Fold for Forgotten Hope

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by Sicarius

Why are things always turned into a competition?

Well you have to have horns to hold up the halo.

It is a little competitive, but at least it's for something good. I'd rather point whore to help science than to line the pockets of some greedy game company. If it wasn't competitive then the whole folding system wouldn't be set up ladder style rewarding top producers with color coded name tags, etc.

I'd like to even reward our own producers with goodies a little later. I was thinking maybe forgotten hope t-shirts and/or hats for the top 10... something to make it more fun and rewarding.

The competiveness is good for the folding@home project. Thier point system is based on value of the value of the work units. They reward you in the way of points if you choose to DL a "big" work unit with a shorter deadline. They also reward you for using SMP, PS3 or GPU clients becasue all in all the more we all produce, the faster they get results.

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by HarapAlb

Oh, point whoring. It does not sound that good when you say it that way I fold under the baobab nickname.

Hehe, my apologies.. I was just showing you as an example because your point to work unit is really impressive. I wish mine were that good. My office is like 15 degrees higher than normal because I'm leaving all the machines on 24/7 to fold now... So if anyone is a whore here, I am. Your one machine is producing what my whole office is producing because all of my computers are about 3 years out of date.

[Real-BadSeed]

When i finish building my new monster rig, ill put this one to work asap. I just cant do it now, because im always using this one, pretty much full time. I should be done building sometime soon after xmas.

[HarapAlb]

No need to apologize Rad, it did not offend me one bit. I was joking.
The points/WU average is high only because I have a single machine which is an SMP. The most important metric is PPD in my opinion.

[Knoffhoff]

Originally Posted by HarapAlb

The most important metric is PPD in my opinion.

And I only got 112 with my machine. Working hard on climbing up the scoreboard anyways.

[[ZS]Solomon]

I have a Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3,2 GHz, so I took the advice and downloaded the Windows 2000/XP/Vista SMP client console version 5.91 beta. After installation, I ran the install.bat, like I was told in the setup. Then it asked me for a Username and a PW. After entering it, it just said "unable to connect". Any help? The other Version ( Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista text-only console (with built-in Windows-service-install option) 6.00 beta1) works fine. Does the 6.00 beta1 also fully utilize the C2D?

[Mr. BlOnd.Dk]

I tried the same thing with my C2D E6600, with same result. They do recommend the SMP client only for quadcore processers though. maybe that is the reason??

[HarapAlb]

You should run the SMP client even on a dual-core. It gives you more points than running two regular clients.

The SMP version will ask you for a username twice. First time you have to introduce your Windows username and password. This is needed by MPI I guess to launch the other processes. You'll recognize when it asks for the Windows username because it will display the default answer between square brackets and it will be [your_machine_name/your_windows_login_name]. So just press ENTER at that point. On the next question when it asks for your password, type your Windows password.

It will ask you for a folding username later and at that point you introduce the nickname you want to use for folding.

You need to have .NET Framework 2.0 installed as well.
You can read the installation instructions at Folding@home - FAQ-SMP

[[ZS]Solomon]

Important: the FAH v6 beta client has replaced the v5 SMP client for Linux and OSX platforms. Several settings have changed. Please read the v6 instructions before running the client on these platforms. A more integrated set of instructions will be forthcoming.

This is from the installation guide you pointed me to. Does this mean, the v6 Beta also does SMP? When I was running it, I had about 60-80% on both cores. I was just wondering, if the SMP would be faster, because Rad said so.

[HarapAlb]

SMP versions of FAH v6 beta are only for Linux and OS X. Not for Windows. For Windows you need to run v5.91 if you want SMP.

With the SMP one you'll have 100% on both cores . You can actually throttle it not to use 100% if you want so.
But the point difference comes primarily from the type of jobs that you execute with the SMP. Those jobs are larger and they have deadlines, that's why they receive bonus points.
You cannot get those jobs with the regular client.