folding and my computer...

[howard]

i have an ibook and i started folding last spring...i enjoyed folding although i didn't get a whole lot done, i liked being involved though and i think its a great thing to do...however

after i had been folding for some time my computer's battery pretty much died. it would freak out and go to sleep at like 80% then it would say it was at 0% if i tryed to wake it up. i got a new battery under 1 year warranty and now its been working fine. i was curious if it died cause i was folding on it almost constantly. i would usually turn folding off if i unplugged my ibook however there were a few times when folding ran while i was on battery power. anyway when i joined macrumors folding initally we were pumping out a measly 2000 points a week and now its gotten ridiculous. i would like to join back up but i fear my battery will die again and i don't have apple care so it would come out of my pocket to replace....

what do you think?

[MrMacMan]

Folding uses battery life.

But I haven't seen anything like that.

If you turned it off when you un-plugged I don't see a problem!

:eek:

[bertinman]

I think you should be fine.

I doubt that the folding killed your battery, it was most likely defective.

I don't fold on my laptop while it is unplugged because otherwise it would run out too soon (but not any faster than if I was running any other apps at 100% cpu usage!).

I suggest using mc68k's scripts to start and stop it when you are switching back and forth.

(note to mc68k: think you could make a version of the script that doesn't have the -advmethods tag? that way the G3's won't get gromacs as often -- I think)

[howard]

Originally posted by bertinman
I think you should be fine.

I doubt that the folding killed your battery, it was most likely defective.

I don't fold on my laptop while it is unplugged because otherwise it would run out too soon (but not any faster than if I was running any other apps at 100% cpu usage!).

I suggest using mc68k's scripts to start and stop it when you are switching back and forth.

(note to mc68k: think you could make a version of the script that doesn't have the -advmethods tag? that way the G3's won't get gromacs as often -- I think)


huh? his script will stop and start it when you switch from battery to power?? sheesh it has come a long way since i last used it if that is the case

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by howard
huh? his script will stop and start it when you switch from battery to power?? sheesh it has come a long way since i last used it if that is the case

No no no.

You can acually type 'stop' and 'start' to do this.

[ColoJohnBoy]

I'm finally going to swallow my pride and ask:

What is folding?


A thousand pardons begged for my ignorance.

[Vlade]

Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
I'm finally going to swallow my pride and ask:

What is folding?


A thousand pardons begged for my ignorance.

Folding uses your extra CPU cycles to research protein folding. Actually click the Distributed Computing sub-forum and then click the FAQ thread, it will give you a much better idea.

[mc68k]

Originally posted by bertinman
(note to mc68k: think you could make a version of the script that doesn't have the -advmethods tag? that way the G3's won't get gromacs as often -- I think) there's a option when u install that asks whether you want to run gromacs.

basically there's a switch statement and an alternate crontab w/o the -advmethods.

as for -advmethods on the fly, that could be done too...but i don't see much need for it.

[bertinman]

Originally posted by mc68k
there's a option when u install that asks whether you want to run gromacs.

basically there's a switch statement and an alternate crontab w/o the -advmethods.

as for -advmethods on the fly, that could be done too...but i don't see much need for it.

doh. (not the first doh of today...)

Your script has been running so nicely on my mac that I forgot all about the install sequence :p.