I'm in...

peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:22 am

Ed, there's 28 on your hit list in the next 7 days

,41 withinin 14 days

, and another 21 in the 10 days after that

That's 61 places within 24 days, pretty damn good going...

That'll put you up to ~ #240

Looking better now?

As your points grow this week it should start to look better again.

Fold on Bro.

Regards

Pete

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:54 am

Hrmmm - seeing as I recently joined, I'd like to see what (little) my share of the damage is. But the scores-site won't load for me

Nooooo....

*sniffles*

peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:03 am

shathal, http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main ... mnum=31574 takes you to the Stanford page where you show up with your first WU,

Well Done Matey!.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =31574&p=4 takes to the page you'll be on EOC stats when they update and catch up.

When you show up, click on your name and it'll show you your 'hit's' list and predicted dates for overtakes.

As I've said before it will take a little while to stabilize and show an accurate portrayal though.

Welcome Along

Regards

Pete

P.S.:

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[img]http://www.liquidninjas.com/dc/ln_dc_sigs.php?xfahuser=Shathal&xskin=Zyzzyx&xfahteam=31574[/img]

will add the banner to your sig for you to proudly display.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:25 am

Ya' know...I really can't wait for these stats lists at EOC etc. to be of some real use; what's the full wait period, a week? A month?

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:55 am

Thanks, peteamer it's appreciated

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peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:59 am

mmm, David might be the far better one to answer this really.

Have just written out a load but as I read it back the less sure I am about the info. so if you'll excuse me I'll say nothing rather than get it wrong.

I know it's a rolling average but I don't recall the way it's exactly done.

Think it's different on EOC and Liquidninja as well, just to confuse my poor little brain further.

I'm sure we have discussed this recently but I can't find anything relevant.

Any ideas on the correct info David, Mas, Zyzzyx, Rusty, Dukla, Sbabb, Dasman etc. etc. etc.?

Will post a link if I find anything helpfull.

In the mean time generally they get more accurate after about 3/4 weeks.

Having said that if you look at EOC at the moment, Wumpus is due to go past me in two days, (has been two days all week mind!) but on Stanford he's just gone past me by 30 points. My latest points, (40 something as I recall) didn't quite make the update.

Such are the joys of folding

Gotta go.. wasting cycles

Pete

P.S. As you see shathal you'll have to wait for Liquidninja's to catch up for your sig to work properly which by the way can be used on other BB forums.

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:52 pm

Edward Ng wrote:Ya' know...I really can't wait for these stats lists at EOC etc. to be of some real use; what's the full wait period, a week? A month?

Once you start down the dark path.........

AFAIK, EOC counts weekly points from Sunday to Sunday. Overtake lists are based on your 7 day average daily output, which is a rolling 7 day average. Maybe, I'm not sure

btw, congrats on making page 3 in just 5 days.

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:17 pm

Handy infos that. Good good.

Thatnks

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And with my lab machines hopefully going on-line the coming week again, there's a few more CPU's I can hook up to increase my fold

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peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:12 pm

And with my lab machines hopefully going on-line the coming week again, there's a few more CPU's I can hook up to increase my fold .

Spoken like a true addict.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:00 pm

How do I get the F@H on Alpha Three to fully load both sides of my Hyperthreading processor? For example with Prime95 I can load a second instance using the -A1 switch, then I set processor affinity to 0 for one instance and 1 for the second instance and it will put 100% load on both sides (in the processes tab of Task Manager, it shows 100% load, not 50%).

-Ed

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:40 pm

Install another instance of FAH in a different folder, making sure the Machine ID is different

Putz · Post by **Putz** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:40 pm

Make two separate F@H installations (each in their own directory, of course), and use the flag "-local" when starting each of them. In the config, set one machine ID to 1, the other to 2. I think that's all you need.

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:22 am

Don't worry about setting the processor affinity, as this makes next to no difference.

Putz points out the two critical things you MUST do.

David

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:09 am

Um, where to set machine ID?

I must be doing something wrong here (wrong client?); when I run winFAH -local from the second directory, it tell me, "There is already another Folding@home running. Only one copy may be run at a time. This copy will now quit."

Am I running the wrong client? I'm currently using Folding @ Home 4.00 for Windows.

-Ed

mas92264 · Post by **mas92264** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:39 am

Ed,

The second client must be the console version. You can run 2 or more console clients, but only one graphical client.

I'm going to check and see where the machine id setup is. Back in a sec.

BTW, on an intel folder, copy and paste "fah4console.exe" from the dir that you set up to your desktop. Then, attach the -advmethods -local flags and start it the frist time from the desktop.

M

mas92264 · Post by **mas92264** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:53 am

Ok, how to set machine id to #2 - there's a couple of different ways to do this, but this is the way that I do it.

Click the fah4console.exe file to get it started, enter your user id and team #. Just accept all the setup defaults. When you get to "Change advanced settings," enter "y" and then set your machine id to 2 when that option comes up. Accept the defaults for the rest of the setup.

When done, type in "cntrl c" to exit the console version. Don't let it start without the -advmethods flag, or you'll get a Tinker. Then copy/paste the *.exe file to the desktop and setup your flags. Piece of cake.

M

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:55 am

Thanks, pal; must head off to work now; will try it out later.

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:41 am

Ed,

To be a really hardcore folder and eke out the last bit of power from your CPU, use 2 consoles, not the GUI or anythingelse client. Console concentrates all cycles into folding. Also do away with drawing proteins in EM3. It'll look like it won't make much difference but it does, especially when folding a 240 point sTinker (plus your machine will run cooler)

dasman · Post by **dasman** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:19 pm

Ed,

Better yet, run F@H as a service and use a handy dandy automagic installation program -- see the sticky at the top of the forum...

Dave

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:39 pm

Booya; I finally realized the reason why I didn't have the console version was because... "Duh!" I never downloaded that version and installed it!

But yes, now I have it running as a service on Sigma One, and I have dual instances on Alpha Three. Sweet!

-Ed

EDIT: Was so excited to signed it "-ed"...

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:48 am

Right - have figured out finally how to set the machine ID's and how to run several instances.

So, as of today, I've got not only 3.4 GHz, but - in fact - another ... let me calculate ... 4 x 800, 2x 933, 1 x 700, 1x 2000, 1 x 3000 ... another 10766 MHz over 9 instances running additionally

.

Onto points claimage

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trodas · Post by **trodas** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:53 am

Sounds like we see the stats climbing now faster - a definitively good news

Fold on!

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:17 am

I was contemplating on hijacking the training room's PC's (12 P4's around 2.6 GHz or so - each) ... but realized that we wipe them so often, it'd be a right pain to install it.

Oh well - shall see if I can hoard some more hardware somehow or so

.

Retro_Phil · Post by **Retro_Phil** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:29 am

shathal wrote:I was contemplating on hijacking the training room's PC's (12 P4's around 2.6 GHz or so - each) ... but realized that we wipe them so often, it'd be a right pain to install it.

Oh well - shall see if I can hoard some more hardware somehow or so .

As per the F@H EULA, make sure you are authorized by the machine's owners. Running unauthorized F@H instances is a big no-no. Ask the MacRumors team.

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:32 am

aaah ah, the good ol' days of pages 3 & 4 ! Ed & shatal !!! You're blowing past those pages at an alarming rate. Cool down & enjoy it. It's a bloody war a little up the list.

(sotto voce: Hey all, you think they'll fall for it

)

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:39 am

Oh yeah. I'm technically the "owner", but seeing as to the frequency of the machines being flattened, it'd be more of a pain to figure a way of backing up the data ... so - bleh.

It'll only be me own stuff near my desk for now

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Not as if I can complain about that.

Curious to see just how many ranks I can fly up in the first week. Never know...

(yet to attach another 2 GHz to my count, once I figure why the silly thing is not wanting to work properly...)

trodas · Post by **trodas** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:03 am

shathal - if you are owner, then not a problem

What about... run F@H as service?

Then you not need to bother with anyting - except that the machines stay on as long, as possible

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:28 am

technically not, but the machines get blasted (re-imaged) so often, that it's just annoying. And the folds they'd be working on, would be lost. I'd rather not do that.

I could possibly figure a way out to get around it, but I get paid for other things at work and am unfortunately not in a place where I have a world of spare time...

dasman · Post by **dasman** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:37 am

You could have the working directory on a server and the client software as part of the image...

Dave

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:51 pm

shathal,

Do these machines have access to any network shares? I reinstall Windows every 30 days on one of my machines to get around having to buy another license (one of these days it's going to get put into the "Barn" and boot Linux off the server), and what I do there is leave the F@H folder on a network drive. Then all I have to do is create shortcuts in the Startup folder. It's not as nice as having FAH run as a service, but it's a 100% dedicated folder, so it's no big deal.

You would have to do something a step more sophisticated in order to "hide" F@H in the task bar, so this idea is, at best, only the seed of a working plan.

David