Welcome to our newest member: quixotic!

12/1/2005 7:24:17 PM

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"what about cores that support multiple threads"

If you have a dual-core processor, you should be able to run two processes

If you have a multithreading processor, its more efficient to run just one. The FAH app is not multithreaded, and if you have a single multithreaded processor, two instances will be "fighting" for CPU usage.

I've got a dual processor 3.4GHz Intel Xeon server at work, each processor supports multithreading, so windows sees 4 effective CPUs, however I only run two copies.

Just install two copies to two different directories, to the custom or advanced setup, and give each copy a different machine ID, and you're set.


Also if you are behind a proxy server (my machine is at work) I found it necessary to set the proxy settings manually instead of having FAH detect the system proxy settings.

12/1/2005 10:43:39 PM

^^ yay! that's me!

12/2/2005 1:24:58 AM

Welcome to our newest member: skrat!

12/5/2005 1:36:23 PM

TMSTKSBK is me!...obviously...and I brought ObiWan, too

12/6/2005 6:16:52 PM

Wow, it's a pretty dramatic decline when school is out of session.

12/24/2005 9:06:16 AM

We're back up to 94th place.

1/16/2006 9:20:42 AM

i'm number four, niggas!

1/27/2006 7:56:14 AM

Looks like you are still #5 to me. You still have a bit of work to do to get to #4. Fold On!

1/28/2006 7:59:56 AM

Welcome to our newest member: thirdconspiracy!

1/29/2006 8:16:39 PM

Welcome to our newest member: 4x4mudbug!

2/5/2006 7:40:31 AM

Our numbers are sliding a bit. We are in 95th place now. We could use some more help to stay in the Top 100.

3/12/2006 5:31:23 PM

Welcome to our newest member: DrHnky51!

3/18/2006 11:17:49 PM

We are back up to 93rd place again. Fold on!

3/24/2006 7:10:28 AM

Welcome to our newest member: jdriley!
Fold On!

4/22/2006 11:20:38 PM

bump per user request

1/26/2007 12:34:24 PM

alright time to get this shit rolling again

i'm back in the game

come on, let's get folding

1/26/2007 12:40:43 PM

My computer has been at 100% CPU usage for ~6 years.

1/28/2007 7:27:27 PM

Too bad I don't fold for TWW. I'd be in 5th place on the team.
edit: I've also done more WU's than anyone but NeoEraser.

[Edited on January 28, 2007 at 8:51 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2007 8:50:21 PM

Has anyone tried the SMP Beta client?

2/26/2007 7:24:19 AM

jigga what?

3/8/2007 1:13:14 AM

The Playstation 3 is now able to do folding@home. Just signed up. Go Pack!

3/22/2007 9:56:34 AM

i've got this going on the PS3 now...for team number, it's just 59, right?

3/22/2007 11:42:26 PM

yup, 59. I just contributed my e6600 and p4 machines.

3/22/2007 11:57:32 PM

yup

3/22/2007 11:57:38 PM

ah cool deal - looks like my first WU got finished this morning. i figure i'll leave the PS3 on for a while and see what kind of energy bill i have this month

3/23/2007 9:57:00 AM

^Good work. We need all the help we can get to keep in the top 100 teams.

3/23/2007 9:56:18 PM

i just joined up and i'm on my laptop a lot...hopefully i can contribute

3/25/2007 12:27:06 AM

glad to help...man it seems the PS3 just crushes this shit. I've had it on since thursday night and am close to having my 5th WU done...just a little over 48 hours

3/25/2007 1:58:01 AM

wtf is this

3/25/2007 4:32:23 AM

http://www.fah.genejockeys.com

Quote :

"Essentially the project uses your unused CPU cycles to model how proteins fold. The misfolding of proteins is often involved in well known diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease. This project requires massive amounts of computing power, so in order to complete their tasks, they use free CPU time one your computer much like the Seti@Home project. Here at North Carolina State University, we have formed this team in order to help this endeavor."

^^^I always tell people with laptops to be carefull they don't get too hot. If it does, you can stop folding or throttle back the CPU usage in the setup.

3/25/2007 6:46:07 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news92674403.html

Since the PS3 is an incredible folding machine, is this set up also running F@H? Would be an impressive addition to the NCSU stats.

3/25/2007 2:41:50 PM

yep
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000823.html

3/25/2007 2:54:38 PM

^Wow, I had no idea the PS3 was so efficient! A PS3 cluster in a non-cluster mode would really be impressive.

3/25/2007 3:09:46 PM

I just joined with my PS3, will my computer perform enough to really help by signing it up ( its like a 2 year old dell)

3/25/2007 6:51:27 PM

^Every little bit helps. None of my computers that I am folding with are newer that 2 years old.

3/25/2007 8:48:46 PM

12 new members in the last 7 days!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=59

3/28/2007 10:14:15 PM

yup, doing my part, the e6600 really crunches them numbers really good. All of the finished WU have been from that computer. the P4 hasn't finished one yet...

3/28/2007 10:31:50 PM

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"webfellow 1,760pts. 1 WU"

that's one WU with the SMP core on a e6400 i believe... in 1.5 days

3/28/2007 11:39:52 PM

Haha, I totally forgot I was doing this...

Even funnier is that the computer labs I hijacked at my old job are still pegging away. Apparently no one has noticed that it's probably noticeably hotter in those rooms.

Fold on!

3/29/2007 3:45:00 PM

We moved up to 99th place. We need more people to keep in the top 100.
^Yeah, I was wondering how long they would last. I hope they don't upgrade anytime soon.

3/29/2007 11:52:03 PM

i read an article on how yall are like the biggest computer network around or something...like there are a ton of computers compulating that shit

3/30/2007 3:48:54 AM

Just joined team 59... putting my Core 2 Duo to good use

3/30/2007 4:40:29 AM

i'll add my PS3 to this once i actually have time to play it again

3/30/2007 8:56:21 AM

^^^ http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html

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"3/27/2007Two Million CPUs have returned work We have just passed the 2,000,000 CPU mark -- 2M CPUs have at some time contributed to FAH. Right now, over 200,000 CPUs are actively returning work. With the addition of PS3 donors, Folding@Home is the most powerful distributed computing resource on the planet, and for the calculations we run (parallel independent molecular dynamics trajectories), the most powerful supercomputer of any type (distributed or otherwise)."

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 12:15 PM. Reason : .]

3/30/2007 12:15:22 PM

alright, i should be on the team as h00th00t now

3/31/2007 5:24:43 PM

for anyone on dual core or quad, run the SMP core, i'm getting a LOT more points than running two consoles...

3/31/2007 9:36:14 PM

Raise your hand if you remember Protein As, worth 10 points. They were the big ones back in the day.
*raises hand*

[Edited on April 1, 2007 at 7:57 PM. Reason : ]

4/1/2007 7:57:15 PM

I remember the days of Genome@Home.

4/1/2007 10:06:32 PM

imma put folding@home on the ol' resume

just for the hell of it

4/2/2007 9:37:54 PM