Katawa Shoujo Folding@Home Team

[Waru]

Few times now I've received errors on the gpu client near the end of a WU

Also are there any settings I can modify on the gpu/cpu clients to increase the workload when I'm not using the computer? Such as when I'm at work or sleeping.

[berserker29]

Few times now I've received errors on the gpu client near the end of a WU

Also are there any settings I can modify on the gpu/cpu clients to increase the workload when I'm not using the computer? Such as when I'm at work or sleeping.

Here's an article on optimizing a GPU client for stability and efficiency.

http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/artic ... iables.php

The easiest way to get more out of your CPU is to just run more clients. (Max of 1 per CPU core)

[Bara]

About the only one I can think of off the top of my head is accepting large (over 10MB) WU's. As for the amount of CPU cycles used; it should be using any unused cycles up to 100% unless you have put a cap on it in the client configuration.

[Kota]

Just here to post a thank you for letting me fold for a good cause for a cool group of people. I had been folding a long time for another group, but that group kinda died and I was about the only one out of 100 people in the entire group folding. So when I saw your KS team announcement, I hopped right on.

I'm Shinsei_GPU_2 (yeah, crappy name) and I have my two video cards (8800gt and 8600gts), my quad-core cpu, and my PS3 working for the cause most of the time. Cheers!

You.

YOU.

YOU'RE THAT DAMNED JUGGERNAUT THAT LIMITED MY TIME AT #1 TO MERELY A DAY OR LESS.

Damn, keep up the folding, bro.

[cpl_crud]

So I finally bothered to install the SMP version on my home machine instead of being lazy.

The extra CPUs at work seemed to be lagging a little so I figured this was a nessecar step. Also I think I'll leave the PC running for a few days and see how I fare. Maybe buy some new PCs to stick in the vacant rack space at work.

[ShinseiTom]

Just here to post a thank you for letting me fold for a good cause for a cool group of people. I had been folding a long time for another group, but that group kinda died and I was about the only one out of 100 people in the entire group folding. So when I saw your KS team announcement, I hopped right on.

I'm Shinsei_GPU_2 (yeah, crappy name) and I have my two video cards (8800gt and 8600gts), my quad-core cpu, and my PS3 working for the cause most of the time. Cheers!

You.

YOU.

YOU'RE THAT DAMNED JUGGERNAUT THAT LIMITED MY TIME AT #1 TO MERELY A DAY OR LESS.

Damn, keep up the folding, bro.

Uhhhhh.... sorry? If it makes you feel better, I'm slowly falling behind. I turn everything but the PS3 off when I play games (which is often), so you can probably catch up and get ahead of me.

(Especially since Borderlands is coming out soon. I fully intend to play the crap out of that game, so I probably will only be PS3 folding for a while.)

[Silentcook]

There is no "sorry", only the ticking down of units towards an unimaginably distant goal.
THIS IS FOLDING.

[Bara]

Here's an article on optimizing a GPU client for stability and efficiency.

http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/artic ... iables.php

I read that link and put in the system environment varaibles for NVIDIA cards and it seems to have helped my 8800 GTS run a bit faster on my dual core. I haven't tried to measure if there is any real difference. This is only eyeball guesstimation.

[Pickles]

Ugh, this 2 million step GPU WU is taking more time to complete than many 20 million step WUs I've seen.

[Bara]

Yeah, some days I seem to get nothing but slow protiens to fold; I guess it is just the luck of the draw on which ones you get, Pickles. Meh...

[berserker29]

Yesterday I got two GPU WU's that folded really slow - at least compared to other GPU WU's - but they were worth a whopping 1888 points each, so it didn't affect my PPD all that much.

If anyone is interested, here is what seems to be the best website for current information on F@H developments and hardware information: http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news.php

BTW, does anyone know of a virtual machine program like VMware, but for free? I'm thinking of migrating over to Windows 7 soon, but I want a way to preserve my XP stuff... preferably a way that doesn't cost almost as much as the OS itself...

[delta]

The non-crippled version of 7 include Microsoft Virtual PC, with the express purpose of running an instance of Windows XP inside it for compatibility reasons (and that copy of XP is included as well).

[Bara]

Well, for what it is worth my install of Win7 went with out any major hitches (minor sound card driver problem since its an old SB Audigy card). Of course I was going from Vista and not XP. My clean installs from XP are scheduled for when I have a gun put to my head and verbal abuse screamed into my ear, and not one second before if I can help it.
GPU and SMP Clents didn't even hiccup. If anything the GPU client may be a hair less flaky than under Vista.

[berserker29]

I've ordered a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, and set newegg to auto-notify me the next time they get any Radeon HD 5850's in stock.

Anyone else planning on taking a DX11 plunge? The new card will only be worth about the same PPD as my current one for now, but fairly soon (I predict in 6-8 months) the GPU3 client will arrive, and use openCL which should see similar results regardless of GPU brand.

EDIT: TOP 500!!! I think that is officially record-worthy.

[Tweaked]

Hooray for the TOP 500! We finally made it possible!

@berserker: I'd wait for the DX11 craze, unless you have money.