F@H Stats

[42thgamer]

Hello all

I am looking into F@H a little bit and was looking at the stats. Is their a stat somewhere where you can see the current amount of donors/computing power?

It might be on the F@H site but is currently not working...

And does anybody have an idea about how that compares to big "supercomputers"? I have been folding from time to time now for a while, but always have been a feeling that a big company can do all that work we do in like a few days. Am I wrong in that?

[TVwazhere]

4 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

Hello all

I am looking into F@H a little bit and was looking at the stats. Is their a stat somewhere where you can see the current amount of donors/computing power?

It might be on the F@H site but is currently not working...

And does anybody have an idea about how that compares to big "supercomputers"? I have been folding from time to time now for a while, but always have been a feeling that a big company can do all that work we do in like a few days. Am I wrong in that?

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ has a full stats list breakdown, though it doesnt tell you exactly what WU's you've folded.

 

I believe HFM.net allows you to track that though

AS far as compute process, I think @GOTSpectrum calculated it a couple of weeks ago and we'd be arguably top 3 in the world, if not the highest (especially recent with the sudden increase in folders.)

[42thgamer]

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ has a full stats list breakdown, though it doesnt tell you exactly what WU's you've folded.

 

I believe HFM.net allows you to track that though

AS far as compute process, I think @GOTSpectrum calculated it a couple of weeks ago and we'd be arguably top 3 in the world, if not the highest (especially recent with the sudden increase in folders.)

I just read the FAQ and they dont share the amount of active cpus with third parties.

[GOTSpectrum]

15 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

I just read the FAQ and they dont share the amount of active cpus with third parties.

You can get a rough idea with some work put in, we would give pretty much all but the top few supercomputers in the world a run for their money. And that isn't even including all the new processing power we've gained over the last few weeks. I'd say we are probably the most power single computing system on the planet right now. 

[GOTSpectrum]

I have no idea why FOLDATRON is making the noise it is and I'm kinda scared...

 

I will have to give her a good MOT before the event starts at something isnt right, just took her offline for a dusting and checked all the GPUs and it doesn't seem to be coming from them as when I take the fans down low the noise persists... Its a brand new case and fans so I'm hoping it's the CPU cooler as it needs replacing anyway.

[42thgamer]

31 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

You can get a rough idea with some work put in, we would give pretty much all but the top few supercomputers in the world a run for their money. And that isn't even including all the new processing power we've gained over the last few weeks. I'd say we are probably the most power single computing system on the planet right now. 

Hmm if that is true than we are valuable to the science community. Do you know where I can find any information on that?

[42thgamer]

35 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

You can get a rough idea with some work put in, we would give pretty much all but the top few supercomputers in the world a run for their money. And that isn't even including all the new processing power we've gained over the last few weeks. I'd say we are probably the most power single computing system on the planet right now. 

I found 100 Tflops somewhere on wikipedia (not sure how good that data is), the top supercomputers are around that number. So yeah pretty impressive!

[minibois]

15 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

I found 100 Tflops somewhere on wikipedia (not sure how good that data is), the top supercomputers are around that number. So yeah pretty impressive!

100Tflops or Pflops?

The F@H page the Wikipedia article mentions is currently kind of down, just like the entire F@H website.. So this archival version has to do for now:

http://web.archive.org/web/20191016224645/https://stats.foldingathome.org/os

 

That shows close to 99,000 Tflops which is 99Pflops.

 

F@H has some pretty good documentation on why they don't just use a supercomputer:

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WHY NOT JUST USE A SUPERCOMPUTER?
Modern supercomputers are essentially clusters of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. The speed of these processors is comparable to (and often slower than) those found in [consumer] PCs! Supercomputers are not only very expensive to operate, but they are often simultaneously shared by many different research groups, and it is a challenge to scale a molecular simulation to all of their processors. Protein folding dynamics is statistical in nature, so a single long simulation from a supercomputer would not be sufficient to fully understand the folding process. Folding@home is one of the most powerful computing systems on the planet, and we use novel methods to utilize its network to statistically analyse the dynamics of protein folding. Hence, the calculations performed on Folding@home would not be possible by any other means! This is possible since [consumer] PC processors are now very fast and there are hundreds of millions of [consumer] PCs sitting idle in the world.

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/project-details/not-just-use-supercomputer/

(I added the [consumer] part to the quote)

 

They also have some pretty good information on what these Tflops are: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/flops/

[42thgamer]

1 minute ago, minibois said:

100Tflops or Pflops?

The F@H page the Wikipedia article mentions is currently kind of down, just like the entire F@H website.. So this archival version has to do for now:

http://web.archive.org/web/20191016224645/https://stats.foldingathome.org/os

 

That shows close to 99,000 Tflops which is 99Pflops.

 

F@H has some pretty good documentation on why they don't just use a supercomputer:

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/project-details/not-just-use-supercomputer/

(I added the [consumer] part to the quote)

 

They also have some pretty good information on what these Tflops are: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/flops/

Yeah I meant Pflops sorry, and interesting article!

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Sorry to dredge up an older topic, and it isn't a live view of the processing power, but here's an interesting article on the subject of how powerful F@H is these days: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-worlds-top-supercomputers-coronavirus-covid-19

[Kilrah]

This is more than 2 months old and was beaten many times shortly after... of course been discussed a lot in the folding threads