Folding at Home

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:42 pm

Are you using the graphical client?

If you are, double clicking the icon on the system tray should bring you up with a screen... should give you an indication of what its doing.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:51 pm

Yes I am, it's on step 107, and still says it's using none of my cpu. So, it is doing something, it's just not registering as using any of my cpu yet when I open my task manager.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:56 pm

It must be downloading the data and prepping the machine I suppose. When it actually starts folding it will come up with "Frames completed:" followed by some stats. Should also get a little pie chart showing the progress in the current frame.

Should also get "Working..." in the bottom left corner, those are the best indications I can give of when it actually starts operating.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:09 pm

That's what I figure, it's not having the pie chart or a progress thing. Just that 'waiting for core' and 'step <#>' under 'Finished WU's'.

I just was wondering if there was something wrong or not, if it's fine then that's great and I'll just let it run and wait. I suppose I'll find out eventually if it finishes what it's doing or just stays like that.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:51 pm

Aye give it an hour

... or few

Worth it, gain some good karma in the process

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:42 pm

Either good karma is giving me the finger, or somethings screwy. It's been trying to connect and failing for hours. I went through the log and just hours and hours of attempts and failures like so...

02:08:55] - Ask before connecting: No
[02:08:55] - User name: Magrus (Team 40333)
[02:08:56] - User ID not found locally
[02:08:56] + Requesting User ID from server
[02:09:03] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:05] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:05]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[02:09:28] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:28] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:28]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[02:09:48] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:49] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[02:09:49]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[02:10:16] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[02:10:26] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[02:10:26]

Anyone have a clue as to how to fix this problem??

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:06 pm

Can't help you with that one

. Have you given the app full access to the internet (if you have a firewall/router etc.)?

I'm suprised more SYMers haven't decided to partake in Folding@home

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:23 pm

Yes, make sure of that. I just shut the thing off since it wasn't working.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:14 pm

It works now. Whatever made it freeze and not connect to the server fixed itself.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:48 pm

Ahh good, welcome to the magical and divine world of protein folding

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:52 pm

Yep, definately affecting my processing speed on things though.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:02 pm

Does it really? I see no noticeable effects whatsoever. Even when playing CPU intensive games.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:17 pm

Yeah, I had it turned up to use close to 100% of my CPU. It's fine once I have programs up and running, it's when I open new programs and such that it bogs down. I just turned the settings down to where the default was at, I'll see what that does.

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:24 am

Ey! Look! we've gathered 150,000 points!

_ Name................. Score WUs
1 C_Elegans_lab........ 36307 136
2 C_Elegans............ 29947 101
3 Silur................ 20625 80
4 Vicsun............... 17482 65
5 Monocell............. 13327 130
6 Xandax................ 9121 43
7 FroZenFlaMe........... 7398 60
8 ik911................. 6448 65
9 C_Elegans_laptop...... 4792 35
10 Fas_Work............. 2929 32
11 faisal_aziz_siddiqui. 2257 24
12 garazdawi............ 1986 21
13 Denethorn............ 1881 63
14 Qark.................. 967 6
15 Anonymous............. 487 3
16 garazdawi-server...... 429 3
17 Magrus................ 364 1
18 himself............... 241 1

(Damn, I'm never gonna beat CE like this

...)

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:27 pm

I hadn't seen this before. I think I have downloaded it and I think it is working. No pi charts, though. It seems to think a work unit might be finished in November. Would that be right ?

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:36 am

[QUOTE=Fiona]I hadn't seen this before. I think I have downloaded it and I think it is working. No pi charts, though. It seems to think a work unit might be finished in November. Would that be right ?[/QUOTE]
That's probably the deadline you're looking at - you'll be likely to finish the work unit much earlier. How fast you finish it depends on how fast your machine is and how often it's running. The deadline is set arbitrarily by the server depending on how big the WU is.

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:38 am

Thanks, Vicsun

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:01 am

Encore! We've gathered 260,000 points! (Of which 50% comes from the Elegans Household.

)

_ Name................. Score WUs
1 C_Elegans_lab........ 54277 218
2 C_Elegans............ 44114 181
3 Silur................ 32459 126
4 Monocell............. 29537 238
5 Vicsun............... 27729 130
6 Xandax............... 18280 87
7 ik911................ 16695 130
8 FroZenFlaMe.......... 12728 95
9 C_Elegans_laptop...... 7690 47
10 Fas_Work............. 2929 32
11 faisal_aziz_siddiqui. 2257 24
12 garazdawi............ 1986 21
13 Denethorn............ 1881 63
14 Qark.................. 967 6
15 Anonymous............. 487 3
16 garazdawi-server...... 429 3
17 Magrus................ 364 1
18 himself............... 241 1

Anyone who hasn't tried running Folding @ Home yet: This is your opportunity to help the world!

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:51 am

Heh, I didn't see this before. Well since I've been doing this for SETI for quite a while now, why not do this in turns as well ... Ashen_Shugar here.

Hmph ... it's going to take forever to finish one it seems but hey

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:54 am

A hearty congratulation to C_Elagans Lab, Xandax and ik911. You are the only ones who can spare their spare CPUs for the betterment of mankind...