Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

Indeed

The processor is working to its fullest potential and "burns in" so to say if at 100% CPU utilisation. This is one of the reasons that its used by overclockers to test their systems for stability and performance.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
COMMON GUYS and GIRLS, JOIN! - We have to rank higher :)
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I think its a really good thing and all, and once i get my laptop i will run that. But im on the crappy family PC now, and it takes forever for it run.
 
i've donated 1 wu, but uninstalled it, it seemed to be making my pc really slow, haven't a clue why though, i may install it on my dads laptop though, he won't notice anything different

Lee :D
 
Hehe

Well it makes sense that it would slow down a PC because it is using the CPU. If you do not want it to bother you, lower the percentage of CPU usage setting or enable the option which would only run when the screensaver would start.

JAN :D
 
I am really surprised that is it slowing down your pc at all actually. Folding@Home deliberately runs in the lowest possible priority, so it doesn't interfer with games, programs and other things that need the cpu. :confused:
 
Yeah

I see what you are saying but my sister's PC (Sempron 2300+ @ 2Ghz, 512MB DDR400) really slows down as well, regardless of the priority. I have lowered the CPU utilisation to 80% and now it's fine and my sister can do her normal stuff. On my rig (see below), I see no difference in performance.

JAN :D
 
my first WU will be finished in about 2 days, woo. then i will be on the list and the team will be bigger, woo, and rank higher, woo.... oh yeh, and of course help the millions of people suffereing from protien disforamtion diseases, yeh, that too...... woo

lol, j'k, its for a good cause, dragon
 
Hehe

Well, glad to hear you are progressing Dragon ;) I need 2 more days to complete my second WU as well. I dunno why but I get large ones. Hehe, maybe it detects my PC and realizes that I have a beast ;)

BTW: We have moved up by 4000 places since new members joined.

EDIT: Current (Thursday 30th)

Date of last work unit 2006-03-29 20:11:31
Active CPUs within 50 days 13
Team Id 44358
Grand Score 3800 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 22 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 9611 of 43457
Home Page http://www.computerforum.com


JAN :D
 
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im getting a bit deflated here, i see all you lot talking about how theres 2 days until your 2nd WU is finished, my 1st WU never goes down at all, i turne dit on and left it folding at 100% CPU when i went out to school this morning, that was 7 hours ago. When i got back it had actually increased the time remaining by an hour, how the hell does that wor, it seems this WU is never going to finish, i still have it folding at 75% CPU as im working, but it still has only gone down like 30 minutes in the last 3 hours. WHATS GOING ON...!!!!


dragon
 
Out of curiosity, can you have two of these apps running at the same time? Because i'm getting my Dual-Core laptop soon, and when im not using it i want it to be using both cores.
 
Apparently, reading the FAQ, you can run two "copies" of the program, but for the server not to get confused and for you to be credited for the work, you have to install the programs in seperate directories, and not just copy the files across.
 
ill join and start doing that on my computer. and once i get a computer that i got for free working ill put it on that to and run it. hopefully it will run fine on a pentium 3 with 128 mb of ram.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Out of curiosity, can you have two of these apps running at the same time? Because i'm getting my Dual-Core laptop soon, and when im not using it i want it to be using both cores.
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magicman said:
Apparently, reading the FAQ, you can run two "copies" of the program, but for the server not to get confused and for you to be credited for the work, you have to install the programs in seperate directories, and not just copy the files across.
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You also must run the console version for that to work, the graphical version utilizes OpenGL which does not allow itself to be used by two programs simultaneously.
 
tweaker said:
You also must run the console version for that to work, the graphical version utilizes OpenGL which does not allow itself to be used by two programs simultaneously.
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Good point, forgot to mention that. :)
 
I am glad to see Yeti join the team with some 7 WUs!! finished.
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Yes Yeti is getting plenty of work done with 3 CPU's.
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Yeah, basically scavenging the computers in my lab that aren't running other simulations. Won't last long though. Moving to another lab in a few weeks that will have very tight security.
 
Hehe

Hehe, make use of it Yeti :) I am folding on two computers right and am working on a third one to do that as well.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Hehe, make use of it Yeti :) I am folding on two computers right and am working on a third one to do that as well.
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Hehe, it's addictive, isn't it. We're all turning into folding junkies. :P
 
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