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Join the Phandroid Folding@home Team! - 56k Warning

my amd a8 with radon 6550d on chip has been running for just about 40 hours now...showing some good results and I have to say that I am impressed with the devs that have come up with the other programs to test hardware....since there is so little documentation available yet for this chip, I am getting good stats from those other programs like cpu-z etc.
 
So, I installed the 64 bit linux client on my Opensuse 64-bit server. Not sure if I'm doing this right. When I run it from console, I get this:

Code: 
server@ibm-server:~/Folding@Home> ./fah6 

Note: Please read the license agreement (fah6 -license). Further 
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.


The file FAHlog.txt has been locked by the operating system and cannot be
 opened for writing (possibly because it is open in another application).
Before you next run F@H, please ensure FAHlog.txt is not open anywhere,
 or simply delete it. For now, FAHlog2.txt will be used.


--- Opening Log file [September 29 13:43:31 UTC] 


# Linux Console Edition #######################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.34

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: /home/server/Folding@Home
Executable: ./fah6


[13:43:31] Configuring Folding@Home...

User name [Anonymous]?
Am I doing this right? When I try to log in, it just takes me through the configuration again which I don't think is right. I've configured the FAH several times and it's like it never saves the config. It doesn't really matter what I input into it. :confused:

EDIT: NEVERMIND. I'M A DUMMY. I HAD TO RUN IT AS ROOT. It's working.

Y'all got yourselves a dual quad-core Xeon IBM enterprise server on your side now. :) 8-cores crunching numbers and this server is idle most of the time.

Now I just gotta figure out how to start the F@H program on boot...
 
I fired this up today. I won't need a space heater in this room for the winter (first snow today too).

Our team rank went from 591 to 590! (Displaced Steam users forum team)
 
I don't think integrated graphics uses OpenCL, so you can't fold on it.

You can fold on your CPU though and it really is unobtrusive (Windows priority scheduler does a good job).
 
FAH v7, if that's what you're asking

Be sure to put the client-type beta option in your GPU slot to get many points (~200K vs. ~30K)
 
Well, I thought I'd participate! So I downloaded and installed the 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu version. That's where the fun ends! :eek: Running FAHControl immediately yields this error message:

Failed to launch client with command:
FAHClient --lifeline 26871 --command-port=36330
[Errno 2] No such file or directory
Click to expand...

(The 'lifeline' number changes each time.)

Selecting 'View' from FAHControl yields this error message:

Failed to launch viewer with command:

FAHViewer --width=800 --height=600 --mode=4 --cycle-snapshots=true
[Errno 2] No such file or directory
Click to expand...

I have no idea WHAT file or directory doesn't exist. :confused: The files for FAHControl are installed where I'd expect them to be, i.e., /usr/bin, /usr/share, etc. Its permissions look correct. I can RUN it, but that's as far as I'm getting.

Anyone?
 
I also get the woosh when the fans are higher than about 40-50%. Any higher and it begins to sound like a washing machine almost
 
I joined today. However I don't see that nice 3D protein model in the visualisation window even after finishing a "unit".
 
I just re registered for the forum but i was previously Lcanajoharie...number 8 on the folding team's ranking. Come on guys, there has to be hundreds of you with nice muscle PC's that could really help with the cause tremendously. I've got a quad core dell that bangs away at this stuff all day every day and never had a problem or felt any lag from the program running in the background. This is Stanford....they do big things. Let's help!
 
I have a few questions first, so does it use the processor or does it use the graphics card for this? Another question, how does this help biological questions? I visited the website, amd they say that they send your computer problems, I'm all for this, but how many problems do they have? Another question that may be hard to explain os what is the thing that is really going on during the process? From point a (Stanford) to point b (computer) point c (Stanford)?
 
It uses the processor unless you have certain high end (many of the nvidia models) graphics cards. The program does set its own priority very low and has never caused my computer to lag when I've asked it to work while folding. From what I've been able to gather, Stanford has advanced equations that need to be processed over and over again with a new variable introduced each time.... for millions of times. They send your computer a package of math problems, your computer chomps away at it and sends it back to Stanford when you are done. Your computer needs to be connected only when you send or receive a package. You can monitor all of this happening real time through the program's interface or see it all after the fact in a log the program keeps. Wish I had a more scientific understanding of what's happening so I could explain better. what I do know is that it's a good, noble thing to do if you have the resources.
 
jlyon801 said:
It uses the processor unless you have certain high end (many of the nvidia models) graphics cards. The program does set its own priority very low and has never caused my computer to lag when I've asked it to work while folding. From what I've been able to gather, Stanford has advanced equations that need to be processed over and over again with a new variable introduced each time.... for millions of times. They send your computer a package of math problems, your computer chomps away at it and sends it back to Stanford when you are done. Your computer needs to be connected only when you send or receive a package. You can monitor all of this happening real time through the program's interface or see it all after the fact in a log the program keeps. Wish I had a more scientific understanding of what's happening so I could explain better. what I do know is that it's a good, noble thing to do if you have the resources.
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Thanks for the reply. It does sound like a good thing, and I'll do this, but still, I would like a in depth explanation of what is actually going on. Hopefully Stanford can explain in depth.

So will this work with Windows 8?
 
I am back to folding after being gone for about a year. woohoo!!

Current system running: Win8 pro with an AMD A8-3870K, water cooled.

I also have the on-chip AMD 6XXX series and an ATI Radeon 7770 Vapor-X in the system, and they are being recognized by the software. Currently I am not utilizing the GPUs, have to spend some more time with the settings first.

Running well and folding away!!
 
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