Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Twice now since I've been using F@H, it's crashed taking hours of CPU time with it. The first time I lost about 71% of a work unit, due to a communications error with the server:

"[06:21:45] Completed 355000 out of 500000 steps (71)
[06:33:02] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[06:33:02] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[06:33:02] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[06:33:22] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:33:24] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:33:24] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[06:33:27] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[06:33:27] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry."

Which prompted me to stop using it. I retried it the other day, got one WU completed. My PC crashed again today, and no surprise, F@H lost its WU again:

"[16:33:30] Completed 480000 out of 500000 steps (96)"

:(
 
Originally posted by summerlinda@25 January 2004 - 14:36
You have to take better care of that Protein of yours, nurture it, talk to it, feed it etc.
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Mmmmm, :frusty: always thought proteins were supposed to nurture ME :rolleyes:
 
ive got an athlon 2500 barton 512mb @169fsb, running nearly 24/7, sometimes used for gaming.

athlon 1500-mobile 320mb, running 24/7 not used, just surfing net.

and my g/f's celeron 2ghz 240mb, running nearly 24/7 at the mo, but its usaully just on when getting used.

ive got an old amd k6-2 500, 256mb that i gave to my gran and grandad i could put it on too,

and my g/f old via 533, but it doesnt have net access. her bro uses it now.
 
At last, project 638 has been given it's proper score.

I've done about a dozen of these over the last few weeks, but it was only given a score of 128. Yet p639 which takes exactly the same amount of time was correctly recieving a score of 239.

I reckon I've lost about 1500 points in the last month, although I don't suppose I'm the only one so it probably has not affected my position much.
 
dose eny1 know about overclocking ?How dose it work?do i need a prog?to check my cpu heat level do i need a senser?sorry to ask so much Q's but i want to learn about this stuff. :D
 
Originally posted by liquidacid@22 January 2004 - 01:22
I've joined too and will let this run at all times, unless i'm gaming. I've also had UD Agent running for a while now which helps in cancer research. My computer is running 24-7, and i'm not even at it most the time so why not use up some clock cycles.

Well done jaigandhi5, for promoting this.
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thanx guyz

"Every Mhz Counts" ;)
anyone wana know what gromacs are?

little summary..

What is gromacs?

Gromacs is the new folding core (FAHcore_78.exe) GROMACS provides extremely high performance compared to all other programs. For some calculations, gromacs affords benefits over the current code in FAH (the current code is based on Jay Ponder's Tinker), especially a great speed increase (perhaps up to 10x-20x)

anyone interested..? :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Livy@25 February 2004 - 14:48
try updaating your graphics driver,

has it always done this? or just recently?
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Nothing wrong with my driver.
I happened this morning after my modem resets himself.

If i leave the Icon alone it's ok. Right-clicking is allowed, left is not.
As long as it's running it fine by me.
Hoovering over the icon gives all the info i need anyway.


Thanks for your help Ivy. ;)
 
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