Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

[jaimeaol]

hmmmmm ..........

My school has over 100 new G5's .... I have a little idea. Stay tuned :P

[villagirly]

Current projects

You obviously haven't had a DGROMACS or a QMD yet either.

[bluescluesluver]

ok i came back from school early....toaday turn over day...so u could skip classes so i came early...

ok ill expain gromacs

There are 2 cores (FAHCore_78.exe and FAHCore_65.exe) you can check which core you are running by pushing CTRL+ALT+DELETE...

CORE_78 is gromacs the new fast one...
CORE_65 is the slow one

most of you probably have core_65 so u want it to be core_78

Method:
Either make a shorcut or use the startup shortcut (which is already there) from "winFAH.exe" which is probably in your "folding@home directory" (in program files)

now go to your shortcut and RIGHT CLICK>PROPERTIES then change this:
add -advmethods -forceasm at the end of the target after the (")
just copy and paste this.... "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceasm (if ur using the default directory..)

PIC:

it should look something like tht

then click ok and when the WU ur working on right now is done the "winfah.exe" will AUTOMATICALLY download the new core_78 and you will be folding gromacs in ur next project
u can check ur LOG file to see if it is using the gromacs are not at the beginng of a project..
but sometimes you dont always get gromacs....so then u will get the use the old core...

remember the old core projects are usually out of 400..

but you will see a big difference in the folding speed with the gromacs for sure

i hope this explains it well....
if u still have questions feel free to ask...

[hello.there]

i jus noticied tht my sig is gone!

[Stick up for ur mates]

9 nigel123 10054.3

I have (finally) reached 10,000!

[rivera573344]

Originally posted by nigel123@6 February 2004 - 16:27
Error403, it's time to get folding again...

and about everyone else in about the bottom 10/15ish

[fishbulb]

try updaating your graphics driver,

has it always done this? or just recently?

[Malibu 310]

Sweet using the -forceSSE switch speed up my folding quite a bit.

[JohnnysAngel]

ive got an athlon 2500 barton 512mb @169fsb, running nearly 24/7, sometimes used for gaming.

athlon 1500-mobile 320mb, running 24/7 not used, just surfing net.

and my g/f's celeron 2ghz 240mb, running nearly 24/7 at the mo, but its usaully just on when getting used.

ive got an old amd k6-2 500, 256mb that i gave to my gran and grandad i could put it on too,

and my g/f old via 533, but it doesnt have net access. her bro uses it now.

[Serena <3]

do the dgromacs, ambers and qmd,s use different cores, just checked my install directory and i only have cores 65 and 78