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[Steve Woodruff <swoody@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dan! It's great to see you around these parts again.

It sounds like you've got a nice little folding farm there - I'm sure
you have no problem cranking out some good PPD ;) I used to use
notfred's when I used to be folding on Windows (4 GPU clients, that I
couldn't get running under Linux) that's a really great choice for
folding on a Windows rig! Also, your project sounds like a ton of fun.
I always love browsing through computer surplus/resellers whenever I
get the chance - I find a ton of great deals even if I don't wind up
buying most of the time. Damn economy, haha.

It's good to have you aboard!

-- 
Steve Woodruff
swoody@xxxxxxxxxx


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Chandler <djchandler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, everybody:
>
> This is djchandler. Ubuntu team mates, please call me Dan. I'm a married
> 57 year-old grandpa living in a Kansas-side suburb in the state line
> bisected metropolis of Kansas City. As long as nobody gives me grief
> over the Chiefs or Royals, we're good. Besides, I'm a soccer fan anyway.
> Go Wizards and Gunners (Arsenal, London, UK)!
>
> You can almost always catch me at home, rarely getting out due to health
> problems. So if anybody needs anything I may be able to help with, drop
> a note in the pipeline and I'll answer ASAP. Typing is not a problem
> currently, just slow. BTW, I'm a horrible insomniac too.
>
> I'm a little old school in my approach to Folding. Right now I run four
> CPU clients, all on different boxes on my LAN. All are currently running
> under Linux, including my wife's Windows 7 x64 box running a notfred
> [ http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/ ] with -smp 2 flagged on her Athlon
> X2 7750. Depending on how heavily she is using her computer, it can turn
> about 1900 PPD. I have a Phenom II X4 running Ubuntu AMD64 doing -smp 4
> WUs, and two older Athlon 64 single cores, one on my Mythbuntu box, the
> other on a box with a minimal Debian Lenny install. Except for the
> notfred, the rest are manually installed, configured and/or scripted.
>
> Right now my project is a Supermicro dual Socket 604 Xeon MB In a Boxx
> [ http://www.boxxtech.com/ ] case I'm trying to resurrect (if it's worth
> the electricity expended) that I paid $20 for at the local computer
> surplus and recycling center [ http://www.surplusexchange.org/ ] for
> spare parts. It runs. Besides the MB there's one 2.4Ghz Xeon DP
> (hyperthread capable), 1GB of ECC registered DDR RAM, 3 port 1394a PCI
> card, plus other stuff. It took a lot of aluminum pop cans to make that
> Boxx case. It's easily worth twice the $20 by itself. (You say soda, we
> say pop.) A matching CPU and another GB of RAM can be procured for < $20
> at http://www.starmicro.net/.
>
> I'm having fun.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 -0600, Steve Woodruff wrote:
>> With our recent influx of members to the Launchpad group, and our
>> recent mailing list subscribers, I wanted to send out this quick
>> hello, and how-do-you-do :)
>>
>> I figured we can use this mailing list as a way to keep in touch with
>> each other, and a means by which we can ask any kind of Ubuntu/folding
>> related questions. I think that this is rather important as we really
>> don't have a decent method of communicating on the forum when we're
>> looking for something folding-specific.
>>
>> So get used to the mailing list! Send a reply, say hello, and
>> introduce yourself :)
>>
>> Thanks again to everyone for making Team Ubuntu the folding success
>> that it has become! (Currently ranked #68 out of ~75,000 teams
>> world-wide!!)
>>
>
>