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 Ythan
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 Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Troika_Trollope]
#6953618 - 05/22/07 08:11 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Definitely! The Folding@home project can take advantage of multiple PCs, you'll get (roughly) 4 times as many points by running it on 4 different computers. Just make sure to enter your same username and our team number each time you install it so your work is properly credited. Thanks for signing up!
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Troika_Trollope
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#6953637 - 05/22/07 08:14 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Ythan said:
Definitely! The Folding@home project can take advantage of multiple PCs, you'll get (roughly) 4 times as many points by running it on 4 different computers. Just make sure to enter your same username and our team number each time you install it so your work is properly credited. Thanks for signing up!
Not a problem and thanks for the quick reply. I'll start hooking up all my computers.
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Troika_Trollope]
#6953653 - 05/22/07 08:16 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Also, is there a way to give the program more space to run, so it's more efficient. All of my CPU's are running on 240+ Gigs with NVIDIA GFORCE, and AMD Turion64 x2 processors. I'd be willing to give it 2 gigs each.
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TurntableJunky
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7068564 - 06/20/07 03:12 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Will this use up my bandwidth?
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: TurntableJunky]
#7070636 - 06/20/07 04:31 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Come on guys, most of these Q's have been answered in the first post.
Bandwidth: The chunks of data you get are about 1mb~, unless you set special flags for larger work units. Depending on the speed of your PC and the WU, it might take anywhere from a day to a few days to complete work on that unit, and send back the results (a very tiny file). So you're looking at like 2MB transfered once in a while (days?)
In other words, you wont even notice it, even if you tried.
Troika: The above answer pretty much answers you too. The file sizes are typicaly pretty tiny, and its not the space that matters, its the speed of your CPU, and the proper configuration for it. (Your turionx2's might need a special setup from the regular client. These have been made user friendly since dual cores are more common now.)
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7257109 - 08/03/07 08:59 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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i added it and it says that its going to take until Mon 5, Jan 09 to finish its first work load ...i mean this computer is only a year old...can it really take that long?
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7261652 - 08/05/07 09:10 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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1 LouisSkolnick 2,966 74,319
2 Sir_Ian 2,521 162,909
3 Dem_Bones 1,876 168,663
4 vav 1,223 300,465
5 blinkidiot 872 904,278
6 jdirty 730 35,133
7 tak 716 865,604
8 Scissor 656 34,625
9 goobler 634 593,578
10 myke 615 28,885
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: LouisSkolnick]
#7406683 - 09/13/07 10:05 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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curious...
average workunits a day?
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: _S1]
#7411140 - 09/14/07 09:57 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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nevermind.....stupid question huh?
my ps3 will average 2.5 WU a day while my PC takes just under a month for 1 WU
WOW
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7413780 - 09/15/07 04:23 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Question for ya. Do you know any way to limit the size of the information being sent back to them? My university has a bullshit bandwidth quota which limits me to uploading 512MB per 7 days. Yes, it's bullshit.
Anyway... I've almost had my connection turned off because I set up 2 console versions to take advantage of my dual core 3.57GHz processor. Any clue on how I'd limit the size of the work units via the console?
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Ythan
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Gumby]
#7413985 - 09/15/07 05:35 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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You don't transfer much data, the work units are small and the results are even smaller. It depends on the particular work you're doing but I doubt you'd ever upload more than 5MB a week even with two instances running. However to answer your question I don't think FAH has any soft of built-in support for an upload quota.
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7414027 - 09/15/07 05:51 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Well, I just turned both processes back on... We'll see if there's any correlation between F@H and my bandwidth by tomorrow. As of right now, my machine has sent out 33MB worth of data... If there's a huge spike in outbound data... I'll know that F@H is the culprit. In the past this has been the case.
You think something could be set up wrong?
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Gumby]
#7416656 - 09/16/07 01:37 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Yep... It's F@H causing the spike in bandwidth usage. Take a look:
See the stair step pattern in upload traffic? That'd be F@H. Balls. Guess I'll have to at least turn off one process. meh 
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Gumby]
#7416667 - 09/16/07 01:42 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I've got one quad core opteron and three pentium 4s crunching on idle time for the shroomery team
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: lykos]
#7428430 - 09/19/07 02:22 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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ok I just installed it and all it is, is a helix ball rotating around. Is that what it is suppose to be? It says it should be done in like 20 minutes or so. What happens when i shut down my computer right now and then turn it back on in like 5 hours? Will it pick up from where it left off or just start a new process?
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Ythan
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: MFKDGAF]
#7428445 - 09/19/07 02:25 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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It sounds like it's working just like it's supposed to.  It saves its work periodically, so when you shut down and restart your computer it should pick up where it left off. Thanks for joining up!
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7450459 - 09/25/07 03:25 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Yea, hurray, lykos, MFKDGAF. Thanks for folding for the shroomery!
lykos, are you running the Windows or Linux SMP client on your quad? It's good science and good points both. Give it a try if you're running four uniprocessor clients now. If you like it you can copy the unfinished work off to the P4's and run SMP on your Quad.
more pointses for shroomses more pointses more mycelia
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: Ythan]
#7476256 - 10/02/07 02:43 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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right now i feel like this is the best way(other than cash) i can give back to the shroomery! so i joined!
so after the first work unit is done with i will get on the online stats?
Edited by pong (10/02/07 02:51 AM)
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: pong]
#7476775 - 10/02/07 09:29 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I downloaded the FAH too for my P4 dual core pr
ocessor to run . but I hope it doesnt cut into my bandwith that much ..
also how long before a helix shows on my sig? I got one finished Work Units and the shroomery team member ID entered..
thanks
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Re: Join the Shroomery Folding@home Team! [Re: orchidfanatic]
#7476793 - 10/02/07 09:35 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I checked user statistics and it doesnt show any WU completed .. wonder why? my console says I have 1 finished.. ?
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