Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

Grey410 said:
I noticed yesterday that both of my cores were at 90% usage and I had both F@H cores running in my tasks when I had not started them yet (I had just rebooted). Is this always the case? Even without restarting the program they start working? Is it because it's being loaded as a service? Just curious.
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Yes...F@H will automatically start running when the computer starts.
 
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1000 breaked!

Hey people, we had just breaked the 1000s position!!! Stats show nb. 998! We are moving deadly fast up the ranks, who would cay it month before :) keep pushing, people :)
 
I'm wondering if it is just me, but I defragged my computer, and F@H is running almost twice as fast now, down from 15 min a frame to 8 min. I even have been watching it over a while, and it still is holding at 8 min.
 
Jet said:
I'm wondering if it is just me, but I defragged my computer, and F@H is running almost twice as fast now, down from 15 min a frame to 8 min. I even have been watching it over a while, and it still is holding at 8 min.
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Is that on the same WU?
 
[-0MEGA-];488010 said:
Is that on the same WU?
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Yes, it is...maybe those frames were just faster ones, cause it is now at 11min, though it still is faster overall. I can't wait to get over this p1862, it is only 535 points and I have been on it for awhile..
 
I have a question...yesterday I was working on this 535-pointer: p1862_Myosin6_PT_US_TIP3P_bbox

Now, today I checked, and the last one hadn't finished yet, but now I'm working on p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_1001.

What happened? Did I lose the points that were folded before?
 
no, you didn't lose all the points, but a lot of people have had trouble with GROMACS cores, and erroring, it probably had an error and had to stop early. You probably got around 50 points.
 
Jet?

I was just wondering whether you are using the X1900 AIW Jet? I am gonna get my x1950 Pro at the beginning of the next month and will finally start moving up again :P

BTW: We are sub 980! in the team rankings! Way to go all of you guys!

JAN :D
 
How do the HardOCP members have that many CPUs? The first place guy on the HardOCP team has over 700 CPUs! And many have in the 30-60 range.

EDIT: Wow, the 1st place "donor" has over 2000 CPUs!
 
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jancz3rt said:
I was just wondering whether you are using the X1900 AIW Jet? I am gonna get my x1950 Pro at the beginning of the next month and will finally start moving up again :P

BTW: We are sub 980! in the team rankings! Way to go all of you guys!

JAN :D
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I got it today, but I have to fiddle w/ it to get it to fold...

However, I will be folding again soon :D :D almost 2x my previous speed :D
 
Tis working now!!!

I had to use standard X1900 drivers instead of the AIW ones, now I am waiting for it to start working :)
 
Lol, as you can see, I had a slightly wrong driver, but didn't realize it until it had been "folding" for almost an hour and a half, submitting an errored WU every 10 seconds :P. So, yea, I have the most WUs of everyone now :)

Now it is actually running. At stock clocks, it looks as if it is going to take around 19 hours to complete a WU. I'll try raising clocks/voltages later and see how much faster it is then.
 
Jet said:
Lol, as you can see, I had a slightly wrong driver, but didn't realize it until it had been "folding" for almost an hour and a half, submitting an errored WU every 10 seconds :P. So, yea, I have the most WUs of everyone now :)
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Lol, you shouldn't have mentioned that, then we would have thought how incredibly productive you've been... :P
 
magicman said:
Lol, you shouldn't have mentioned that, then we would have thought how incredibly productive you've been... :P
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Hmm. But my points didn't go up at all :)

I can't wait to see how much I can overclock this card for folding. My main concern, though is about stability..so we'll see about that. One thing about the card is that hot air is exhausted from the core/memory onto the Voltage Regulators, and so they get pretty warm.

I think I have the card forced into 3d mode, but I can't quite tell. It seems like it should be hotter, since the core is just at 64C, even after running overnight. When overclocked initially, it went up to 80C about..so I dunno about that. We''ll see.

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As well, ATItool shows that it is drawing 21.8A. That is obviously wrong, I think and hope ;)

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I thought that I could run both of my processors at 95% or so, and still run my GPU, but my GPU takes up a full core of my processor. I guess it just needs something to keep feeding it w/data?

EDIT3:
Whoever posts next will post the 1000th post in this thread!
 
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Whooo Hooo 1000

Jet said:
EDIT2:
I thought that I could run both of my processors at 95% or so, and still run my GPU, but my GPU takes up a full core of my processor. I guess it just needs something to keep feeding it w/data?

EDIT3:
Whoever posts next will post the 1000th post in this thread!
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I have had the best luck running Core 1 @ 80% and Core 2 @ 100% which seems to let my GPU chug along pretty fast. The GPU needs the CPU to poll it pretty often. As I believe it needs to CPU to help with its Scientific core. But yes stanford.edu recommends throttling back the Core 1 for the GPU to use which is why they give you extra points for using yoru GPU to fold.


1000 POST BOMP
 
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