Just look through the window it opens. It should say everything there. compare and make sure things look right. The fact it works means you did the force stuff right.

So yeah, just make sure the name/team # and things are right and you should be good to go.

Excellent, thanks

Well I had no idea there was an elder scrolls folding team, unfortunately I already fold for another team Aria PC technology.

And last time I checked we were quite high in the ranking's. Not that it's a competition of course

team aria with teamnum=50915 ?

could always change team I did,only very moderate contributions at that team,slightly better on this.
the main thing is of course anyone who contribute as they can,team or not

If you are currently folding, you might want to check on where your points are going. The last WU credited for these guys was well over a year ago.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=50915

Of course this is a competition. Stanford uses the whole team/point concept to help push competition. It should remain a friendly competition, and the points should be a means to an end, not the end itself. If the sense of competition nudges someone to get an additional/faster piece of hardware to increase their folding points, Stanford wins with an increase in SPD (Science Per Day). I believe the greatest points are coming from the newest/fastest hardware, but the greatest number of clients are still Windows CPUs. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats That includes Windows SMP, but the number of single and dual core cpus out there running the basic client is still huge. Until the client upgrades leave some of the older hardware behind, they will remain a workhorse for the project.

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We moved up 2 spots to #143, and it looks like we have a steady rise for the next month. I use the Threat/Conquest chart http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=52286 for these announcements. I haven't been much help the last few days because the nVidia GPU servers are screwed up again. I'm still folding the same amount of WUs, but the points are again uploading to a black hole. The majority of the missing points should show up in the next month, if they find the problem and can recover the information from the servers. This is the same series of problems they had 3 weeks ago.

Milestones (from http://www.hardfolding.com/fh_stats/index.php?pz=101&tnum=52286)
Floating_Jet 12,500 03-07-10
jaxawier 1,000,000 03-07-10 :foodndrink:
Patton1243 9,000 03-06-10
Tesenthusiast 250 03-06-10
Shanater 150,000 03-06-10
Pjstaab 50,000 03-06-10
Paceline 100,000 03-06-10
subparwelder 17,500 03-05-10
Chaul 700,000 03-04-10
wiz0floyd 25,000 03-03-10
uncle_fuzzy 25,000,000 03-02-10
(TES)_wolfpup 600,000 03-02-10

I added the links for anyone wondering where I get my numbers from.

Fold on! :goodjob:

Does anyone know where Cheyenne went? She was the top folder for some time, but hasn't now even visited the forums for a full year as far as I can tell.

I've a Core 2 Duo currently running 2 standard console clients (Folding@home-Win32-x86-623.zip) and a GPU client (again console, Folding@home-Win32-GPU_XP-623.zip) on my 8800GTX. I run F@H on my only PC and it's only on when I'm in the house, not 24x7. What are people's thoughts on changing to another CPU client? Would I get anything from these SMP clients? I understand that the Nvidia client doesn't need the CPU resources that the ATi one does.

I've noticed over the last week or so the work units are a bit diddy (I have bigpackets=big set) and I'm wondering if this is because of the new clients. So, should I change? I dunno... Thoughts?

E6850 @ 3.0 Jiggy Hurts
3.25 Jiggy Bits of DDR2

I like the SMP for it's simplicity. No need to babysit 2/4 client folders. I use the SMP on both my dual and quad C2Ds.

use two vm?s for linux 64-bit clients, on amd quads, put -advmethods and -smp 3 if I get a2 or a3 work, if I got a1 I run with -smp 4.
for example the link I put above here for -bigadv works wonders for ordinary -smp work,still running notfred on another pc.

for anyone not running 24/7 it can be hard to meet deadlines,and in case of a3 work there is bonus which obviously increase with faster completion of work.
so running two cpu clients could be just as good since the deadlines on those is by far more generous,machine-id 1 and 2 for example,and affinity low or below for them.and above/high on the gpu.

for windows clients mpich seems to be preferable (easier) to set up than denio,my own try outs confirm that,even in vm it is faster with linux 64-bit clients,don?t need 64-bit host os,as long the cpu is 64-bit combatible,it is another huge bonus with vm,in case of some gaming,just suspend the vm and game away,instant restart after

it is a drop in replacement up to 6.29 that could be nice to use,also their forum is very helpful,and knowledgeable.
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

We moved up one more spot to #142. Barring unforeseen folding accidents or more server issues, we should be sitting at #140 for next weeks' update. They seem to have corrected the problem with the NV GPU server. The problem was with the new 66xx WUs. I had 7 clients running them as soon as they were released. The WUs went into the server, but the points never came out. After 96 hours of only getting SMP points, ALL the 66xx were credited at the same update- 502 WUs at once. Funny looking graph. They've been credited promptly since then.

Milestones
subparwelder 20,000 03-13-10
Chaul 800,000 03-12-10
Floating_Jet 15,000 03-11-10
(TES)_wolfpup 700,000 03-10-10
Patton1243 10,000 03-09-10
Striken7 10,000 03-07-10
wiz0floyd 30,000 03-07-10

Still no new members, so the milestone folk get the cookie, and cake, and, if old enough, beer.
:cookie: :cake: :foodndrink:

Fold on! :goodjob:

So my roommate, the one that plays the PS3 is up island with the kids so I snatched the PS3 and am folding with it until he gets back next weekend.

I think I'll be buying a PS3 of my own at some point, for F@H mostly but there are already games here I can play for free. (Which I have yet to do with the PS3 being down stairs.)

hmm I´m dropping a few points,my audigy won over integrated sound finally,so I loose one dual slot gpu,get some more from the others but it will drop with a few k until I eventually get a single slot gpu replacement,mailed my ordinary supplier an inquiry about that today.Limited selection from the look at it though.

kind of sitting on the fence otherwise, and haven´t a clue what to do with a ps3

We moved up one more spot to #141, and should break 140 this week. Although we haven't seen any new members recently, we have had some old-timers bring new hardware or clients on-line to give our stats a nice bump. I'll be spending the afternoon building a new system, and it should be folding in a week, or so. :brokencomputer:

Milestones :icecream:
(TES)_wolfpup 800,000 03-18-10
Floating_Jet 20,000 03-18-10
Denina 175,000 03-16-10
Pjstaab 60,000 03-16-10
jaxawier 1,250,000 03-16-10
Patton1243 12,500 03-14-10


Fold on! :goodjob:

#139!

:celebration: :foodndrink: :icecream: :goodjob: :mohawk: :trophy: :ahhh: :gun:

I've been trying to get my laptop with Radeon HD4330 to produce. I didn't dare to put SMP client on it, so it's just running the standard with very low points.. However, the CPU client is not a problem. It's connecting to the assignment and work servers just fine.

The problem is the GPU client I also tried to get to run on it. It just keeps connecting to the assignment server, but it's not getting passed to any work server so it has never done any work after I first started it about a week ago.

Launch directory: C:\Users\heikura\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu
Arguments: -verbosity 9 -forcegpu ati-r700 -forceasm
...
[17:39:12] - Will indicate memory of 3066 MB
[17:39:12] - Detect CPU. Vendor: GenuineIntel, Family: 6, Model: 7, Stepping: 6
[17:39:12] - Connecting to assignment server
...
[05:31:50] Connecting to http://assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080/
[05:31:51] Posted data.
[05:31:51] Initial: 0000; + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[05:31:51] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[05:31:51] - Attempt #24 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

I disabled all firewalls and anti virus, but it makes no difference. Still, the other client is connecting just fine, so the connection should not be a problem, right? I installed AMD's new Catalyst 10.3 because it finally has support for mobility radeons. The Mobility Radeon HD4330 should have 512MB of memory on the board, so that should also be plenty. The motherboard BIOS on this HP 4710s laptop is a bit limited, so I can only configure components on and off by the looks of it and can't tinker with any parameters that I would like to try..

I also browsed through Folding@Home forums but couldn't find any help. Mostly they just wait it out for a few hours, but I've been waiting for a week.

Rank 		PointsTotal 	WUsTotal139	+2  	51,756,922  	100,035

We have now completed 100 thousand work units. :thumbsup:

From time to time I had issues with getting new work, it kind of sorted out with putting -advmethods on the gpu client,that way you get some sort of "beta work" that they want to try out, if I got it right that is,but again,on nvidia nowadays,also setting the size to -normal or -big seem to help in getting new work faster.

place 139 and all those wu?s, congratulations :celebration:

I was also going to suggest looking at your configuration. Using "big" and "-advmethods" opens you up to a larger pool of WUs for the servers to choose from when you request work.

AFAIK, the order of WU testing and release is:
Internal Alpha testing at Stanford and their partners
Closed Beta testing through the Folding Forum- several of us do this
Advanced Methods- still new and may require a little more attention, almost Beta testing "in the wild"
General release- everything else, these have been out long enough that no problems are expected

edit- I just found this.
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/03/ati-gpu-server-going-off-line-for-maintenance-today-may-be-some-wu-shortages.html

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It looks like we'll continue our slow, but steady, crawl up the standings list- another 4 spots in the next month.

Milestones
WTFimLEET 40,000 03-27-10
Floating_Jet 25,000 03-26-10
jaxawier 1,500,000 03-26-10
(TES)_wolfpup 900,000 03-26-10
Milanius 30,000 03-25-10
Dragon32 450,000 03-23-10
Chaul 900,000 03-21-10
:icecream:

No new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

I had big packets already. I didn't know that -advmethods would affect this but I added it as a command line parameter and then extra_parms in config.

bigpackets=big
extra_parms=-verbosity 9 -forcegpu ati-r700 -advmethods

Same thing continues. Ok, it has been running with these parameters for a few hours only, but still. I'll let it run for another week or so. At the same on this other computer, the GPU client is running just fine and consistently getting more work packets whenever it asks for one.

Running the standard client on the laptop is just ridiculous.. 1% takes 26 minutes (FahCore_a0.exe) on a packet that's only worth 338 points. If I set it to run the SMP client with the same work packet, the 1% frame takes twice as long. :brokencomputer: Even in the best case it's only producing <200 PPD. I figured the GPU client would fair better as I'm seeing this other system reaching slightly over 5000PPD for the GPU client while still running SMP at the same time.

Try deleting the work folder and queue.dat file for that client. It might have locked you into the server they were taking down. Deleting them may let you connect to a different server and get work.

What cpu do you have in that laptop? I have a T6400@2.0 GHz and can make a bonus on A3 SMP WUs. The GPU is a GT120M.
SMP2- 700-1000 PPD
GPU2- 1000-1500 PPD

I don't fold on this very often, but the last few times I was doing about 2300 PPD total with smp and gpu. A lot depends on the projects you get.

The CPU is a Core 2 Duo P7350. I'll try deleting the work folder... It's completely empty though, because it never got any work. It gets created when I run the client, but it's downloads nothing in there.

Also delete the queue.dat file. It has a record of what you've done, so far, including the server you're "working" with.

edit- You should be able to run the smp on that. I get 200-600 PPD for cpu clients, but almost never get WUs that put me over 500-600 PPD total for 2 clients. The smp definitely wins that battle.

I started smp and gpu after my update post. The gpu is getting 1250 PPD and the smp has only completed 1% with a 23 minutes frame time for a P6012. This is while working normally with the laptop.

Tried that too. It has now failed the first 6 tries. At some point it'll start delaying the queries and is only asking once every 40 minutes or so. There is only the assignment this thing is even communicating with. Can't change that afaik, as there is only one assignment server. This client hasn't even heard of any work servers yet because the assignment server does not seem to be doing its job. If I go to the assignment server by clicking the link, it'll reply with "OK" though as if everything was working.

Final thoughts on the gpu client. Which version- systray or console? Have you tried to reinstall the same version or the other version? I can't think of anything else.

Here's an update for anyone thinking about SMP on a laptop. The machine sat idle for about 6 hours, just folding both smp and gpu. Temps run in the low 70's.

Project ID: 6012
Core: GRO-A3
Credit: 470
Frames: 100


Name: smp2
Path: D:\smp\
Number of Frames Observed: 300

Min. Time / Frame : 00:18:21 - 1,131.82 PPD
Avg. Time / Frame : 00:20:41 - 945.80 PPD
Cur. Time / Frame : 00:19:12 - 1,050.59 PPD
R3F. Time / Frame : 00:19:21 - 1,042.44 PPD
All Time / Frame : 00:19:34 - 1,030.90 PPD
Eff. Time / Frame : 00:19:53 - 1,014.48 PPD

The Avg. time it gives is over several WUs while using the computer for other things. The gpu is still making 1250 PPD while the machine is idle, or down as low as 1150 while I'm using it. The main drawback is leaving it on for the 32 hours it takes to run one of these.

It would be your call on if it's worth the time, heat, and power used to do this on a laptop. If you're already running it for the cpu client, this might be a better choice. Once I start it, I just let it run. It keeps going through uploads, downloads, Office work, photo editing, and light gaming (Morrowind). I can leave the gpu running while gaming, but I have to stop it before streaming video. That tends to crash the client.

While writing this, the smp dropped from 1042 to 990.

The laptop just got its first A3 packet. It seems to be doing pretty well, 16 minutes per frame, almost 4 times as slow as my core i7-860, hmm, can't be.. Maybe it's because I set the packet size to normal. Anyways, HFM.NET estimates the PPD at about 1300 now, but it does not probably mean anything before even the first packet is completed.

Still no work for the laptop GPU though. It's running the systray version of 6.23 on Windows 7.