Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Well i completed my 50th WU and meanwhile my modem resets...
Everytime i start Folding@Home and click the icon to see the animation it crashes.

And i mean every time. I'm using the latest Fah for about a week orso and never had any problems. It runs but i just can't click the icon anymore...

Any suggestions?

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Originally posted by Livy@21 March 2004 - 02:29
kinda got started on a page for the team, i knwo theres nothign really on it, but what about the layout etc? and also what you would like on the page.

http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/
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OK as a start.

I think it would be better to give a link to the F@H downloads page for downloads rather than host it. That way it will always provide a link to the latest version, and provide the versions for linux and Mac too.

Spell and grammar check on the about page might be useful. :-"
 
I've come to the conclusion that the new team stats are screwed. We've just been passed by "p2p_community". But before the new stats there were no threats. And if you look at their individual points they are quite impressive on a daily basis, yet they have zero points for the week.

Since they have the same position in the Stanford lists (which is the source of these stats) I suspect hacking. The top of their group ("Le_PoUnT") supposedly has had 159 active processors in the last week, yet both his daily and weekly points are zero. And he has supposedly performed 842 WU's on one project, but only 1 on each of another 4 projects. Similar trends can be seen for their number 3 "xlybox".

This is obviously nonsense, yet equally obviously the results have been returned to Stanford otherwise they would not have been credited with the points. The only conclusion is that the same results have been returned time and time again.

If my conclusions are correct, then statistically this dangerously skews the possibilities, not only making those results worthless, but undermining a lot of work done by other people.

I hope I'm wrong.
 
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
 
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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Originally posted by TRshady@30 January 2004 - 09:39
Anyone able to give me a 5 step guide to 'getting' gromacs.
I read that page but it makes no sense to me and isn't clear. Im not sure which .exe to make a shortcut as the one mentioned isn't in my folding@home folder ot startup folder.

Cheers ........
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ill explain it to u when i come back from school...

its 6:30AM right now...

ill come back at 3:25PM

l8tz
 
and i want everyone to install the GROMACS thing its SOO EFECTIVE!

i had a wu tht was 2500 thingies long and i got it done in 24HRZ! thts over a 1000 in 12HRZ it helps ALOT!!! install it ;) will make ur score go up :D
 
Originally posted by Livy@3 February 2004 - 00:37
does anyone know if its possible o choose what wu u download.
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To some extend, yes.

In the config-screen you can choose:

Genome@Home
Folding@Home
or no preference.


When you choose Folding@home you get mostly (or all) tinkers without any switches.
Adding the "-advmethods" switch will get you mostly Gromacs (when available)

Then there is a possibility to join the 'beta-team'.
Then you'll get to test the newest WUs.

Perhaps it's possible to configure your firewall in such a way that your machine can't establish a connection with the server(s) that hand out the WUs you don't want.

I somehow doubt this info is usefull to you :P


Fold on B)
 
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