If all the computers at my school could fold...

[klh2000]

Hi all! I was just thinking; What if all the computers at my school folded for one week?

Our computers specs are:

I7-2600

HD6450

16GB Ram

Network is is all cat6, and we have a gigabit fiber connection coming into the school. It should handle all the downloads and uploads.

Each unit would pull an estimated 80,000 PPD

The IT department says that we have about 500 computers total.

This would give a combined PPD Of 80,000*500= 40,000,000PPD

So, In one school week of constant fold we would get about 40,000,000*5= 200,000,000 Points

[refinedskillz]

bit op lol

[LiamApex]

 Our computers specs are: I7-2600 HD6450 16GB Ram Network is is all cat6,

m8 our computers are core 2 duo, 4gb of ram and no gpu. and a microsoft keyboard and mouse and a 4:9 screen, my school is so shit. luckily they bought i5s for Year 11 so its good

[Bl00dgod]

the energy bill would make them stop

[Starelementpoke]

Then you wouldn't be able to use them.

[KemoKa]

My high school downgraded their entire array of Core 2 Duo machines with Dell Optiplexes with Pentium 4s. But they kept the Macs.

I cri evritiem...

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

and if each system draws 400 watts from the wall fully loaded, that's 200KW, with electricity at around $0.12 per KW-Hr, you're burning $24 per hour for $2880 in electricity in 5 days, $4030 per week, $16000 per month, $210,000 PER YEAR, enough to hire 3-4 more teachers.

[Litargirio]

the energy bill would make them stop

 

Doesn't matter; if you could get all PCs to fold for only a few days in a row, with your profile on them, you could get to the top of the scoreboards in less than a week. Plus, you would give the LTT folding team a significant boost. It would be moderately fun to watch.

*Prepares popcorn just in case*

[Litargirio]

Tell the IT department what folding is about, and talk them into allowing all the PCs to fold for exactly one week and one day in a row, as some sort of project. Shouldn't be too difficult, no?

[klh2000]

Tell the IT department what folding is about, and talk them into allowing all the PCs to fold for exactly one week and one day in a row, as some sort of project. Shouldn't be too difficult, no?

It would be interesting, but the energy bill world be astronomical...

It would be cool... mabye I should aask the it department if we could do it when there is days off, then it wouldn't interfere with school work.

This would get the linustechtips team to the top in no time though.

[Litargirio]

It would be cool... mabye I should aask the it department if we could do it when there is days off, then it wouldn't interfere with school work.

 

It shouldn't interfere regardless, since it can run in the background and on lowest priority, meaning that the PC will always prioritize other tasks and do folding last.

 

Unless the PCs are being used for heavy photo or video editing, of course.

[klh2000]

It shouldn't interfere regardless, since it can run in the background and on lowest priority, meaning that the PC will always prioritize other tasks and do folding last.

 

Unless the PCs are being used for heavy photo or video editing, of course.

Most of them are for running illustrator and photoshop.

[Litargirio]

Most of them are for running illustrator and photoshop.

 

So light photo editing. Should be fine.

[Madone6]

The energy bill...

[-iSynthesis]

Hi all! I was just thinking; What if all the computers at my school folded for one week? Our computers specs are: I7-2600 HD6450 16GB Ram Network is is all cat6, and we have a gigabit fiber connection coming into the school. It should handle all the downloads and uploads. Each unit would pull an estimated 80,000 PPD The IT department says that we have about 500 computers total. This would give a combined PPD Of 80,000*500= 40,000,000PPD So, In one school week of constant fold we would get about 40,000,000*5= 200,000,000 Points

Yeah if our school would fold...... Oh wait, they are some dell crap pc's and there is a maximum of 50 mbit coming to our entire school (2k students)

[Goldensapling]

m8 our computers are core 2 duo, 4gb of ram and no gpu. and a microsoft keyboard and mouse and a 4:9 screen, my school is so shit. luckily they bought i5s for Year 11 so its good

saem, although that's just kind of all of them

[Gibs960]

Sorry if this sounds stupid... But what's folding?

[Madone6]

Sorry if this sounds stupid... But what's folding?

Read the stickies at the top of the thread

[cookiemelon]

DANG YOUR SCHOOL COMPUTER SPECS ARE LIKE WOOOOOOOOOOOW

[Keudn]

I am the Assistant IT Manager at my school and the high school has roughly 100 macbook pros with dual core i5s in them. I could technically distribute a package installer that installs folding and runs it in the background and get a large sum of PPD, not nearly that much though. The battery life dying right away would be a giveaway though

[themctipers]

m8 our computers are core 2 duo, 4gb of ram and no gpu. and a microsoft keyboard and mouse and a 4:9 screen, my school is so shit. luckily they bought i5s for Year 11 so its good

M9

Core 2 Duo E2000 series

512MB of ram

No GPU

Apple Keyboard + Puck Mouse

4:3 screen.

[Marinatall_Ironside]

DANG YOUR SCHOOL COMPUTER SPECS ARE LIKE WOOOOOOOOOOOW

Want to know what specs of the computers are at my school? (Suspense moment)

[byalexandr]

At my school we have Dell towers with i5 4590s and 8GB of RAM... I wonder what that would fold like considering we have around 400 of them.

 

I think I got an idea for my 'senior prank' next year...

[FAQBytes]

the energy bill would make them stop

False. The government subsidizes the power facilities in order to ensure that they always make a profit. Right now, they're actually trying to lower the rates. 

 

Schools also have agreements with these power companies to always pay the same price each month.

 

(Sorry, wrote a bill on this.)

 

If all the schools in the US participated in F@H, they would give 100 Petaflops of computing power to these programs. I don't know the conversion ratio, but F@H currently gets about 16 Petaflops of computing power. That's 6 times what they are getting now.

[PlayStation 2]

and if each system draws 400 watts from the wall fully loaded, that's 200KW, with electricity at around $0.12 per KW-Hr, you're burning $24 per hour for $2880 in electricity in 5 days, $4030 per week, $16000 per month, $210,000 PER YEAR, enough to hire 3-4 more teachers.

more like enough to buy a pencil