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Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.09.27 14:37:00 - [1] For those who haven't heard, folding@home is a distributed computing project run on hundreds of thousands of PCs all over the world. Its goal is to simulate the process by which proteins assemble themselves, or 'fold'; various diseases can result when this goes wrong. People who contribute by running one of the clients on one of their PCs can do so anonymously (by default) or may assign themselves a username and team number. The EVE Online team, #75407, has been going for a couple of years now and is within the top 1% of teams worldwide. All contributions are welcome, and there are quite a lot of different clients available. The standard client is available here. One standard client can be run per processor core- just copy it into a separate folder for each instance you want to run. People with quad-core processors, or compatible graphics cards (Nvidia 8xxx series or newer, ATI 2xxx series or newer) also have the option of running one of the more advanced clients. These are generally more work to set up, consume more resources, and are more likely to go wrong, but they get much more science done and thus are awarded more points. There are some detailed guides for setting them up, linked on the download page, which I won't repeat here. If you encounter a problem, and all else fails, there's probably someone on the official folding@home forums who can help. This post might be helpful for people setting up the GPU client on an Nvidia GPU who want to assign it to a specific CPU core.
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.09.27 14:52:00 - [2] A few words about each of the clients Standard client: This is the most user-friendly and least resource-intensive one. It's set by default to the lowest possible CPU priority, so it only takes whatever is left over after all other programs have used what they need. The worst that can happen, and only when you've set it to accept the largest work units, is that it will use about 200MB of ram. GPU client: This is the next-easiest to set up. It's important that you have the most recent drivers for your graphics card installed before running it; this makes a significant difference both to the rate a card can work at and also to the responsiveness of your system while it's running. GPUs are not as good as CPUs at prioritising one task over another, so some games will run noticeably slower on some hardware while the client is running, even though it's supposed to back off. Playback of videos, web browsing and most other common tasks are not so significantly affected. If you run this client from the system tray, rather than in the background as a console client, you can pause it whenever necessary. SMP (quad core) client: This one is frankly a pain to set up, but it does a lot more work than four independent instances of the standard client. It can just about run on a fast dual core processor, but it's not usually worth the bother. You have been warned.
Jastra Gallente Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance	Posted - 2008.10.03 08:02:00 - [3] bumpage, we are not on the front page, we need moar power!!!!! This is a great project and the client, unlike SETI@Home has not caused any issues on my desktop
Daelorn	Posted - 2008.10.03 08:57:00 - [4] Edited by: Daelorn on 03/10/2008 09:46:24 Ok I set up the GPU client to run on my insanely awesome GTX 280, now I want to run the SMP client (Dual core @ 3.6ghz) I did get it all set up which seemed easy, but it seems to be only using 1 of my cores? Its too late (early, actually) to play with it now, I'll just leave it on and see what happens, but the GPU one is working perfectly.
B0rn2KiLL Black Nova Corp KenZoku	Posted - 2008.10.03 12:33:00 - [5] What are those blue dots trying to say? i count 5. Shiny o_o note: been running it for 6 days now.
Daelorn	Posted - 2008.10.03 12:55:00 - [6] Originally by: B0rn2KiLL What are those blue dots trying to say? i count 5. Shiny o_o note: been running it for 6 days now. They're trying to kill you.
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.10.03 21:32:00 - [7] The colours in the viewer are from the CPK scheme. As for the SMP client, I did warn you. Work through the steps in this guide, very carefully, and see how you get on. There are additional steps at the end of the guide if you want it to run automatically on startup. Bear in mind that you'll need to run it at least 8 hours a day on average, on a dual core processor, to meet the WU deadlines.
Slade Trillgon Masuat'aa Matari Ushra'Khan	Posted - 2008.10.03 22:58:00 - [8] Edited by: Slade Trillgon on 03/10/2008 22:58:46 I really think this is a good cause. Especially since I could potentially benefit from the research, more so then most others I know. My problem is that my laptop is 3 years old and already struggles running EVE. Just EVE running maxes out my CPU according to task manager. Last night I was on for about 3 hours and then all of a sudden my computer just shut down. I think it may have something to do with excessive heat build up. I am computer technology challenged So my worry is that my computer is on its last leg and that I it may not be able to handle having this running on it. Does this problem sound familiar for 3 y/o laptops? Slade
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.10.03 23:27:00 - [9] Yes. I don't bother running F@H on my 3 year old laptop.
Daelorn	Posted - 2008.10.05 05:11:00 - [10] Edited by: Daelorn on 05/10/2008 05:12:25 I got the SMP client to work, its not as hard as it seems to get to work just follow the steps, if anyone needs some help I can try. I just forgot to put the -smp flag on the shortcut, but working fine now. Plus a free bump because I think more people should be running this. Wonder how much folding TQ could do...
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.10.05 09:07:00 - [11] Heh, TQ is busy enough already, and since it's based on blades, it has no GPUs, only CPUs. So it wouldn't be too hard to overtake it with about a dozen or so graphics cards.
Mr Friendly The Lost and The Damned	Posted - 2008.10.05 09:21:00 - [12] I use F@Home during the winter so that, when I come home, my apartment is nice and warm. No joke. Oh, and I might cure cancer... mumbles
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.10.06 19:58:00 - [13] Mine's doing quite a good job, too - it vented enough hot air to make my room several degrees warmer than the one next door. My housemates had to ask me to turn the heating up for their benefit
Krxon Blade SandStorm.	Posted - 2008.10.06 20:22:00 - [14] I'm running this. (Croatia team ) At 1st I was in SETI but then switched focus to more common problems.
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.11.03 16:28:00 - [15] I thought I might as well link our stats page on one of the external sites that manages these things, since I didn't mention it earlier: http://kakaostats.com/tsum.php?t=75407
Jacob Mei	Posted - 2008.11.03 20:48:00 - [16] Has there been any actual results from the folding project? IE have they found anything that can help cure some deseases?
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2008.11.03 22:46:00 - [17] About 50 scientific papers so far. I couldn't comment on exactly how useful this is to anyone in particular - I am not a molecular biologist.
Sleepkevert Amarr Rionnag Alba Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2008.11.03 23:15:00 - [18] Originally by: Mr Friendly I use F@Home during the winter so that, when I come home, my apartment is nice and warm. No joke. Oh, and I might cure cancer... mumbles Wait, I thought I was the only one running a server to keep my room warm!
mamolian Cruoris Seraphim	Posted - 2008.11.04 00:30:00 - [19] Edited by: mamolian on 04/11/2008 00:31:25 Seriously.. Am I being paranoid about this kind of ****? What your more likely doing is cracking encrypted data for organisations like the NSA Although come to think of it.. with everyone using Windows.. they probably already have that distributed computing capability built in already .
ouroboros trading Gallente Medics On Fire	Posted - 2008.11.04 00:34:00 - [20] I run fighting aids @ home to warm my room up
Myrhial Arkenath Ghost Festival	Posted - 2008.11.04 08:40:00 - [21] Interesting. Going to see if the work pc wants to run the standard client and if I can get a more advanced client set up at home.
ReaperOfSly Gallente 3P1C F41L	Posted - 2008.11.13 15:29:00 - [22] A bit of bumpage for a worthy thread. I just started using the GPU client yesterday because I wanted to stress test my new graphics card. Is 800 iterations per second good?
Myrhial Arkenath Ghost Festival	Posted - 2008.11.13 15:59:00 - [23] Got the CPU client running at work, progressing very slowly though since it only really gets some work done during lunch break. GPU client at home is working nicely for the two days I have had it, at least one WU per evening. Only annoyance is that while it doesn't cause slowdown in games it does cause slowdown in games + fraps. Not sure why actually...guess it doesn't really release the GPU entirely. Suppose I will just have to learn to turn it off when playing EVE.
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles	Posted - 2009.01.15 16:45:00 - [24] Originally by: ReaperOfSly A bit of bumpage for a worthy thread. I just started using the GPU client yesterday because I wanted to stress test my new graphics card. Is 800 iterations per second good? If you want to compare whether your card is doing as well as it ought to doing, the usual measure is points per day. There are several 3rd-party programs that calculate this automatically, most notably fahmon, which is also a useful way of keeping track of the output of multiple clients. Originally by: ouroboros trading I run fighting aids @ home to warm my room up This works with f@h as well and is surprisingly effective, especially if you have a well-ventilated PC. I compensate for the increased electricity cost by turning down the heating slightly.
Wired Caldari Provisions	Posted - 2009.01.15 19:55:00 - [25] Dammit, if i knew there was an EVE F@H team i would've joined that one. Instead I've dedicated my home PC (and one of my works servers) to Custom PC, who are ranked 6th overall. And if anyone at work asks why i'm running F@H i just tell them it's because i need to emulate the performance of a server whilst under full load.

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