Folding at Home question

[Hard Ball]

I'm new to this FAH business. I have heard rumours about Folding not optimally supported on AMD chips, because Intel Fortran compilers and libraries are being used exclusively, and the Intel code is written to run explicitly slower on AMD chips.

First, are all these things true? And if it is, is there much of a point for me to let the computational resources on my machine to be used inefficiently while other things might be more worthwhile?

 

[Markfw]

Note my stats. I am #3 for TeamAnandtech, and I run all AMD (except one 820d that is a pig).

They are fine.

 

[Hard Ball]

Oh, there is a team Anandtech?

How would I go about joining that?

Another question: I seem to be running two instances of Fahcore_7a.exe on Fedora, both with the same Project #, run #, Clone and Gen. Are these actually identical processes, should I just shut one down because the way tasks are distributed is that you can only run one at a time, and additional instances will just be the same process, thus wasted?

 

[aLeoN]

When you logon for the first time put in team number 198 and you're in! 🙂

 

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: aLeoN
When you logon for the first time put in team number 198 and you're in! 🙂

What if I already signed up for a different number, should I try to re-download and re-initialize everything, or is there a configuration file that I can modify or something?

 

[rise]

if your running the graphical client, right click on the system tray icon and select configure. on the first tab you can enter your username and team #, which is 198 for AT.

if you use the cli then you need to use the -config flag and enter the same info.

check out rosetta as well (in my sig). i used to run all folding but i prefer rosetta now. alot less disparity in the points and i can run it while gaming (2 instances on my x2s)

check out the distributed computing forum for all kinds of support.

 

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: rise4310
if your running the graphical client, right click on the system tray icon and select configure. on the first tab you can enter your username and team #, which is 198 for AT.

if you use the cli then you need to use the -config flag and enter the same info.

check out rosetta as well (in my sig). i used to run all folding but i prefer rosetta now. alot less disparity in the points and i can run it while gaming (2 instances on my x2s)

check out the distributed computing forum for all kinds of support.

thanks, I think it worked