Save the World- Start folding today!

[Speedo]

You have any sense of the cleanest way to nuke the existing work unit and have it start from scratch? I've got two goldfish and two elephants ready and they might as well take off from the starting line at the same time.

I would say delete the queue.dat and the work folder, if you don't mind losing everything you've worked on.

 

[Furiey]

or copy the folder first so that you can restore it afterwards and continue where you left off.

Doing this has saved me from having to start over when I had yet another power cut...

 

[Abaddon]

how did you know the power cut was coming?

 

[Furiey]

I didn't, but having had several small ones recently (just glitches really but long enough to stop the PC) I started backing up the directory at convenient times, so I lost maybe a few hours work but not the whole lot and have to start from scratch due to a checksum error.

 

[Abaddon]

aha makes sense.

Anyone got ideas how we can make more people read this thread?

 

[IglooDame]

I would say delete the queue.dat and the work folder, if you don't mind losing everything you've worked on.

Meh, they're mostly equal at between 10% and 30% of their various work units right now, so I'll leave them as-is; the differences should iron out over the long run anyway.

I've got two 500MHz Celerons and a 433MHz Celeron on each side, the Elephants have 256MB RAM and the Goldfish have only 128MB. Tomorrow or Friday I'll be adding an additional 500MHz to each side. I'm going to go in this afternoon and make sure that the operating systems (XP Pro, at the moment, Linux someday) are identically optimized.

@Sloz: At this point I think we're doing the Hari Krishna thing; anyone considering joining already knows we're here and everyone else is just averting their eyes and clicking the next thread on. The Elephant vs Goldfish race isn't exactly going to fill a stadium.

 

[Abaddon]

perhaps they need a drum roll as they enter the stadium?

 

[IglooDame]

perhaps they need a drum roll as they enter the stadium?

I thought that the elephants running in would provide that automatically.

Anyway, I'm up to three per side now, but as none of them are even at 50% yet, it'll probably be a couple days before we see any results at all. Actually seeing performance differences between the two teams might take weeks.

 

[ironduck]

Who's the Radioactive Monkey?

Btw, anyone know why my f@h client says I've done 10 WUs while I'm listed as having done 22 on the website? It appears that it splits up the WUs when it sends the results rather than sending a big goober as one wu..

I also don't understand why the small ones (say 500 frames) take about 1 minute per frame, while the big ones (12500 frames) take about 7 seconds per frame.

 

[IglooDame]

Who's the Radioactive Monkey?

That was my herd of Celerons, for a while. Now it is a few low-end machines in my office that didn't make it into the Great Elephant-vs-Goldfish Race.

Btw, anyone know why my f@h client says I've done 10 WUs while I'm listed as having done 22 on the website? It appears that it splits up the WUs when it sends the results rather than sending a big goober as one wu..

My F@H clients seem to underreport numbers of WUs completed, I think it archives the completion file somewhere and doesn't get back to it, maybe after reboots?

I also don't understand why the small ones (say 500 frames) take about 1 minute per frame, while the big ones (12500 frames) take about 7 seconds per frame.

No idea, sorry.

 

[ironduck]

My F@H clients seem to underreport numbers of WUs completed, I think it archives the completion file somewhere and doesn't get back to it, maybe after reboots?

Maybe, I have daily crashes of my computer so it's possible.. when I've been looking it seems like it breaks up the way it reports wu even while the machine is running though. As long as it delivers valid wus I'm fine with it

 

[Speedo]

I also don't understand why the small ones (say 500 frames) take about 1 minute per frame, while the big ones (12500 frames) take about 7 seconds per frame.

You must be getting some very simple WUs then. All the WUs I can remember seeing on any of my comps have been 400 frames, and my fastest CPU -Athlon64X2 4400- takes about 5 min per frame (2.5 per frame if you consider that it's working on two WUs at once). I would venture to guess that it's probably the most powerful single CPU on the CFC team.

 

[Eli]

I decided to give this thingie a try, although I joined the Longevity Meme team from www.fightaging.org and not the CFC team.

 

[Eli]

Oh, and I have a question.

I spend most of my time with my laptop in a place with a very limited internet connection, is there a way to download a large chunk of data so that it will take me at least 4-5 days to process it without frequent connections to the servers?

 

[Abaddon]

well ive no idea with fighting ageing- but my laptop can take that long to chew through a folding@home work unit.. and if its not on the net, it just sits there til i get back on the net so it doesnt really matter.

 

[Eli]

Yes, but the whole idea is for it to not sit till I get a connection again since that might take a few days.

 

[MjM]

Downloaded, running, think I joined?

 

[Godwynn]

Downloaded, running, think I joined?

Got a screenie?

 

[MjM]

Sadly my comp cant take screenies (rather the printscrn button on this keyboard is broke) but the name is MjM and I joined team number 47958, which is the CFC one If im right.

 

[Godwynn]

Sadly my comp cant take screenies (rather the printscrn button on this keyboard is broke) but the name is MjM and I joined team number 47958, which is the CFC one If im right.

That is the correct team number, your name should appear on the team list once you complete a WU and F@H sends it back to the Pande Lab.