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by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:56 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Folding@home on Amazon EC2
Replies: 17
Views: 8260

Judging by the CPU used in this machines (cpuinfo of you smp instances), it won't be interesting for folding (only opterons @ 2 GHz) ... :(

If they used intel chips, it would be better :roll:
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:52 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Folding@home on Amazon EC2
Replies: 17
Views: 8260

PPD means Points per day. You get this value by dividing the credits for the WU by the time it take to process it. PPD/$ is an indicator to seen how much point per day you'll do for one $ invested :mrgreen: If you have question or need help, ask us, we'll be pleased to help you ;) I made a little op...
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:48 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: My Charitable Donation to Humanity (Season's Greetings!)
Replies: 4
Views: 2666

Donating money to Stanford/FAH may allow you to get taxes advantages.

Buying hardware and using it to fold won't give you taxes advantages.

But both will help the project ;)
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:07 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Folding@home on Amazon EC2
Replies: 17
Views: 8260

Yes but it's different if your machine is used for something else ...

Well so ... what PPD do you get on EC2 :?: Is the PPD/$ interesting compared to a personal machine :?:
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:53 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: re-visiting WU 1487
Replies: 12
Views: 4970

If you downloaded the WU before the adjustment, you'll get the old credit for it ... point adjustments are rarely retroactive.

P.S : there's another p1497 thread here http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=82 ... we may centralize this in a signle thread ...
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: PC updates?
Replies: 16
Views: 7640

PS3 are not the best solution if you plan to leave them unmonitored : they often hangs and need a minimal surpervision to restart them if it occurs. :(
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:48 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Folding@home on Amazon EC2
Replies: 17
Views: 8260

You're paying to fold !?! :shock:
by toTOW
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:43 am
Forum: Issues with this forum
Topic: I miss the WWW ... and spam bots discussions.
Replies: 45
Views: 18189

This MOD should be good : http://phpbb.mwegner.de/english/phpbb2/mods/anti-bot-question-mod/ I have the same issue with my phpbb forums : securities included in phpbb is not efficient enough to counter those bots :evil: ... and banning email extentions is efficient, but too restrictive in an interna...
by toTOW
Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:11 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: PC updates?
Replies: 16
Views: 7640

The best performers currently are Intel Quad cores CPU with linux SMP client (they're even better if overclocked). :)
by toTOW
Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: Issues with this forum
Topic: I miss the WWW ... and spam bots discussions.
Replies: 45
Views: 18189

No it's not very important ... but it's not a lot of work.

It's more important to install an AntiBot mod ... :?
by toTOW
Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:48 pm
Forum: Issues with this forum
Topic: I miss the WWW ... and spam bots discussions.
Replies: 45
Views: 18189

It doesn't take long ... it's just a matter of replacing a file :roll:
by toTOW
Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:34 pm
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: Welcome back
Replies: 17
Views: 7759

I'm happy to be able to post again ! 8)
by toTOW
Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:27 pm
Forum: Issues with this forum
Topic: I miss the WWW ... and spam bots discussions.
Replies: 45
Views: 18189

The logo should be replaced too ... phpbb logo is too common ... can someone put a FAH logo instead ? :?: