Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Just got my first 2500 part WU. My other 4 up until now have been 500 parts, so this one is gonna take a long, long time...

Just out of interest, how long (on average) does it take you chaps to complete a 500 part WU, and what CPU have you got? :unsure:
 
What's going on here?

If you look at the 24hr points avge, in most cases it is the weekly points divided by 7. But not always.

Livy: 61=395/6.5
Lamsey: 55=339/6
Dr Spud: 15=72/5
VB1234: 66=397/6
SummerLinda: 20=66/3

I realise that the stats are new and will probably correct themselves once they've been going a little longer, but can anyone explain these anomolies?
 
Virtualbody1234 said:
I can't believe how many inactive members there are. :cry:


But you've been inactive since: 11.13.05
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...that's not strictly true, my girlfriend (Dutch)

3 Dutch 13372 129


has ambushed my two computers and is contributing to an other folding@home team..so when I , sometime in the near future, in the holst of the night, change the team number back to 34905 and pray she doesn't notice ..then I would still be contributing to the team with multi processors... it just seemed a good idea. In the end every work unit that gets folded, goes to wards the good cause. It's just more fun when everyone is playing on an even playing field :) The spirit of competition...thought it might encourage a few sports to see if their computers have got what it takes...

:)
 
jaigandhi5 said:
lol :lol: i know the link i just want my sig pic to link to it... :lol:
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Code: 
[url=http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?p=878382][img]http://img80.exs.cx/img80/6649/Untitled-1copy100.jpg[/img][/url]
Simple enough :)

Congrats on the 14th place. With only 1 computer folding im folding like a turtle lately. :(

edit: Wtf is up with the code thing. If it's going to show the end result then what's the point. :dry:
 
yeah, i think it mainly relies on ghz. so a p43.2 will prob be better than a amd 3200.

ive had a few 5000 WU. :P

edit: inact ive got a 5000 unti now on my laptop.
 
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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;)
 
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
 
You've only got one processor, but some parts of it are duplicated. These are the simpler components which don't produce much heat, such as the main instruction path, the arithmetic unit etc.

It has to report that it has 2 processors so that windows can schedule it to execute 2 tasks simultaneously. That effectively means that with two tasks which for the most part only use the duplicated parts you can get more performance out of the chip.

Unfortunately F@H mainly uses parts which aren't duplicated - the MME stuff and the FPU. These are complex units and produce large amounts of heat, which is why they aren't duplicated. So although you could have 2 copies of the program scheduled to run, in practice they would be waiting for the shared resources to be free.

There's even a down side to HT when you want to run another program, even with only one copy running. Windows sees that it has a spare "processor" which can run your prog, it doesn't know about the shared resources. So windows schedules your prog and doesn't bother interrupting the other FPU/MME intensive prog. If your prog uses the duplicated parts there's no problem, but if it uses the shared parts then it runs like a dog.

Nice one Intel - how to slow down our systems by not thinking out the problem. Nothing new there then. :dry:
 
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:
 
Originally posted by FlyingDutchman@24 January 2004 - 16:34
Ok,

Now I added a second rig to the Folding-community,
this time folding for team 34905 !

This might be my only chance to kick Lamsey's ass....

I assume you've all checked the Team statistics, and noticed that Lamsey isn't leading by THAT much
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