Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

[Saurian]

My computer finished one WU and is 80% done with another already since I left it the other day. Vista, despite its memory penalty, seems to be going faster then XP. I have a WU almost done in XP, but I don't want to switch back over lolol.

Anyways, why don't they create a FAH that natively works on dual cores without having to do the double-instance thing?

Also, I look forward to being able to contribute a bit more soon - my C2D upgrade will be commencing shortly. How long does it take a typical E6300/DS3 setup to do WU's?

[jancz3rt]

Originally Posted by Saurian

My computer finished one WU and is 80% done with another already since I left it the other day. Vista, despite its memory penalty, seems to be going faster then XP. I have a WU almost done in XP, but I don't want to switch back over lolol.

Anyways, why don't they create a FAH that natively works on dual cores without having to do the double-instance thing?

Also, I look forward to being able to contribute a bit more soon - my C2D upgrade will be commencing shortly. How long does it take a typical E6300/DS3 setup to do WU's?

Heya. I do folding primarily in XP but under Vista it also seems to be doing a bit better for me. An Allendale E6300 setup will go through the folding sequence very fast, especially when you intend to overclock. You will notice a big difference over your current PC.

JAN

[Bobo]

I just got 1000 points in like 2 days...up over 8000 now with another 300 coming in 5 hours. CF is really moving up fast in the F@H rankings.

[magicman]

Originally Posted by Bobo

I just got 1000 points in like 2 days...up over 8000 now with another 300 coming in 5 hours. CF is really moving up fast in the F@H rankings.

It certainly is, it's a real joy to see. In fact I did some rough calculations - recently, CF has been jumping up the team stats at a rate of about 23 a day. Based on that, we could break into the top 1000 as early as the end of this month! Something to work towards, definately.

[Bobo]

Originally Posted by magicman

Based on that, we could break into the top 1000 as early as the end of this month! Something to work towards, definately.

Heh. It's nice to be optimistic.

I was looking at some of the top teams, and they have 600, 700, 800, even 900 CPUs folding for them. We won't be there for a long long time. But we are still making excellent progress as it is.

[Motoxrdude]

Yuep, i will be folding again as well. I just leave it running in the background and I dont notice a thing. Dual cores are awesome!

[tweaker]

Stanford for some reason reports 3 CPU's for my user, when in fact I'm only using 2, anyone else got this incorrect report recently?

On a side note, I have enabled "Allow receipt of work unit assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB in size (such units may have large memory demands)".

If you've got enough RAM I recommend you do the same. I finished 2 wu's in 72 hours which I uploaded today. They gave me a total of 1200 points for 72 hours of work. yay

[tweaker]

Originally Posted by Nini

Anyway, installed and now at the bottom of the black wondow it keeps saying "Could not Connect to Work Server" ..anyway to fix this.. firewall is off

Have you tried configurating the client to "Use Internet Explorer Settings"?

[ceewi1]

Originally Posted by tweaker

Stanford for some reason reports 3 CPU's for my user, when in fact I'm only using 2, anyone else got this incorrect report recently?

Yes, with the console version it seems to happen when you load it up in a different directory, and possibly when you reconfigure certain options. It thinks you're using a different CPU.

[Jet]

Hey all!!!!
GPU folding is now here!!!!!!
Only works for X19xx gpus for now:

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Download the GPU client if you have a X19xx. They say about 440 points per day for a X1900XT.

Sorry for linking to other sites, but this article was too useful to pass up:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y