Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

[8ball]

I was looking over the team statistics, What I was wondering about is the pts. I see there is a page that you can goto to see what the worth of a package you are doing. How do you get these pts is it after you are done the package or every so offten? Im not really worried about the pts but it would be kool to see how I stack up against other ppl.

One last thing to ask, then I will stop asking so questions.

I was think about how to get my pc fold faster. I thought about running F@H in safemode, So I did. The #'s are hard to read and I only did this for a hour but it seemed to be a bit faster. Could anyone else see if this could work or not.

[Livy]

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/

[Spicker]

Originally posted by nigel123@29 March 2004 - 19:21
Sounds about right...those 400 WU's take a long time...

yes u are right they take a long time because they are TINKERS not GROMACS.....



8ball- go back a couple of pages and read about gromacs and how to install them and they go ten times faster!

[Livy]

almost 2500 WU's. 2499 now
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py...e&teamnum=34905

also, new stats scipt at stanford stats

edit: i also sense a new client may be availabile soon, since stats pages have moved, genome@home is now dead, and maybe some optimizations for the new core_79.

[8ball]

I have read over most of the stuff on F@H that I could find on here. This is what i put in to target line after the rest of the stuff
"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winfah.exe" -advmethods -forceSSE

[Livy]

yeah, thats right, you could also add -verbosity 9
it goves you more info in the logfile. also make sure you add it to the one in your startmenu/startup folder, as well as the folding@home folder.

edit: also looks like i may take the 2500th WU got 1 with about 40 mins left.

[Livy]

ive got round to kinda getting a layout done for the site. http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

suggestions welcome,

also, i know there isnt much content at the moment.

[Ariel_001]

Has anyone tryed running this as a service in win nt/2k/xp?

Anyways here are some direction on how to do it. It seems to work for me. Don't blame me if your comp blows up or something if this does something weird.

First make sure the folding@home Client is properly setup.

Then download the consol version of the client and this. Make sure the consol client is working properly first (run it first).

1. Then make a folder somewhere on your hard drive e.g “c:\program files\FaH\” and copy the consol folding@home client and the two exe too that folder.

2. Then at a command prompt run this

Instsrv.exe folding@home “c:\program files\FaH\Srvany.exe”

The service name “folding@home” can be almost anything you want. Make sure you put the full path to the Srvany.exe file. There must be quoting marks “” if the folder has a space in it.

3. Using the regedit.exe goto

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\folding@home

The folding@home key is whatever name you gave your service in step 2.

Create a new key named Parameters

Then create a new string named Application

With the Value "c:\program files\FaH\FAH4Console.exe" or where ever you placed it in step 1

4. Configure the new service by going the Services applet which is somewhere Control Panel. (I believe it should be in Control Panel -> admin tool -> Services) and find the service you named in step 2.

Choose the Startup Type: Automatic (for unattended operation, this will allow the folding@home Client to be active when there is no one logged on) and set it up to logon in the account were you setup/installed folding@home.

I beleve this should work. Tell me if there is problem with the directions.

Source :http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...&NoWebContent=1

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by Livy@30 March 2004 - 17:17
ive got round to kinda getting a layout done for the site. http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

suggestions welcome,

also, i know there isnt much content at the moment.

Just a few words...It's looking really good Livy...

[Livy]

Originally posted by nigel123+31 March 2004 - 20:47--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nigel123 @ 31 March 2004 - 20:47)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Livy@30 March 2004 - 17:17
ive got round to kinda getting a layout done for the site. http://www.livy.myby.co.uk/folding/

suggestions welcome,&nbsp;

also, i know there isnt much content at the moment.

Just a few words...It&#39;s looking really good Livy... [/b][/quote]
good good, i quite liked the layout too, ill try get round to getting content on the page tomorrow