Would you Fold on a 200Mhz P1?

[NexariaN]

?:D

[BaLa]

sure...

but you might not be able to get the Untis done by the deadline..

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How do you set the deadlines for the work units?

Each work unit is benchmarked on a dedicated 500 MHz Celeron machine without SSE/3DNow. We look at how many days it takes, and multiply this by 2.5. This corresponds to requiring such a machine to fold less than 10 hours a day in order to meet the deadline. From our experience, the majority of donor machines are faster than our benchmarking machine, and virtually none are slower, so this shouldn't be a problem (if a machine is slower, it may need to fold more hours a day). Occassionally, deadlines may be set longer than the above calculation indicates, but the reason for having deadlines at all is that the sooner we get back work units, the sooner we can put the results to good use. We are looking into, in the very near future, having the assignment server take machine speed into account in making assigments, thereby allowing slower machines to receive smaller work units.


from this page..
http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#stats.howdead

[Dave's World]

one of my home rigs is a MMX 200mhz. It completes a Work Unit every 5-7 days. Never had a WU rejected due to a deadline

[Encnuk]

One of my rigs which is a Pentium 200 without MMX took 250 hours to complete a WU that had a 10 day deadline and thus was rejected by 10 hours.

Even though some WU's may finish in time, some won't. Until Stanford has got their benchmarking code fully implemented, for me personally, I see little point in running my box for a considerable portion of the time without achieving any results. Thus, I DO NOT fold on my Pent 200.