Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

fatdragon said:
i just started folding yesterday and i think this is a stupid question but why cant u use nvidia cards to fold because i heard u can only use ati cards
oh yea the only bad thing about folding is that my computer fans go full loud but i sure its worth it
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From Wikipedia:

"Graphical processing units

Current research is aimed at accelerating computational power by utilizing a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) in addition to the Central processing unit (CPU). News about the progress of porting Folding@Home onto GPUs can be found in the "High performance client FAQ" section of the Folding@Home FAQ pages.[8] Recent test data indicate performance gains of up to 40x that of an Intel Pentium 4 CPU are possible. (Note: this performance varies with different GPUs). Stanford has recently cited further advances with the high performance client and released a public, beta trial at the end of September 2006. However, this trial is specific to ATI Technologies' GPUs due to the performance characteristics of the processors for this application.[9]

As of October 2, 2006, the Folding@home GPU client has been released into a public beta test. After 9 days of processing from the Beta client the Folding@home project had received 31 teraFLOPS of computational performance from just 450 X1900 GPUs, averaging at over 70x the performance of current CPU submissions.[1]"



Pretty much, the technology in the ATI cards are just more advanced, and so when the developers of F@H choose which to release the beta GPU client, they chose ATi and their infrastructure for the first "batch" of GPU beta testing.
 
fatdragon:
In addition to the 7xxx series of Nvidia's graphics cards not being nearly as good for folding as the X19xx series, Nvidia hasn't cooperated with Folding@Home in making their drivers Folding@Home friendly. Until that happens, Nvidia isn't going to be going anywhere.

to everyone else:
Hopefully it should be more than 600PPD after I overclock it some :).
 
Heh

Good one Jet. It will help us loads. We need to pick up our folding efforts and make sure that we do not get worse.

That's a call for ALL to join or start folding again. Help us be better!

JAN :D
 
Have you considered folding with your X1900XTX? It would get a significant amount more points than your Conroe; probably around 700+PPD depending on how much you have it overclocked.
 
Anyone tried this with Vista? I'm thinking about coming back onto the scene, and starting from where I took off last time...
 
Yes, you can use Vista. I look forward to seeing you move up the charts! Remember, as well, that the X1800 series can fold as well. I'm not exactly sure about how well it will fold, but it might be worth a try. Your E6300 probably is just about as good. I guess the only way is to find out.

Note: Folding with a 256MB graphics card will cause the screen to freeze up every few seconds (exceptions are the X1950Pro and the X1650XT). I'm not sure if the X18 series is affected or not.
 
heheh i try to make my friends to help fold but since i said it might blow up there computer due to that its summer here in australia and our computer reach up to 50c it just about 3 mins
 
Rambo said:
Anyone tried this with Vista? I'm thinking about coming back onto the scene, and starting from where I took off last time...
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Yes, I use Vista RC3 to fold as well. Works without any issues. I look forward to seeing you on the team again. I have a good feeling it's picking up again.

JAN :D
 
alancabler said:
This thread's intention is for members to post ideas to stop WU dumping.
There have been at least 2 threads discussing aspects of WU dumping by points cheaters.
http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic17600.html
http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic17450.html

The Gamer's habit of dumping WUs has been denounced by many forum members and the director of the project himself, yet the problems caused by cheaters persist.
There are currently over 1,333,000 p212X WUs which are waiting for return, the majority of which have been "dumped" by cheaters.

Since Dumpers are a shady bunch and practice their Cheating out of view of others, like thieves in the night, shining a light on them via a little peer pressure might be in order. Most cheaters want recognition and are members of a team. In many cases, that team will have it's own forum, with a forum owner, a leader, and an active dialogue between members.
Teams may also be sponsored by/for some business or other organizational entity, and will/should have a very strong motivation to maintain their reputation for honesty and integrity.

Here's one idea:
Team forum members could start anti-dumping threads in their forums, thus getting the word out to team members who may be unaware of the damage that they are doing to the FAH project.
There are probably some team members who are also unaware that the practice even exists who would be angered to learn that their teammates are cheating them, as well.
After a period of "educational" time, stiffer measures could be taken by forum members to stop the practice within their ranks. Such measures could include cease-and-desist emails to guilty members, followed by public exposure within the team's forum if cheating persists.

Cheaters leave tracks. An examination of certain stats pages will reveal that some team members have only crunched Bonus WUs and few or zilch p212X WUs (for example) in a very long time. There may be an explanation for such statistical anomalies, but who knows what that might be.

The stronger measures might be difficult for some teams to institute without hand-wringing, as there may be some "beloved" team members caught up in the cheating, but such measures must ultimately be taken in order to maintain the health and reputation of the team as well as the Folding@Home project.
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Just wanted to tell you guys about this. I don't think that many people here drop WUs, but that made me not want to drop any :)
 
Hmm

I don't know why someone would want to do it. Maybe because some WUs are known to perform worse than others. However, that just defeats the entire purpose of the F@H Project.

JAN :D
 
urm i got a question how come when i put the cpu usage percent to zero the program runs faster but when i put to 100 it runs slower
 
fatdragon said:
urm i got a question how come when i put the cpu usage percent to zero the program runs faster but when i put to 100 it runs slower
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Hey,

I do not know why that is. Ideally, it should be set at 100% to work best. However, I do not understand how it could be going faster with 0% usage. Have you tested it yourself?

Should be set like this:

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JAN :D
 
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i have tested it because when i put it on 100 it takes 305 days but when i put it on zero it take 4 days and if i put it on the middle it take 6 days so is there something wrong with my cpu or is it the progam
 
hehe

fatdragon said:
i have tested it because when i put it on 100 it takes 305 days but when i put it on zero it take 4 days and if i put it on the middle it take 6 days so is there something wrong with my cpu or is it the progam
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Set it at 100% and give it some 2 hours to run. The times you mentioned are often horribly wrong at the start. However, the computer then predicts a very accurate estimation at a later stage. Therefore ignore the times, there is nothing wrong with your CPU :P

JAN :D
 
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