Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

Well right now im at 95000 out of 500,000 (19%)
Each percent takes about an hour and 10 minutes, sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less.
So 5000 steps takes 70 minutes so 71.4 steps a minute so 1 and a bit steps a second.

This is what happens after I type the command to start F@H:


This is the normal progress of it when it is normally working:
 
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I still can't believe just how much the folding effort here at cofo took off. We were stuck at some 20 people for ages. Then the new About guide and discussion threads were stickied and ever since then, the F@H team has been moving up extremely fast. I think that above all, it unifies people from cofo unlike anything else. Of only all 20K + people joined :P

JAN :D
 
Is there any way that I can make one instance of folding use 100% CPU usage? I have a Gromacs Core, and want it out of the way ASAP :P
 
In task manager right click it and choose high or highest priority, the only problem is you might not be able to do much else.
Filip ur processor must be fast, 5000 steps take me just over an hour.:eek:
 
Just added myself to the CF team. First time folding, I dont really fully understand how it works and what it actually does. Will it effect my speed of my system or does it just use the CPU power which is redundant?
 
tomb08uk said:
Just added myself to the CF team. First time folding, I dont really fully understand how it works and what it actually does. Will it effect my speed of my system or does it just use the CPU power which is redundant?
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It downloads some work to your pc, and your pc works on the simulation of proteins changing shape in the human body, then it sends the finished work back to Stanford university. Each piece of work is called a work unit (or WU), and as far as system performance, this is a quote from the About: thread...

"In terms of performance, the software only works when you are not doing other things on your PC. In other words, performance will not suffer. This is achieved by the program running on a very low-priority."

Hope that helps. Welcome to the team! :)
 
Rambo said:
Is there any way that I can make one instance of folding use 100% CPU usage? I have a Gromacs Core, and want it out of the way ASAP :P
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No, there is no way. The most you could use is 50%, and it should already be doing that.
 
2 ?s, is there any way to use all 100% of my Hyper Threaded P4? i've only done 75 frames since sunday, and for some reason, my comp folds slower at night. yesterday my avarage per frame was 15 min., over night it was 27. I didn't change anything, and I was using the computer during the day...
 
I cant get it to work... i installed it.. but when i want to run it,.. i get the hourglass for a few sec's.. and then... nothing. :(
anyone of you running it on Win xp x64?
 
Jet said:
No, there is no way. The most you could use is 50%, and it should already be doing that.
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I had mine running over 95%
When I am doing stuff like browsing the web its normally around 70%
Thats normal for me when im not doing anything:
foldingtaskwf1.png

My computer is not running any slower than normal. Its exactly the same speed.
 
calumn said:
I had mine running over 95%
When I am doing stuff like browsing the web its normally around 70%
Thats normal for me when im not doing anything:
foldingtaskwf1.png

My computer is not running any slower than normal. Its exactly the same speed.
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I think he means that Rambo has a dual core CPU... not sure tough
 
Archangel said:
I cant get it to work... i installed it.. but when i want to run it,.. i get the hourglass for a few sec's.. and then... nothing. :(
anyone of you running it on Win xp x64?
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Yeah i am. When ever i tried running the GUI version it would blank-out my screen and hang the computer. I'm now running the console version, which runs fine.

My Intel Laptop seems to fold quicker... not sure why as it is only a 1.86GH with 1.5GB of RAM, compaired to the computer in my sig???
 
calumn said:
In task manager right click it and choose high or highest priority, the only problem is you might not be able to do much else.
Filip ur processor must be fast, 5000 steps take me just over an hour.:eek:
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Flip, your processor must be slow :P I have 20,000,000 step to complete. If you had that, it would take you 4000 hours to complete. :eek: I've ran it for approximately 36 hours, and I'm at 60% (12,000,000).

Jet said:
No, there is no way. The most you could use is 50%, and it should already be doing that.
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Hmmm, ok, I'll take your word for it. However, is setting the priority in Task Manager going to change how fast it folds?

Archangel said:
I think he means that Rambo has a dual core CPU... not sure tough
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Yup, I'm folding on an E6300 - Dual core :)
 
Rambo said:
Hmmm, ok, I'll take your word for it. However, is setting the priority in Task Manager going to change how fast it folds?
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If you have other tasks running, increasing the F@H priority will cause it to fold faster (while your other programs will run slower). In general, that's not what you're after. One instance of F@H will never exceed 50% CPU usage on a dual core CPU. If you want to use 100%, you will need to run two instances of F@H.
 
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