The Folding@Home Pub

Crossfire · *Last edited by aircool; 07-05-2008 at 20:14.*

In here you can post your question/comments, talk about current Work Units/Projects, or just chat.

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Crossfire · 10-22-2007, 23:19 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

Wow, I just turned in a bunch of WU's lately, I think the new BETA is helping. Or, it could be that now fall/winter is coming on, and the ambient temperature is lower so they run cooler.

Asrerx (DevilDude) is on folding steriods!! AirCool said he was on folding vitamins, but now it's more like steriods. Good job Asterx.

We're now ranking 294, that's a huge increase from where we were two weeks ago.

DevilDude · 10-22-2007, 23:51 | posts: 184 | Location: Scotland

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Originally Posted by [G3D]CrossFire

Wow, I just turned in a bunch of WU's lately, I think the new BETA is helping. Or, it could be that now fall/winter is coming on, and the ambient temperature is lower so they run cooler.

Asrerx (DevilDude) is on folding steriods!! AirCool said he was on folding vitamins, but now it's more like steriods. Good job Asterx.

We're now ranking 294, that's a huge increase from where we were two weeks ago.

Heh. Thanks. /Me folds his rippling quads

PS Good idea on the pub - I vote sticky.

Tom F · 10-23-2007, 01:16 | posts: 2,657 | Location: Gloucesterestershire

2 ghz of Athlon XP might here...folding away lol

Every little helps i guess...

Crossfire · 10-23-2007, 01:25 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by Tom F

2 ghz of Athlon XP might here...folding away lol

Every little helps i guess...

Welcome! And yes, every little bit will help. You running 24/7? What client are you using?

- CrossFire

Tom F · 10-23-2007, 01:28 | posts: 2,657 | Location: Gloucesterestershire

Not quite. Running a lot of the time though

I'm on 5.03.

Crossfire · 10-23-2007, 01:51 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by Tom F

Not quite. Running a lot of the time though

I'm on 5.03.

Cool. Are you running the No-nonsense version, or the GUI version?

Tom F · 10-23-2007, 02:17 | posts: 2,657 | Location: Gloucesterestershire

I'm running the nonsense version...I'm not supposed to be gaming at the moment anyway because I have a lot of work to do lol

I'm going to look at the console version though.

Crossfire · 10-23-2007, 02:29 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by Tom F

I'm running the nonsense version...I'm not supposed to be gaming at the moment anyway because I have a lot of work to do lol

I'm going to look at the console version though.

No, you will get better performance out of the No-nonsense version. Are you running it as a service?

Tom F · 10-23-2007, 02:47 | posts: 2,657 | Location: Gloucesterestershire

I know...I'm just too lazy to change it. The gaming comment was a reference to it getting angry with fullscreen (OpenGL?) apps.

Crossfire · 10-23-2007, 02:50 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

Oh, I didn't understand you at first.

Tom F · 10-23-2007, 15:08 | posts: 2,657 | Location: Gloucesterestershire

Don't worry, I'm used to it lol

aircool · 10-23-2007, 20:54 | posts: 13,428 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

We already have a thread like this.

DevilDude · 10-23-2007, 21:29 | posts: 184 | Location: Scotland

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Originally Posted by aircool

We already have a thread like this.

Yeh, but its a good idea to separate out the "We pledge our allegience" thread from the "Ooh, nice points!" and "how the f*ck does this work" threads

aircool · 10-23-2007, 21:43 | posts: 13,428 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Well it was turning this way anyway.

We need more members, well any team does really.

SMP client can be annoying just lost a 80% 1760 pointer.

DevilDude · 10-24-2007, 00:33 | posts: 184 | Location: Scotland

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Originally Posted by aircool

Well it was turning this way anyway.

We need more members, well any team does really.

SMP client can be annoying just lost a 80% 1760 pointer.

You know, you've just given me an excellent idea - I use a free utility called AllwaySync (works really well, I'd recommend this to anyone) anyway the thing about it is you can configure it to back-up anything when it detects that the contents of a directory has changed.

Ergo you can use it to automatically backup your folding folder whenever a checkpoint gets made. It even keeps a history of changes so that if one backup gets screwed up, the backup before that is available and the one before that and so on...

As I say it's free so give it a shot.

Luvabud · 10-24-2007, 01:16 | posts: 919 | Location: Uk

I'm forever backing up the fah folder, especially for when I need to restart my pc, restarting fah can be a nightmare constant IO errors, good idea I'll give it a try.

Crossfire · 10-24-2007, 01:20 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by Luvabud

I'm forever backing up the fah folder, especially for when I need to restart my pc, restarting fah can be a nightmare constant IO errors, good idea I'll give it a try.

Cool. So far, I haven't had any problems besides the power outage that screwed up a 500 point WU.

Crossfire · 10-24-2007, 02:27 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

Question: If I only run one instance of the No-nonsense client on my P4 will it complete Work Unit's faster?

aircool · 10-24-2007, 09:22 | posts: 13,428 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

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Originally Posted by [G3D]CrossFire

Question: If I only run one instance of the No-nonsense client on my P4 will it complete Work Unit's faster?

Yes (kinda obvious really), if you have HT you'll recive a few extra points (1-20% more).

Crossfire · 10-24-2007, 12:53 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by aircool

Yes (kinda obvious really), if you have HT you'll recive a few extra points (1-20% more).

Ok, when I just run one of them it says Im using 50% on each thread. Is that right?

aircool · 10-24-2007, 13:09 | posts: 13,428 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Yeah it is right, since HT kinda simulates a second core for inefficient apps to uttilize which inturn means that app will now be more efficient. Since F@H isnt that efficient you will see a slight increase in ppd.

Crossfire · 10-24-2007, 22:14 | posts: 1,737 | Location: Kentucky, US

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Originally Posted by aircool

Yeah it is right, since HT kinda simulates a second core for inefficient apps to uttilize which inturn means that app will now be more efficient. Since F@H isnt that efficient you will see a slight increase in ppd.

So what do you recomend? Running one, or two isntances?

aircool · 10-24-2007, 23:18 | posts: 13,428 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Are you going to keep dragging this out? Its the third time ive told you that it will increase ppd (1-20% depending on wu).

Crossfire · *Last edited by Crossfire; 10-25-2007 at 02:52.*

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Originally Posted by aircool

Are you going to keep dragging this out? Its the third time ive told you that it will increase ppd (1-20% depending on wu).

Ok, either I'm slow or you're not being clear.

What is it? I asked what to run., one or two instances, and you say it will increase ppd. wtf is "it"? I guess I'm slow, as stuff is not clear lately for some reason, I'm probably stressed to f*ck from school. But here is my main question: If I run my P4 with one instance of the no-nonsense version running as a service will it complete work unit's faster?

Thanks, and sorry if I sound mean, I'm just a bit frustrated.

I'm about to complete a 500 point WU in a few hours.

EDIT: WU just completed and sent in.

Hey Billabong, what's wrong? You're not hardly folding lately...