Folding@home

[Sіr. Ηaxalot]

we are already that high on the list?

yes, there must be a lot of teams with less than 7 completed WUs

I'm almost on half way, 960/2000... it really take long time to finish it ^^

As I said, it's largely dependant on how you use the client and which client you use. I have several comps running which don't do anything else except of folding proteins. If you have a more recent graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 8x00 or higher / ATI Radeon HD2xxx or higher) you could use this for folding@home. For example, my Geforce GTX470 I normally use, completes a whole packet in less than 3 hours.

We need to pass rank 6 000 to get some serious live tracking though!

[Sіr. Ηaxalot]

Bah. It deleted my GPU WU at 90% becasue of UNSTABLE_MACHINE.

D:

[bommel]

We need to pass rank 6 000 to get some serious live tracking though!

Yes, we have to work on that. By the way: are you talking about folding.extremeoverclocking.com?

Maybe we should continue the discussion in the project thread?

Bah. It deleted my GPU WU at 90% becasue of UNSTABLE_MACHINE.

Today I had a broken WU too. Stopped folding at 18%

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

hrh
I won't miss my 2000... (at least I hope so )

I'll try to remind you

btt: We have already 7 WUs completed (team ranking: 57765 of 192513)

And the day before we were at 130000. We are half way there, after one day xD

[bommel]

there must be a lot of teams with way less than 7 WUs o0

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

there must be a lot of teams with way less than 7 WUs o0

Like 130000 xD

[Eana Tanhì]

I still haven't finished my first "round" it's 1460/2000 now

[bommel]

hmm... maybe we need to have a look again tomorrow?

[judytuna]

I'm doing this one for dinosaur comics: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=412W2GKRLR1

What happens if I install both wcg and f@h on my computer? haha.

I'd switch to a learnna'vi team if we got it up though =)

[bommel]

if you're using the normal client it could be possible but AFAIK it's not recommended. But maybe you could use a GPU client for f@h? They don't put much load on the CPU so the CPU would be free for your other project. In order to use a GPU client you need at least a Geforce 8x00 or Radeon HD2x00 graphics card (i. e. DirectX 10 generation)

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

I have checked the team status, but I can only see SirHaxalot, Bommel and me ( on the PS3 ) And I don't know how the points system works, but SirHaxalot has done the least amount of WU and got the most points.... Now how does that work, that points system or whatever it is.

I checked this morning and were are on somewhere 41000.

[bommel]

The points you gain are dependent on the type of client. The PS3 client does only gain around 250 points/unit. There are clients which can gain more than 50k points/unit but you need a very strong computer for this (most people use an overclocked i7 - afaik you need a comp that reports at least 8 CPU cores in order to get such large work units). The GPU client is also quite powerful (needs at least a Geforce 8000 or Radeon HD2000)

On my machines at my parents I only gain around 70 points/wu (except the SMP client on my server but this one takes 2-4 days to complete a single WU)

[judytuna]

if you're using the normal client it could be possible but AFAIK it's not recommended. But maybe you could use a GPU client for f@h? They don't put much load on the CPU so the CPU would be free for your other project. In order to use a GPU client you need at least a Geforce 8x00 or Radeon HD2x00 graphics card (i. e. DirectX 10 generation)

Thank you, I had no idea. After a lot of reading, I got the CUDA drivers installed (whatever they are lol) and it's running on my GPU now. Sweet!! Screenshot in the spoiler...

Spoiler

=D

I get to be LN.org's fourth (sorry Eana Tanhì!) fifth F@h-er!!

Edit: uuughh, I won't show up on the list until my first work unit gets uploaded right? It won't finish for another 5 hours and 40 minutes D: D: D:

[bommel]

I get to be LN.org's fourth F@h-er!!

And you're welcome!

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

Shouldn't Eana Tahnì be the fourth, cuz she joined a few days ago or did I miss something?

[bommel]

Shouldn't Eana Tahnì be the fourth, cuz she joined a few days ago or did I miss something?

I don't know if she has completed her WU yet. I don't think that she will run her computer 24/7 like I do and the CPU client takes a while even on a high performance PC.

[judytuna]

Sorry for being such a noob, but there is a looooot of reading to do for f@h and it's positively overwhelming (especially that extreme overclocking tracking site hrh).

So, there is a ps3 one. That is WAY too cool. I might have to send that info over to my brother.

& I can have multiple machines going? Apparently my cpu got my "machine ID" 1, cuz i installed the regular version of f@h first. My gpu client shows that it's using machine id 2 (which makes sense... it's using my gpu). Then I can install the osX 10.5+ one on my intel mbp and have two running concurrently, right? And it'll get machine ID 3? They will download different WUs and so on? Anyone have any experience running it on a mbp? Mine gets really hot.... I don't want to wear itself off. And I don't do any overclocking on either of my machines, too nooby for that. =D

I might install it on our living room old crappy laptop too... O the possibilities

Anyway, back to GPU + optimizing. The f@h page on "high-performance" clients linked to this page: http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/articles-1-3+gpu-environment-variables.php  .... but I am very scared. HRH. Uhhh should I just leave it on defaults for now and see how it goes? And I think I should just turn it off manually when I play games... the site one of you linked with the utility that turns it off automaticalyl when it detects a game running (can't find it now) didn't load.


What is "affinity of the core" ?!?!!?!?!??!?!?? Is that setting which CPU core is telling the GPU what to do?!?!??!?!?!!

I have no idea, so I was trying to see how many "cores" my video card has.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800_gtx_us.html  says:
"CUDA Cores:    128"   WTFFFFF? So clearly it's not "cores in video card" cuz that must mean something else entirely.... ROFL

Anyway, my CPU is an intel core2 quad Q9550 @ 2.83ghz. Should I, uh, tell my gpu to, uh, use all the, uh, cpu cores? By setting NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY to 15, like the website says?

15 -> 1111: CPU3, CPU2, ... CPU0 and CPU1 value adapted to a quad core.

HRH?

lost in the fog D:

[Txantslusam Skxawng]

Sorry for being such a noob, but there is a looooot of reading to do for f@h and it's positively overwhelming (like http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/articles-1-3+gpu-environment-variables.php  , and especially that extreme overclocking tracking site hrh).

So, there is a ps3 one. That is WAY too cool. I might have to send that info over to my brother.

& I can have multiple machines going? Apparently my cpu got my "machine ID" 1, cuz i installed the regular version of f@h first. My gpu client shows that it's using machine id 2 (which makes sense... it's using my gpu). Then I can install the osX 10.5+ one on my intel mbp and have two running concurrently, right? And it'll get machine ID 3? They will download different WUs and so on? Anyone have any experience running it on a mbp? Mine gets really hot.... I don't want to wear itself off. And I don't do any overclocking on either of my machines, too nooby for that. =D

I might install it on our living room old crappy laptop too... O the possibilities

Yea and since it vacation ( although my last day ) I let it go overnight or when I am not at home and I know I will be back in an hour of 6. ( If longer I will probably have it off )

[bommel]

The machine ID is only of importance when running multiple clients on the same computer. If you are using the console client you have to choose "yes" if it asks you for advanced configuration options in order to change the machine ID. I don't know if the client can change the ID automatically because I have never tried (in fact, I configure every client by hand because I've learned it this way - and I am using only console clients because most of my machines fold headless which means only power & network cables are plugged in)

[Sіr. Ηaxalot]

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