Topic: The Folding@Home Thread (was: I'm coming for you Harry)

[Harry Lee Smith]

Stats on team 33, little friendly competition.

[mephisto_kur]

What is this?

Hereis a basic link on folding.  There are also links on that page for the Stanford write up on Folding, and even more detailed info.

[raVen]

Stats on team 33, little friendly competition.

I just downloaded the client to my ,machine and after the install it says WU end on NOV 5th  104 days . is that normal , coz i see from harry's stats that he turns in avg 1 wu a DAY !!!!

[Harry Lee Smith]

Depends on how big the WU is, and the speed of your comp.  did you enable large WUs?

[raVen]

Depends on how big the WU is, and the speed of your comp.? did you enable large WUs?

No i didn , now it says one day and 20 hrs , i checked the logs ,apparently it did some optimization and reset the expected closing time

[Harry Lee Smith]

times will vary, remember it uses processor time when you're not using it.  So if you're using your processor no work is being done on the WU.  So it depends on how much of your processor you're using.

[mephisto_kur]

When you first start a wu, it always shows as a rediculously high number.  It doesn't know how long your machine will take until you finish the first frame of the wu.  Then it can guess.  BTW, if you want to install it, you should be sure to follow the directions for using the NON-graphical client.  The screen saver\graphical client uses more RAM and is not as quick to scale back when you need your CPU in my experience.  Besides, the console can be installed as a service.

[raVen]

When you first start a wu, it always shows as a rediculously high number.? It doesn't know how long your machine will take until you finish the first frame of the wu.? Then it can guess.? BTW, if you want to install it, you should be sure to follow the directions for using the NON-graphical client.? The screen saver\graphical client uses more RAM and is not as quick to scale back when you need your CPU in my experience.? Besides, the console can be installed as a service.

am running it as a service 

[raVen]

Im running folding at home and the cpu utilization max out at 50% and never goes beyond that . im running it in the console service mode and i did specify 100% cpu utilization ,any ideas why it wouldnt utilize all my cpu ?

[mephisto_kur]

Are you on a P4?

[mephisto_kur]

I'm giving you some tme to keep your spread alive, Harry.  My machines go off over the weekend while I'm outta town.  Of course, when I get back, I'll be adding 2GHz to my boxen...

Lets see, move the 3200+ to my son's machine.  Move his 2400+ to my wife's machine.  Move her Sempron 2200+ to Beesley, replacing his 750 Duron...

[mephisto_kur]

Oh, and if you turned on big packets (over 5MB), HL2 DOES feel that.  I had to turn it off tonight so I could play.  The small Gromacs and Tinkers I normally got on my old machine didn't cause any issues, but the big packets can, it seems.

[raVen]

Are you on a P4?

yup im

[mephisto_kur]

That's normal:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=934961&highlight=50%25

[Harry Lee Smith]

I was gonna suggest changing the name of this thread now,