We have watched Egon flying like an eagle, soaring all the way to over 2,000 points per day. Alas, his Ferrari has been returned to the rental shop and he must now obey posted speed limits. (He borrowed his brothers dual core Mac and folded with the SMP client for a week). Way cool.
JosephW has installed a new ATI X1950 Pro video card and has seen a terrific jump in points. A fairly straight forward upgrade that is really paying off.
HKMk23 rebuilt a system that was overheating in a fancy computer desk so that it could fold at 100% and not endure Early Unit Ends.
Texas Booster started folding on an old AMD system and nearly burned it up trying to coax an extra bit of speed.
Please post your questions on faster folding, and FReepers will try to help speed up your systems, without watching your computer catch on fire!
How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired username.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
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Other Useful Stuff - Links
How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
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Post questions here so you can get the most out of folding.
End of week folding ping!
Post questions here so you can get the most out of folding.
Hey texas! Thanks for the regular updates.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
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I've ordered a SAPPHIRE 100186L Radeon X1950XT 256MB from the Eggmasters and I'm awaiting delivery next week. Maybe this will add approx 600 Points Per Day (PPD) on top of my production.
FYI my main cpu is a Opteron dual core 170 at 2.70 GHZ with 2 FAH sessions running. When I get the new video card I'll just run one FAH client and the GPU session.
Setting the priority to 'High' via the Windows Task Manager has no, or little, effect all.
I've read that the tasking priority can be set manually - but that post didn't say how.
Anybody know exactly the run parameters? And is rebooting the only way to reset it?
Thanks in advance....
p.s. Been at #92 for months. :)
Add me to the list of people who are producing more than they used to.
I upgraded my AMD CPU to a dual core version and my production more than doubled. I might add a folding-capable ATI card in the summer.
Thanks for your new posts, TB!!
Hope it brings on more folders!
Do not EVER - EVER sign up for anything with "yahoo" "SNET" or "ATT" as a DSL provider.
The question; what is my best option to squeeze the most folding out of this box? Can I run multiple instances? How do I do that?
Okay, I finally caught Walkerk. You're coming up on the screen now. Just 23 more years . . . ;-)
We installed VMware in Vista Ultimate, apparently the reverse of what many do. The trick, if any are going to do the same, is to hit F8 while Vista is booting and choose to disable device driver signing. This will allow VMware server to install in Vista. If you do not do this then it will appear to install and then at the last minute will rollback without explanation. Annoying.
Another weirdness was after rebooting the computer my network setup was disabled. (I have a local lan w/router). We spent a few minutes trying to get VMware working before noticing. After starting the local network VMware was happy to let us logon on to the 'local' host so we could proceed with the kubuntu install.
Thanks again to JosephW for helping me navigate the bumps in a much speedier fashion than I would have alone (we are talking days here) and without loss of hair, which I can ill afford.
FAHMonitor is going to be offline for awhile today, as the server (which I've been having stability problems with) is resurrected as a VM on a different box.
With any luck (and an absence of Murphy), this will be a short outage-- something less than the recent outages caused by the instability even.