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Drenlin said:
I'm considering putting together a beowulf cluster for this...I have several old machines just sitting here doing nothing. What would be the best way to do it?
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If they're single-core, just set up the basic client on all the machines, make sure you enter the team number when you set them up :)
 
I'm a member at Overclock.net and we are going to be participating in the upcoming Chimp Challenge. I am in no way affiliated with them nor am I a moderator or any kind of capacity official.

This is a competition against the top teams in the world (EVGA, Russia, Austrailia, etc..)
Last year we won the challenge, but EVGA was emailing people who'd bought their cards and everything to beat us.

If anyone is interested in folding for team OCNChimpin there are prizes and everything, if this isn't allowed please edit/delete this post. I hope some of you will be willing to fold with us during the competition.

OCN is down atm so i'll link the sign up thread if this isn't deleted or i'm told this is against ToS

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Just in case anyone is remotely interested
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-...fficial-chimp-challenge-2010-signup-here.html
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* $2000 via paypal donated by admin. Distributed by 5 x $100, 30 x $50
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I rejoined on my laptop and will be joining on my office pc too! :D

EDIT: Now folding on both cores on my office PC. Ill add on my HTPC tomorrow.
 
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If I am folding on two different computers, do I need separate usernames or can I use the same one for both machines? Currently I have my dual core machine using two separate names (one for each core) but neither of them show up on the rankings and im positive it should have done more folding than my laptop. How do i check my progress from the none visual interface?
 
ukulele_ninja said:
If I am folding on two different computers, do I need separate usernames or can I use the same one for both machines? Currently I have my dual core machine using two separate names (one for each core) but neither of them show up on the rankings and im positive it should have done more folding than my laptop. How do i check my progress from the none visual interface?
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you should be able to use the same username, it will just add more ppd and wu's to your name
 
I got a 9800GT in my old rig, so I',m folding with the nVidia client and racking up WU's again! :D Been missing it since I sold my 9600GSO to Scout. I should try overclocking it a bit and see how the performance increases!
 
G25r8cer said:
^^ Sweet

Come back up to the Top 5 we miss you!
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I'm getting there! Currently at number 7!

EDIT: Moved up to number 6 and just installed the GPU client on my new machine. So now I have my 4870 folding as well! It's tearing along!
 
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I'm having an issue with one of the clients. I'm running Windows 7 x64 with the GPU client and it's stuck on "Results successfully sent". How can I get it folding again? :confused:
 
I was reading about your problem voyagerfan...I have had tons of issues with Folding in the past. You would think they would make a very simple, very easy to run program that is stable. They make it soo dificult with a hundred things that can be wrong. Stanford needs to realize they are hurting themselvs by not making a user friendly program.
 
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I was reading about your problem voyagerfan...I have had tons of issues with Folding in the past. You would think they would make a very simple, very easy to run program that is stable. They make it soo dificult with a hundred things that can be wrong. Stanford needs to realize they are hurting themselvs by not making a user friendly program.
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It was working fine up until it sent the data. As far as I know, it hasn't downloaded anything new. My nVidia client is folding perfectly fine on XP though.
 
I just bought my daughter a new Dell laptop, very nice laptop actually. She is almost 14 and cannot stand the thought of having a big desktop computer in her room anymore. I am taking her Dell XPS 400 and turn it into a Folding machine that can just sit there and fold 24/7. My GTX 260 is going in there.:D

Hey voyagerfan99...wanna buy a 9600 GSO? LOL:P
 
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