F@H: Folding@Home Getting Started Links

[MDE]

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[Overkiller]

Thanks for the great info!

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[dnuggett]

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[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: jliechty
*boink*

Speaking of boink, have any of you Folders heard anything about F@H being added to the BOINC client in the future? I've heard thru reading up on the start of BOINC/SETI2/AstroPulse that there is an interest of F@H joining, amoung other projects. Any news about this? Would be nice as it would have the capability to cache work

 

[RustyNale]

Problem is, the FaH wu's you get sent are based on the ones you finish and turn in. DC projects like Seti aren't dependant on the previous wu, they're just crunching data so you can cache wu's for times when the server is unavailable.

 

[Overkiller]

UP ya go

[edit] Reading up on this project. When using firedaemon service install. Would u set 2 processors as CPU0 and CPU1 and then work would be delegated to a Hyperthreaded machine?

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: RustyNale
Problem is, the FaH wu's you get sent are based on the ones you finish and turn in. DC projects like Seti aren't dependant on the previous wu, they're just crunching data so you can cache wu's for times when the server is unavailable.

Thanks for the info. It'll be interesting to see how they go about it, if it's added in the future.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Overkiller
UP ya go

[edit] Reading up on this project. When using firedaemon service install. Would u set 2 processors as CPU0 and CPU1 and then work would be delegated to a Hyperthreaded machine?

That should work, but someone who has actually used F@H twice with a service install on an HT machine should really confirm or deny this.

 

[Overkiller]

Yeah,

I guess the best method is to give it a go :Q & hope apocolyspe doesn't occur!

 

[Overkiller]

Jliechty,

I don't believe this guide is located in your first post. I believe it should be included because it has a WEALTH of information with pictures and 3 tiers of custimization (easy to advanced).

The Hyperthreading topic is there as well. here's the Link:
(of course mention that the TEAM ID needs to be Anandtech's )

http://www.maximumpc.com/features/feature_2003-06-10.html

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Overkiller
Jliechty,

I don't believe this guide is located in your first post. I believe it should be included because it has a WEALTH of information with pictures and 3 tiers of custimization (easy to advanced).

The Hyperthreading topic is there as well. here's the Link:
(of course mention that the TEAM ID needs to be Anandtech's )

http://www.maximumpc.com/features/feature_2003-06-10.html

^^ Originally posted by me here.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

OT:

Just wanted to thank all u F@H ppl for your patience with us SETI freaks!! But once SETI is over, I for my part will definitly give F@H a try. Actually i was about to do so when the "call to arms" reached me to battle BBR. And I think this is true for lots of other crunchers currently helping the SETI part of the TeAm.

So, thx again :beer::beer:

 

[RustyNale]

Morning bump

 

[bgeh]

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[ComputerMonkey]

Bump for me joining you guys

I won't be able to contribute a ton seeing as I only have one machine and I use it all the time. I'm going to try running it while I'm at work during the day and see how that goes. I might also install it at work and let it crunch every night (no I won't get in trouble for it ).

Anyways I'm glad to be a part of Team Anandtech and look for my first WU in a few days :beer::beer:

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: ComputerMonkey
Bump for me joining you guys

I won't be able to contribute a ton seeing as I only have one machine and I use it all the time. I'm going to try running it while I'm at work during the day and see how that goes. I might also install it at work and let it crunch every night (no I won't get in trouble for it ).

Anyways I'm glad to be a part of Team Anandtech and look for my first WU in a few days :beer::beer:

Glad to have you on the TeAm, ComputerMonkey.

Just make sure you have written permission from the right people to install it at work. Only a verbal "ok" may cost you $100,000's of dollars and hundreds of years in prison (at least if you live in Georgia).

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Hi!

After crunching SETi for a long time I have changed one of my machines to F@H! :beer: It's a PIII 600 only but hey, better than no machine at all

Hence I got a question: Is there any difference between the graphical and the command line client concerning performance (when the graphics are closed on the gfx client)?? I read all the above links and F@H starting and so on, but couldn't find anything about that.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Hi!

After crunching SETi for a long time I have changed one of my machines to F@H! :beer: It's a PIII 600 only but hey, better than no machine at all

Hence I got a question: Is there any difference between the graphical and the command line client concerning performance (when the graphics are closed on the gfx client)?? I read all the above links and F@H starting and so on, but couldn't find anything about that.

There is a percentage point or two of difference, but it's nothing like the difference between the SETI GUI vs. CLI.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Originally posted by: jliechty

There is a percentage point or two of difference, but it's nothing like the difference between the SETI GUI vs. CLI.

Thx! Now TeAm F@H has a new member! :beer:

 

[SendTrash]

just joined and wanted to bump this since I had to find it using search

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: SendTrash
just joined and wanted to bump this since I had to find it using search

Glad to have you on the TeAm.

You'll get an official welcome in the stats thread once your machine completes its first work unit.

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[BlackMountainCow]

BUMP as well, 'cause finding this thread realy took some time and I hope if it is up it'll be seen by more ppl!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

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[InlineFive]

I did F@H for a while but SETI@Home is more interesting because it has to do with space.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I did F@H for a while but SETI@Home is more interesting because it has to do with space.

After you've been here a while, you'll learn not to speak in absolutes regarding such qualifications of distributed computing projects. SETI is more interesting for you for those reasons. Folding@Home is more interesting to me because I have relatives and friends afflicted with some of the diseases and conditions which may be alleviated or at least made more bearable by the research which the F@H project is performing.

Each to his/her own, and let's just realize that each person has his own tastes, and DC projects are kind of like music: most of them are good (save malicious or illegal stuff like that "neo project" that's now been reincarnated as something else IIRC), but each person prefers a different kind.