Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

my current WU is a meer 400 frames, but it must be like a really REALLY complicated one or something, each frame is taking on average 9 whole minutes, yes 9 mins, thats 540 seconds for each frame... this better be worth some decent points, 2 and alf days this is gonna take, ust for 400 frames.... grrr

dragon

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that site tweaker linked to said:
Some of the WU's are classified as Tinker and others as Gromac, the gromacs will work faster because they are highly optimized while the Tinkers are not so they will go slower.
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that expalins why mine is going shit slow, damn tinker core. i want a diff work unit, any idea how to change, ir is it a set thing now....

dragon
 
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yeh, i read that, the average is way over 100-400, jan and me have both had 10,000 frame WU's he is on a 20,000 on a diff PC, and i have a bloody 400 thats taking ages, does anyone know how to change WU's, or cant i do that.

dragon
 
Lol

dragon2309 said:
meh, ok, but if i get another one of those damn tinker cores im stopping it
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Common, you basically have less frames but a more complicated calculation to do. We are folding to help and the competing side of the matter should go aside, although it is fun) I now have a 20,000 frame WU and it's projected to take 3 days and a few hours (@ 15f/s). However, the last WU I was working on had 5,000 frames but each frame took about 50 seconds +. Therefore, we should not really care about points but rather about whether our TEAM is doing well or not and what impact that could have on research :)

P.S.: Tinker cores get higher points actually :P

JAN :D
 
Im not sure why it says this, but i just got a 12500 frame and it says its going to take 260 days to complete...

EDIT: 20 minutes later it updated, so now its at 1 day.
 
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[-0MEGA-] said:
Im not sure why it says this, but i just got a 12500 frame and it says its going to take 260 days to complete...

EDIT: 20 minutes later it updated, so now its at 1 day.
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Yeah the client takes some time before it calculates an estimation of the time it will take to complete the WU. Hence, the figure may be very high for a short period of time.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Yeah the client takes some time before it calculates an estimation of the time it will take to complete the WU. Hence, the figure may be very high for a short period of time.

JAN :D
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I knew that was the case, since once i first recieved it said that there was around 5,000 days left, but then about a minute later it went down to 260, but when it didnt go down after 20 minutes i thought something was wrong.
 
im going to start folding @3GHz with my main rig, and my AXPM 2500+ @ 2.5~GHz (or a 1.520GHz AXP 1800+)... i just need to get my computer set up with my DFI (need to reformat)
 
It seems like im not using mine to full capacity, since it only uses 50%. I wish they made a dual-core version.

That would be awesome if i got my school to load folding@home on all of their PC's... (with my user name of course :P)
 
Heya

[-0MEGA-] said:
It seems like im not using mine to full capacity, since it only uses 50%. I wish they made a dual-core version.

That would be awesome if i got my school to load folding@home on all of their PC's... (with my user name of course :P)
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Well they do provide for a possibility of running folding@home on both cores. It has been discussed in this thread earlier. Anyway, glad to have you guys joining the team.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Well they do provide for a possibility of running folding@home on both cores. It has been discussed in this thread earlier. Anyway, glad to have you guys joining the team.

JAN :D
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I tried installing it twice, both in sepereate folders, but it wouldnt work. I was thinking that if i installed it in seperate folders, and made another account in XP that i may be able to have one running there, and one running on my main account. Think thats possible?
 
1. Create two separate folders on your computer named something like
F@H1
F@H2

2. Place one console installer in each folder

3. Install them one at a time from their folder answering the questions, during setup you'll be asked for a name, make sure to give them both a unique name like 1, 2...

They will now fold on separate cores without slowdown, but as mentioned, running the console version will sacrifice most control options.
 
I did get the console, but it seemed like it was just continuing the fold from the other version i had on there.

And if i used two different names, it would defeat the purpose of me getting more points :P
 
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