How to get big WU's?

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited January 2005 in Folding@Home
I want to try and fold big WU's, if I can. My last WU only gave me 57 points, that's the usual points I get for WU's.

How can I fold the 600 point WU's? What's the difference (apart from points) with folding 600 point and 57 point WU's? Could I fold those big WU's?

Thanks

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  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited January 2005
    just use the -advmethods tag when starting F@H. I'm running a 600 point WU right now and memory usage is about 100MB.
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    -advmethods, What's that? How do I get it started?

    Thanks
  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited January 2005
    If you are using the Windows version, right click on the icon used to start F@H, the one in you "startup" folder, and add -advmethods where the picture shows it..
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    I'm running the "no-nonsense" Text-only Console Version 5.02.
    I'm not sure where to add '-advmethods'? As your pic above is slighty different.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2005
    Trogan, first you need to have answered "yes" when asked if you allow bigpacket work which configuring the client. You can check to see if the client is set up for bigpacket work by opening up the client.cfg file in notepad and check to see if there is an entry that says "bigpackets=yes". If that is answered "no", then change it to "yes".

    After ensuring that bigpackets are allowed for your machine, you need to configure to run using the -advmethods flag in the target of your startup shortcut. Check out how it's done in the attached picture I'm posting here, along with the client.cfg picture I'm attaching:
  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited January 2005
    Trogan_1000 wrote:
    I'm running the "no-nonsense" Text-only Console Version 5.02.
    I'm not sure where to add '-advmethods'? As your pic above is slighty different.


    I use the grapical client, but adding the -advmethods tag is the same, but here's something that may help better than my long explanation.

    http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html
  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited January 2005
    muddocktor wrote:
    Trogan, first you need to have answered "yes" when asked if you allow bigpacket work which configuring the client. You can check to see if the client is set up for bigpacket work by opening up the client.cfg file in notepad and check to see if there is an entry that says "bigpackets=yes". If that is answered "no", then change it to "yes".

    After ensuring that bigpackets are allowed for your machine, you need to configure to run using the -advmethods flag in the target of your startup shortcut. Check out how it's done in the attached picture I'm posting here, along with the client.cfg picture I'm attaching:

    thanks mudd, forgot about allowing bigpackets.
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    I've changed 'bigpackets' from NO to YES.

    I created a shorcut of FAH502-Console.exe to my desktop where I added '-advmethods' to the Target section.

    Do I move the shortcut back to the FAH folder and keep it or can i delete it?
    Will the next WU be a nice big one? I hope!

    Thanks for your help guys :)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    Dang Jim, Open client.cfg in wordpad and each option will be on its own line. Notepad doesnt display it quite right.

    Right Click FAH's executable->Creat shortcut
    Add -advmethods to the end of the target line like mudd has posted.

    Also Jim, unless you explicitely specify yes or no or enter the info it wont display in client.cfg. Go thru and enter default and see how much is in there. Then -configonly and manually enter 'no' and 'yes' instead of just hitting enter and see how much is in the file. So he might not have all that the in the client.cfg file.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    If you're folding as a service I can show you where to put -advmethods in your registry ...if you're sure about editing the registry that is! :thumbsup:
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    csimon wrote:
    If you're folding as a service I can show you where to put -advmethods in your registry ...if you're sure about editing the registry that is! :thumbsup:

    Umm...go on tell me, please and i'l see how difficult it looks :D

    Cheers
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    mmonnin wrote:
    Also Jim, unless you explicitely specify yes or no or enter the info it wont display in client.cfg. Go thru and enter default and see how much is in there. Then -configonly and manually enter 'no' and 'yes' instead of just hitting enter and see how much is in the file. So he might not have all that the in the client.cfg file.

    I don't have everything that's in Mudd's pic.

    This is what my client.cfg has inside. NOTE: I changed 'bigpackets' from NO to YES.

    [settings]
    username=Trogan_1000
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=yes
    machineid=1
    local=46

    [http]
    active=no
    host=localhost
    port=8080
    usereg=no
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    Ok now add the -advmethods switch and you should be good to go.
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    Already done :). How would I know if i'm folding a big WU?
  • rc1974rc1974 Grand Junction, CO
    edited January 2005
    Trogan_1000 wrote:
    Already done :). How would I know if i'm folding a big WU?


    so far the 600 point WU's are under projects 1134, 1135, 1140, and 1141.
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Check the fahlog.txt file. It will be in the directory that you ran the fah console file from.
    p1134_RIBO_FSpeptide_EXT
    p1135_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL
    p1140_RIBO_FSpeptide_EXT_nospring
    p1141_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL_nospring

    Those are the 4 current 600 point WU's that stanford is sending out.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2005
    Hehe they will use like 100mb of RAM. You will know.;)

    You should get one next time around.
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    Thanks for everyone's help, I appreciate it :thumbsup:

    :fold::fold::fold:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Trogan_1000 wrote:
    Umm...go on tell me, please and i'l see how difficult it looks :D

    Cheers
    not difficult at all ...

    Once you've set FAH as a service it will register in your registry ...so go into regedit and do a search for -svcstart
    Once you find it then modify IMAGEPATH to include -advmethods right after with a space.
    It should look like IMAGEPATH>D:\f@h\fahconsole -svcstart -advmethods or whatever your particular path looks like
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