This is a controversial subject. Ive gone pretty much every way based on popular polls at any given time which can and do change. In the beginning it was power up do what you have to do then shut it down. That moved on to "Hey you should leave it running all the time as its better for the electronics, they will last longer. After several years when I figured out I was moving things to my parts grave yard before they broke to make way for a system upgrade I put that theory to bed. People were having competitions on how long their machine stayed up and running. I cringe thinking about the wasted power. I had a folding farm of an entire walk in closet full of mother boards stacked on shelves with no case, no graphics, no drive all just CPUs and a network boot, 26 of them to be exact. I had to put in a spot AC to cool that closet. I wasted thousands on this effort. I stopped when I remoted into the sever that hosted them all to find out my entire farm was idle. I contact Stanford university and finally got to the correct dept to see what was going on. They have ZERO PCs doing the folding not a single one. They have a single server that issues the projects and collects the results that doesn't even have UPS back up. It took a power hit and was down for several days. The Student who was running the project at the time said its no big deal. The project has little to no impact on anything and is just a way for students to keep a continuous thesis project passing it down from one group to the next year after year on distributed computing. All these people have been duped and continue to get duped. Folding protiens? Yeah I bought into that for awhile. Wake up sunshine, a piece of hardware cannot reproduce a biological function.
Sorry wandering a bit there.
The trend then went to sleep or hibernate and arguments on which of those was most effective and popular, this one I never adopted.
In the end ironically I found myself back at the beginning. Regardless of what it is, save my cell phone of course, If its not in use it gets turned off.....
Sorry wandering a bit there.
The trend then went to sleep or hibernate and arguments on which of those was most effective and popular, this one I never adopted.
In the end ironically I found myself back at the beginning. Regardless of what it is, save my cell phone of course, If its not in use it gets turned off.....
ddmeltzer8 wrote:
Whats a "folding farm"???
Thanks.
search folding@home
Most only donate the clock cycles they aren’t using but a farm *is deducted machines that run the distributed computing 24x7 pretty much staying at 100% load the whole time.*
I let my system run 24/7, sleep function is one of my stability tests after setting up a system, if it doesn't enter and recover from sleep it's not stable
