Join Neowin Folding@Home Group

[morebaker]

It is where computer enthusiasts get together and fold laundry. :p J/K

Come and join our team. id# 55186.

The link is on the first page.

[+StevoFC MVC]

we have finished 10,000 work units...

[-Hiroshi-]

Running on my spare machine. :)

Edited May 10, 2008 by -Hiroshi-

[KoL Veteran]

StevoFC what are you running??? you are making a lot of points.

[+StevoFC MVC]

Running on my spare machine. :)

you should run the console client. it will perform better.

StevoFC what are you running??? you are making a lot of points.

my ps3, my iMac (smp client), my pc at work, and the pc in our Board Room at work.

[-Nic-]

Keeping 2nd place is getting a lot harder. :p

I'm surprised I'm still there.

[morebaker]

My son just went to Disneyland for a week. Lucky guy!

He left his PS3 folding. Can i leave it running 24/7 for the duration or will it overheat?

I can check from time to time to see if it is getting hot.

[Jimmy0]

You should be fine leaving it running 27/7, just like a computer should be fine.

[morebaker]

@Jimmy0 Thanks I guess it has some work to do. :)

[PabUK Veteran]

Mine has been running 24/7 for several months without a problem so it should be fine for a week. :)

[+StevoFC MVC]

Mine has been running 24/7 for several months without a problem so it should be fine for a week. :)

yeah same here. no problems at all.

[maeby]

started using F@H just 48 days ago, just got to #6 ;)

[xirtam]

started using F@H just 48 days ago, just got to #6 ;)

Nice work, your producing more avg points per 24h than anyone else :)

what are you running F@h on?

[maeby]

just my ps3, and the smp client (24/7) :)

[+StevoFC MVC]

don't worry i'll run all of mine again soon. I stopped because it has been 90+ here. I'll have 3000+ a day.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Everyone with fast GPUs: run this when you're not gaming. :)

edit: one work unit finished in about half an hour, including starting/stopping it once briefly. How much does that equal to points per day? If the system tray's telling me there are 5000 points per work unit, then that's... almost 240000 per day? :blink:

Edited June 20, 2008 by rm20010

[Jimmy0]

Did it work out at 240k ppd?

I heard that GPU F@H client can throw a few thousand ppd, but not 240! :laugh:

[Ci7]

nice i will consider to join in

can some one tell me what kind of difference in speed CPU folding Vs GPU folding ? as i have got 8800GTS and Q6600

edit

i guess i have to test it myself :rolleyes:

Edited July 1, 2008 by Skynetfuture

[AbandonedTrolley]

Just joined the team :)

Running on PS3 and GPU client, although seems not that speedy. Running the 8600 M GS and only getting an average of 60 iter/sec am i missing some tweeking I should do in order to boost that slightly. It's on my laptop so can understanding it being a little down on performace.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Did it work out at 240k ppd?

I heard that GPU F@H client can throw a few thousand ppd, but not 240! :laugh:

I'm an idiot. :blush:

My PPD according to FahMon is nearly 5000 for the GPU client and roughly 200 for the CPU client. So in total, about 5200.

Now that I swapped out coolers on my graphics card I can afford to run this client full time. Before that, I had a central vac under my desk. :laugh:

Just joined the team :)

Running on PS3 and GPU client, although seems not that speedy. Running the 8600 M GS and only getting an average of 60 iter/sec am i missing some tweeking I should do in order to boost that slightly. It's on my laptop so can understanding it being a little down on performace.

It could be because the server's down at the moment and your client has no cores to work with. The test protein always runs at 60 iterations/second.

Edited July 2, 2008 by rm20010

[AbandonedTrolley]

One other thing i've noticed is that if I take the focus away from the client and just go use MSN the iterations drop down to 1 or 0 :s I can't see how msn draws that much processing power from the gpu ?

[Denis W. Veteran]

One other thing i've noticed is that if I take the focus away from the client and just go use MSN the iterations drop down to 1 or 0 :s I can't see how msn draws that much processing power from the gpu ?

Play around with the CPU Usage percent slider in the 'Advanced' tab. Also set its priority to 'Slightly higher.' It barely has an effect on normal computer usage.

Also if you can't seem to get any cores: open up the log file and search for any 'UNSTABLE_MACHINE' errors. If there are, delete the Folding@home-gpu folder in %APPDATA%, uninstall the client, get the latest Forceware drivers (I'm currently using 177.41), then reinstall the client and try again.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Also if you can't seem to get any cores: open up the log file and search for any 'UNSTABLE_MACHINE' errors. If there are, delete the Folding@home-gpu folder in %APPDATA%, uninstall the client, get the latest Forceware drivers (I'm currently using 177.41), then reinstall the client and try again.

All up and running fine now thank you :)

Updated drivers and seems okay, not quite the performance of yours but as it's only a mobile card I wouldn't expect it to be close.

Averaging between 350-500 iterations per sec now :) I'm happy with that and the Playstation running. Better still I live in rented accomodation where I don't pay the electricity bills lol

[Southern Patriot]

Just joined the team under the name Matt_and_Amy_Elder. We just got our PS3 a few weeks ago.

[Denis W. Veteran]

All up and running fine now thank you :)

Updated drivers and seems okay, not quite the performance of yours but as it's only a mobile card I wouldn't expect it to be close.

Averaging between 350-500 iterations per sec now :) I'm happy with that and the Playstation running. Better still I live in rented accomodation where I don't pay the electricity bills lol

Good to hear. :)

Right now our team rank's hovering around 508-512. (Y)