Folding Questions

Sounds like you have the script running for a dual processor machine on a single processor iMac. You should certainly only be crunching one protein at a time on that computer.

 

If you are running mc68k's folding script from the terminal, open up terminal and type rid. This will uninstall all the folding scripts and current WU's. Then download and install the single processor script. It's the first DMG file listed here

If you are using a different folding client I can't help you but maybe one of the other teammates can...

 

or only type rid2, I believe that get rid of only the second folding app.

 

It will dramatically slow your folding down to let both continue to run and it actually might screw both of the work units up. Not sure how, but I suppose it's possible for data to be corrupted.

One Work Unit is one protein. Every individual Work Unit has points associated to it. If you rank teams based on points, MacRumors is 22nd. But we jump all the way to 16th or so if you rank teams based on the number of WU's completed.

As for how long it takes to complete a WU. Well it depends on the WU downloaded, it depends on the processor type, it depends on how many other apps you have running, etc. 12 days isn't out of the question, but you'd likely go through them faster if you were only running one instance. For example, my Dual 2.0ghz G5 takes about 8.5 minutes per frame on a 400 frame tinker WU. Some machines can take as much as 40-80 minutes per frame. At 40 minutes a frame, that's over 11 days.

I'd suggest you try what Dreadnought wrote. Type rid2 and see if it eliminates the second instance you have running. Otherwise, wait until the one that is closest to completion is finished and then use the rid command and install the single processor version.