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You would need to distribute it over so many Pis that it just wouldn't be worth the cost of the hardware or space taken up by them. Secondly, writing software that can split its workload over many processes running on different computers across a network is quite a bit different to writing software that just distributes work over a number of threads on the same system. It would be much simpler to just have each Pi run its own WU, but as we've already established, it would never finish.
 


The Raspberry Pi CPU performance is about the same as a 200 Mhz Pentium 2. It does have a nice GPU, considering, but its performance is a bit below the GF 6200 and doesn't support direct compute.

Edit: Just as a guess, I'd say you would be looking at 30 to 40 PPD if there were a core for it.

Edit2: OOPS, that should be "400 Mhz Pentium 2", not 200 Mhz. Keep in mind that performance comparison is difficult because it varies depending on what is actually tested. E.g. numeric calculations vs. memory read speeds, etc.
 


right now, I'm currently deciding what to do after I get the GED and Computer IT training here.

Option 1 is to head to the US Forest service that is hiring Job Corps students that have come from a center that is also ran by the forest Service (all JC centers are run by the Department of Labor but only a few are jointly run with the Forest Service).

Just so happens that the Harpers Ferry Job corps center is on of those few. 😗





Option 2 is to head to advance training that will take 1 additional year to complete and that will be at a Special/Advance Job Corps center somewhere else in the US.

Minnesota, New Jersey, and California are 3 of the 9 locations that I'm aware of and there not all the same.


Although I'm not 100% sure what Advance training gives you beyond what the normal Job Corps provides but I'll know more once my shadowing starts on Monday and Tuesday and starting my trade the Tuesday after that.


Well, I'll be back home on Wednesday for thanks giving break and wont be back to the center till Monday night. So i'll be able to share some additional stuff then.



Yeah i get Monday off as well, the center director here on this center is labeling the day as "Travel Day" to allow all students that are from out of area (There one student all the way from Georgia) to get back to the center.
 


If you do decide to go the forestry service route, volunteer for every internship you can. Most are low wage pay, funds are donated by Trout/Ducks Unlimited etc...
But a lot of the supervisors for these projects are the higher ups ,who eventually have influence on your getting hired.
Showing a can do attitude and getting along with your fellow workers can go a long way in securing a job once your schooling is finished.


 
The thing I want to know is: permission for what?

From the website:

http://www.theopensourcery.com/sqlitedocs/sqpragma.html

"When synchronous is NORMAL, the SQLite database engine will still pause at the most critical moments, but less often than in FULL mode. There is a very small (though non-zero) chance that a power failure at just the wrong time could corrupt the database in NORMAL mode. But in practice, you are more likely to suffer a catastrophic disk failure or some other unrecoverable hardware fault."
 
Is this your machine? Have you tried the basics i.e. delete the WU, reinstall F@H, browse the F@H forum?

A database lock generally occurs (at least in older versions of Access) when another user or program is modifying the data or it may be the fault of insufficient file permissions.
 


You too. :)

 
Have any of you ever experienced audio buzzing and then freezing while running folding? I suspected it was the GPU overheating and driver crashing, but I haven't folded in over a month and the issue has continued on a smaller scale when I am listening to music. Nothing very GPU-intensive is running when the buzzing occurs and it happens about once a minute. Temperatures appear normal as well.

I got a BSOD today which may or may not have been related to that issue. I have already created a thread (http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1904045/bsod-driver-power-state-failure.html) on the problem but I felt that perhaps folders would be better able to help find a solution.
 
So a buzzing in the audio (from the speaker) or a physical buzzing from inside the computer? Due to poor shielding of most onboard audio chips, you ca get EM interference from the placement of components and system load (folding, gaming, etc). Beyond causing load on you CPU/GPU though I don't know of folding itself specifically causing a buzz.
 
Thanks for the reply, it's a buzzing from the speaker/headphones. Why would that buzzing also occur along with freezing of the computer itself, though? I might look into getting a cheap soundcard if it solves the issue. It appears now to be unrelated to my BSOD if it's just due to the onboard audio shielding.
 


I just updated the video card drivers yesterday so those are not the problem
Click to expand...

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=25288

There are known issues with the latest drivers and F@H.
 


I've been doing this a long time and I've seen that problem before, maybe I should say heard that problem before. It usually turned out to be the power supply, usually. Try putting in another power supply if possible to see if that fixes it. Folding causes a much heaver load on the power supply and this can cause high frequency ripple in the power. I've replaced the filter caps in several of my power supplies just to keep folding without having to buy new equipment.

You might want to look on the motherboard for caps with bulging tops. If you are technically proficient you can look in the power supply to see if there are caps with bulging tops in there as well. Filter capacitors loose there effectiveness with age. One of the big differences between a cheap power supply and an expensive power supply is the expected life of the caps used in it. Keep in mind they all go bad eventually, the more load you put on them the sooner they go bad.

FYI: I've had buzzing from CPU cooling fans and from the iron cores on video cards and from CPU power regulators as well so be sure it's coming from the audio circuit.

FYI2: I once had an air conditioner that would cause serious interference on the power line that could be heard over the computer speakers every time it kicked on just before it went bad so be wary of stuff with motors that kick on and off.
 
Weird problem.
Three times now I have had IE crash with an error message. A problem with this website has caused IE to close and reload the page.
Along with an error asking if I want to close the program causing the error.

When this happens F@H weirds out and starts downloading Work units. It then starts folding on three of the new work units. 1CPU and 2 GPU. While the units that were initially running sit until the new units finish.

So this morning I wound up with 9 work units waiting in my queue. With points slowly counting down. By the time It gets around to folding them, they are not worth much.
Did not want to delete the slots as I had a 15,800 point CPU unit 76 percent finished, but was put on hold until the new units finish. And 2 8018 units about 50 and 56 percent finished.

It also crashes Asus AI suite. And only has happened on Toms so far.

Could it be my blocking flash , and tracking cookies. There are 17 tracking cookies on the main page and 9 on this forum page.
Also all pictures and avitars are not showing this evening. Site problems or part of the tracking cookies being blocked?

F@H version 7.1.52 and IE 10 all accelerators removed ,and the only helper running is JAVA.
It really is put a hurting on my PPD for a couple days when it happens. And I don't like deleting units so I just let them run.

Twice I got a C++ has stopped responding error, but not this morning.
 
Whoa, can't say I've ever seen that before. You could try on the official folding forums, see if the dev can help explain it. Though 7.1.52 is pretty old. Is there a change in 7.2.9 that you don't like?
 
No just finding a time when all three units finish end somewhere close together.
I still Dual boot XP and WIN7. As of now I just put a copy of the F@H control from XP in the WIN7 start up folder. It has ran like this for two years now so hopefully I can do the same on 7.2.9.
On the F@H site I can only find 7.3.6. Is dual booting possible with the newer version.

I still have a few office programs that do not work in Win7 so I still need to dual boot.
 
Down at the bottom of this page:

https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/BetaRelease

They have all of the old versions.

I thought 7.2.9 was pretty much just an improved 7.1.52, but I am not 100% sure. 7.3.6 was where they implemented some more controversial changes (like the web control and interface changes). I've never tried your config so I'm not sure - my guess would be 7.2.9 is pretty similar to 7.1.52 so it should work, and 7.3.6 would probably work.
 
As an update I turned off tracking protection and low and behold all of the avatars, badges, notifications, smileys, page navigation etc. started working again.

But now it says 30 services on this site are tracking me 🙁

Will have to figure out how to stop the tracking but still have functionality. ??????
 
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