Folding@Home News - Attention Single-Machine Crunchers
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News to come shortly - rumours that I came home after a long few days at work and fell asleep on the couch are yet to be confirmed 
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News to come shortly - rumours that I came home after a long few days at work and fell asleep on the couch are yet to be confirmed
I keep doing that. "I'll just rest my eyes." I tell myself that every time.
hmm, I think the word you are looking for is "slacker"
Last I looked you were still behind me
Yep that's the one - I've been covering for various people for about the last month now and it's really starting to grind. Halfway to my first job this morning I'd already fulfilled my contracted hours for the week - ah well I still enjoy the work and the weekend is just around the corner
Just tired enough to go back to sleep now
News is on its way
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You can knock me upto quad-core now please Rich
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There might be another request coming in the next couple of weeks too
There might be another request coming in the next couple of weeks too
Ooooh
Updated and news already en route
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Welcome
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Hi, I'm new too. Dual core, folding on both of them, at least for the moment. We'll see how it goes
Welcome to both of you - I'll add you for the news on Thursday
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Is this the right place for asking questions, or should I make my own thread? Regardless, I'm going to ask just in case
I've been running the GUI client for a while, folding for another site I'm on, but they aren't really doing anything, so I thought to make the move to OcUK (Yay). Installed 2 copies of the command line clent and set them both up, and installed FahMon, and it all seemed to start fine. The two different versions were both appearing in Fahmon with different WUs, and I went to sleep happy. Woke up this morning, checked it out, and they now both have the exact same WU, which was started at the exact same time. Downloaded at 8am, one of the programs has done 21% of it, eta 6am tomorrow, with a PPD of 727, while the second core is sitting on 0%, no ETA and no PPD. And according to the stats page, I've only submitted one WU.
So, I'm obviously doing it wrong, but don't know where/how. Also, my E6600 is at 100% usage, and the two Fahcore_78 programs are using 50% CPU each.
Finally, I've got an X1950XT which is overclocked a bit. Would it be worth switching one of the CPU cores to the GPU client instead?
I've been running the GUI client for a while, folding for another site I'm on, but they aren't really doing anything, so I thought to make the move to OcUK (Yay). Installed 2 copies of the command line clent and set them both up, and installed FahMon, and it all seemed to start fine. The two different versions were both appearing in Fahmon with different WUs, and I went to sleep happy. Woke up this morning, checked it out, and they now both have the exact same WU, which was started at the exact same time. Downloaded at 8am, one of the programs has done 21% of it, eta 6am tomorrow, with a PPD of 727, while the second core is sitting on 0%, no ETA and no PPD. And according to the stats page, I've only submitted one WU.
So, I'm obviously doing it wrong, but don't know where/how. Also, my E6600 is at 100% usage, and the two Fahcore_78 programs are using 50% CPU each.
Finally, I've got an X1950XT which is overclocked a bit. Would it be worth switching one of the CPU cores to the GPU client instead?
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Welcome aboard
New members are entitled to post any queries here, but needs for assistance are more likely to be answered in their own thread.
Sticking clients can usually be restarted without any issues, providing they haven't been damaged. Close the stuck client and see if it restarts.
Whilst the X1950XT will gain more points that a standard client, you'd be far better looking at the WinSMP client since you've an E6600. It's designed for multi-core CPU's, and gives far far more PPD than the standard client (2000ppd+ should easily be possible with an E6600, more if it's overclocked). Whilst it was designed for quad-cores (it runs 4 threads), we've found that you can actually run one client per core and get more PPD than if you ran one per CPU.
New members are entitled to post any queries here, but needs for assistance are more likely to be answered in their own thread.
Sticking clients can usually be restarted without any issues, providing they haven't been damaged. Close the stuck client and see if it restarts.
Whilst the X1950XT will gain more points that a standard client, you'd be far better looking at the WinSMP client since you've an E6600. It's designed for multi-core CPU's, and gives far far more PPD than the standard client (2000ppd+ should easily be possible with an E6600, more if it's overclocked). Whilst it was designed for quad-cores (it runs 4 threads), we've found that you can actually run one client per core and get more PPD than if you ran one per CPU.
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I suppose you may take me off the single-crunchers list Rich....
But it'll likely be this time next week before I'm up to full speed. I still have to finish clocking this Q9450, and it'll likely be the w-end before I can get to clock the Q6600 under water again.
But it'll likely be this time next week before I'm up to full speed. I still have to finish clocking this Q9450, and it'll likely be the w-end before I can get to clock the Q6600 under water again.
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