Originally Posted by DiM-
AG 23: I have no way of contacting them, I\'ve looked through their web pages, and really see no \'contact us\'. I don\'t represent F@H, or work for them, I am just organizing the team here.

There are a few \'third party\' apps that allow you to visualize what is going on with F@H. Off the top of my head, I can\'t remember their names, but one of them is based out of Hardocp\'s DC forums.

Lemme see if I can dig up a link for you.

I keep dropping... I need to hookup my other PC's..

hehe

EP

DiMaestro,
Ask that guys if they want help.

Hey, here are some assembly programmers who want to help.
Give us the main loop in C and english D.E.Knuth style.
You will be free to choose the best implementation.

BTW even a child can do a better graphical interface.

#18/#20

Are you running the folding@home command line client on Windows (which has no Intel logo)? Or are you referring to something else?

Also, not all work units are the same, some go faster than others. Could be the morgan got a few easy units.

I'm #18.

I'd expect the o/s to make no difference - it doesn't in distributed.net or seti. Also distributed.net seems faster on Athlons than Intel's. I was just mildly surprised to see such an obvious difference between my SSE and non-SSE. Still I suppose it does say INTEL in big letters on the app in Windows.

AG#18-- A lot of the scientific calculation programs do take advantage of SSE and SIMD instructions. I don't know about the folding project itself, but there's a good chance it does. Is it any wonder that Linux is more efficient than Windows?

is it just me or does this thing rely heavily on linux and/or SSE? My Morgan 1Ghz Linux server is caning my 1.2Ghz Tbird XP desktop

It took me a couple of days to figure out what had happened when the whole anthrax thing started. After that it was a relatively simple matter to switch back to things that were actually important. I was rather pissed at the whole thing at the time. One would think that they could at least send you a message, seeing as they have to have your name/e-mail/phone/address/social insurance# etc. to sign up.

Besides what do I care about Anthrax? I live in Saskatchewan for God's sake!

#5 - As mentioned by forge, United Devices is the "evil" project. They were the ones that started using their clients cycles for working on a Anthrax project - without asking first. Those clients had previously been working on a Cancer research project on behalf of Oxford University.

To be fair, you can disable this behaviour in the United Devices client. However, considering the large number of other equally deserving DC projects, why bother?

Whats evil about UD? Forge?

You will all fall to the Google team.

Originally Posted by the_xolf
dissonance, from http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html
[q][...]the work is done by the core thread, which is fixed to run at idle priority and is not affected by the task manager priority for the process (which displays as \'normal\' by default)[...][/q]

Sounds as though you may not need to tinker that way?

Originally Posted by rotoutou
[q]Ok, I should be looking this up myself but I have an exam in a few hours so I\'ll just cop out and ask here. I\'m using firedaemon to launch up two F@H consoles on my dually, and I can easily set processor affinity and priorities to each instance, however, Core_65.exe is the process actually doing all the work, and the processor affinity and priority settings aren\'t carrying over from the F@H console process.

I don\'t really care if I can maintain processor affinity since I can just let XP handle that on its own, but I would like to be able to have any instance of Core_65.exe automatically set as low priority whenever it\'s running.

Ideas? [/q]

try to edit client.cfg and to append Priority=x in the [Core] section

x is from 1 to 255 (4 is default value)

with process explorer (free : http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml ) i see fah2console.exe priority is normal (8) and core_65.exe is 4 (idle)

a+
rotoutou - alliance Francophone

Originally Posted by dissonance
Ok, I should be looking this up myself but I have an exam in a few hours so I\'ll just cop out and ask here. I\'m using firedaemon to launch up two F@H consoles on my dually, and I can easily set processor affinity and priorities to each instance, however, Core_65.exe is the process actually doing all the work, and the processor affinity and priority settings aren\'t carrying over from the F@H console process.

I don\'t really care if I can maintain processor affinity since I can just let XP handle that on its own, but I would like to be able to have any instance of Core_65.exe automatically set as low priority whenever it\'s running.

Ideas?

Gee, I will be folding proteins and clothes tonight.

Leor:
You will only show up as a contributing team member once you have actually completed a work unit. So, get folding already!

UD is the evil one, F@H is just the other one.

If I weren't already neck-deep on the TR RC5 team, I'd do F@H. A Linux screensaver version would be a big incentive, too.

damn,
running mac os 9.2, no installer for that.

Originally Posted by rotoutou
welcome on the project ! :)

I have read tech-report.com for two years, and I am also on the Folding@Home project since this time

nice to see you there :)

>leor : just wait the next update, 3 Hours

>Mr Cynical : All results will be released free of charge (unlike UD, etc). Stanford is currently working with the
Pittsburg supercomputer center to make the raw data available to anyone (a terrabyte of data on the web). for results or publications or conferences produced by the project go there : http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html

rotoutou - Alliance Francophone
http://www.presence-pc.com/sqlforum/forum.php3?config=foldinghome.inc

Call me a cynical bastard, but I'd never run that stuff. You really don't know what they're using all the computer power for. The room for abuse is just too great. Recently there was a story that leaked of some organisation switching to anthrax research when people signed up for something else entirely (cancer research, I think it was).

Label me "cynic extraordinaire". I'm never going to support anyting I don't personally see benefiting the area they claim to be supporting.

i downloaded and entered the team id, is there anything else i need to do? i don't see myself as part of the team on the page.

It sounds like a good cause. Too bad it's organized by such an evil university...

I too wish you the best but at the moment I am doing my part to bring Cancer to its knees using UD. If/when I get a second machine I might set it up to join you.

Originally Posted by zAmb0ni
good luck guys!
If I didnt get involved in that search for little green men I would probably be folding proteins right now...I like the science.

A recent good reason for finding out how proteins fold and what influce the folding of proteins: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020402/020402-5.html

[q] Alzheimer\'s disease may be caused by small clumps of wrongly folded proteins, two new studies suggest. Stopping rogue proteins ganging up might prevent or reverse this and other diseases, including diabetes and CJD...

... Scientists have long known that large clusters of amyloid beta accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer\'s patients. But the links between the protein and dementia are not clear. The new results provide a clue. \"We\'ve put a smoking gun in the hand of the amyloid beta oligomer,\" says Selkoe. [/q]