Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

[frank C]

1. there shoudlnt be any risks with running it. just keep an eye on your temps after a couple of minutes

2. if you remove it, it wont remove everything, it will leave the work unit you are working on and previous settings etc. but can easily be removed by deleting the install folder.

3. not to sure, i think its just stanford/

4. i think its pretty worthwhile.

5. i think the pics are just random, although some of them do actually look like that

[HRit]

Thanks Nigel.

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[friendly older kid]

This thread needs to be revived.

20,000 points!

[Kevo D]

What is gromacs?

Gromacs is the new folding core (FAHcore_78.exe) GROMACS provides extremely high performance compared to all other programs. For some calculations, gromacs affords benefits over the current code in FAH (the current code is based on Jay Ponder's Tinker), especially a great speed increase (perhaps up to 10x-20x). This will substantially increase the power of FAH for many calculations.

some ppl say that it actually gives you more points as well...so its a WIn WIN! situation

Streaming SIMD(Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions

Processors & applications that do not use SSE process one data element in one instruction, a processing style called Single Instruction Single Data, or SISD. In contrast, processors having the SIMD capability have the ability to process more than one data element in one instruction. In other words the processor can work harder with the same two hands (if you get the metaphor). Using SSE requires support from the application, the operating system & the CPU.

Processors that have SSE are as follows..

Athlon XP
Duron 1 GHz & above (morgan core)
Pentium 4
Pentium 3
Celeron 566 mhz & above (coppermine & tualatin cores)

Processors that do not have SSE are as follows..

Duron 950 & below (spitfire core)
Athlon (K7, K75, & Thunderbird cores)
K6-3
K6-2
Celeron 533 MHz & below
Pentium 2
Pentium
All Via/Cyrix CPU's

Anything released before the processors listed of course does not have SSE.

Any version of Windows after '98 supports SSE (95' may just not sure). Any newer Linux distro should have support as well.

The Gromacs core also uses AMD

[eurobeatlover]

Are you sure? :cool2:

[Kenny Milkensen]

Installed and running now.
Good idea moving it to the lounge, I'm sure a load more peeps will see this now.

[Monty S]

Thanks for the reply. Already on NTFS (all drives), system is not generally instable, crashes are very infrequent.

[An Asteroid]

the points are credited when you return the WU to the server. but it my not show up on the stats for a wee bit. to give it time to update.
it probably will run faster, but maybe not alot, since it safe mode will be using less resources. but prob isnt worth it, since u gotta restart to use it/

[Rose Black]

Is it a Pentium 4 with HT tech? HT means it will only show it using 50% but its not really.

[kleefdm]

[quote]Originally posted by 4th gen@19 March 2004 - 07:56
[b]Just got my first 2500 part WU. My other 4 up until now have been 500 parts, so this one is gonna take a long, long time...

Just out of interest, how long (on average) does it take you chaps to complete a 500 part WU, and what CPU have you got?