Folding @ Home

[David E. Gervais]

Wow, my first WU has just been completed, but I still don't see my name in the list of members on the Sharky Forum folding team. The Last name on the list is kirk with 1 WU delivered.

I guess there is a bit of a delay before things register on the stat screens. Oh well, I'll check tomorrow.

Cheers!

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
I downloaded and joined the party this morning. The software has been running for 6 hours now and I have generated 152/250 So I should have my first packet completed today.

according to the log file I'm saving a section every 6 mins or so. Not bad I guess for my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.467 ghz)

I was wondering, would the program run much faster if I had no other programs running? (like internet explorer.) Also would it run faster if I went offline?

Just a few questions for you experts.

Cheers!

On an AMD rig you need to check and see if your chip has the SSE instruction set. If it does, use the 3.25 beta client. Set it up and then creat a shortcut put the shortcut in your start up folder and add the following to the instruction line, -advmethods -forceasm There is a sticky thread with pictures at Sharkys.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
BTW: I noticed the program had the ability to insert a custom banner, so I created a "Sharky Forums Folding Team" banner.

If anyone would like it, just let me know.

Cheers!

Ask Sappison if he would like to use some of your work fot the team I'm sure he will.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
Wow, my first WU has just been completed, but I still don't see my name in the list of members on the Sharky Forum folding team. The Last name on the list is kirk with 1 WU delivered.

I guess there is a bit of a delay before things register on the stat screens. Oh well, I'll check tomorrow.

Cheers!

It can take three to six hours sometimes for the first one. Oh...and welcome to the team

[David E. Gervais]

Strange thing about Folding@home..

The first WU I did was xxx/250 and I got 18 points for it's delivery.

My second WU was xxx/500 and I'm now at 50 points. (So I guess it means that I only got 32 points for the second WU.)

The first one took me some 11 hours to complete, the second just shy of 26 hours( spread out over over two days). I would have thought that I would have got at least (18x2=36) points for my second WU. It would have made more sense. As is, I have no idea how the point system is generated.

BTW, Why is there no Folding@Home thread at sharky's to discuss this?

nuf said, Cheers!

[Thermodyne]

Points for work unit by ID
http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html

It has been talked about in the main thread. It comes down to which flavor of unit you get. Placing the -advmethods argument in the shortcut command line will keep the long units away (most of the time}

[David E. Gervais]

If you mean the "credits" column in that chart, it shows 18 for my first WU and 47 for my second and 47 for the one I'm currently running.

Either the point/credit system has 'modifiers' like how many days it takes for you to complete it then it would seem that it's a bit skewered.

Oh well, no big deal, I'll just accept whaterve points I get.

Cheers!

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
If you mean the "credits" column in that chart, it shows 18 for my first WU and 47 for my second and 47 for the one I'm currently running.

Either the point/credit system has 'modifiers' like how many days it takes for you to complete it then it would seem that it's a bit skewered.

Oh well, no big deal, I'll just accept whaterve points I get.

Cheers!

Correct on both counts.