F@H: Folding@Home Getting Started Links

[ProviaFan]

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[ProviaFan]

Must prevent forum software... from to archive this thread... being tempted... hmm, YES!

 

[RustyNale]

Thanks for bumping this up for me, I need some of the info for the dually

 

[ProviaFan]

Bump this if you think I should update it.

 

[Insidious]

boink :Q

 

[Yai]

What should be my setup for 2.6C Hyber threading which I will get soon from Dell? How do I install F@H as a service in XP?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Yai
What should be my setup for 2.6C Hyber threading which I will get soon from Dell?

I don't think it helps a whole lot to install two clients instead of one on a hyperthreading machine, but I'm not certain about that and don't have any experience with it myself. However, I will research this topic some more and get back to you with whatever information I can find out (hopefully later tonight if I have time).

How do I install F@H as a service in XP?

Use this guide to install a single instance of Folding@Home as an NT service. If you need multiple instances (for a HT machine or for a SMP machine), you'll need the Professional version of FireDaemon (you will need to buy it or downl... uh, I guess I shouldn't advocate that here ) which allows the creation of more than one individual service.

 

[ProviaFan]

Yai, unfortunately it seems that whether the use of hyperthreading provides more performance or not is still being debated. Apparently, it works for some, but not that well for others. You may find a little discussion on that topic here, and a little caveat here. Hope this helps.

 

[Yai]

thanks J. I think it will be only one client on HT then.

 

[ProviaFan]

Another bump.

 

[kadajawi]

Yeah liechty, I think you should update

Yai: I think you might try running two different clients (e.g. Folding@Home and Distributed Folding) on your HT CPU... I don't know how much that helps, but if HT works as it should and the clients are different enough, both clients should output nearly 2.6 GHz worth of work.

 

[Yai]

at the moment I run only F@H. I'm not sure if run each client on HT enable will be as fast as only one client on 2.6GHz. It might be a little be faster 10-20% but not by much. Anyway I will test both way if I have a chance.

 

[kadajawi]

no, I mean different clients. HT works by using two different parts of the CPU at the same time, usually only one part (FPU e.g.) works, the rest is idling. So if the both tasks only require the the FPU, there is still only one FPU, and both tasks would have to share it. But if there are different areas needed, you get a boost.

 

[ICXRa]

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[ProviaFan]

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[ICXRa]

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[ICXRa]

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[kadajawi]

bump, bump, bump, bumpeluja... (or so)

 

[ICXRa]

Up you go!

 

[ICXRa]

 

[Insidious]

:beer:

 

[ProviaFan]

:wine:

 

[ICXRa]

TGIF - cheers!

 

[ICXRa]

TTT

 

[ICXRa]