(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,200!)

Free Republic Folders Stats Page ^ | 12/25/2005 | me

[texas booster]

OK, new thread for the next week.

First, a big shout out to the SETI 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 104 processors and 76 users. We have a number of new users in the team, with Clara Lou, fzx12345, SamfromLivingston, brityank, manwiththehands and Tami all popping onto the hit list this week.

Malsua, uriah and Ken in Texas are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add systems and now accounts for 10% of the FR total. Great job!

Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page

On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 1196. We are poised to overtake (today):

carletonu (maybe in MN?)
Helms-Deep
2*ian
Dynadues
Soluchis
Greece and soon the
University of Pennsylvania!

We were passed by one team, SISD. My guess is that this team really is the computers of an Independent School District that were all "volunteered" to fold over the holidays. They are producing points at a rate of 37,000 points per day. As we gain members from the 100,000 FReepers that visit JimRob's place I expect that we will have a much greater long term growth than them.

[systematic]

Thanks for the ping.

Just want to point our that libs decided to challenge the mighty FR

DUmmies: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

dKossacks: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083

[VeniVidiVici]

They'll lose interest. I'm sure their attention span is quite low.

[texas booster]

Wow the Kossacks actually broke the top 10,000 teams. I'm scared.

Best name I've seen yet for the dull Kos. Can I borrow it?

[texas booster]

You can still FReep CNN polls, flame DUmmies on the board and watch trolls get zottted, while helping to cure cancer.

With 11 systems you have a chance to catch up to Malsua, Ken in Texas and uriah to see who becomes our top producer. We have several new users that are gunning for them.

[prophetic]

Wow the Kossacks actually broke the top 10,000 teams. I'm scared.

And I can swallow them all like a mighty whale ALL BY MYSELF :-) :-)

[prophetic]

what is your name on the team? I dont see you there (yet).

[prophetic]

the best way to MAXIMIZE the amount of work from this project is to have it configured as running as a SERVICE when the computer startup.

Running the client with the icon in the taskbar is very inefficient imho since it will eat video & processing time - which you dont really need unless you wanna watch it processing the work. But that is my preferences personally.

I configure the console client to run at low priority at 30% and the dual cores to run at 60%.

I recently build a AMD 3800 dual core running at 5000 speed with 2GB RAM and bumped the client to run at 60% but in the task mananger it only shows at 30%.
That machine alone is crunching about 10-18 workunits per day!

[Dundee]

I've added my little cog to the FReeper machine. I've been having far too much trouble with SETI@Home now that it has shifted to BIONIC.

[GregB]

Can I go to SETI and download it from there,or where is a link?

[A.Hun]

Thanks for the ping. I've got two boxes on it now! I did drop the processor usage to 75% and it seems to work fine unless I'm gaming with Ghost Recon.

[Clara Lou]

Question:
I just read your post #10. I just completed my first work unit yesterday. (Yay! 93 pts.) However, I'm running the program so that it's not running as a service. I have the icon in the taskbar.
1) I should switch from that and download the "No-nonsense text-only console"? Will that speed processing?
2) To do that I should uninstall what I now have and then do a new install?
Would doing this make a difference?

[FourtySeven]

Kewl, new thread!

How does one set the advanced features? (those -advmethods tags they talk about on the site)? Through the Configuration pop up I was able to set my machine to receive files larger than 5 MB in size, but I don't get the whole "overclocking" thing. How does one do all those advanced features? (or have I already done that by setting my machine to receive large files?) It seems to be talking about downloading some kind of "console". What is that?

Also, what is the Queue Info? What's that telling me?

[Clara Lou]

Would you read my post #51? I have an Intel Pentium II 533mhz machine.

[ßuddaßudd]

Me too! I'm not sure what I'm doing over here, but it does appear that I am processing something from SETI.

[Glenn]

that libs decided to challenge the mighty FR

BATTLE!

[ken in texas]

My personal opinion so far is that running it as an icon in the system tray is just fine. Running as a service might start it a few seconds earlier when you boot the machine, but even in the systray, it consumes every available CPU cycle when nothing else is running. The other modes might get you a few more seconds of processing per day... it's not worth it. This goes the same for the console version (unless you have a multi-CPU machine, then you want to run two copies of the console.)

What consumes cycles needlessly is running it as a screen-saver or repeatedly clicking on the "display" option so you can watch it draw the proteins that are being folded. I have my screen saver set to "blank-screen".

Other's opinions may differ from mine, but I don't think it's worth switching to a different mode.

[texas booster]

1) I should switch from that and download the "No-nonsense text-only console"? Will that speed processing?

Running F@H as a text-only service is slightly faster (according to the FAQs). When minimize I have not seen near the difference that prophetic is mentioning. I do have a fast video card and that offloads the work from the CPU when I leave it as a screen saver, which is almost never.

2) To do that I should uninstall what I now have and then do a new install?

Wait until a work units finished so that you don't waste processing work units. Uninstall, then reinstall according to directions. It is faster to run the console than to run the full program, but again, not much.

[ken in texas]

I think you can set -advmethods by modifying the command line that starts the program. For example, I've installed the program into D:\Folding.

In the shortcut that starts the F@H program, I would change it from:

D:\Folding\winFAH.exe

to:

D:\Folding\winFAH.exe -advmethods

[Clara Lou]

Thanks for your replies and the information. I'll leave my setup the way it is. I do like to check my progress now and then, but I'll keep that to a minimum.

[Glenn]

They also update quicker than the text files that Stanford uses.

Thanks. That explains it.