[Shaktai]

There is a question on the Folding@Home forum, about the Mac Participation numbers.

So the questions here is how many Macintosh CPU's do you have crunching on Folding@Home the past TWO weeks. Don't count CPU's that haven't crunched recently.

A single processor machine is 1 CPU, a dual processor would be 2 CPU's. Three dual processors all on Folding@home would be 6 CPU's.

Be honest, include ONLY Macintosh, not other PC's There is no prize for bragging rights, what we are looking for is hard numbers that will help determine if Mac Participation has truly dropped off as much as their numbers indicate, or if their numbers are wrong.

[reader50]

Shaktai, could you add some ranges higher than 10? Some of our crunchers such as CobraMac and mikkyo may have 50+ Mac CPUs running. It would be a shame to have them counted as only 10+.

[Shaktai]

Originally posted by reader50:
Shaktai, could you add some ranges higher than 10? Some of our crunchers such as CobraMac may have 50+ Mac CPUs running.

The poll limit is ten, and I figured that most don't have more then ten Mac CPU's although we probably wish we did. (Yes I'll take a dozen of those dual 1.8ghz 970s please)

However if the few such as Mikkyo, Cobramac, etc, who do, could manually submit their numbers in a post, or send me a private message if they want to contribute their numbers anonymously, then I can manually add those numbers in.

[Ohairy1]

I am glad to see this post. Sorry this is going to be so long.

My post in the Client - Mac OS X forum is here:
Folding@home and Mac participation

I'm looking for broader input than Shaktai is seeking here.

I was talking with Dr. Pande and he expressed his concern about there being only 250 active Mac CPUs now! I couldn't believe it, I have 5 myself (and temporarily have 7 with a Dual 450 on loan) but, how are we to know?

The concern of course is that if this is true, there is no way Stanford can continue to expend the resources necessary to develop Mac clients. With 85,000+ PC CPUs reporting, and about 275 Mac and 840 Linux, the resources should go to the PCs if their numbers are accurate.

But beyond the Macs we bring to bear, many of us also bring a number of PCs to the effort and I feel that the Mac community ought to get credit for that contribution as well, because if Stanford truly loses the Mac folks, they will take with them large numbers of PCs as well, of which they are not aware. Thus our TOTAL contribution to this most worthwhile effort goes beyond simply the number of Macs we bring to Folding.

So I want to encourage you to post on the OS X forum of the forum.Folding-community.org website as well, but please be brief and give us two numbers: Total Mac CPUs, and total PC CPUs, that you bring to the effort. Don't forget that Dualies have 2 CPUs so count both if they are both folding!

That forum is the one that Dr. Pande and Guha and the other members of the Stanford team read, so accurate reporting is a must, and it's important that you post there as well, in my view, so they get a feeling for the numbers of people as well as a head count on the CPUs.

Also many of our Macs (because the work units run longer now, because some of our Macs may be slower and/or older, and because not all machines can fold 24/7) simply can't report to the Stanford servers and be counted every two weeks. So the numbers I would like to see are ALL Macs and ALL PCs that you have folding.

Also, a second set of numbers would be helpfull: Machines that are offline for vacations or repairs, or temporarily assigned to other work, which would normally be folding and which will be folding again within a few weeks or so. Put those under a heading of On Hiatus, or something similar.

PS
Shaktai, I 'voted' with my 5 CPUs but I am not a member of the MacNN team so you may want to exclude them from your count...

[Shaktai]

Originally posted by Ohairy1:
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PS
Shaktai, I 'voted' with my 5 CPUs but I am not a member of the MacNN team so you may want to exclude them from your count...

Bob, no problem. As far as I am concerned, I would like to know the total number of Macs from any team that is crunching for F@H, not just MacNN'rs. If I could have created a more sophisticated poll, I would have.

[Shaktai]

Good news. Vijay found an error in the script that tracks OS, that accounts for the 2400+ missing Mac CPUs.

[mikkyo]

LOL
Yeah something was definately wrong there.
I have 28 mac cpus and 3 athlons running now..
I think cobramac has 46 mac cpus.
Macgeek4u has another 30, but none are running. He is waiting for the verdict on gromacs.

Oh and the active processors in a week thing on the F@H stat page has never, ever, not once been right for me.