Folding...comon team!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:10 am

We're almost back into the orange (30k+ output) as a team...comon guys...we've fallen down into the green for a while now. Lets pour on the coals!

SpareX · Post by **SpareX** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:15 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:We're almost back into the orange (30k+ output) as a team...comon guys...we've fallen down into the green for a while now. Lets pour on the coals!

Im trying but it seems i got hit with 2 fairly big work units right at the start. When i get to the new place it has central air and i can keep the computers on 24/7 with no worries, but right now it gets hot/cold randomly in my room as i have no direct AC access (has to be blown in from accross the house to my room via a series of fans.)

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:35 am

Im trying...im trying...honest guv!

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:56 am

Go Orange!!

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:32 pm

im trying...cant seem to find a router that works....if i do, i can have 2 more folders...a 1400 amd and a 2400 amd. Right now im making due with just the AMD 3500 64 winchester(whatevethehellthatis)

if i cant find one ill do the unthinkable and go to Best Buy or something

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:49 pm

Im still folding strong.

DaddyLongLeg · Post by **DaddyLongLeg** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:03 pm

Illini25 wrote:Im trying...im trying...honest guv!

I don't believe you. Need more proof

Starmax · Post by **Starmax** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:21 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:We're almost back into the orange (30k+ output) as a team...comon guys...we've fallen down into the green for a while now. Lets pour on the coals!

well im back now,,,hopefully it will help,,and still folding,,nice to see ya bro..

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:11 pm

DaddyLongLeg wrote:I don't believe you. Need more proof

See my sig.....

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:18 pm

Ack !

Fold on !

Shinobi

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:47 pm

Ok, I'll start back up. I got athlon 1600+ at back home I was thinking of hooking up and just leaving on over my parents dsl line.

Ill also hook up my main rig right now.

*edit* main rig is up and running it.

DV · Post by DV » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:54 pm

I just threw it on a dual proc server with 3 gigs of RAM but it only appears to be taking advantage of 1 proc. Just read that it will use two but I have to do some extra work to make it happen. Does anyone know if this program is more processor hungry or ram hungry?

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:56 pm

Shaggy wrote:Ok, I'll start back up. I got athlon 1600+ at back home I was thinking of hooking up and just leaving on over my parents dsl line.

Ill also hook up my main rig right now.

*edit* main rig is up and running it.

Cool , Tks

Every little bit help.
I hope other members will load the folding client software on thier computers.

Shinobi

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:58 pm

DV wrote:I just threw it on a dual proc server with 3 gigs of RAM but it only appears to be taking advantage of 1 proc. Just read that it will use two but I have to do some extra work to make it happen. Does anyone know if this program is more processor hungry or ram hungry?

Processor. Mine is running and using 3MB of memory

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:59 pm

DV wrote:Does anyone know if this program is more processor hungry or ram hungry?

More CPU hungry...it will use 100% of idle CPU time. Lately there have been some bigger jobs...I've seen some take up a few hundred megs of RAM.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:11 pm

DV wrote:I just threw it on a dual proc server with 3 gigs of RAM but it only appears to be taking advantage of 1 proc. Just read that it will use two but I have to do some extra work to make it happen.

Send me a PM or repost to tell me how you made out with 2 cpus..
Someone is giving me a dual P3 workstation soon and I'm going to use it for folding only.

Shinobi

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:28 pm

DV wrote:I just threw it on a dual proc server with 3 gigs of RAM but it only appears to be taking advantage of 1 proc. Just read that it will use two but I have to do some extra work to make it happen. Does anyone know if this program is more processor hungry or ram hungry?

You need a seperate folding directory for each cpu, such as f@h1 and f@h2, or whatever you wish to name them. Two wu's will not work out of just one directory on the dualies. Hope that helps

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:44 pm

Bastid wrote:im trying...cant seem to find a router that works....if i do, i can have 2 more folders...a 1400 amd and a 2400 amd. Right now im making due with just the AMD 3500 64 winchester(whatevethehellthatis)

if i cant find one ill do the unthinkable and go to Best Buy or something

see this thread it works for me on a couple of spare PC's that i don't allow/or can't get to conect to the net.

DV · Post by DV » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:34 pm

Thanks for all of the replies regarding dual procs. I'll try to give it a shot later today and I'll let you know Shinobi.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:03 pm

I couldn't find jack on this so I guess its just me. If I'm running F@H my BF2 will not launch. It will turn on and minimize. If I click on the task bar button it will pop up. Play .1sec of the intro, then minimize again. If I disable folding BF2 works fine and dandy.

DV · Post by DV » Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:36 pm

Shinobi wrote:Send me a PM or repost to tell me how you made out with 2 cpus..
Someone is giving me a dual P3 workstation soon and I'm going to use it for folding only.

Shinobi

Just got FAH running on a dual PC with both procs pegged at 100%

.
The Folding Minx was right

, just create 2 directories. Also you have to run the console version and give separate machine ID's to each. Here are the official instrucs from the FAH site.

Does Folding@home run on dual processor machines? Yes, you can. Additional processors must run the console version (with the "-local" command-line argument if run on Windows). First, make additional directories for each processor and copy the FAH Console executable file into each. Then configure them with the -config switch, filling in settings for each. It is very important to make sure that under the "Advanced Settings" option each copy is given a unique machine ID (from 1 to 8). The first copy will default to a machine ID of 1, so additional copies should be given IDs of 2, 3, 4, etc. Each may then be run out of their installed directory, using the -local switch on windows.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:46 pm

sorry. but we lost my rig due to me not having internet :-(

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:01 pm

Shaggy wrote:I couldn't find jack on this so I guess its just me. If I'm running F@H my BF2 will not launch. It will turn on and minimize. If I click on the task bar button it will pop up. Play .1sec of the intro, then minimize again. If I disable folding BF2 works fine and dandy.

I had the exact same problem Shaggy with BF42, BFV and BF2. I turned off F@H and it would work. I can't remember exactly what I did..but now I run F@H and play BF2 at the same time. I started eliminating background programs until I was in the clear If im not mistaken. I mean, it's not really a big deal...Just do like you mentioned...I just right clicked on the folding icon and selected "pause work" and when i was finished playing, ticked it back. But now I don't even have to do that.

Mark might remember that problem I had few months back? Can't remember exactly what I did though.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:21 am

Shaggy wrote:I couldn't find jack on this so I guess its just me. If I'm running F@H my BF2 will not launch. It will turn on and minimize. If I click on the task bar button it will pop up. Play .1sec of the intro, then minimize again. If I disable folding BF2 works fine and dandy.

I just shut down Folding when I'm playing any Battlefield games. For 1...memory consumtion...although my rig has 1.5 gigs of RAM, current folding jobs are often several hundred megs in size. Since I run an HT processor, I run 2x folding jobs at the same time, so having over 500 megs or more doing Folding...doesn't leave much for the Battlefield game to run in...which are memory hungry themselves and love about a gig of free RAM to run well.

Battlefield will run error free with Folding running...just not as smoothly. When I'm done playing BF I simply start both Foldings up again.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:22 am

Bump for recruits and new rigs to Team 15.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:25 am

bump for the Fat Dogs' 270,773 points

SpareX · Post by **SpareX** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:39 am

those of you with HT do take this post into account..

Science VS Points.. what is greater

http://forum.folding-community.org/view ... hp?t=10427

I have a p4 3.06 with HT and Im running only one process. According to thier site, thier software is using 100% of your physical hardware and ignoring your virtual hardware (AKA that second FAKE processor that HT gives the look of)

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:29 pm

I added another computer today.. will put another on maybe this weekend and perhaps if I have the patience I'll try to get two others that need a OS on them running.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:21 pm

SpareX wrote:those of you with HT do take this post into account..

Science VS Points.. what is greater

http://forum.folding-community.org/view ... hp?t=10427

I have a p4 3.06 with HT and Im running only one process. According to thier site, thier software is using 100% of your physical hardware and ignoring your virtual hardware (AKA that second FAKE processor that HT gives the look of)

His post isn't entirely true, or even mostly true for that matter. Base on his username having AMD in it...I bet he made this post out of jealousy for Intel owners...now that AMD has dual core units...I bet he's running two instances by now.

HT is done within the CPU, on the hardware level, it's a way of capturing CPU instruction/cycles which would normally go unused...and putting them to work. No it is not equal to two true dual processors...but it's not twice as long to complete jobs either.

My P4 rig downstairs runs dual instances, the kids equal speed P4 rig upstairs run a single instance...we both get work done about the same time...I take barely a longer time to complete, but I get two jobs done within that time. This guy you link talks about 70% longer...LOL...not quiet...it's a matter of a handful of hours based on what I see.

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:25 pm

DV wrote:Just got FAH running on a dual PC with both procs pegged at 100% .
The Folding Minx was right , just create 2 directories. Also you have to run the console version and give separate machine ID's to each. Here are the official instrucs from the FAH site.

Does Folding@home run on dual processor machines? Yes, you can. Additional processors must run the console version (with the "-local" command-line argument if run on Windows). First, make additional directories for each processor and copy the FAH Console executable file into each. Then configure them with the -config switch, filling in settings for each. It is very important to make sure that under the "Advanced Settings" option each copy is given a unique machine ID (from 1 to 8). The first copy will default to a machine ID of 1, so additional copies should be given IDs of 2, 3, 4, etc. Each may then be run out of their installed directory, using the -local switch on windows.

Hmmm...now where did I hear that before...Giggle!

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:04 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Bump for recruits and new rigs to Team 15.

Sounds good, I'm just gonna be bad about remembering to turn it back on.

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:52 pm

k found me a router that works...and ive got the AMD 1400 goin...now i gotta "fix" the AMD 2400 and i might even be able to get an old AMD 900 sys that i canablized long ago... but thats later on this weekend...

DV · Post by DV » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:54 pm

[quote="MissTynker2"]Hmmm...now where did I hear that before...Giggle! ]

Sorry MissTynker, I certainly wasn't trying to take credit for something you'd posted. Hey I even have you a

in my post

.

Anyhow thanks for the help and I was lucky to have my dual machine finish a cycle before it had to do it's real job, SQL, today. It's older and only has dual 1800's though. I'd love to see how quickly my dual Xeon 3.2 DC or Exchange server could fold, but I think I was pushing it using a production SQL server.

Take care and have a good weekend!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:04 am

Comon peeps! We just need to average 500 more points a day as a team and we'll be back in the orange! Lets go...lets go...LETS GO!!!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:06 am

And Pieman..you should be hearing the "beep beep" of my "pull over 'n get out of the way" horn some time around Thanksgiving!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:50 am

^Bumpity Bump Bump...Whump^

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:26 pm

*Ka-whump*

Rep points to those who add to and bump this thread.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:35 pm

Dunster · Post by **Dunster** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:41 pm

Join the team. Fold with your un-used CPU time. Help us, TEAM SPEEDGUIDE!
Rep points for those who JOIN!

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:47 pm

DV wrote:Sorry MissTynker, I certainly wasn't trying to take credit for something you'd posted. Hey I even have you a in my post .

Anyhow thanks for the help and I was lucky to have my dual machine finish a cycle before it had to do it's real job, SQL, today. It's older and only has dual 1800's though. I'd love to see how quickly my dual Xeon 3.2 DC or Exchange server could fold, but I think I was pushing it using a production SQL server.

Take care and have a good weekend!

Awwww

I did'nt take it that way DV...I was just having a bit of fun with ya! Have a wonderful evening