Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

yeah, I'm mostly through one already.

New question: Is there a beta FAH for Windows Vista? I just got it installed, and looked on the site and there isn't anything listed. So....I figured I'd come ask here. Can I use a version designed for XP?
 
Saurian said:
yeah, I'm mostly through one already.

New question: Is there a beta FAH for Windows Vista? I just got it installed, and looked on the site and there isn't anything listed. So....I figured I'd come ask here. Can I use a version designed for XP?
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Yes just use the Windows XP version. Works fine for me on Windows Vista Pre-RC1. Looking forward to seeing you with us soon.

JAN :D
 
ive had this downloaded but never istalled it.. so i want to try it and see what it is. 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
 
Heya

Nini said:
ive had this downloaded but never istalled it.. so i want to try it and see what it is. 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
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I would download the latest version from the website:

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

I would uninstall the old one and install the new one. It could be that the old one is trying to connect to a server which no longer exists.

JAN :D
 
Scrat said:
I've just finished my first WU.. should have another 2 done by monday :D
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Nice. Keep up the good work :)

As to Nini,

I do not know what could be wrong. It must be something to do with the firewall blocking access to the server. It could also be that the server it's trying to contact is down but I very much doubt that.

DO ANY OF YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT COULD BE THE PROBLEM?

JAN :D
 
Jet said:
I had to do a restart for something else, and when F@Home started it tried to send right before the internet connection came through, so it stated that it had it on backlog and it tried to send it again. I restarted the program and it tried again, when the internet was on, but to no avail.
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Here are some console options.... i'd sugest giving the "FAH502-Console.exe -send all" option a go.
Usage: FAH502-Console.exe [-option1] [-option2] ...
Options:
-config Configure user information
-configonly Configure user information, then exit
-queueinfo Get information on queued work units
-delete x Delete item #x from work queue
-send x Send result #x to server then exit. Use x=all to send all results

-verbosity x Sets the output level, from 1 to 9 (max). The default is 3
-pause Pause after finishing & trying to send current unit
-oneunit Exit after completing one unit
-forceasm Force core assembly optimizations to be used if available
-advmethods Use new advanced scientific cores and/or work units if available
-service Run in service mode (for programs such as firedaemon)
-local Use configuration files from local directory
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Update

900 WUs guys!

Date of last work unit 2006-10-01 02:15:38
Active CPUs within 50 days 54
Team Id 44358
Grand Score 174276 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 900 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1712 of 45684

JAN :D
 
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?
 
Saurian said:
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?
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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 :D
 
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.
 
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Bobo said:
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.
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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. :)
 
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!
 
Hmm..

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 :)
 
Nini said:
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
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Have you tried configurating the client to "Use Internet Explorer Settings"?
 
I will be receiving my Core 2 Duo in a few days, so I should be able to fold much faster, especially since i'll have a dual-core.
 
magicman said:
Based on that, we could break into the top 1000 as early as the end of this month! Something to work towards, definately. :)
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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.:rolleyes: But we are still making excellent progress as it is. :)
 
tweaker said:
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?
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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.
 
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