Quote :

"(if you're running as a service, you have to ad the -forceasm flag as a registry entry)"

I'm going to be a lazy noob and ask "How do I do dat?"

9/6/2007 5:50:11 PM

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-SMP.html

[Edited on September 6, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : /]

9/6/2007 5:59:16 PM

Quote :

"I exited it by clicking the x. Is there a better way to do it?"

Control + C

9/6/2007 9:54:23 PM

Quote :

"I exited it by clicking the x. Is there a better way to do it?"

the x should work ok, but it sounds like the cntl+c is better. the "standard loops" result in really low points per day. after editing the shortcut, when the program starts, make sure it mentions that you're using the -forceasm flag in the startup output so you can be sure everything is working right.

Quote :

"I'm going to be a lazy noob and ask "How do I do dat"

Quote :

"Run regedit edt the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/FAH@C:+Program Files+FAH+FAH1+FAH504-Console.exe/ImagePath to add -forceasm."

Quote :

"To add switches to a console setup as a service you will need to edit the registry. To find the entry in the registry do a search for "FAH" and eventually you should find this, "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\FAH502-Console.exe -svcstart" Double click the ImagePath and add in the switches you require like this "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\FAH502-Console.exe -svcstart -advmethods -forceasm "

http://www.overclockers.com.au/folding/fah5/fah5clientinstall_tweaks.htm
http://www.teamhackaday.com/wiki/index.php?title=Folding%40Home_Tips_and_Tricks
http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=30356


also be sure to install FahMon to be sure you're getting good PPD out of your client(s). You can even monitor clients on networked machines with this program. http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/
you can compare these results with other folders here:http://fahinfo.org/index.php?avgscores=true

9/6/2007 10:29:10 PM

We moved up to 96th place for the time being.

9/10/2007 6:59:20 AM

i downloaded this and am running it, but the GUI is messed up. none of the info/display changes, unless i move the whole window around (though it's always processing data). im running winXP sp2

9/10/2007 8:39:29 AM

well the fact that its always processing data is cool, but i'd use the console client, and run it as a service if you can.

9/10/2007 9:28:22 AM

Support Cancer Research and the NCSU Wolfpack With Your Computer's Spare Time!

If you're like most people you've got a computer that spends a lot of time idling on a blank screen or running a cool screensaver. Did you know it's possible to directly support Cancer, Alzheimer's, and Cystic Fibrosis research using your computer's idle time? The Stanford University Folding@home project provides a small piece of software which uses your computer?s spare processing power to run simulations and help researchers understand these diseases.

The NCSU Wolfpack Folding@home team has been ranked as high as 81st in the world but we were recently knocked out of the Top 100. While our team has had
much success in the past, if we don't get some new computers and PS3s running soon we'll keep moving farther down the ladder

Got a PS3? PS3s currently provide over 60% of the processing power in the Folding@home network! Each PS3 that joins the NCSU Folding Team provides huge boost and brings us closer to getting back in the Top 100! If you have one watch the video below to see how easy it is to setup the client and help the NCSU Wolfpack Folding team.



Links:

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_at_home

Official Stanford Folding@home Website
http://folding.stanford.edu/

NCSU Wolfpack Folding@home Website
http://www.fah.genejockeys.com

Wolfweb Thread
message_topic.aspx?topic=118820

NCSU Team Stats Page
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=

Folding Forums
http://forum.folding-community.org/forums.html

Download The Client Here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html We recommend using the "No-nonsense text-only" client for most computers. For multi-core systems, the SMP client will get you and the team far more points than the traditional client (but it doesn't start as a service, so you'll have to restart the client manually or automatically when your computer restarts). If you have a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, its best to turn off Hyperthreading in the BIOS if you know how.
If you have an ATI X1800 or X1900 series graphics card you can even run Folding@home on your graphics card (with great results).

Installation Instructions
Enter a Username
Enter Team [59] (thats the important part)
Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service [yes]
Ask before fetching/sending [no]
Use internet explorer settings [no]
Use Proxy [no] (unless you want to use a proxy)
Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB [yes]
Change Advanced Options: [no]

The folding client will run in the background as a service at low priority and won't interfere with your work/fun or slow down your computer at all. And you can run as many PC and PS3 clients you want under your username to contribute to your points and to the team points. If you have any questions feel free to contact me or any other member of the team.

9/10/2007 9:29:04 AM

Quad-core folding performance:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13176/7

This guy claims 3000-3500 points per day on a quad-core rig running 2 SMP clients and VMware.

Quote :

"The Folding@Home SMP client, although much more efficient than running multiple uniprocessor clients, still isn't the most efficient way to fully utilize the processing power of a Quad processor."

http://icrontic.com/articles/quad_core_folding_guide

9/10/2007 5:14:15 PM

n/m, that was the barcelona

i still think it would be cheaper to buy E4300's, OC'em and run 2 machines for 3,000+ ppd (for only $120 per cpu) as well

[Edited on September 10, 2007 at 5:53 PM. Reason : .]

9/10/2007 5:49:23 PM

We'll see if this helps our efforts any:
[link]http://media.http://www.technicianonline.com/media/storage/paper848/news/2007/09/11/ScienceTech/Unfolding.The.Secrets.Of.Disease-2960487.shtml[/link]


[Edited on September 11, 2007 at 8:42 AM. Reason : .]

9/11/2007 8:41:39 AM

^ w00t!

Technician article about the NCSU Folding@Home team!!!
http://tinyurl.com/yqx4al

Quote :

"Unfolding the secrets of disease Group promotes donations of processing power It's a lot like origami. The body starts with a flat chain of amino acids. Following its DNA blueprints, the chain begins to fold like a piece of paper. As it continues its complex transformation, the once inert collection of material begins to form into one of thousands of three-dimensional structures the body needs to operate. And it all happens in less than a minute. But researchers in the field of medicine aren't concerned so much about when this amino acid origami folds correctly as when it doesn't. That's when genes can fuel cancer or start the brain's decent into Alzheimer's disease. "Proteins are like little machines," said Chris Halweg, a 2004 alumnus of the genetics graduate program."They have to have a 3-D structure to work properly." But simulating this folding process isn't easy, even for the world's fastest computers. "There's a lot of different calculations to figure out how they form," Halweg said. "Each step has to be done properly." During his time at N.C. State, Halweg heard about a program that gave scientists an even more powerful tool than a supercomputer: the home computer. Halweg learned about a program called Folding@Home, initiated by a team at Stanford University. It uses a concept called distributed computing to spread large workloads around to multiple computers. By downloading a program from Stanford's Web site, Folding@Home allows users to donate their computer's spare processing time to run calculations on small portions of information, called work units. "Basically, it uses excess computer time that you don't use," Halweg said. "It's software that runs low priority." After the computer finishes its work, it sends the results back to the Stanford database, where scientists can analyze it. But Halweg wanted to do more than just participate. He decided to start up his own team, made up at the time of friends and family, with NCSU's own branding. "I figured there would be a lot of people that would be interested," he said. Click here to visit Halweg's group web site. Since it began in 2001, members of the Wolfpack Folding@Home have calculated more than 100,000 work units for Stanford's research, which is focused on everything from cancer to Parkinson's. Halweg said he got involved on the ground floor of the project. That's evident by the fact that the team was the 59th to form -- out of more than 83,000 now. "I basically signed up on the first day it was available," he said. Halweg now has three computers running the program. He even installed a version made for the Playstation 3 on his game system. From Google to the Genome According to Xiaosong Ma, an assistant professor of Computer Science, the concept of distributed computing has broad applications. Its most common usage, for example, is the Internet. "You see it everywhere," she said, and pointed out that a simple Google search can use thousands or tens of thousands of computers. Even the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has taken advantage of the concept. That's where Albert Ahr, a 2007 graduate of computer engineering and member of Wolfpack Folding@Home, said he first heard of the application. But he said searching for aliens didn't really peak his interest. "Trying to beat cancer is more important than that," Ahr said. Like the SETI@Home project, Ma said the Stanford group's application takes advantage of the computing power of the rapidly evolving home system. "The beauty is that it allows the use of all idle, unutilized sources," Ma said. Ma's research focuses on similar projects that utilize distributed computing in areas like bioinformatics. She said she's one to two years away from a program that could perform complicated search tasks -- like matching genome samples with known sequences. She said distributed computing will only become more powerful as personal computers evolve. But she also pointed out that as medical knowledge expands, the tasks these systems must perform will only get more complicated. "This job is computer intensive and data intensive," she said. But the "curve of database growth is very fast." Scoring for Science Beyond pure altruism, Halweg said there is an extra element to participating in the Folding@Home project. Each work unit is worth a certain amount of points, which the system tallies. Halweg said most units are worth about 100 to 500 points, depending on its size and how long it takes to complete. "It actually makes it slightly competitive," Halweg said. "Some people get serious about it." Wolfpack Folding@Home has racked up more than 13.5 million points since its inception and is ranked 96th. Although he said their primary goal is to get people to contribute to the project, Halweg also said he wants to keep the team in the top 100 -- and beat other university teams. He said Mississippi state is beating the team now, but the NCSU team is snagging points at a faster rate. "We should be catching them in about two months," Halweg said. Since he joined the group about eight months ago, Ahr said he's been recruiting on Facebook and on The Wolf Web to get more members. With 59 members actively working on the project, the group is the largest it's been. "We've been on a pretty good climb upward," Ahr said."

9/11/2007 9:30:07 AM

gg to 30thAnnZ for ramping up production...currently ~4k PPD and climbing!

9/11/2007 1:21:21 PM

got my friend ps3 in the group with my name lol

9/11/2007 1:54:21 PM

gg man, you're already starting to put up some nice points!

9/12/2007 12:48:30 PM

fah web down?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 12:35 AM. Reason : .]

9/13/2007 12:34:02 AM

^ It is for me as well

9/13/2007 6:37:18 AM

yeah evidently the whole stanford campus is having some sort of network meltdown

9/13/2007 7:58:45 AM

looks like its back up

9/13/2007 5:09:35 PM

what's the deal, as soon as i ramp up production, KRUZNBY and aaronburo ramp it up too... making it tough for me to get back in top 5

good job guys!

we now have FOUR over 2000+PPD, and another NINE over 800-1400+ PPD, and TWENTY with 200-700 PPD!

keep it up!

[Edited on September 16, 2007 at 1:30 AM. Reason : .]

9/16/2007 1:26:39 AM

I've done nothing except update the PS3 and change it to advanced WUs. That could be the reason or just natural fluctuation in point/time values.

[Edited on September 16, 2007 at 8:13 AM. Reason : .]

9/16/2007 8:12:58 AM

hmmm..wonder what caused my parents computer to go up really high those couple of days...

9/16/2007 10:37:08 AM

^^well i guess i meant when you went from 800 to 1400 ppd 1-2 months ago

9/16/2007 11:45:13 AM

ok. As a result of synapse's psychological warfare tactics of constantly bringing up f@h in every thread I read... I now have a ps3 and 2 desktops running. This is widespread I can see... so would 5 more desktops, a ps3 and 4 laptops really make a difference?

9/16/2007 4:06:50 PM

yes, the more the better

9/16/2007 4:09:34 PM

I think not.. that much shit running concurrent on that many shitboxes is too much for a lone drunk man, like myself, to handle.. if only I could hire an ncsu person to control my data farm for me..

9/16/2007 4:16:24 PM

Just run it on extra desktops and PS3's. Laptops can be a bit tricky with heat disapation.

9/16/2007 4:32:22 PM

^what he said about laptops

even w/ 2-7 desktops and a PS3 chances are you'll be a top 5 producer for a team, a huge help!

3 more weeks til we hit #94! nice job!

1.5 months til we overtake mississippi state for the #1 university spot!

3 months and we may even break into the TOP 90!!!

[Edited on September 16, 2007 at 5:24 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2007 5:20:36 PM

and if we keep adding folks may be less than 3 months!

9/16/2007 5:40:28 PM

bttt

9/19/2007 9:35:18 PM

we hit #95!

oh and "i'm in ur top 15, foldn' ur proteins"

9/20/2007 8:23:37 AM

hahaha, gg man

9/20/2007 8:30:00 AM

Good to see that we are still climbing.

9/20/2007 3:11:32 PM

How many times a day or what time of the day does the stats update?

9/21/2007 7:09:54 AM

^ Every 6 hours

Used to be 6am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am EST...might vary though, I'm not sure

9/21/2007 7:36:17 AM

^^ its every 3 hours...for eastern time, its 1am, 4am, 7am, 10am, 1pm etc

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

9/21/2007 8:57:22 AM

Quote :

"we now have FOUR over 2000+PPD, and another NINE over 800-1400+ PPD, and TWENTY with 200-700 PPD!"

Currently: 5 people producing 1.6K+ PPD, 14 people total producing 800+ PPD!!! Nice gains everyone. Lets keep it going!

9/21/2007 4:22:51 PM

^^ i have never seen that site and all i got to say is WOW. I was wonderin how yall figured up the times for when we would overtake other schools and stuff. Im definitely bookmarking that site!

9/21/2007 8:02:30 PM

i've convinced my roommate to add his PS3 to the cause for the time being.

recently my SMP client was shitting out on me at around 40% completion. i've reinstalled it so i hope it will work this time. gotta get 2k_style back in the top 20.

9/21/2007 11:28:02 PM

Quote :

"^^ i have never seen that site and all i got to say is WOW. I was wonderin how yall figured up the times for when we would overtake other schools and stuff. Im definitely bookmarking that site!"

There is a link to it in the stats section of the team website: http://www.fah.genejockeys.com/

9/22/2007 7:45:55 AM

Folding@Home Breaks the PetaFLOP Barrier
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163055

9/22/2007 12:33:29 PM

Quote :

"^^ its every 3 hours...for eastern time, its 1am, 4am, 7am, 10am, 1pm etc"

I'm confused, Stanford still says every 6 hours...is it their web interface that's only every 6 and the text stats dumps that are every 3?

9/22/2007 4:14:47 PM

anybody know how many PPD a 933mhz pentium 3 running Fedora Core 7 would get? like a ballpark figure is what im lookin for here. tryin to decide if its gonna be worth the cost of runnin it or not.

[Edited on September 22, 2007 at 8:46 PM. Reason : ]

9/22/2007 8:44:02 PM

just throwing this out there, but my guess would be 50 ppd

9/23/2007 12:38:27 AM

It's probably close to 50ppd or less. Unless you already have it running, I would not bother and put the saved electricity costs into another system/upgrades.

9/23/2007 7:48:00 AM

^^^^ I don't know, I just go off of this site:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

Where you'll see that updated stats come in every 3 hours.

9/23/2007 12:15:48 PM

Quote :

"I'm confused, Stanford still says every 6 hours...is it their web interface that's only every 6 and the text stats dumps that are every 3?"

actually, their web page updates every hour, but the expanded stat dumps are every 3.

9/23/2007 12:54:45 PM

Just downloaded/running it now.. probably not helping much but hell this computer sits doing nothing 18 hours a day so better than wasting electricity

9/23/2007 1:26:00 PM

thanks, im not even gonna bother to run it then. I just use it as my linux playground so I can learn how to do stuff on linux and figure out what cool shit is out there. Surprisingly it runs FC7 with beryl very smooth. not tryin to get off topic or nothing, but if yall know of any other cool/fun shit to do on linux, lemme know, im always willin to learn.

Also, does anybody know of the cheapest places to get say an e6400, mobo(with integrated video), and 2x512 sticks of ram? I want to build a cheap folding only computer

9/23/2007 1:33:31 PM

Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz - $127
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115014

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe - $168
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1938253

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) - $39
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145568

(or find the multiple 2GB DDR2-800 kit's that are ~$55-60 AR)

Not sure about an LGA775 microATX w/ video though...

9/23/2007 2:58:05 PM