I run a SMP client on my home PC (old Pentium D 2.8GHZ) and I almost never feel the need shut it down since the processes run at lowest priority.

I download crap, encode DVDs etc. When anything else requests cycles it gets it...folding clients take what it can get. Noen you could just run the SMP client at all times. When your rendering needs cycles it will get them.

For P39


Support Cancer Research and the NCSU Wolfpack With Your Computer's Spare Time!

If you're like most people you've got a computer that spends a lot of time idling on a blank screen or running a cool screensaver. Did you know it's possible to directly support Cancer, Alzheimer's, and Cystic Fibrosis research using your computer's idle time? The Stanford University Folding@home project provides a small piece of software which uses your computer?s spare processing power to run simulations and help researchers understand these diseases.

The NCSU Wolfpack Folding@home team has been ranked as high as 81st in the world but we were recently knocked out of the Top 100. While our team has had
much success in the past, if we don't get some new computers and PS3s running soon we'll keep moving farther down the ladder

Got a PS3? PS3s currently provide over 60% of the processing power in the Folding@home network! Each PS3 that joins the NCSU Folding Team provides huge boost and brings us closer to getting back in the Top 100! If you have one watch the video below to see how easy it is to setup the client and help the NCSU Wolfpack Folding team.



Links:

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_at_home

Official Stanford Folding@home Website
http://folding.stanford.edu/

NCSU Wolfpack Folding@home Website
http://www.fah.genejockeys.com

Wolfweb Thread
message_topic.aspx?topic=118820

NCSU Team Stats Page
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=

Folding Forums
http://forum.folding-community.org/forums.html

Download The Client Here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html We recommend using the "No-nonsense text-only" client for most computers. For multi-core systems, the SMP client will get you and the team far more points than the traditional client (but it doesn't start as a service, so you'll have to restart the client manually or automatically when your computer restarts). If you have a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, its best to turn off Hyperthreading in the BIOS if you know how.
If you have an ATI X1800 or X1900 series graphics card you can even run Folding@home on your graphics card (with great results).

Installation Instructions
Enter a Username
Enter Team [59] (thats the important part)
Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service [yes]
Ask before fetching/sending [no]
Use internet explorer settings [no]
Use Proxy [no] (unless you want to use a proxy)
Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB [yes]
Change Advanced Options: [no]

The folding client will run in the background as a service at low priority and won't interfere with your work/fun or slow down your computer at all. And you can run as many PC and PS3 clients you want under your username to contribute to your points and to the team points. If you have any questions feel free to contact me or any other member of the team.

7/26/2007 4:32:53 PM

yea, all my clients are on idle process as well, i think in Noen's case though with rendering it's very memory intensive and having folding@home running in the background is taking memory that could be being used for rendering, not all cpu issue, but right now mine's only at 150MB-ish for all 4 processes total, for a 3gb machine

[Edited on July 26, 2007 at 5:15 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2007 5:14:26 PM

^ Yeah mines only at ~220 megs for a 4 gig machine.

7/26/2007 5:23:30 PM

I have a feeling it's going to be a while before I catch many more users in the TWW group. The PS3 is running a lot, but it's my only machine. If I could only find some way to get it on all the computers at Home Depot's HQ

7/26/2007 5:26:35 PM

What prevents us from sneaking into a bestbuy/compusa and putting the service on all the computers? Or if we could only get the smp as a hidden sevice. Heh. I'm sure they have admin restrictions on those display pcs. How well does the smp client work on macs? I could sneak into the mac store in charlotte and install it on all those. They don't watch those. jk. We need more power!

7/26/2007 5:32:28 PM

^put flyers up on campus

there are like 30k students at ncsu

7/26/2007 6:04:59 PM

Anyone game in here? Synapse you play any games? If anyone has played Call of Juarez, the depth of field is really cool. It's actually the first DX10 feature i really noticed. After playing that game for a few hours, it's hard to imagine how previous games didn't have depth of field. Everything looks flat now in older games.

I realize Call of Juarez is just a DX10 upgrade from the DX9 version, and not a very good one at that, but some of the features are pretty neat. There's a chapter where you're in pursuit of a horse-drawn carriage on a horse and there's bandits coming up on either side of you on horses (typical western horse chase) and while you're aiming with the rifle the Depth of Field is simply amazing. While you're focusing on the carriage in the background, a bandit will come up next to you in the foreground and he'll be out of focus until you move to focus on him, and it looks rather realistic.

Here's some screens from Crysis...comparing real photographs to game shots.



Depth of field example in Crysis...



Any fellow gamers? or am i just being a dork.

[Edited on July 27, 2007 at 10:22 AM. Reason : .]

7/27/2007 10:19:45 AM

I don't really game too much outside of my XBOX and the occasional starcraft/warcraft/quake session.


Anyone notice our team name changed colors? We went from green to brown since we're producing 30K+ every 24hrs (its amazing what little it takes to excite me). Lets keep it up people

7/27/2007 3:31:10 PM

SC2!

Are we brown or tan? I think 50k+ is brown. So we should be passing some blue and green groups pretty soon.

7/27/2007 3:35:18 PM

guess it is tan.

WE NEED BROWN!!!

7/27/2007 3:55:58 PM

I'll be breaking 40k in the next 24 hours

I'm going to have to see about getting some more processors running on this

7/27/2007 4:58:55 PM

i game but only bf2

7/27/2007 5:07:00 PM

[02:59:20] Loaded queue successfully.
[02:59:20]
[02:59:20] + Processing work unit
[02:59:20] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[02:59:20] Core found.
[02:59:20] Working on Unit 01 [July 28 02:59:20]
[02:59:20] + Working ...
[02:59:24] CoreStatus = 63 (99)
[02:59:24] + Error starting Folding@Home core.
[02:59:29]
[02:59:29] + Processing work unit
[02:59:29] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[02:59:29] Core found.
[02:59:29] Working on Unit 01 [July 28 02:59:29]
[02:59:29] + Working ...
[02:59:34] CoreStatus = 63 (99)
[02:59:34] + Error starting Folding@Home core.


What DO I DO

7/27/2007 11:00:58 PM

now i dled the 5.03 gui version and its not "doing" anything but theres a little red guy in the corner

i feel like it should be doing something

my name is travis on there, group 59. someone look me up if you have admin or something

7/27/2007 11:34:44 PM

well for corestatus codes, you can just google and maybe you'll get somewhere
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS206US206&q=CoreStatus+%3d+63+%2899%29

7/28/2007 12:59:27 AM

it could be permission based issues.

run install.bat from the program files directory

7/28/2007 1:27:39 AM

iirc he's on vista...you need to launch a command prompt as administrator and go run install.bat from there

hooray vista permissions

edit: also, give permissions to the account your specify on the install to that directory, everything but full control works fine (at least i had to on my vista machines, but i've kicked UAC in the nuts via bypasses so maybe your installer did it for you)

[Edited on July 28, 2007 at 2:32 AM. Reason : additions]

7/28/2007 2:27:28 AM

^I'm on vista and i just doubleclicked on the install.bat. Turned uac off a while ago.

7/28/2007 10:51:57 AM

Congratulations team on hitting 12,000,000 points!

7/29/2007 2:44:25 AM

Good work team! Fold on!

7/29/2007 8:17:19 AM

not to be a dick, dude but i dont want to waste time googling to helo out

thats why i asked here. i am on vista, and when i run install.bat (as admin or otherwise) it wants me to set up my accountname as

tbagPC\travis

which is computername\accountname

then it asks for password, then confirm password

then it says cant connect to tbagPC.

any ideas, and please dont link me to a shitload of google to go through, maybe im lazy but i dont have time to dig around for answers to shit i dont get paid for

7/29/2007 3:41:18 PM

i kinda want my username to be jackleg and be on team 59

i have the smp client 1.01 and the normal client that puts the red sprocket in the tray. at this point i dont care which one goes and which one stays, as long as we can get one of them to work. i got smp cause im dual core and i was gonna put the normal one on my torrent server

was hoping someone had had this problem before

if you really know what youre doing ill give you remote access to do it, i just wanna be able to help, not get a headache

7/29/2007 3:43:25 PM

ok it just dawned on me that it wants to start itself as a service or whatever and it was talking about my windows password


i did the install.bat and it was like
if you see this 2 times it worked
if you see this 2 times it worked

then i ran fah.exe

got this and its sitting there (maybe working):



anything else i need to do? any way to minimize that to the tray instead of the bar?

thx

7/29/2007 4:19:03 PM

^Looks great. In regard to the username/password thing. I found i had to actually set a password in vista before it would work. So go to control panel then users, and give yourself a password.

7/29/2007 4:39:00 PM

actually just to be safe, i uninstalled/erased/regwiped everything but the Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01 and set it up again now that i think i know how. ran fah.exe again and it asked me all the initial setup questions again

it let me pick the name jackleg and team 59, and it now looks the same as the last SS i posted (0/500000, 0%)

my questions still stand about making that stupid taskbar command prompt tab disappear, and maybe a gui. i'll let it run like this for a while, going to pick up some dinner.

TTYL THX

^ actually yeah my password in vista was blank and i had to set one too, just didnt wanna tell everyone i dont use passwords

7/29/2007 4:40:41 PM

ALSO, VISTA USERS

ISNT THAT SNIPPING TOOL THE SHIT

7/29/2007 4:41:52 PM

thats what the new setup looks like. what you guys think? am i missing anything?

brb for real this time, im hungry

7/29/2007 4:45:17 PM

looks good

to get rid of it in the taskbar and put it in your system tray, use TrayIt:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/TrayIt/1146419523/1

7/29/2007 5:21:28 PM

cool cool i got it trayed, i appreciate that big time, i can think of a million uses for that tomorrow. now for fah all i gotta do is jack a cool icon for it somewhere cause i hate that cmd.exe icon soooo much

but aside from that, the percentage is going up and it looks like i'm in the right team. i suppose i'll hit the scoreboard when it actually sends something back

thanks

7/29/2007 8:05:23 PM

cool, yeah i love trayit. im using that for my smp client too.

what proc are you running that on?

7/29/2007 9:10:42 PM

Icon (upper left) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home

7/29/2007 11:18:04 PM

I had an issue with vista internet config on a machine not letting work units upload back...should be getting points from that machine now.

Also, anyone else use FahMon? http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/
It's the best thing I've found to see how all of my systems are doing and seeing as it's open source, I'm looking at adding http support to it as well so you don't have to be on the same network to monitor them. I run FAH as a service or background application so this eliminates the need to have the console up; I can view the log and status in one spot.

Anyone else use a different monitoring tool that's similar or already has status by http built in?

Here's a screenshot from the FahMon site for quick reference, hope they allow hotlinking:

7/30/2007 1:49:44 PM

Yeah, I use Fahmon and pretty much everyone else that I know of does as well.

The HTTP support is a damn good idea. Right now I'm using some cleverly scripted cron jobs with SCP and crap to track a linux box outside my lan. (Read: pain in the ass)

7/30/2007 3:15:21 PM

can you not just create a new 'my network place' and add it that way? or ftp support?

[Edited on July 30, 2007 at 3:24 PM. Reason : .]

7/30/2007 3:22:58 PM

IIRC EMIII could be used to update a webpage to monitor clients. I never tried to figure it out. Also, I'm not sure EMIII is supported anymore.

7/30/2007 5:33:16 PM

dual 1.6

7/30/2007 7:09:45 PM

I decided to give FahMon a try. I like it; t's much easier to use than EMIII. Unfortunatly now I know how little PPD my AMD 2000 puts out .

7/30/2007 7:45:50 PM

Yeah, AMD's aren't as impressive as I had expected either. My X2 3600+ only does in the neighborhood of ~500 PPD, where the equivalently-clocked Intel does ~1200

7/30/2007 8:51:59 PM

I've tried sorting though all of the posts in this topic and even did a search and no luck, so here's the question: Should hyper threading be turned on or left off?

8/1/2007 10:08:35 AM

Should be turned off i believe.

8/1/2007 10:15:24 AM

^^If you leave it on and run 2 instances, it's usually a negligible to 20% boost, depending on the work units, processor, etc.

The drawback of the overall points increase is more time per work unit, so just make sure you're still under the deadlines if you go that route.

8/1/2007 10:37:21 AM

The PC I'm running right now did have the SMP client, but it was always a few hours short of being able to finish a WU in time. I switched to running 2 instances of the console client instead so I wouldn't miss the deadlines. Would turning off HT with the SMP client get me a bit of time back to finish the WU's?

The PC is a dual-core 2.8 GHz P4 with 512 RAM

[Edited on August 1, 2007 at 10:45 AM. Reason : ]

8/1/2007 10:44:12 AM

^ I believe you should only run the smp client if you're using a dual or quad core. For older pentium 4s w/ HT just use the normal client.

Quote :

"The PC is a dual-core 2.8 GHz P4 with 512 RAM"

Didn't have a pentium 4 dual core. First dual cores were the Pentium-Ds. So you're running a single core. HT /= dual core.

[Edited on August 1, 2007 at 10:46 AM. Reason : .]

8/1/2007 10:45:14 AM

added PC specs to post... ^^

8/1/2007 10:46:11 AM

^pentium 4's are not dual core.

8/1/2007 10:48:03 AM

Does having HT turned on make the computer think it has 2 CPU's then? The Device manager shows tow instances of the processor.

8/1/2007 10:48:21 AM

HT is kinda a predecessor to dual cores. It applies to the simultaneous multithreading in Pentium 4's. In terms of folding, you still can't run the smp client with it. You'd be better off running the normal client. SMP is for dual/quad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_threading

vs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_core

[Edited on August 1, 2007 at 10:51 AM. Reason : .]

8/1/2007 10:51:03 AM

^just to add, you can't run it because you will not finish the WU before the deadline...

8/1/2007 10:52:28 AM

I thought the SMP client would detect whether or not you had multiple cores? It allows me to run it with no errors. When I first tried this on a single processor PC at home (downloaded and installed the wrong version), it failed and wouldn't start because it knew I didn't have multiple cores. Not the case with this PC.

[Edited on August 1, 2007 at 10:55 AM. Reason : dur]

8/1/2007 10:55:23 AM

But your pentium 4 IS a single processor machine. They didn't make dual core pentium 4s.

8/1/2007 10:57:52 AM