The Official Folding@Home thread

[goldfish]

Sorry Robster... I just thought we needed a single thread to congregate in with all the info for a new folder such as myself!

Right.

Shamelessly stolen from http://folding.stanford.edu/

Firstly, What is Folding?

Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What is Folding@Home, then?
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

Ok, enough of the facts!

If you want to get involved, then you need to at least download the client.
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Myself, I've gone with the console client, because it uses less resources to show you the pretty stuff and more to do the crunching! Plus, I can run it as a service if I want to (more on that in a minute)

Majorgeeks.com is a team on the Folding@Home website, and you can see our stats here:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...e&teamnum=12072

If you do get the console version, then you might want to see whats going on. A great program to do this with is Electron Microscope III (or EMIII), which you can download here:
http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude1/emsite/download.html

EMIII will let you monitor the client on your local machine, and also over a network (by sharing the F@H directory, and setting up a "box" to monitor that directory in the configuration), so for example, my setup monitors my PC and also my server which is crunching too.

I spect I'll work on a MG skin if enough people use it

Soon to folow, a quick tutorial on how to set up FAH4Console as a service

[goldfish]

How to run F@H as a service!

Okay campers, for all you windows freekz who want to have FAH run silently, and quickly, and require no attention whatsoever, I have a solution for you!

1. The easy way
Use FireDaemon to create a service. Nice and friendly, but not very geeky. FireDaemon

2. The harder way!
Ever heard of sc.exe? Probably not. A very useful little tool for creating, deleting and configuring services from the command line. Have a look at this MSKB
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251192

See if you can get it running with that. The command is :
sc create FAH binpath= "c:\path\To\FAH4Console.exe -service" start= boot

[goldfish]

Monkey poop. dud stats link:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=12072

[goldfish]

:D

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/awards/ce...%2FNZ&pts=1337

[Robster12]

Well done, Goldy!
BTW... I think we are starting to ROLL now! :

[goldfish]

EMIII skin on the way (not that anyone uses it anyway!)

[Radiofool]

Oh yeah!!

-puts on lame DJ voice-

'..and straight in at number 8, new entry, Radiofool!'

Lol. The sad thing is, i'm really proud of that. hehe..
:D

[goldfish]

Nice one dewd!

For some odd reason, my 2000+ is outpacing my 3000+ by a long way. Weird stuff!!

Going into turbo mode! Cyarz in tha mornen!

[Radiofool]

Hmm. This folding thing is making my Processor run at 64c (147F).. That seems really hot. Is it?

[Robster12]

Originally Posted by Radiofool

Hmm. This folding thing is making my Processor run at 64c (147F).. That seems really hot. Is it?

!
That's entirely too hot!
Check this out:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3898.html

Goldfish, how did that Cpu Eat-N-Cool work out for you?

[goldfish]

It worked fine, except it made everything else slower as well.

If you're running hot, I suggest throttling the CPU usage by FAH... which is easy to do. Just open the client.CFG file, find "cpuusage=100" and change it to "cpuusage=90". Save and restart the client. That should keep your temps nominal

[mgrist]

What fish said :D
Also in addition to what was above. If your running the pretty version just right click and pick configure. That puts you where you can turn down the CPU percentage.

Woke up this morning and all four computers were ready to send a unit, kool.

[mgrist]

The four units I got back this morning are all gromacs. The Linux computer will be done with another in 4.8 hours the other three it's a little harder to figure but it will be around the same amount of time untill their completion.
We're moving on up guys keep on keeping on.
Thought I saw another new name on the team list but forgot what it was and I'm to lazy to go back and look right now but

WELCOME

new guy or girl, that's assumming your new. If your not new, never mind

[mgrist]

Hey Glenn, welcome to the team, I must have been right when "I thought I saw a putty cat" Oops wrong thread.
Hey don't worry about slow, the old turtle can beat the rabbit ya know. Atleast in the funny papers :D

[mgrist]

Glenn, Fingerbanger? or Radiofool?

Hey military are you other?

Might the real fingerbanger be a carpenter? On just beats on the keyboard to much

[Radiofool]

Originally Posted by mgrist

Glenn, Fingerbanger? or Radiofool?

hey.. how's the folding?

[finger]

Originally Posted by mgrist

Glenn, Fingerbanger? or Radiofool?

Hey military are you other?

Might the real fingerbanger be a carpenter? On just beats on the keyboard to much

Some one already had finger so I had to go with fingerbanger
Plus click on my title. (The only clickable title I know of .)

[mgrist]

So that's how your going to be is it

mgrist 8809.69 129 That's me
2 robstr12 7476.27 130 The guy that got run over
3 schism 1520.0 14 artichoke, that's close
4 Goldfish 436.0 6 He's got the funny accent
5 BluesMan 295.99 4
6 Overcooked 221.0 1 Fried guy
7 rond36 69.001 3 he's rond36 years old (53)
8 fingerbanger 44.0 1 wanna be carpenter
9 RadioFool 24.0 1 that quite fellow
10 Strogg 11.69 4 an ogre ate him
11 Kodosan 9.59 2 Can't decide on a name


So by deductive reasoning your not special ops your a depressed Elvis fan

[mgrist]

Just sent three more with another getting ready to be done. That's eight today
As anybody been able to tell that I don't have a life? ::

[mgrist]

Originally Posted by glennk721

You have a life its just Folded

I wonder : That may be worse then no life. But then who's to know :D