Folding@home News 23rd - 30th October

colinmcr · 2 Nov 2014 at 22:08

postmanfw said:
Was doing the skynet thing and enjoyed the extra heat in house

Decided to join the folding team too now.

gpus are a bit out of date though

How does the work they do compare to newer models?

Welcome to the team and thanks for helping out with POGS.

The magic number about about Folding is getting the most PPD for least amount of watts or PPW (Points Per Watt). Its all about the electric bill at the end of the day. Older cards tend to be rather power hungry and output less PPD. Its finding a balance that suits you and how much you are willing to spend. Upgrading to less power hungry card can pay dividends. There are quite a lot of articles around the web.

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2014 at 07:01

hopefully voicon & diogenese will see the light and get there F@H running again soon

miniyazz · 3 Nov 2014 at 21:11

Currently loving free electricity so if anyone has any spare 290Xs etc they fancy throwing my way I'll happily set them folding for you in my PC

andy_taximan · 4 Nov 2014 at 08:31

Free? Is it legal? lol

miniyazz · 4 Nov 2014 at 19:39

Lol it's included in my rent for my temporary accommodation

This temporary internet lark's a right pain, the GPU WU this morning finished roughly 5 minutes after I left for work, cue 10hrs of doing nothing and losing points on a completed WU.. get back and send it off, get the new one, guess what? Due to finish half an hour after I leave for work tomorrow

I tried telling it to download the next WU at 99% this morning which would have at least got it doing some work during the day but it ignored me :confused:

MGP · 4 Nov 2014 at 20:06

You should be able to change that percentage.

miniyazz · 4 Nov 2014 at 20:51

MGP said:
You should be able to change that percentage.

Yeah, previously it's worked, just this time it did nothing!

andy_taximan · 4 Nov 2014 at 21:27

miniyazz said:
Lol it's included in my rent for my temporary accommodation

This temporary internet lark's a right pain, the GPU WU this morning finished roughly 5 minutes after I left for work, cue 10hrs of doing nothing and losing points on a completed WU.. get back and send it off, get the new one, guess what? Due to finish half an hour after I leave for work tomorrow
I tried telling it to download the next WU at 99% this morning which would have at least got it doing some work during the day but it ignored me

Got a smart phone? install Team viewer on pc and phone and you can log on pc from anywere

or plenty other options

miniyazz · 4 Nov 2014 at 22:37

andy_taximan said:
Got a smart phone? install Team viewer on pc and phone and you can log on pc from anywere or plenty other options

Hello, no internet

Using my smartphone to tether but obviously that's not much use when I'm not at home.

I set the next-unit-percentage flag before leaving home and it passed 99% without making any effort to download the next WU, at which point I had to leave. Will try it out again tomorrow.. 94% will err on the cautious side and should be plenty.