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Hi everyone. Just joined up to the forumz recently, and wanted to get my F@H boxes added here. Nothing special, really. I've got one A64 3700+ w/2GBs, one AXP 2600+ w/512MB, one Sempron 2800+ w/1GB, and one Athlon XP 1700 w/512MB. They're all crunching away. Look forward to top-100 team status!
 
:trophy: Welcome CD :!: :trophy:
On behalf of the THGC, let me thank you for your contribution.

We can use all the new blood we can get.
Folding is fun (just try not to let it consume you like it does some people 😳 ), and it conttributes to important scientific research.

If you need help post here or PM me.

If you are interested in a folding sig, head over to DCsig and check out the ones named "THG" the one I'm using now (soon to be cleaned up a bit) is called THG9.
 
Hi everyone. Just joined up to the forumz recently, and wanted to get my F@H boxes added here. Nothing special, really. I've got one A64 3700+ w/2GBs, one AXP 2600+ w/512MB, one Sempron 2800+ w/1GB, and one Athlon XP 1700 w/512MB. They're all crunching away. Look forward to top-100 team status!
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Oh shit there goes my lead. lol 😛

Im thinking of tricking people into helping by installing it on my friends systems w/o telling them. You know it would be funny, and it also doesn't degrade performance due to the processes low priority in the task manager. Its a win win situation in my book, just not thiers 8O

Lets just hope they dont read thier monthly power bill.
 
I use EMIII because I monitor so many clients. It reads the queue.dat (which is a file that F@H creates), so I'm sure it's accurate. I believe that Stanford uses the benchmark to assign appropriate WUs to clients.

It looks like this:
EMIII_queue_dat.gif


I've got a big list, so I'll send it as soon as I get it all together.

Glad you like the sig.

@SuperFly It's called b0rging, and it is heavily frowned upon by Stanford & many here. Although, I have considered doing the local circuit city, just to see if I could. I have found a prog designed for a whole network. It was kinda cool to pick it apart just to see how it was written. Mostly simple DOS batch files.
If you have a network in mind, just ask permission first. It's really not that hard to get schools to commit to science research. I wish I would have been folding when I went to FSU. I coulda had 100's of P4s crunching :?
 
God can you imagine it, getting the entire Baylor campus Folding? Holy hell I woudl sky rocket (THG along side of course). I acctually could write an email to the head of the science department, it would be interesting to see his/her response. I acctually have a good case because of the low priority handling of the program. The only way it interferes is if Seti@home or whatever is running also. Hmmm some things to ponder over spring break. I'll prob draft the email this weekend. Believe me if I even get approval for part of the campus to run F@H you will hear about it.

Here's to open minded researchers!!!

Edit: Wait... F@H only runs once a person has logged in, so in a shared computer enviorment would F@H really ever be able to finish a WU?
 
I went and snagged EMIII, and I'm loving it so far. Just a question though: is there any way to set it up to monitor more than one client? Especially over the network? I'd love to be able to get a status report on WUs from my primary box.
 
Alright I took the risk today; I was in the university computer lab just killing time bewteen classes and I installed F@H just to see if it would run when I logged out and/or other users logged in.

Lets hope it works. FYI I only did it on 1 CPU so no big deal unless the IT dept tries to chew my ass out lol.
 
@SuperFly It's called b0rging, and it is heavily frowned upon by Stanford & many here. Although, I have considered doing the local circuit city, just to see if I could. I have found a prog designed for a whole network. It was kinda cool to pick it apart just to see how it was written. Mostly simple DOS batch files.
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Apparently the #1 Folding team doesnt have a problem borging. I some how ended up in thier forums via EMIII website and I read a thread that just rattled off thier new borgs lol.

Fight fire with fire!
 
least we have the moral highground and can hold our heads up high
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I know, i just found it amusing. Anyways, unless I can figure out how to get F@H to run while a computer is at the login screen my University idea isn't going to pan out as well as I had hoped. I went back to the computer i installed F@H on and it had gotten nowhere, rawr. Any ideas? I would guess there is a way to do it, just dont know how.

I think Ill get my friends to join too, not like they use thier computers much at all.
 
Don't know how deep you can go, but if you specified it to run as a service, it would work fine. Would start whenever Windows starts and run until the machine is actually shut down. Just a thought.
 
unless I can figure out how to get F@H to run while a computer is at the login screen my University idea isn't going to pan out
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i have sort of the same dilemma, i only mentioned F@H to one of my schools IT teachers, and i think he gave it a thought, but not too deeply, if i could get a system where F@H would only run when the computer was not in use.... then i think i could convince the school to get F@H running on about 250-300 computers....

Would start whenever Windows starts and run until the machine is actually shut down. Just a thought.
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That wouldn't really work as the computers would slow down (i know you can limit processor use), i think it would be a turning point in opinion to teachers if you could do what was described above


anyone got a way to do it?

Ara
 
i keep on sending results and it never comes up, officially, i'm not even on the team, this is the second work unit i've finished

Donator name: AraH
Team: 40051

is that all i have to input into the 'configure' menu of F@H?

edit: just got my 600mhz CPU to upload results, got 139 for it, but my P4 didn't get any credit for the nights of hard heat

thanks
Ara
 
Don't know how deep you can go, but if you specified it to run as a service, it would work fine. Would start whenever Windows starts and run until the machine is actually shut down. Just a thought.
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Can you expand on that? I know what your talkign about, just not sure how to go about implimenting it.
 
Ok the new versions of FAH have the ability to be installed as a service. It is an option on initial install, and among other things, sets the "-svcstart" flag in the comand line.
In a run dialogue type "services.msc" if you have a console version installed as a service there will be an entry called "FAH@C+location"

Services can be edited in the registry by going to "regedit" and browsing to [code:1:d820f61b19]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SYSTEM-CurrentControlSet-Services**[/code:1:d820f61b19]

If you had FAH installed as above, you could change things like flags, it's location (edit the "ImagePath" value to change those things) and its name in services by altering the reg values.

Many of the borgs I've seen install somewhere like [code:1:d820f61b19]%WINNT%-system32-directx-FAH**[/code:1:d820f61b19] with service names like "Intel service provider"

This makes them invisible to computer novices.

NOTE:** "-" are backslashes, for some reason the forumZ won't let me use that character

These installs use M$ files: intstsrv.exe, srvany.exe, some .bat files and a few .reg files

@SuperFly & CompDude I run 2k Pro, and I have FAH installed as a service it does not run unless someone is logged in.

I do have one B0rg out there, a friend of mine's laptop that hasn't been back in for repairs for me to uninstall it. It runs 35% (just enough to keep the fan from spinning up too loud) and only when he's plugged in to AC. It still turns in a WU every now and again. So, even if they only folded when someone was logged in, it would be worth it.

@ ARA Do your homework brother. It does not slow down a PC. The priority is so low that everything else gets system resources first. The only difference I've noticed since I installed is that my fan runs a little louder. If it was slowing down my comp trust me, I'd notice.
 
Dude you're on the team :wink:
standford has you Here, and extreme has you here

Realize, that extreme only updates every 3 hours, and Stanford's page is updated shortly after you send in a WU.

If you really want to keep track, get a DCsig (like 4 posts up), and you can see all your stats everytime you post.
 
Cunning, what about using the autoexec.nt to launch the console version? That should run at startup before the logon screen even appears. I'm guessing here, as I am still at work and will not be able to test this until I'm home this evening.

-J
 
It's very possible. The B0rgs are several years old. Most people lost interest when Stanford started offering clients that would install as a service. Let me know how it works out.
 
I failed in testing my borg client, stupid admin privledge are needed to modify the registry so it won't install as a service and therefor only work when I'm logged in. Hmmm
 
I don't know what the deal is but I'm getting really crappy WU's. I actually got one for 5 points. 5 points!

I'm getting these ridiculous 20,000 frame WU's that take days to complete for only a couple hundred points. A complete waste for my 4 PC's. 🙁
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Even if you set your comps to not take big WU's as Cunning said you will still get the horrid 404 and 202 pointers. The 404's are really bad they take way longer than 600's(about 10-20 hours), and the 202 are just slightly quicker than the 600's(again about 10-20 hours), at least on my X2. The only thing I can think of doing (which I may do soon) is set it to deadlineless then you can do a 239 tinker in 24 - 30 hours (atleast on my X2).

EDIT: as for the 5 points I've read on the folding forums that when a WU terminates prematurly (sp?) you get a little credit for the part you did before termination.
 
That explains the 5 pointer. I did disable large work units on two of the computers but they're still getting 10,000 frame WU's that take a couple days to complete. Really lame. 🙁
 
My current 404 pointer is going to take about 50 hours.
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Wow. I'm glad I haven't pulled any of those yet. Although, I did get one 37-point WU that took my poor little Sempron almost 3 days to crunch through. I chalked it up more to the machine, though.

That being said, I've been pulling mostly 150-point and up WUs that complete in 2 days or less on my rig. Athlon 64 3700+ w/2GB OCZ, and a very mild OC to 2.4GHz (220*11).

With any luck, I'll hit the 1k mark this weekend.

/me kicks himself for getting rid of his old cases

I need to get my 2 old machines set up and crunching too...Athlon XP 1800+ and Barton 2600+. That Barton OCs like a champ...should be able to churn out some serious WUs with those two added on. 😀
 
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