Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

servers are down.. i havent been able to get anything for over 2 days now..

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Oh phew! Thank you for notifying me as I didn't want to lose any more units! I'll just wait it out then.

Sure appreciate the heads-up!

[McGarnigal]

I was just wondering 2 things...

1) whats the incentive for folding points, do they earn you tax writeoff credit or something?

2) Can you add other U.S. cities to the news globe, if so how do you do this? Thanks.

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by McGarnigal

I was just wondering 2 things...

1) whats the incentive for folding points, do they earn you tax writeoff credit or something?

2) Can you add other U.S. cities to the news globe, if so how do you do this? Thanks.

1) There is no monetary incentive. Only global rankings.

2) No, LWP will update itself when more are added.

[McGarnigal]

Thanks, I love this site u get an answer in 2 minutes, even google couldn't tell me that. Thanks for not telling me to ask in an official thread, some of these littel questions get lost there...

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by McGarnigal

Thanks, I love this site u get an answer in 2 minutes, even google couldn't tell me that. Thanks for not telling me to ask in an official thread, some of these littel questions get lost there...

Not a problem man. I've gotten so much help here, its the least I can do.

[dk3dknight]

Folding has been around for awhile originally using pc's the more that is folded the more research that can be done.

If your curious or what more information about folding or its projects, this is the main website for folding@home.

http://folding.stanford.edu

and now with @home

as probably said no, im assuming with sony upgrades the software we will more cities, there are other things I would like to see changed...

Particular the zooming into articles.

[stenk]

Originally Posted by McGarnigal

Thanks, I love this site u get an answer in 2 minutes, even google couldn't tell me that. Thanks for not telling me to ask in an official thread, some of these littel questions get lost there...

I agree this site is pretty good if you want a fast response! Really helpful people on this forum!

Give Folding@Home a go! It is really all for a very good cause!

[owa]

There are also rankings within whatever team you join. Personally, I enjoy(ed) trying to pass and trying to stay ahead of people on my own team more than tracking the progress of the team globally.

But anyway, yeah, the main reason to do it is to contribute to a good cause.

[Xerios]

Originally Posted by Marine Mike

Not a problem man. I've gotten so much help here, its the least I can do.

marine mike FTW

hes my hero.. no homo

[ezalb]

Originally Posted by dk3dknight

as probably said no, im assuming with sony upgrades the software we will more cities, there are other things I would like to see changed...

Particular the zooming into articles.

They added the zooming into articles feature with FW update 2.5.

[Branden]

i'm hoping someone a bit smarter at these things can help me out here.
i have a quad core PC running XP, and it has F@H CPU and GPU clients installed. i prefer to restrict each F@H client to a single core (CPU on 3, GPU on 2) to keep the other cores (0 and 1) free to do other stuff. right now i would have to manually set the affinity in task manager after i start them up, but i would like them to automatically do this.
is there a switch i can add onto the shortcuts to do this? or something i can type into the "additional client parameters" box in the F@H control panel?

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by ezalb

They added the zooming into articles feature with FW update 2.5.

Then it is now perfect I shall go to build a shrine
which will hand out quests to additional adventures.

Cause at 1080p the articles were very small...

Thanks.

[owa]

Originally Posted by ezalb

They added the zooming into articles feature with FW update 2.5.

That was a nice addition. Hopefully they'll allow us to click on the weather to get a complete forecast for the day (or a few days) at some point.

[phlydude]

Afinity management is controlled by Windows. But if I am not mistaken, the load carried by the CPU on a GPU client is minimal...

So I guess what I am trying to say unless you can find a customizable affinity manager (nick4eva's program spreads the load over 1 pr. of cores when running 2 versions of the client specific to the CPU), you will have to continue to manage the affinity yourself.
(if you don't know what the Nick4Eva affinty tool is, google it - it works well on quad core machines)

When I was hard folding before the summer, I had 2 multi-core clients and a GPU running on my OC'd Q6600 (3.2MHz) and still was able to rip and burn DVDs and create movies in Moviemaker without any hiccups (sure, it ran a little hot but that's what all those fans are for). I wouldn't think 1 process would affect your normal computing too much to require cores be left unutilized

[ballin_shogun]

i gotta admit... I am dissapointed by the distinct lack of cities on the globe. I understand not having news for each and every large metro area but come on at least put weather up.

[alan2308]

Originally Posted by Branden

i'm hoping someone a bit smarter at these things can help me out here.
i have a quad core PC running XP, and it has F@H CPU and GPU clients installed. i prefer to restrict each F@H client to a single core (CPU on 3, GPU on 2) to keep the other cores (0 and 1) free to do other stuff. right now i would have to manually set the affinity in task manager after i start them up, but i would like them to automatically do this.
is there a switch i can add onto the shortcuts to do this? or something i can type into the "additional client parameters" box in the F@H control panel?

A guy at the Ukrane folding team created a program called "Affinity Changer" that does exactly this and was designed specifically for Folding@Home. You can find this amazing program right here. There's also a program floating around called "SMP Seesaw" that a lot of people like. It's written by Mike Lin. You can find SMP Seesaw here.

If anyone is interested in more detailed guides on which client(s) to use and how to set them up, we maintain a set of guides here. These are watched over by several folders and kept up to date.

So guys, I just noticed that you slipped down to #86. Whats up with that?

[Balistyx]

Originally Posted by Branden

i'm hoping someone a bit smarter at these things can help me out here.
i have a quad core PC running XP, and it has F@H CPU and GPU clients installed. i prefer to restrict each F@H client to a single core (CPU on 3, GPU on 2) to keep the other cores (0 and 1) free to do other stuff. right now i would have to manually set the affinity in task manager after i start them up, but i would like them to automatically do this.
is there a switch i can add onto the shortcuts to do this? or something i can type into the "additional client parameters" box in the F@H control panel?

For the GPU client you can add and configure NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY in Windows' System Variables. This will tell the GPU client which core(s) to run on.

As for the CPU clients, no idea.

But I'm sure you'll find your answer at www.foldingforum.org, the official F@H Support Forum.

[Dave]

Does anyone know how much is left to be computed? Or some estimated time when we will solve it once and for all?

[caliblue15]

never..

[alan2308]

Originally Posted by Dave

Does anyone know how much is left to be computed? Or some estimated time when we will solve it once and for all?

I think this quote from Dr. Pande pretty much sums it up.

"We have specific plans ready to put into action once we reach certain CPU levels, up to 1Million CPUs. Once we start to get close to 1M active CPUs, we will sit down and make plans for going beyond that. Our research is very compute limited."

We're still way off of 1 Million active CPU's, so obviously we're still years away from being able to even BEGIN certain simulations. One thing I wonder though is just how anyone will be able to sift through all this data that we're producing and find whats relevant to their work.