Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

And a big WELCOME for a new folder on out stats page !

:clap: :clap: J'Pol has joined the ranks with his Athlon 1200 :clap: :clap:

His poor machine must have been chewing for days on that big 71 point Tinker :D

Tough to swallow, those WUs, huhhh J'Pol ? :P
 
Hello I just d/l this program this is were I heard of F@H. What I want to know is How to join this team? Do I just enter this # 34905 and thats all or do you have to register with a team?
 
As of client 4.0 there is a new switch: -forceSSE

Quote from: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/rema...22116~mode=flat
With an AMD processor, -forceSSE forces SSE on, -forceasm forces 3DNOW on and if you don't code either, you run with just normal processing. -forceSSE = fast, -forceasm = slower and no switch = very slow.
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Quote from: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/rema...29493~mode=flat
The -forceSSE switch forces an AMD processor to use its SSE optimizations. Use this switch only if SSE optimizations work well for you. If running the client under SSE optimizations causes too many problems, then switch to -forceasm, which will force 3DNow optimizations on an AMD processor. Seldom do AMDs have problems with 3DNow, but some do have trouble with SSE.
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Quote from: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=6170
The assembly optimization for SSE is the code that occasionally pushes many AMD machines into unstable conditions. The parameter -forceSSE simply gives those who have demonstrated their machines are stable with SSE operations to regain the extra 15% speed boost that they had before the default was changed to 3DNow optimizations.

There are 3 types of code in the PC version of Gromacs: Unoptimized, 3DNow+, and SSE. How you invoke them was changed depending on the flags and the client version, but the fundamental code is still the same.
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So, with the newer AMD CPUs you could use:

-advmethods -forceSSE


Fold on ! :)
 
Originally posted by Lamsey
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.
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Oh right. Ok, i'll run it all the time then. ;)

(That reminds me Lamsey, i'm owing you HW2, will sort it out soon - promise :) )
 
the EOC stats have just been updated to conterbalance the new points changes recently made by stanford. see Here for details.

so looks like alot of people lost there colour the had.
and the team also lost its colour. :(
 
Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@13 June 2004 - 23:14
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congrats VB1234

I just joined this project, I'm gooman528 (from my e-mail addy), but can't yet see my name on the list yet, probably because i just started, i don't know.

Anyway, I got pentium 1.8 GHz, with 256 RAM
 
mine already has the sse boost without the forcesse flag.... ;)

LOG FILE:

[05:27:06] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[05:27:06] Version 1.55 (December 22, 2003)
[05:27:06]
[05:27:06] Preparing to commence simulation
[05:27:06] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[05:27:06] - Not checking prior termination.
[05:27:07] - Expanded 371883 -> 1856741 (decompressed 499.2 percent)
[05:27:07] - Starting from initial work packet
[05:27:07]
[05:27:07] Project: 850 (Run 8, Clone 98, Gen 1)
[05:27:07]
[05:27:07] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[05:27:07] Entering M.D.
[05:27:13] Protein: p850_p53dimer850
[05:27:13]
[05:27:13] Writing local files
[05:27:13] Extra SSE boost OK.
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but im not using AMD so it might help other people... :D ;)

thanx for the tip m8

FOLD ON :01:
 
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