didn't know they had support for multiple processors on windows now - installed to 2 so far (including my dual processor/quad core server - at least now the extra cores will actually be doing something). Will be interesting to see how the 8 cores perform smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/27/2008 11:47 PM
yah, i've even gone as far as to run a virtual machine and then run FAH on that too..

so i just fire up the beast at night or when i'm not going to be on it and i get 2 SMPs running at the same time..

it cranks out the 1400 point WUs at a very fast pace.. basically 2 WU's per day on average on that machine.

i'm close to the 500,000 mark now...
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/29/2008 11:07 PM
hmmm.. cool, I'll need to see how fast my points start ramping up then. Our company needs to purchase new pc's soon anyways smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/09/2008 2:12 AM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres

I added my new pc on it today thumbsup

and we're up to 4,320 out of 122,428 teams. yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


We've moved up >300 places in the last 2 1/2 weeks thumbsup

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 4013 of 125142

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/11/2008 7:19 PM
Good stuff, Allen!!
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/18/2008 5:30 PM
NVidia Beta Gpu Client is here!!!!

this actually outperforms my SMP setup (2100 PPD) -- i'm getting about 4 to 5K PPD from this new client and i can run it along with the SMP.. so one machine is doing about 50 WU's per day and 7K Points eek

amazing new driver and Folding client!!! :rawk:
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/18/2008 7:41 PM
I added it just now... let's see this kitty purr smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/18/2008 8:44 PM
snap! It just finished a WU in < 1 hour eek
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/18/2008 8:50 PM
FahMon is a nice little proggie to tell you what you are doing for all of your clients PPD-wize smile

[Linked Image]

i have one Fahmon running and checking all the other PCs on my network..

works a treat wink
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/19/2008 7:06 PM
hmm.. it's not doing much for me
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/19/2008 11:01 PM
if it did a WU in < 1hr, that is 2300 PPD.. (at a minimum)

that's more than an SMP can do..
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/20/2008 6:27 PM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Originally Posted by AllenAyres

I added my new pc on it today thumbsup

and we're up to 4,320 out of 122,428 teams. yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


We've moved up >300 places in the last 2 1/2 weeks thumbsup

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 4013 of 125142

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


We're on track to improve ~400 places in the same period of time thumbsup

"Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3800 of 127020 " - up 213 places in ~10 days smile

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/21/2008 6:01 PM
hehe, we jumped 31 places in one day yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/26/2008 4:56 AM
Did your gpu client get a 25000 wu client in the last day or so?
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/26/2008 5:56 AM
yah, i'm pumping out 25000s now on the GPU clients..

Working on 'p5002_supervillin_e1', whatever that one is laugh
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 5:18 PM
argh, got a BSOD last night, first one ever for my vista - windows says it was my nvidia card that did it - I used windows update to fix it and now the gpu client doesn't work smash
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 5:53 PM
Beta 8 is out and it looks like nvidia is releasing drivers almost daily - I was way behind in version numbers and I just installed the last one 9 days ago smash

Things are running again after updating both smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 6:44 PM
beta 8 ????

i have 6... /me goes to update
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 8:03 PM
I'm using the nvidia 177.35 drivers - it's flying through the 25000 work unit thumbsup

After 2 hours I'm at 20750 of 25000 eek I guess it can do them in ~2.5 hours - that's about twice as fast as the older version I was running yesterday thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 8:06 PM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres


We're on track to improve ~400 places in the same period of time thumbsup

"Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3800 of 127020 " - up 213 places in ~10 days smile

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3682 of 128334

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963

Up 118 places in 7 days thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/27/2008 8:34 PM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
I'm using the nvidia 177.35 drivers - it's flying through the 25000 work unit thumbsup

After 2 hours I'm at 20750 of 25000 eek I guess it can do them in ~2.5 hours - that's about twice as fast as the older version I was running yesterday thumbsup


yep, finished the 25000 wu in 2.5 hours - right at twice as fast as yesterday eek
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 06/28/2008 3:58 AM
there are new nvidia drivers out 177.40 and .41, but they are no faster from what i read @ the forums..

i'm stickin with 177.35 and beta6 for now..
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/02/2008 6:38 PM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3682 of 128334

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963

Up 118 places in 7 days thumbsup


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3527 of 129206

Up 155 places in 5 days yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/05/2008 5:56 AM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Originally Posted by AllenAyres


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3682 of 128334

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963

Up 118 places in 7 days thumbsup


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3527 of 129206

Up 155 places in 5 days yay


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3431 of 129703

Up 96 places in 2 days eek
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/17/2008 4:35 PM
I've got another quad-core + nvidia gpu coming tomorrow... our points should pick up faster then smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/17/2008 11:38 PM
i grabbed a couple 9800 gtx oc's for cheep on newegg the other day. they each crank out 5000 points per day..

and the nvidia gpu client will keep getting better over time !!

[Linked Image]
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/19/2008 12:08 AM
Sweet, I'm going to have to make do with these... my next few pc purchases will be a few netbooks and they barely have enough power to run themselves crazy

Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Originally Posted by AllenAyres


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3527 of 129206

Up 155 places in 5 days yay


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 3431 of 129703

Up 96 places in 2 days eek


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2967 of 132054

Up 454 places in a little less than 2 weeks! yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/23/2008 12:20 AM
hmm... I've got the gpu client installed (they're on Beta 11 now and the official nVidia CUDA drivers are the 177.35's now), but I'm having issues with the SMP client - it looks like I get an error message during install but the window closes too fast for me to see it. I get all the way to entering my username and pass for the computer.
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/23/2008 12:22 AM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Sweet, I'm going to have to make do with these... my next few pc purchases will be a few netbooks and they barely have enough power to run themselves crazy


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2967 of 132054

Up 454 places in a little less than 2 weeks! yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2864 of 132707

Up 103 places in 4 days, gonna see how fast the points pick up now with the new gpu added smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/23/2008 7:57 AM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
hmm... I've got the gpu client installed (they're on Beta 11 now and the official nVidia CUDA drivers are the 177.35's now), but I'm having issues with the SMP client - it looks like I get an error message during install but the window closes too fast for me to see it. I get all the way to entering my username and pass for the computer.


yah, i found that going pure GPU and abandoning SMP was the best bet, if you have an NVidia beast..

matter of fact, on one of the Nvidias, you can run multiple GPUs and rack up many more points than the SMPs can..

the SMPs just don't give the bang for the buck that the GPUs do.
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/23/2008 10:23 PM
hmmm... but it was one of the reasons I took the free upgrade to the quad core smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/26/2008 10:28 PM
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Originally Posted by AllenAyres
Sweet, I'm going to have to make do with these... my next few pc purchases will be a few netbooks and they barely have enough power to run themselves crazy


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2967 of 132054

Up 454 places in a little less than 2 weeks! yay

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2864 of 132707

Up 103 places in 4 days, gonna see how fast the points pick up now with the new gpu added smile


Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2680 of 133330

Up 184 places in 4 days this time yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/05/2008 12:50 AM
ok, fixed the connection issue with the new pc and have it online now:

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2378 of 134834

Up 302 places in 9 days thumbsup
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/05/2008 3:44 AM
official 6.20 is out now

also better CUDA drivers available

crankin out about 18K PPD now with these new GPU clients running
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/05/2008 4:40 AM
OK, cool... if the hurricane doesn't blow us away I'll get them updated this week smile
Posted By: sirdude Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/05/2008 6:01 AM
oh noes... eduardo ??

/me prays for Allen.. good luck!
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/05/2008 4:48 PM
Thanks for the prayer, it seems to have worked - it's windy but not nearly a hurricane. Hopefully it will move on into Texas and give central/north Texas some much-needed rain.
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/11/2008 9:13 PM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2139 of 135956

Up 239 places in 7 days! yay

Top 2K here we come! Do we get a plaque?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/21/2008 8:02 AM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1977 of 137590

Up 162 places in 10 days thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/29/2008 6:18 AM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1816 of 138887

Up 161 places in 7 days yay
Posted By: Gizmo Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 08/29/2008 6:45 AM
Go Go #1 :x...
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 09/08/2008 2:32 AM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1650 of 140442

Up 166 places in 10 days yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 10/13/2008 8:36 PM
Due to hurricanes and such it's been about a month since I've updated this:

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1394 of 144576

Up 256 places during that time and we're officially in the top 1% of teams competing. thumbsup

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=73963

We'll be hitting the top 1,000 teams in the next 4-6 weeks woot
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 11/11/2008 10:16 PM
I'd update this but everytime I go to the page the stats are updating smash
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 12/19/2008 7:48 PM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1080 of 150064

We'll be in the Top 1k shortly thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 01/29/2009 7:44 PM
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1024 of 152178

Moving on up! thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 03/16/2009 7:41 PM
I meant to report a while back - since we made the top 1000, we now have our own team page:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team73963.html

thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 03/17/2009 8:44 PM
Odd, we jumped 12 places since yesterday smile

yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 04/25/2009 1:40 AM
OK, we've slipped a couple places, but are still in the top 1k (#978). I've added a Core i7 w/ 12gb of ram (vista biz 64) and an ATI 4800 w/1gb of ram - it's my photography machine and it flies through these little itty bitty proteins smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 04/29/2009 6:56 PM
Back up to 975! yay
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 05/05/2009 11:00 PM
#970 thumbsup
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 12/15/2009 7:37 PM
#968 thumbsup

My home computer is killing it smile
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 02/05/2010 7:22 PM
#942 thumbsup

Thank you to those participating still. We're moving up pretty quickly for a team only half-trying tipsy
Posted By: Gizmo Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 02/06/2010 12:25 AM
I'm not even half way trying anymore lol...
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 02/08/2010 9:18 PM
bah, well I am more than halfway trying tipsy
Posted By: AllenAyres Re: Team UBBDev Rides Again! - 07/28/2010 5:40 PM
#941

yay yay yay
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