Posted on 02/02/2007 6:22:25 AM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week, celebrating 100,000 Work Units!
First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.
Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 1040 processors and 420 user names.
We now have 29 members who have contributed at least 100,000 points each. Woo-Hoo!
Even more impressive, our team now boasts 342 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of folders for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 56. We will be in the Top 50 within 6 months!
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Okay, my first question is: Huh?
Reminds me that I have to do some *ahem* maintenance on my outlaws computer. They are flaming liberals so I'll tell 'em the little red flower is ???. I know I'll tell 'em it's for fighting AIDS in Africa.
Please click here to go to the F@H download page. Ping us if you have questions!
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
Between this thread and FReepmail lets see if we can squeeze a little more speed out of your current system.
Are you running the GUI or the Console? How much RAM? How fast a CPU?
Hi all, New folder on board, since I don't fold my laundry.
1 question is there a real difference in the console or graphical clients?
I've got my 2nd computer folding, don't use it too much anymore.
that's devious...I like it !
Pretty well tuned here...
I run the FAH GUI app on this Dual-Core Intel running at 3.2Mhz and 1 Gig of RAM. It all sits on an Intel 865GBF motherboard.
I could add another Gig of RAM, but FAH doesn't seem to be a memory-critical app. 'Bout the only other applicable upgrade would be the GPU card.
Well, been thinkin' that my FlightSim package could use a bit more 'oooommph'!
There's a slight difference, but I would suggest that it probably doesn't matter much in the long run.
The graphical client is a bit easier to set up, so that might be your best course of action. If you're comfortable with working with the DOS command line, go ahead and try the console version. I'm running the GUI version on 4 machines right now... never a problem.
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.
We *might* be able to add a little output for you.
Which dual core Intel do you have? If it is a Core 2 Duo, then you can run two instances of F@H with only a little lag.
If you want to really make some folks upset that are currently above you on the rankings, create a Linux boot CD, run F@H from a small partition and crank up the Linux SMP F@H core.
Once running you could earn as much as 900 points per day. Just ask Egon if he enjoyed running the SMP core on those Mac Core Duos.
I'm currently running the Linux SMP client on a windows box (in VMWare), but I know it would be much faster native. However, I can't repartition that box. Even though it isn't being used for anything else right now, I need to keep it intact for future work requests.
Is there a live 64bit distro with the 32 bit extentions that can fold entirely in memory?
And if so where can I get it?
I'll look around for the distro. I know I saw a discussion of one on the F@H Linux forum but don't remember where.
Why not just add an old hard drive and boot from it until the other partition is needed? I have a collection of drives I have dug up this winter from 40 mb to 20 gb. Some of them might even work.
I even think I saw a 20 mb MFM drive but don't remember if it was a Seagate or a Conner. Afraid to look too closely.
I mis-spoke re:Dual-Core. This is a Pentium 4 Hyper-threading CPU - two (2) CPUs' show up on the 'Performance' window, but two instances of FAH can't be started even if the CPU Affinity (0,1) is set.. I did try.
Regarding the Linux suggestion - just not as geeky as I once was; tried Linux long ago and got messed up for weeks! Sooooo..."If it ain't broke....."!
Think the GPU is my answer...
I saw an X1650 512 mb card at Frys for $160 after rebate.
I will probably hold out for the new cards to be announced in March from ATI that support Direct X 10. At the very least they will be cheaper when the new chipsets arrive.
I have an HP a730n with hyper threading 3.0 Intel that I run two instances with. It is not as fast as a true dual core but it seems to work ...
I have an HP a730n with hyper threading 3.0 Intel that I run two instances ...
How? Is that under Linux? 'Cause if I try to start a second session, even with the first set to CPU 0 with XP Pro, a pop-up says "There is already one copy of Folding running".
$160 isn't bad .... hmmmmm
F@H can only run two instances if you run the console version 5.04. Make sure that you set the advanced options and mark one as CPU 1 and the other as CPU 2.
Thanks!
I would probably have done that except I'm almost exclusively using laptops. I really don't want to be pulling HDDs from them with all their wonderful proprietary systems.
Besides the system I want to do this with now uses a 2 1/2" SATA.
Just want to minimize the headache.
Thanks for your new posts, TB!!
Hope it brings on more folders!
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