Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Originally posted by liquidacid@21 January 2004 - 23:22
I've joined too and will let this run at all times, unless i'm gaming.
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There's no point in doing that at all - the process priority is automatically set to low so it will never harm your gaming performance. The folding program never uses CPU cycles if there is another program needing them. It also uses at most 10MB of RAM, so it's not going to clog up your memory either.
 
Here are two signatures I made...

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Nice one kAb ...... I installed just over an hour ago ... lets see whos has a higher posistion after a week ....... ready ... set ... goooooo! :01:
 
1. What is FAH?
FAH is a distributed computing project, the purpose of which is to learn how proteins fold and misfold. By breaking down the process by which proteins are created we can find out what causes them to miscreate or misfold. The hope is that this will lead to future research that can help scientists come up with better treatments/cures for many of todays common ailments. But the most important part of the project is putting together an effective model of how to fold and unfold proteins with supercomputer power.
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I'm back on with a much faster computer. As soon as i can get my old one back up I will have them both going:)

But I cannot seem to get this new comp to use it's full resources. It has a 3.2ghz processor and 1 gig ram but it will not go any higher then 50% of it. Any ideas of how to get it to use more? I even lowered it, restarted then raised it back to high and restarted again with no luck.

TD
 
Originally posted by Virtualbody1234+13 April 2004 - 19:04-->QUOTE (Virtualbody1234 @ 13 April 2004 - 19:04)
OK - I'll hook it up when I get back home........but is it possible to leave a cybercafe running it off 20 PC's? [/b]
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If they aren't your PCs then don't do that. [/b][/quote]
not sure what's going on (in general) but OK

I'll use my own PC and check it out when I get back to the UK :)
 
:) Thanks Lynx, your explanation seems plausible, I shall check it out to see if I can make F@H "pausable" again! :lol:

Ps. Good to see you moving up strongly...
 
Originally posted by lynx@8 February 2004 - 02:47
I don't know what's happening recently, but FAH is screwing my machines.

I did a full reinstall of XP on my newest machine, now it usually hangs after a few minutes with FAH. It isn't overclocked or anything. If I start FAH and then stop it, it still hangs after a while. But if I never start FAH then it doesn't hang.

My old machine has run for 2 years without hanging. I installed Linux on it the day before yesterday. If I run FAH it hangs within an hour, even if FAH has been cancelled. Without running FAH, it has been up for 30 hours.

Something has obviously happened with the type of projects I am currently receiving (which may have changed because of the reinstallation?), because I never had hanging problems before. I'll keep trying new projects occasionally, but until these problems go away, sadly, I can no longer commit my machines permanently.
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I know it doesn't help, but Rocktron and I both had similar problems. They started last Thursday.

I had serious problems with a WU from project 524,
locked up the machine 3 times in a row, every time restarting at 0/500 :angry:
Deleting the work-folder doesn't help as the F@H servers just hand out the same WU over and over again.

As a temp solution I made a backup of my WU several times a day using WinZip.
Shutdown F@H first before zipping it, as F@H writes "shutdown in a normal way" to disk.
Failure to do so (as in a lockup) will restart your WU @ 0/500 when you use the backed up files.

Now what is the cause?
The only thing I can think of:
I used a proggy "CWShredder" mentioned here on the forum. Could it be we all used the same proggy? :unsure:
 
Originally posted by Livy@15 June 2004 - 23:28
yeah, worth a go, although the front page doesnt seem to be changing, nice if we could get a wee link next to post count and members ranks.

i'll hopefully try get the site finished soon, im alo working on my personal site and my monkey one. :) so hopefully soon,
but im also gonna be moving into my flat at the end of the week, so got some packing to do.
i'll get more up tomorrow if i can.

suggestions are very welcome. :D
http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

edit: also what does everyone think about a team name change? FST F@H or something like that?
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As long as the team number doesn't change (and therefore the stats), I've no problem with a name change.

FST F@H seems a bit of a mouthful though, perhaps we can give that a bit more thought.
 
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