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[Fifty]

Unfortunately I have to turn off my folding quite often as it seems to make my games not work! But when I'm not playing a vidya game I generaly keep it on unless I forget to turn it on after playing a vidya game for awhile

 

[Abaddon]

every little helps!

@ Sah, i'd expect a better estimate soon!

 

[scienide09]

Good to see that other forum members are involved in distributed computing. Just wondering, has anyone established a CFC team for SETI@home, or Predictor, or the others? They use a different program (BOINC) than F@H, so I'm also curious to know whether any of you have tried running both on the same machine.

 

[Perfection]

Has anyone else had trouble running the thingy with Moo2?

 

[Till]

Has anyone else had trouble running the thingy with Moo2?

Works perfect for me. But i use the service version, maybe that's the reason?

@scienide09:
I suppose you could run both at the same time, but it would mean each project gets only 50% processor time. Personally, i'd rather help curing cancer, than finding aliens.

 

[scienide09]

I suppose you could run both at the same time, but it would mean each project gets only 50% processor time. Personally, i'd rather help curing cancer, than finding aliens.

Yeah, I figured as much, but was wondering if anyone had actually tried. Since both programs run in the background, they would be competing for processor time.
As for the comment about aliens, that's only one of the BOINC associated programs. Check out the BOINC page and the many different project that are participating. On of the advantages to it over F@H is that BOINC lets you simultaneously contribute to multiple (and different) projects, rather than just a cure for cancer. At least five of the BOINC projects are related to human heath and disease.

 

[Till]

Boinc sounds good, but i don't wat to start anew. Curing cancer is enough for me, i'm humble.

 

[IglooDame]

As for the comment about aliens, that's only one of the BOINC associated programs. Check out the BOINC page and the many different project that are participating. On of the advantages to it over F@H is that BOINC lets you simultaneously contribute to multiple (and different) projects, rather than just a cure for cancer. At least five of the BOINC projects are related to human heath and disease.

Personally, I think it's like giving $20 to a charity, or $5 to each of four charities. It really doesn't matter, the important think is that twenty more dollars are going to charitable causes of some sort or another.

CFC previously had a grid.org team but the servers got flaky and most people (including me) have dropped off it either for that or because it didn't run easily as a service. Now I'm inclined to encourage everyone to run Folding@Home mostly because teams from different processor-sharing organizations (BOINC, @Home, etc) can't compete with each other and so the most competitive (and thus most participatory) way of doing it is simply competing with non-CFC teams.

So, my whole $20 is going to stay with a single charity for the near future...

 

[scienide09]

Personally, I think it's like giving $20 to a charity, or $5 to each of four charities. It really doesn't matter, the important think is that twenty more dollars are going to charitable causes of some sort or another.

Certainly this is true, and I recognize the difference between concentrating on one project instead of spreading resources around. Especially if you can get a dedicated team going, like you wonderful folks from TeamCFC are doing for F@H.

Though I will say that the nice thing about BOINC projects is that if there is any down-time with one project (host server issues, project maintenance, hardware upgrades), your computer still has work units from other projects to crunch. Thus you yourself don't have any down-time waiting for the project to come back online.

 

[lost_civantares]

If you feel that you can't rely on the servers you can set F@H to download multiple work units (which can be useful for laptops when you are away too).

 

[IglooDame]

Within the next day or so I'll be repointing a lot of my boxes at a team I'm trying to help get back on active (team 32486, they're currently 402nd but haven't done much for a while), but I promise I'll be returning to our team sometime soon.

 

[Tubby Rower]

you better watch out we might catch up to you

 

[El_Machinae]

@scienide09:

I love it. I love that there are more and more Distributed Computing projects coming out. Mainly because we have a LOT of computers in the world, and they're getting more powerful all the time.

I spend time now on F@H, and I think it's time well spent. Someday I think we'll have DC projects for each of our pet hobbies, meaning the average person can contribute to research they believe in. The trick isn't to try to get our $20 (to use the analogy) - we're already giving. The trick is to get non-folders to support a DC project. As long as it's a project that advances mankind (I don't care if it's looking for aliens or tracking quarks), it will help us in the longrun.

The more people we can get mobilized, the sooner we reap the benefits. And that's a good thing.

 

[IglooDame]

you better watch out we might catch up to you

Good point, I'll leave the celeron herd pointed at Team CFC...

 

[Sophie 378]

Celeron herd, what a wonderful mental image. Them grazing under a tree, and a few break free through the river ... then along comes the cowboy, stampeding them back into our team!

Sophie 378. Silly comments and flights of fancy a speciality. Accept no substitute.

 

[Blazer6]

I plan on making some major upgrades to allow this old computer to last for another four years, what hardware would improve folding?

 

[taper]

Good to see that other forum members are involved in distributed computing. Just wondering, has anyone established a CFC team for SETI@home, or Predictor, or the others? They use a different program (BOINC) than F@H, so I'm also curious to know whether any of you have tried running both on the same machine.

I currently run Folding at 66% and Prime95 at 34% on my desktop, and Fold at 40% on my laptop. I used to run Folding, Prime95, and 4 different Boinc projects at the same time, but dropped Boinc after it did some flaky stuff.

With all configs default, Prime95 and Boinc shared processor time equally, while Folding hid in the corner doing nothing. By upping Folding's priority one notch, and reducing processor percentage, I was able to get all 3 running without too much trouble. The only thing I have to turn Folding off for is Rome:Total War. The other two didn't interfer with anything I have.

 

[scienide09]

The trick is to get non-folders to support a DC project. As long as it's a project that advances mankind (I don't care if it's looking for aliens or tracking quarks), it will help us in the longrun.

The more people we can get mobilized, the sooner we reap the benefits. And that's a good thing.

Agree 100%, especially with the last line. I just came here looking to see if there was a CFC team for a Boinc project. I'd start one myself, but that might take away from people joining F@H and working with you guys.

 

[scienide09]

@taper -- Thanks for the info. Glad that someone has been able to run both at the same time.

As it is, I was cruising around the F@H wiki, and it seems there's a F@H for BOINC in development. (Let me stress -- this is not a move away from the current software!) So maybe someday soon I'll request to join the team.

For now, I'll stick with what I've got and monitor things, all the while hoping for new developments.

 

[Abaddon]

Sophie 378. Silly comments and flights of fancy a speciality. Accept no substitute.

Needs to be sigged!