Am I in?

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited October 2003 in Folding@Home
I decided to join the F@h team 93. When I go look at the team stats I'm not on the list. I've only been at it for 24 hours and haven't done a wu yet, is this why I'm not listed?

bothered.
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  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    Hey, bothered. Thanks for joining. :)

    Yep, you have to turn a WU to be listed.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Great, Thanks.

    bothered.
  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    bothered, do you have F@H optimized for max performance?
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Thanks bothered, welcome in. :)

    There are some performance tricks which BDR is talking about, we'll get ya setup. :thumbsup:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited October 2003
    Glad to see you've joined up!

    :thumbsup::fold::wave:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Welocome to the SM fold. Any bit helps Standford and our team.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    nice to have you here! Welcome to the fold!
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    I haven't optimised anything, just entered my name and team number.
    Guide me guys, guide me.

    bothered.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I take it you have the pretty graphical version with the drawed protein on the screen?

    If so, folding will launch from your startup folder in START--->PROGRAMS

    Inside should be the shortcut, all you need to do is add 2 things to the "Target" command line:

    -advmethods -forceasm

    So it might look like this:

    c:\program files\folding\fah.exe -advmethods -forceasm

    If there are quotes included, it should go like this:

    "c:\program files\folding\fah.exe" -advmethods -forceasm
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Also, right-clicking the folding icon down beside your time will open a menu, select "configure".

    Make your options look like this:
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    Those flags, are they for AMD machines or both

    Here is what I need...

    Flags for a Duron processor
    Flags for a P4 2.0 processor

    might as well put my sisters machine to work... its a dd d d d d d d d eee o i just cant say it... it starts with a d and ends with an l

    :D

    Gobbles
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    dell... I have two of them folding. Very stable and never break. Can't overclock but they're not mine, they're for work.

    Don't knock Dell. They're the best mass producer out there , IMHO.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Gobbles said
    Those flags, are they for AMD machines or both

    Here is what I need...

    Flags for a Duron processor
    Flags for a P4 2.0 processor

    might as well put my sisters machine to work... its a dd d d d d d d d eee o i just cant say it... it starts with a d and ends with an l

    :D

    Gobbles

    I'm not so sure the Duron is up to folding the gromacs because I don't believe it is a SSE compatible chip, I could be wrong however.

    You should only have to use the -advmethods for the P4 but adding both shouldn't do any harm.

    D & l, G & y, C & q, they all fold. ;D
  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    dell... ;D

    I can say it. ;D
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    "Dude, your sister's got a Dell" ("and I'm out of a job") Dell's spokesman.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    just kiddin.. it actually a nice little system.. Slow as hell, being a p4 2.0 with 256 meg ram running xp.. Im talking her into upgrading the ram.. where I am poor, my sister is not.. Ill get that proc to work.. as for my duron, its a Duron 1gig and I think its a morgan core.. how do I tell? <-- Thrax please enlighten me...

    Gobbles
  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    This may help.

    http://www.myplc.com/sony/sse_enabling_and_wcpuid.htm
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    *gag* Dell... EEEEEEEEEEWWW. I won't bash them for lack of overclockability, because that's not what they are intended to do. I will, however, bash them for:

    - Using proprietary components
    - Not being able to design a cooling system for a desktop

    By not being able to design a cooling system, I mean that running F@H on a P3-600 OptiPlex GX110 Desktop made the CPU hot to the touch (no HW monitoring). 5 minutes with a piece of cardboard and I'd set up a duct that dropped system and CPU temperatures significantly (something like 10-20*F, judging by my calibrated, highly accurate right hand...) Or, as another example, the P3-3.0 or 3.2 or whatever it was that MaximumPC tested a few months back. Every time they benchmarked it without a "cooling down" period between runs, the benchmarks would get progressively slower. Why? Because the P4's clock throttling overheating protection circuit was slowing the CPU down to keep it from cooking itself. Like I said, Dell can't design a cooling system.

    Dell... *shudder*
  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    This may help too-

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=44520#post44520
  • BDRBDR
    edited October 2003
    Don't diss a machine that folds.

    I'm on a Dell 1.4 P4 right now. I've had it for a couple years and it's been a very good machine, and I expect it to last me for quite some time yet.
    It's my main machine to surf the net, do graphics, play music (I added a nice sound card) and it's folding right along with my AMD Athlons. That's more than I can say for the Duron or Tbird I have.
    There's nothing wrong with having and using a Dell. :hrm:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited October 2003
    I would recommend Dell to anyone who refuses to (or can't) build their own. There is a reason they sell so many of them.
    :wave:
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    If the duron is a morgan, then go with both of the flags :). If it's a morgan, make sure you check out BDR's link
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    TBonZ
    Did the second part no problem, but the first bit gave me this.

    bothered.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Sorry, you need a space between "....exe" -advmethods...

    Oh yeah, and restart the folding with the shortcut in your startup folder. :)
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    space between the "...winFAH.exe" and the -advmethods - forceasm
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Wow you guys are quick. Did that and its gone in. Started with shortcut as you said.
    Thanks guys.

    bothered.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    Yes a space. For any cpu you can run both commands. Its not going to hurt it. If it doesnt have SSE or 3dnow it simply will run with standard loops.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Np bothered, I'm happy you are contributing, thanks. :thumbup
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Although the work it had already done seems have been lost. Will it just start again? or will it 'catch up' to where it was?
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Ah ha, it seems to have caught up.
    Thanks again.

    bothered.
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