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

nope, more ram doesn't help folding. I know, I have 3.5 GB. I went from 512 MB to 1.5GB, no change. Went a couple of weeks from 1.5 to 3.5 GB and yet again no change. However, what you can do, which will work, is to replace all of your ram with lower latency class ram. You can get till 10% more speed out of a PM G5, so I'm told.
 
FWIW -- went from 256mb to 512mb on a g4 and saw a very small improvement. above 512mb, i also found no change.

some older/slower pc systems benefit. older pIII system with 128mb upgraded to 512mb and saw about a 20-25% improvement in PPD.
 
Hmm, okay. Thanks for the replies. I still do NEED to upgrade the RAM in my iMac G5. My sig. is currently not telling the truth. I am only running on the standard 512 MB. I just haven't had the money to upgrade it, but I will when I get back from spring break next week!
 
A few weeks ago i mentioned my PC acting up. It folds nearly 24/7. It didn't taste power for about 2 weeks, as it wouldn't even boot and make strange noises.
Last week i had some time on my hands and decided to solve the PC issue. Mobo problem. I ended up with putting in an MSI mobo with a 2.5 Celeron.

That's coming from a 1.4 Athlon, i guess i'll see some increase. Although i might not turn on the PC that much. My main machine is a mini. I got quite used to the silence.

Anyhow, i hope i'll be able to fend off neoelectronaut for some more days. In any case i will start putting some high value WU's aside for when it gets close with Canadaram. No mate, i won't go that easy.
And of course i need to get over Dreadnought. It will happen sooner than you think. haha muha muhahA mUHAHAHAHAAA

;)
 
I'm also about the overtake a lot of people within the next 20 days...should help when I get my MacBook Pro and bring that online!

I'm also thinking about buying an old PowerMac G4 dual processor if I can find one at a good price...not sure though, I don't really have the space on my desk for my iMac G5, a MacBook Pro and a PowerMac G4 (well, it wouldn't be on the desk, obviiously, but I need another display).
 
redeye be said:
And of course i need to get over Dreadnought. It will happen sooner than you think. haha muha muhahA mUHAHAHAHAAA
;)
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Did I mention that I'm back and folding 24/7 yet again on my dual G5.... You don't have much of a chance with a mini... :D Although your daily output is about 300 points, 75 more then mine at this moment. We'll see what happens, but in any case: BRING IT ON!
 
A bit... Give my G5 a couple of minutes to cash in a 2107 = 404 points! Too bad that my P4 @work can't fold, because of the firewall installed, I just can't get around it to connect to the WU up- and download servers of Stanford.
**BRAINWAVE** last week we just installed a couple of bankprograms on my computer, one program only works with a modem... That should work! Prepare to see another rise in my output! :D
 
Dreadnought said:
**BRAINWAVE** last week we just installed a couple of bankprograms on my computer, one program only works with a modem... That should work! Prepare to see another rise in my output! :D
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You just ended your license to use the folding widget, i'm sorry.

not.
;-p
 
Dreadnought said:
Too bad that my P4 @work can't fold, because of the firewall installed, I just can't get around it to connect to the WU up- and download servers of Stanford.
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have you tried using a proxy? Its is this against policy?
 
Sorry, can't get the workmachine fetching and returning WU through a modem. My boss would found out that I would make extra costs (telephone bill) just for this. So, that's not gonna work.

Can't say that I have used a proxy. You could do that with the folding app couldn't you? Download a couple of WU's at a time and upload them when they are all finished. Is that what you mean?

Folding is using port 80 and according to our IT department port 80 is open. I also tried other ports which are open. I can however get the new simulation programs, but they have blocked the up- and downloading servers of Standford for getting a new WU and sending back a finished one. Already tried to type the ip address of these servers in a webbrowser and got the message that the access is denied. Unfortunately our IT department doesn't want to do anything about this, but I may use my computer for folding. Else I could install it on computers of colleagues as well.

So what I have done in the past couple of years is:
Fetch a new WU at home on my Mac using VPC. Send it to my work, process it there and send it back. Upload it at home on my Mac with VPC and get a new WU.
But it seems that Stanford doesn't give credit for these WU's. Too bad!
 
I mean using a true proxy server. Kinda of like a "middle man" so what happens is all your internet(or just what you want) goes through one of these "proxies" so from stanford it looks like it is coming from the proxy. But its not.
 
You need to get a proxy from this list: http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/sps.pl?bp=&pattern=&max=50&nskip=0&file=proxlog.csv
Or another list. You are going to want to only use the proxy for folding. As since its business sending all you web stuff through an unknown server.....Yes that would be bad. So when you set up the folding client you do the –config then you set up the proxy. Never done it before so I am not certain what it asks for. http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=14404&proxy
This is kind of what the config file should look like. But with another proxy from that list.
 
trainguy77 said:
You need to get a proxy. You are going to want to only use the proxy for folding.
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hey,

problem with this idea is that dreadnought mentioned 'it guys' and 'firewall' both of which to me sound like one internet connection at work that is being managed. a proxy would have the same trouble connecting as the current work machine due to the above 2 problems, unless the 'it guys' would put the proxy outside the firewall (DMZ, no chance in hell if they are smart). a really geaky idea would to be to create a vpn/ssh/tunnel to home if home has a 'always on connection' and if the right ports are open in the current firewall, which they should be since you mentioned finance, but the it guys will likely freak out if you ask. 'finanace' plus 'it guys' equals stress. trust me!

dreadnought, have you tried all the 'tracert' and 'ping' tricks on your machine at work, and if so, what were the results. how about http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/ (should show blank screen, no errors) or http://assign2.stanford.edu/ (should say ok in browser window). bottom line, do we know where you are being blocked? and no, i don't want your real ip address, thanks! also, if you use 'ie exploder', what are your current connection settings? (tools>internet options>connections tab>lan settings>any boxes checked?). we might be able to re-route you through an already open port (port 80) since they (work) already gave you the ok to fold. more is better, even if it take me longer to catch you....:rolleyes:
 
Thanks, this is offcourse all for the cause! I will check tomorrow if I can assign to the above mentioned addresses. But I think I already did that once and got an access denied on IE. And all the VPN things you mentioned, that could work, but our IT guys don't like Apple, and it's company policy that they install everything on your home computer, which you have to bring to work... It's time to find a new job, a company that is Apple minded!

4JNA said:
dreadnought, have you tried all the 'tracert' and 'ping' tricks on your machine at work, and if so, what were the results. how about http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/ (should show blank screen, no errors) or http://assign2.stanford.edu/ (should say ok in browser window). bottom line, do we know where you are being blocked? and no, i don't want your real ip address, thanks! also, if you use 'ie exploder', what are your current connection settings? (tools>internet options>connections tab>lan settings>any boxes checked?). we might be able to re-route you through an already open port (port 80) since they (work) already gave you the ok to fold. more is better, even if it take me longer to catch you....:rolleyes:
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I have tried the links at work, the first one got me a blank screen, the second one got me a white screen with "OK" in it. Also downloaded the GUI of folding and was messing around with proxy settings, but no luck. What's my next move??
 
Dreadnought said:
I have tried the links at work, the first one got me a blank screen, the second one got me a white screen with "OK" in it. Also downloaded the GUI of folding and was messing around with proxy settings, but no luck. What's my next move??
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two thoughts; i started another thread called 'Setup and Connection issues' as that seemed a better place to work out the bugs in your connection. now we just need the mods on high to move the few proxy posts (just speak into the air) and we will be all set.

second, is that your results with the assignment servers give me a lot of hope. we just need to find out where you are blocked. i will continue in the other thread for now.

MODS - please move the few previous posts related to 'proxy' to the setup and connection thread if you would. please. thanks. :)
 
Woo hoo! My MacBook Pro finally finished it's first 2 work units. They must have been hefty suckers, because it would have been working on them for two weeks this Sunday, April 2nd. Of course, it doesn't fold 24/7 like my iMac G5.

I moved up a totaly of 7 spaces this week, because my iMac finished 3 work units and 2 more for my MBP. I'm on a roll!
 
Status Stuck on Stopped

Hey, Kids,

My work just got me a MBP, which I've added to my little team. I have a quick question. I use InCrease on all my machines, and the MBP seems to have an issue that none of the others have.

I told it I have two processors, so it's folding two proteins. However, the "Status" listed for both is "Stopped." It's still folding, and the buttons at the top indicate that it's folding ("Stop" is available, and "Start" isn't). And yet they both continually show a status of "Stopped." It's just a little scary. Any other MBP'ers using InCrease having that issue?
 
Yeah, my Mini does the exact same thing. I just run it with Increase turned off, and occassionally open the program to check the status. It'll always say "stopped", but it moves forward and finishes units. The only problem I've had is that folding is incredibly slow on the Mini, but I'm pretty sure that's due to it not being Universal yet.

Anyways, don't worry about the "stopped" thing, it's still folding!

jsalzer said:
Hey, Kids,

My work just got me a MBP, which I've added to my little team. I have a quick question. I use InCrease on all my machines, and the MBP seems to have an issue that none of the others have.

I told it I have two processors, so it's folding two proteins. However, the "Status" listed for both is "Stopped." It's still folding, and the buttons at the top indicate that it's folding ("Stop" is available, and "Start" isn't). And yet they both continually show a status of "Stopped." It's just a little scary. Any other MBP'ers using InCrease having that issue?
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Actually, I've meant to ask, has anyone found a client that works natively on Intel Macs yet? It's sad that my Powerbook (667Mhz) can outpace my Intel Mac Mini at folding.
 
livingfortoday said:
Actually, I've meant to ask, has anyone found a client that works natively on Intel Macs yet? It's sad that my Powerbook (667Mhz) can outpace my Intel Mac Mini at folding.
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I'm not sure if this is an issue with it being able to run natively or not. It could just be a difference on what types of Work Units are being processed on your two different Macs. If it is a large WU that is downloaded to the Mac Mini, then it is going to take longer than a non-heavy duty WU on your PowerBook.

On the other hand, it could very well speed up once Stanford releases a Universal client. They have not as of yet, however, at least not that I know of. Just my two cents.
 
It's not the client, such as increase, that needs to go universal. It's the cores that we're waiting for. The client will run under rosetta with minimal overheads.

Here's the thread on the folding forums relating to this:

Folding on Intel
 
cal6n said:
It's not the client, such as increase, that needs to go universal. It's the cores that we're waiting for. The client will run under rosetta with minimal overheads.

Here's the thread on the folding forums relating to this:

Folding on Intel
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Thanks, that's what I needed to know. It seems there won't be anything ready for a while, which is kind of a downer. oh well, I guess my PC will just have to pick up the slack for my Mini!
 
after a very sucky month away from home, i was happy upon my return to log in and find out that i had gone over 100,000.

next stop dreadnought, then onward... :rolleyes:
 
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