Which Team to Join?

[magratton]

Okay, I want to join a DC team. I used to do S@H but just me, no team, so I am familiar with the concept of it.

What I want to know is, which team would be better to join? F@H or S@H? As I said I already did Seti, so am familiar with it and it's objectives, but I could use a refresher. What is F@H trying to do?

I have a good computer for this, dual-proc and I leave it on at home most of the time so it is sitting idle anyways.

Michael.

 

[Freewolf]

Well you can do both
You can add your old seti account to the seti team.Helping us that way and setup a new folding account and start folding again helping the team.

 

[magratton]

Question, with HT enabled, can I do both on one proc or is that going to be too slow?

I do use this PC at night for couple of hours, and rare use during the day by the wife. Otherwise I would just set proc affinity for each to it's own proc and run it that way.

Michael.

 

[MDE]

You could run both, but some DC apps don't like coexisting with others, but I'm not sure about SETI and F@H together. Here's the F@H FAQ thread, should answer a lot of your questions about F@H.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

seti and f@h do play fairly well together, and as far as the HT bit I'm not sure but I think you can seperate the two (the logical subsystem in windows should do it for you afik, by simply running one instance of each program.)

 

[GLeeM]

Hi magratton
F@H does research on how proteins form.
The diseases they hope to find cures for include: Alzheimers, Parkinsons, ALS, Madcow, and others.

F@H is very friendly to the user. I have four instances running on this dual HT rig right now, 1GB ram in PC-DL with 2 x Xeon 1.6 @ 2.5. F@H runs as an idle process, so whenever I need cycles F@H gives them up quickly. (there is one game that the kids play that they notice it running) but I don't notice F@H running! HT gives me 11% to 31% more production on the P4 3.0C@3.3, haven't had a chance to check this new dually yet

I know that S@H Classic could really use your points, they are in a tight race with BBR til the end. Just by joining, the points you already have are added to TeAm AnandTech under your name.

Thanks

 

[Wiz]

Yes, it should not be a problem assigning processes to each "cpu".
When I ran one with two seti processes (an OC'd P4E) I was averaging almost one WU / hour.

 

[magratton]

Well, I joined both. S@H Team Anandtech got 58pts from me just then...

I setup my duallie with the following:
HT Enabled
loaded both F@H and S@H
Task Mgr-> Set Affinity on F@H to CPU1 and S@H to CPU3
They run constantly at 25%

I was able to play BFV-online, Doom3, etc with both of these running and barely any noticeable difference. So, run they shall unless a lightening storm hits us.

Michael.

 

[GLeeM]

Welcome to TA Michael

 

[lobadobadingdong]

check this out for your F@H configuration, you'll get some bonuses if your system has lots of memory.

 

[magratton]

Okay, did that.

 

[Wiz]

So is this a HT dually? 4 processes in you task manager?
If so you can run 4 instances of your fav DC projects. They will get out of the way when you need cpu time.
I use seti driver to run 2 instances on a 2 cpu machine, but you can also run each from it's own directory.
If you do this you will see almost double your output.

 

[magratton]

Yes, HT Dually Xeons.

Just slow ECC Ram and no ability to OC FSB. But lots of RAM. So I setup the big wu's as indicated above for F@H.

Yeah I noticed that no matter how hard I try to force them, neither F@H nor S@H will run at higher than 25%. Also, I noticed that even with both of these running spread across all cpu instances I was able to play Doom 3 with no interruption. Very nice.

I will look into running multiple instances of F@H and S@H and see if I can crank up the throughput.