Folding@Home Setup Guide: Illustrated for your pleasure

etting up EMIII
also by Bigstan

EMIII is another FAH monitoring program. Its full name is Electron Microscope III. It is more powerful and capable than FahMon but as a result it tends to use more system resources. It makes it far easier to monitor networked clients and generally produces more accurate completion tme predictions. The program can be downloaded from the EM site

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Bikerz said:
etting up EMIII
also by Bigstan

EMIII is another FAH monitoring program. Its full name is Electron Microscope III. It is more powerful and capable than FahMon but as a result it tends to use more system resources. It makes it far easier to monitor networked clients and generally produces more accurate completion tme predictions. The program can be downloaded from the EM site

Link doesnt work:confused:
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The guy who wrote EMIII is no longer distributing the program - it should probably be removed from the guide.

FahMon is a good tool for monitoring, a lot simpler than EMIII but that's not a bad thing.
 
Sort of. Each client can only be set for one team, but if you have more than one computer or more than one client running on the same machine you could set them to different teams.
 
Hi,

I just started & installed this on an old Celeron machine at work, I only really use for Emails, so its a small start.

I've followed the user guide, which was easy enough to follow. The only question I've got at the moment is. In Fahmon, the client is showing with a yellow square. Is this because the machine needs time to do some work & figure out an ETA etc?

Any other tips would be much appreciated.
 
BenhB said:
Hi,

I just started & installed this on an old Celeron machine at work, I only really use for Emails, so its a small start.

I've followed the user guide, which was easy enough to follow. The only question I've got at the moment is. In Fahmon, the client is showing with a yellow square. Is this because the machine needs time to do some work & figure out an ETA etc?

Any other tips would be much appreciated.
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correct - cause it has not finsihed an part of the work unit yet then it will still show as yellow till maybe 3/4% of the WU has completed.

Not sure how you will get on with the celeron as it's going to struggle to finish most WU's being fairly slow and old cpu.
 
Thanks. It looks like it will be painstakingly slow. 5 Days & 3 hrs to complete the WU! I'll see if I can dig out a newer machine from the store & hide it under my desk.
 
willhub said:
Is there no GPU client for Vista yet?

Is it possibly to run a CPU client alongside the GPU one?
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The GPU clients should work fine in Vista.

And yip you can run a CPU clients alongside the GPU client providing you've got atleast a dual-core CPU.
 
So I just download the GPU client listed for XP/2003 which should work in Vista?

And I guess if I am in a game the folding client will stop so basically it just uses CPU and GPU at idle?
 
Yeah just download the latest client for XP.

You're better pausing the GPU client before loading a game. You can try leaving the CPU client running. It should be fine, but stop it if it causes any issues.
 
Oh right.

One last thing, is the 4870 good for folding? :p, is it one of the best single cards out for that? I guess the 3870X2 and GTX280 is faster and can do more though?
 
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