BWX

On a brighter note I count 42 DH-ers.. That's pretty cool.

Erroneus

Still a pretty good chance to win the card, cool

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BWX

Yeah these competitions are crazy good odds as far as most competitions/lotteries/drawings are concerned..

Tipstaff

The highly resource damnding WUs, specifically the bigger WUs, or even the QMD ones, have a specific point value attached to them, however, they also carry bonus points. Those bonuses are based on how many days it took you to run them. I can't remember the exact percentage, but I think it was that they carry a 50% increase in points. I'll have to go over the forums again to be sure.

BTW, for anyone running the bigger WUs (where you've setup you client to run them), DO NOT run them on mulitple cores unless you have properly setup your system as they are very demanding both CPU and memory wise. Even the FAQ recommends only running one on multi-core machines. Also, the FAQs all recommend that they not be run on non-dedicated machines as they will take a long time to run.

Also, if you look at the client there is also the something called the "advanced method cores", or the "-advmethods". This switch, along with allowing for Big WUs allows you to run the QMD cores. God help you if you setup the client to run these. The QMD cores are highly complicated, and they are processed using a different method of calcuation than the other cores. Basically, they are run using a quantum chemical calculation. These cores should only be run on Intel machines that have SSE2, and plenty of ram (at least 512mb per client). So again, it's recommend you run them on dedicated machines only. Also, be sure to read the QMD FAQ on them as they mention something about not running them on AMD machines as they will be slow as hell.

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BWX

Hey cool I noticed something different on this one.. it has some yellow colored molecules in the proteins..

Tipstaff

All the balls are bonded atoms. Those yellow ones are sulphur atoms. It goes like this:

Carbon = Grey
Hydrogen = Light Grey
Oxygen = Red
Nitrogen = Blue
Sulphur = Yellow

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jimmylao

See now...that's cool, it's the chemical composition of a human, neat-o.

BWX

Oh so the whole thing is a molecule.. cool- Maybe I'll go on the site and actually read about it.. ha, I haven't even done that yet.

Vikingod

Just want to say, I'm glad so many DH'ers have come out to join such a good cause. Not only is it fun, but it's for a great cause. Keep folding guys, and if anyone reading hasn't, join up and give it a shot, its a lot of fun.

Rawr

BMX I noticed you use FaHMon.. I just downloaded it myself and I'm curious if you might know why I have an orange square beside my progress % instead of a green one. You have orange as well. I read in the log it says I'm inactive but I'm clearly not and it should be green.

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BWX

I dunno- I turned on FAHMON with the F@H client off.. and it is still orange. I thought it turned color the higher you got along in the WU maybe? I'll have to check that as I advance on this one.

Tipstaff

FahMon:

• Black

FahMon is unable to access to the directory where this client is located.

• Red

The client is currently stopped.

• Orange

The client seems to be inactive or in an unknown state. The former happens most of the time when the elapsed time since the last completed frame is too high (this happens if another process is using the processor). An unknown state occurs when FahMon does not have sufficient information to decide whether the client is running or not. Check the Messages Window to know what is happening.

• Green

Everything is Ok, FahMon should display all information about this client, as long as the project database is up to date.

If you are running the client/s, and the first 2 happen, you should worry.

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Erroneus

I'm running FahMon to and sometime it goes orange here also, but after some time it goes to green automtically, so I wouldn't worry.

69% :|

Think i need to see what extra servers i have lying around and get them running.

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Tipstaff

BTW, something about FahMon I forgot to mention is that the default update of information being displayed is done ever 5 minutes. You can change that within the preferences though to as low as 1 minute (FahMon | Preferences | Monitoring tab), or if you close than restart FahMon it will update automatically from the fahlog.

Edit: Oh, and as for the changing of the status color, most times it will change as soon as it gets, or sees an update on a completed frame. Sometimes it won't update the status until after 2 consecutive updates while FahMon is running. The best thing to do is leave FahMon running as a taskbar item.

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rogue_tomato

But, my username is still ok for the competition, correct? If not, I guess I can change it, but I will lose my stats and have to start over

Chaos

I must say Team ATI is looking more like a Team DH, great turnout

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Zardon

Guys you really are doing us proud. Lets not slack off though. keep folding, and PLEASE if you are reading this and just come to DH, please join up with us. Not only will you get a chance to win an extremely sweet video card from those nice people at ATI but you are really helping progress something really benefical.

Thanks sincerely to all you guys who have joined up so far. Remember, you don't need 15 computers and its NOT a competition to get the most points, all we want is your participation.

Judas

I recently hit a snag, my x2 3800+ machine appears to be counting down the time in a negative.... and it's giving me an error code for the core download.. just keep repeating and i haven't been able to figure out how to stop it without losing all the data and frames i finally completed (oddily WAS saying 501/500 frames completed wtf? )

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Zardon

bin the work folder and start again.

Judas

omg no....

it's been chewing for 5 days..

guess i won't run folding on a vista machine

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NAZ2222

I havent posted here yet, but I'm folding too(nš 102# last time I checked)! It really is great what a pc community can do when they want! And in some way I feel good by using a pc for a porpose other than selfish playing! keep the effort everybody

My folding name is DH_NAZ2222 (big surprise there ahh?)

cheers

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ET3D

Finally finished my first WU. The second one I got has just 500 frames, compared to 20,000 for the first one, so I guess the new one will take a lot less time.

Erroneus

Damn my WU's are getting bigger, the last one was at 20.000.000 and now this one at 50.000.000 :X This is gonna take at least a week, bummer.

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Peter123

Well this pushed me to finally sign-up for the DH forum!
Still working on my first WU (as DH_Peter123)

A few of questions about the contest
1. the info page didn't mention anything about being a DH forum member
2. it also didn't mention to use your forum name after the DH
3. it just mentioned "(be sure to include the initials DH in your name)"

I suggest updating that page to state to be eligible people must
1) either post in this thread with the folding name (with the DH in it)
OR
2) use their DH folding name with a DH_ in front of it.
(or both if they want)
That way there should be no confusion on who has won (or worse yet, two people claiming it was their folding name - sadly I've seen that happen in another draw...)
and makes sure that it is DH forum members that participate.

hackerx

I got a problem.I went for the folding thing before this started and got a score of around 600.
I named my self hackerx and forgot to put the DH in.
Is there anyway to change my name without losing the points?

Tipstaff

Nope. I wish though.

BTW, people, the beta SMP client is now up for grabs on the F@H site. Currently only 2 clients are available, and those are for 64Bit Linux (32bit is coming), and Mac OS X. If you have either of these OS, and have a dual core processor (or even a dual CPU system), be sure to check out the SMP FAQ HERE, and the DOWNLOAD page for the client.

I can't wait for them to get the Windows version running.. or at the very least the 32bit Linux version going.

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Zardon

I already answered your Pm about this. You cant change your name and keep the points, however for the relevance of this competition the points dont matter as the prize isnt being given on points scored but just the fact DH guys are involved.

Just make a name like DHHackerx.

hackerx

awww man i guess i have to start over.
But erroneus said he renamed his profile though.
I pmed him.but i guess i'll start a new team.Is this a random lucky draw or does people with DH in the name and max score get the card?

hackerx

sorry about the post.I'll rename it and thnx.

Zardon

Yes you are right, I kind of thought it was obvious, however I have appended the page to clarify this. As for using the DH before your name, I dont think thats going to be critical, as ATI will be looking for a DH moniker somewhere in the name, however it would be easier to find everyone if they kept them at the start of their names.