i'm coming along pretty well, it's been just under 3 weeks and I'm about to enter the top 650 this afternoon. I really want to upgrade my Sawtooth past 1GHz so I can get it folding faster, it's been working on the same work unit for over 2 weeks 
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CanadaRAM said:
Well based on the pattern, I'd say you need to get a "Mr." prefix added to your name.
Mr. CanadaRAM, nice ring to it
Dreadnought said:
My Dual 2.0 is folding 24/7 currently, however only does duirng the winter. It actually is a component that helps heat my small bedroom / office, and I won't go without it folding!
The Fan speed has been quiet, and it is nice to see my numbers go up again.
I had to shutdown my G5 during the day because of a slightly increased electric bill... Main causes: my G5 folding 24/7 and a waterbed.
redeye be said:
Indeed! get em strait man!
Yeah, I just don't have the heat on at night anymore (well it is set for 50F so things don't freeze) as the room I stay in with the computer and other equipment on, stays at ~65F during the night, on a cold night.
My energy needs are high for electric, but gas goes down because of this. I just consolidate my life into a small room when I am home, and try to be out of the house during the day if needed
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But I did installed F@H on my work computer (2.0 P4) and on my iBook G3 700 for compensation (and still my daily production went from 230 to 130). Well, maybe I let it fold a bit more when my 23" ACD comes in. This saves about 200-300 Watts per hour with the 20" and 17" Studio Displays I use now.
Speaking about my work pc, it's time to cash in some WU's! (have to do that manually through VPC on my G5, because of the Firewall at work, which doesn't allow sending and fetching WU's)
Speaking about my work pc, it's time to cash in some WU's! (have to do that manually through VPC on my G5, because of the Firewall at work, which doesn't allow sending and fetching WU's)
little train that could becomes locomotive taht will
Dreadnought, since I last reported in on Oct 29, I've gotten the new X-serve Dual 2.3 up and Folding at work and it runs 24/7 along with a G4 and Dell PC and I've moved up to # 112 from 150 in Oct, 30 days = 38 positions
but as you said before catching is one thing passing is another
Dreadnought, since I last reported in on Oct 29, I've gotten the new X-serve Dual 2.3 up and Folding at work and it runs 24/7 along with a G4 and Dell PC and I've moved up to # 112 from 150 in Oct, 30 days = 38 positions
but as you said before catching is one thing passing is another
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well I won't be moving up the rankings for a little while, all my machines seem to have simultaneously gotten Tinker units, so I'm trading water for a couple days
Well Sparky, BRING IT ON! I'll give you a run for your money (or Xserves! ). I'll wait till you get a bit closer, and then, everything goes folding 24/7! Maybe I'll even bring back my B&W back to the battle. As I said catching up is one thing, passing is a whole different matter...
). I'll wait till you get a bit closer, and then, everything goes folding 24/7! Maybe I'll even bring back my B&W back to the battle. As I said catching up is one thing, passing is a whole different matter... Alright, at the risk of sounding like a f@h n00b, I want to share this discovery I made today.
I have been using the terminal client for a while now and the two most recent WU I have done used the gromacs flavor of opperation. When it first started working on the WU (ie, right after it downloaded) it would say something along the lines of "checking cpu" and "altivec boost OK" or something like that.
When I am turning my computer off for any period of time I usually just quit terminal and get the "terminate command" or whathaveyou. When I start it back up it WILL NOT use the altivec boost, thus a sector that used to take me 20min to do would take me almost a full hour.
I found that by quiting the command correctly (ctrl-c) it would use altivec when I started it back up.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that I wasted a lot of time because I didn't check to see if I was using the program correctly, but now that I fumbled upon this technicality I will complete many more WUs in much less time.
I am pleasantly surprised with my 1.33Ghz iBook and its contribution to a good cause.
I have been using the terminal client for a while now and the two most recent WU I have done used the gromacs flavor of opperation. When it first started working on the WU (ie, right after it downloaded) it would say something along the lines of "checking cpu" and "altivec boost OK" or something like that.
When I am turning my computer off for any period of time I usually just quit terminal and get the "terminate command" or whathaveyou. When I start it back up it WILL NOT use the altivec boost, thus a sector that used to take me 20min to do would take me almost a full hour.
I found that by quiting the command correctly (ctrl-c) it would use altivec when I started it back up.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that I wasted a lot of time because I didn't check to see if I was using the program correctly, but now that I fumbled upon this technicality I will complete many more WUs in much less time.
I am pleasantly surprised with my 1.33Ghz iBook and its contribution to a good cause.
Dreadnought said:As I said catching up is one thing, passing is a whole different matter...
I dunno Dread, it wasn't all that hard...
I've been treading water at 11th and 12th place overall for quite some time now, but it looks like I just might crack the top ten by early February. Assuming I can hold off the furious charge from SteveMoody.
All these 46 point units I've been getting lately are dragging me down.
How is it that some of you have insanely high point values but the quantity of WU's is low?
Do you select the "greater than 5MB" WUs and reject all others or something? Are they worth killer points? I look at my points at 18k and my WUs are around 3.5k, I see some of you with 55k points and only 657 WUs....what gives?
Do you select the "greater than 5MB" WUs and reject all others or something? Are they worth killer points? I look at my points at 18k and my WUs are around 3.5k, I see some of you with 55k points and only 657 WUs....what gives?
efoto said:How is it that some of you have insanely high point values but the quantity of WU's is low?
Do you select the "greater than 5MB" WUs and reject all others or something? Are they worth killer points? I look at my points at 18k and my WUs are around 3.5k, I see some of you with 55k points and only 657 WUs....what gives?
It is as you stated, the 5MB limit generally keeps you to WUs that are worth fewer points. However the larger (size/point) WUs do take quite a bit longer to process so many have not noticed any great benefit to one large WU over many small ones.
efoto said:
Wow. I've been folding since May '04 and have 460k more points than you, but you're killing me on the WU's. You've done 200 more than I have.
Not that I'm boasting or trying to taunt you with it, it's just weird. If points are what you're after it may payoff to try enabling the larger units.
You should have dared me! But with that daily average I'm still not much of a fight.RugoseCone said:I dunno Dread, it wasn't all that hard...
Dreadnought said:
Well if you want, you can pretend they're your points too. Your sig was one of several things that inspired me to join the cause.
How much can those WUs be worth in points?
The last few weeks I've been getting 1-4 WU and ~100-400 points per day. Today I noticed this crazy jump in the chart.
It's 2 WU's at about 800 points per unit. Any idea why the sudden increase? Why did I suddenly get WU's worth that many points? For a moment I thought it was something akin to the 'free' points we all got earlier, but that didn't seem to be the case.
The last few weeks I've been getting 1-4 WU and ~100-400 points per day. Today I noticed this crazy jump in the chart.
It's 2 WU's at about 800 points per unit. Any idea why the sudden increase? Why did I suddenly get WU's worth that many points? For a moment I thought it was something akin to the 'free' points we all got earlier, but that didn't seem to be the case.
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That was the whole idea to get more folders here at MacRumors. Already inspired a few to fold, and overtake meDreadnought said:
Is there a simple way to enable the 5MB or greater WUs in a Windows console version of fah? or do you have to delete the program and re-'install' it so you can go through the initial setup again?
I believe you can change it easily in the client.cfg file. Open it with a teksteditor and change the setting from no to yes. If that doesn't work, just delete the client.cfg file and restart folding. Then it will ask the all the preferences questions. BTW, the WU it was doing will probably be deleted!
efoto said:
When using the command line add the -config option. This will walk through the whole setup (username, team number) again. It remembers previous values so you can just hit enter for most fields. When it asks if you would like to configure advanced options, answer yes and it should let you change the 5 MB limit. It is very similar to the command line setup on Macs.
atszyman said:
So once it opens in command line just type "-config" and it will redo the setup? I'm not that great with command line stuff, or terminal
I read around a bit, but nothing overly in depth. I still forget how to do text outputs of files in a given folder