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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 UBB™ 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!

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.

And my first ever work unit is in finally

Well done & thanks for taking part

Don't forget to add your Haxxor member name to your profile if you take part

Sweet, we're moving on up:

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

Woo-Hoo !

Nicely done! heeh

Still moving up, they do have a beta version of the next cruncher out and versions for computers with multiple gpu's

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Heh, I have my brothers PS3 diligently processing units since Thursday ...

How's that cranking? They're supposed to be extremely fast at it.

If you guys were using BOINC I'd join you. Been doing SETI@home since '99 and Rosetta@home since last year

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...

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

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.

bah...

I added my new pc on it today

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

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

Linky Poo™

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

Very nice, will it run on my 8800?

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

can't confirm though..

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

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...

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

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

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 4013 of 125142

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

Good stuff, Allen!!

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

amazing new driver and Folding client!!! :rawk:

I added it just now... let's see this kitty purr

snap! It just finished a WU in < 1 hour

FahMon is a nice little proggie to tell you what you are doing for all of your clients PPD-wize



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

works a treat

hmm.. it's not doing much for me

if it did a WU in < 1hr, that is 2300 PPD.. (at a minimum)

that's more than an SMP can do..

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

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

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

hehe, we jumped 31 places in one day

Did your gpu client get a 25000 wu client in the last day or so?

yah, i'm pumping out 25000s now on the GPU clients..

Working on 'p5002_supervillin_e1', whatever that one is

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

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

Things are running again after updating both

beta 8 ????

i have 6... /me goes to update

I'm using the nvidia 177.35 drivers - it's flying through the 25000 work unit

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

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

yep, finished the 25000 wu in 2.5 hours - right at twice as fast as yesterday

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..