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It's a great week for Folding! (post your bragging here)

mc68k said:
yes, it saves your work back to the last checkpoint

you can run fah5 in the background (w/o the Terminal open) by appending the & symbol the the end of the command

if you sleep the process should start back up automatically.
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If you did this would you have to stop terminal through Activity Monitor or how could you halt it? There are times I don't want my cpu running 100%, so it would be nice set things on pause or off, just for a while ;) Perhaps your script does this, I just don't know exactly what it does and because I am rather new to all this, I didn't really understand the explanation on the site :eek:
 
efoto said:
If you did this would you have to stop terminal through Activity Monitor or how could you halt it? There are times I don't want my cpu running 100%, so it would be nice set things on pause or off, just for a while ;) Perhaps your script does this, I just don't know exactly what it does and because I am rather new to all this, I didn't really understand the explanation on the site :eek:
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to halt it you can type in the Terminal:

killall fah5

you could probably do the same thing in terminal by finding the fah5 process(es) and hitting the 'quit process' button

there's more commands for pausing if you're interested...i didn't see a pause command in activity monitor

all my script does is set folding up initially and type in complex commands for you.
 
mc68k said:
to halt it you can type in the Terminal:

killall fah5

you could probably do the same thing in terminal by finding the fah5 process(es) and hitting the 'quit process' button

there's more commands for pausing if you're interested...i didn't see a pause command in activity monitor

all my script does is set folding up initially and type in complex commands for you.
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I've sent you a PM and discuss the rest, thanks for the help.
 
my lab will be back up on monday

the roof is still leaking from the re-roofing, so the lab has to be covered in plastic
 
Well, my first units finally finished and posted... 480 points, and another 480 should post sometime this weekend as well [EDIT: another one finished while I was writing this... 721!] ... With the machines I currently have folding I am hoping for about 1500 points per week... not crazy like some of you guys, but not bad either. [EDIT: I think I may be closer to 2500 per week, if my math from these first couple units is right... it's hard to say with such a small data set!]

If I added the servers I administer at work I would easily more than double that easily (I'm guessing that a dual 3ghz Xeon that is barely stressed would churn out 1500-2000 pts/week), but I am trying to come up with the best way to clear it with my boss. Any tips? I'm the only IT guy in the building, so it's very unlikely anyone would know besides me, but that's very dishonest.
 
If you are the IT person. Then aren't you in charge of the computers? Can't you put anything you want on them?
 
trainguy77 said:
If you are the IT person. Then aren't you in charge of the computers? Can't you put anything you want on them?
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Yes, but on the off chance that there is ever a problem I'd like to have my butt covered. The workstation machines aren't a big deal... if there is ever a problem I just replace them with a spare and fix the other one. The server, on the other hand, is not quite so simple.
 
Well, it's certainly been a good week for me... posted my first points; up to 1341 as of this morning, and I think I will add a few hundred more sometime today. Very exciting :)

I'm trying to break into the top 500 (in the MR team) before the end of the month, and it looks like I have a good shot at it!
 
Just broke 200,000 points this weekend. Only took me...a year and a half? Not too bad, I guess.
 
Congratulations to all the new folders putting up numbers for the team! Congrats to benpatient too, for the big milestone of 200k!

Personally I had my best month ever with 43,822 points for July! Woohoo!
 
the PCs are back up

i'll have to check if they DLed new WUs

expect some more points again
 
Weee Hah! Just cracked the MR top 500.

PM Dual G4 1.25, 3 x P4 2.4 GHz, Mac Mini, and just added a dual-core P4 2.8 GHz (a Dimension 9100 with a 2405FPW for $1199). Don't think I'll bother adding the Beige G3 - it's pretty stressed as it is.

All right, what's the next goal: powermac666, got you in my sights, lad ;)
 
CanadaRAM said:
Weee Hah! Just cracked the MR top 500.

PM Dual G4 1.25, 3 x P4 2.4 GHz, Mac Mini, and just added a dual-core P4 2.8 GHz (a Dimension 9100 with a 2405FPW for $1199). Don't think I'll bother adding the Beige G3 - it's pretty stressed as it is.

All right, what's the next goal: powermac666, got you in my sights, lad ;)
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You've given me a new target, CanadaRAM... At my current rate I can't catch you, but I've got a secret plan to add about 20 more P4 1.6ghz machines over the next week. ;-)

(I'm a sys admin, and I usually add FaH to machines when I have them on my work bench for whatever reason and over the next week I'll be installing some new software on all the systems in the building, so that'll take me from just under 500 points/day to about 2000 :D)
 
mrgreen4242 said:
You've given me a new target, CanadaRAM... At my current rate I can't catch you, but I've got a secret plan to add about 20 more P4 1.6ghz machines over the next week. ;-)

(I'm a sys admin, and I usually add FaH to machines when I have them on my work bench for whatever reason and over the next week I'll be installing some new software on all the systems in the building, so that'll take me from just under 500 points/day to about 2000 :D)
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Heh. I'll see you your 20 P4's and ... and .... dang, I'll have to think of something... ;) I've got a spare server lying around, maybe I'll set that up. That's 1. Now, where am I going to find 19 more machines....
 
CanadaRAM said:
Weee Hah! Just cracked the MR top 500.

PM Dual G4 1.25, 3 x P4 2.4 GHz, Mac Mini, and just added a dual-core P4 2.8 GHz (a Dimension 9100 with a 2405FPW for $1199). Don't think I'll bother adding the Beige G3 - it's pretty stressed as it is.

All right, what's the next goal: powermac666, got you in my sights, lad ;)
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Well, my feeble Folding farm won't present too much of a challenge to you (or anyone with one dual G5, ftm).

In my strictly controlled/monitored corporate environment, all I risk is loading Folding on my own desktop Mac. If I thought I'd get it past my IT guy, I'd get it running on all 25 of our Macs/PC's in prepress. The rest of the company is running feeble old PC hardware...not worth the time.
 
powermac666 said:
Well, my feeble Folding farm won't present too much of a challenge to you (or anyone with one dual G5, ftm).

In my strictly controlled/monitored corporate environment, all I risk is loading Folding on my own desktop Mac. If I thought I'd get it past my IT guy, I'd get it running on all 25 of our Macs/PC's in prepress. The rest of the company is running feeble old PC hardware...not worth the time.
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As an IT admin my advice is: never hurts to ask! If the machines aren't used by multiple shifts talk to him about setting them up to run during the off part of the day. You can setup the F@H client as a Windows service, and then there are all kinds of scheduling options after that... set it run at a specific time, or start when a user logs off and stop when someone logs on, etc.

I fold on a couple of our old machines, even the P3-450mhz system I rescued from the server room closet is enough to fold with! Sure, it hasn't finished a WU yet, but it will eventually and it will be well before the deadline. Point is that almost any machine is worth folding, especially since it only takes a minute to set it up...

:)
 
mrgreen4242 said:
As an IT admin my advice is: never hurts to ask! If the machines aren't used by multiple shifts talk to him about setting them up to run during the off part of the day. You can setup the F@H client as a Windows service, and then there are all kinds of scheduling options after that... set it run at a specific time, or start when a user logs off and stop when someone logs on, etc.

I fold on a couple of our old machines, even the P3-450mhz system I rescued from the server room closet is enough to fold with! Sure, it hasn't finished a WU yet, but it will eventually and it will be well before the deadline. Point is that almost any machine is worth folding, especially since it only takes a minute to set it up...

:)
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If I were a worker bee I'd ask, but as a vp I have to be sensitive to sending a message to staff that our computers are available as a resource for purposes other than work.
 
powermac666 said:
If I were a worker bee I'd ask, but as a vp I have to be sensitive to sending a message to staff that our computers are available as a resource for purposes other than work.
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Ah, that is very true. Maybe you should be REALLY sneaky and anonymously try to get the IT people interested in the project so that they come ask you for permission! ;-)
 
Just looking up team stats a bit to see how we were doing, and I noticed that some users have a high points score with a low WU count....how does that work? I realize different WUs count for different points, but how do you determine/request what type of WUs you are getting? (in terminal version specifically ;) )
 
efoto said:
Just looking up team stats a bit to see how we were doing, and I noticed that some users have a high points score with a low WU count....how does that work? I realize different WUs count for different points, but how do you determine/request what type of WUs you are getting? (in terminal version specifically ;) )
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If you launch the program with a -config option and access the advanced options you can tell your client whether or not to accept WUs larger than 5 MB in size. These are usually the higher point count WUs which can get you the high points/low WU count setup. However you end up suffering due to the increased processing time required for the larger WUs. Most people tend to think it is a wash whether you do more lower point WUs or fewer higher point WUs.

Hope this makes sense
 
atszyman said:
If you launch the program with a -config option and access the advanced options you can tell your client whether or not to accept WUs larger than 5 MB in size. These are usually the higher point count WUs which can get you the high points/low WU count setup. However you end up suffering due to the increased processing time required for the larger WUs. Most people tend to think it is a wash whether you do more lower point WUs or fewer higher point WUs.

Hope this makes sense
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Makes sense, thanks a lot for the explanation. Seems like it could be a wash depending on processing power, which for what I have....is probably washed :p

Thanks again.
 
Woot! I made the top 20 producers list today! Looks kinda funny, all other top 20 producers have 6 digit or more totals, and I have 3500! After the first WUs from the most recent additions to my 'cluster' start to post I should hopefully be in the top 5 producers.

Well, if I am doing my math right, I should hit about 350th place by COB Monday, and be well into the top 300 by the end of next week. I'm aiming for top 100 around the first week of Semptember, but it'll be close...
 
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