TPU's F@H Team

[PVTCaboose1337]

You have to do a whole work unit, and then it takes about 1 to 2 hours to update the system.

Work units finish faster with the console vs. visual. I'd recommend that everyone get the console instead. It runs as a background task if you choose to.

I'm going to put the stats link in the first post.

Stats update for now:

W2hCYK: Points: 724, Work Units: 4
Solaris: Points: 1, Work Units: 1

Solaris, why 1 pt for 1 WU? lol..

How do I get it to run in a background task? I have the console now...

 

[W2hCYK]

when you first start, you can set options, when you get to the point of asking for "Advanced Options" type in yes

then it will ask to run as a system task at boot up.

if that doesnt work(doesnt on my laptop) then google for "Setting programs for startup" in google.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

No, not that, but... I want it to be by my clock, you know, in the icon tray down on the start bar...

 

[W2hCYK]

idk how to do that. I dont think you can do it with console. i think its just with visual..

 

[FLY3R]

idk how to do that. I dont think you can do it with console. i think its just with visual..

Yes only with visual.

Its great to see every one jumping on this, its for a great casue, KEEP UP the folding, nice work every one!!

 

[Polaris573]

I tried the linux console. Every time I started the program it downloaded a new WU. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'll have to play with it some more.

 

[Alec§taar]

Fellas: Semi-Important Question (others may like answer to it also)

See subject line: I asked this last page, but got no reply (but, I wrote it in on an "edit" so, it could easily have been overlooked during the page-to-page transition with others posting)...

Guys, is there an OPTIMIZED CLIENT for this project, as there is for SETI@Home?

Meaning, others that took its BASE sourcecode, & ran it thru better optimizing compilers, & for certain CPU's &/or instruction sets, via better compilers (especially for floating point/fpops oriented data, which this like SETI, probably is as well mostly, rather than integer oriented data types) &/or tweaks to the code line inlined asm code use, or other "tricks" (e.g. instead of div commands, iirc, shr2 does it faster for example).

AND, since many of you are performance fiends here?

Well, it may be something for us ALL to know - this type of work done by 3rd parties to the stock codebase (via compilers AND hand-tuning) made HUGE diff.'s in seti processing times for me, for example, so... I am interested in this point.



* This 'dovetails' into the points about the character/console/tty mode client being FASTER than the pure graphical gui client options... it's true in SETI@Home as well, bigtime (less overheads).

TIA for the info. on this guys!

APK

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

WOW! The console is MUCH faster than the graphical...

 

[Alec§taar]

WOW! The console is MUCH faster than the graphical...

Want to try an experiment?

If you have a DualCore CPU (especially this type, vs. H/T stuff), try to set the calculating process' to HIGH (or possibly REALTIME, because this doesn't lockup dualcore/SMP, or H-T rigs as it would a single CPU rig) first, & see if it "ups" its processing speed (improves it).

Also - If this project does more than 1 unit @ a time, & I believe it can via the -local switch, & running diff. instances of it out of diff. folders on disk?

Setting processor affinities MAY help as well... because you can additionally set it to a certain CPU core, AND up its timeslice/priority allotment as well!

APK

P.S.=> I do that very set of things on SETI@Home, which usually runs while I am away from home (work mostly) or sleeping etc.!

That is with EVERYTHING else possible, 'cranked off', including the explorer.exe shell itself, all services possible (etc. just enough to keep me online) as well, & other backgrounded apps... that's so the calculating/workhorse portion gets as much CPU as possible!

Theory sometimes, really works, depending on HOW the app itself is coded (not much timeslicing/multitasking calls which sometimes is considered bad practice & I agree @ times), & how much the process can actually 'suck up' CPU cycles-wise! apk

 

[Solaris17]

You have to do a whole work unit, and then it takes about 1 to 2 hours to update the system.

Work units finish faster with the console vs. visual. I'd recommend that everyone get the console instead. It runs as a background task if you choose to.

I'm going to put the stats link in the first post.

Stats update for now:

W2hCYK: Points: 724, Work Units: 4
Solaris: Points: 1, Work Units: 1

Solaris, why 1 pt for 1 WU? lol..

because i didnt crunch over night my parents are in the room next to mine and the wall was built its like 1/4 of an inch thik and my comp it load as shit and wakes them up. o ya and they see the light from my fan my uncle has been wicked pissed to because he works out in the rain not a good time to do it at night. i will be thuogh i feel really strong about this shit i need another 10ft ethernet cable and my server (466mhz beast) will be crunching all night Solaris17 for a total of 2 cpu's.

 

[gygabite]

Wow, those protein molecules look awesome!

 

[Thermopylae_480]

Seems like CPU life will be significantly reduced since it will be running at 100% all day long.

 

[Polaris573]

Seems like CPU life will be significantly reduced since it will be running at 100% all day long.

Only if you have heat problems. There is only a five degree differnence between my CPU at idle and under load so I'm not too concerned.

May I suggest that this Thread be made into a sticky so new forum members will know about the team?

 

[W2hCYK]

Can i get a cool little name under my username for F@H guy? hahaha.. jk.

Not like it matters, we'll all have new cpu's in 2 years, lol

 

[FLY3R]

Can i get a cool little name under my username for F@H guy? hahaha.. jk.

I actualy dont think thats a bad idea, It would be nice to have an icon under your name if your a frequent folder, kinda like a friendly compation for rank. Just to show other people and new mebers might get inspiered to start folding.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Stickied. If anyone has a spare socket A cpu I will throw it in a rig and fold with it 24/7

 

[i_am_mustang_man]

wow, i looked away from this thread for 3 days tops, and whoa!! this is awesome! i'm getting my gf's comp running it 24/7 and my laptop too, both 2.8 p4 so that'll be chill. F@H!!!

 

[W2hCYK]

solaris, whats going on with your work units? 14 points for 4 units? lol...

Set your settings to what I said in the first post, it will let you accept bigger WU's, worth more points.

 

[FLY3R]

Just added another 3.2 gHz cpu Rig and 2.8gHz cpu Rig, folding 24/7.

 

[W2hCYK]

w00t for you!!! how long do you think till we break 1k WU's? lol..

 

[FLY3R]

w00t for you!!! how long do you think till we break 1k WU's? lol..

It will be a long time, but if we get 100+ people Folding for a great casue, then we could reach that pretty fast. I think we should make a section on the forums dedicated to this.

 

[W2hCYK]

Yea that would be really neat, we could have everyone post the specs of their system in threads, or have a main thread with a super huge poll with system specs to see what we all have.

Fold on! ;-)

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

That would be great! My comp is running the prog on and off... I will make 1 WU at 2AM tomoro!

 

[W2hCYK]

I added another celeron 2.4GHz and my friends Opteron 165 Denmark @ 3GHz, w00t

**scratch the denmark, he thinks F@H is stupid, and he says he wants to use his computer for rendering videos at night, not folding, but I told him that rendering uses one core, not both, but he doesnt care so yea... lol..

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

You are crazy, how many comps do you have going?! At least this is helping humanity...