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**Jeff** · #11 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteMateria

You have only about 14 minutes left of folding one of the smaller WUs at about 1min 55secs average time per frame. This is actually an impressive time considering that proteins under the AMBER code cannot utilize the 3DNow or SSE optimization boosts - Which brand, model, and chipset is your CPU?

I'm running a Sony VAIO desktop with an Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor and 2 GB RAM on Windows XP Pro.

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Originally Posted by WhiteMateria

The other question I have for you is this: Since you have folded one whole WU did it interfere with your day to day activities on your computer at all while running or did you hardly notice it? I think others would want to know who might be a little worried about this before running it.

I didn't notice any difference at all, although I have to admit that when I'm home, I tend to switch back and forth between my desktop (running the Folding@Home stuff) and my laptop (just for work). Here I'm usually running several IM programs and Firefox with about a dozen tabs open. At any given point I might have Visual Studio or Photoshop running as well. So all-in-all, I'd say it worked pretty well. It seems to behave nicely. Maybe I'll install it on another PC here at home...

Quiksilver · #12 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteMateria

A team member wont go up on the team stats board until they have sucessfully completed a WU for that team and the points credited have been updated on the site. Since my own WU is only 53% done it will take another couple of days to finish up and for me to even show up on the board myself.

Oh, okay. Also, my old account had 1200 something credits on it, no way of retrieving that right? Since it's not password based and you just type in any name you want.

Lol Jeff's got me beat for some reason. I have 3.0Ghz with 2G RAM and run approximately the same amount of programs as him and his goes a lot faster than mine. It takes mine approximately 20 minutes per frame. I have 220 out of 500 done right now, it says it'll finish sometime next week.

By the way, Materia, where do you check how many credits you get per work unit? I'm working on something called p1814_Collagen_POG10r

Spike · #13 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 08:43 PM

Alright. I've got this set up on my main computer and my linux box here at home, we'll see how long it takes for one simulation to run through. So far no decrease in performance.

WhiteMateria · #14 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 09:44 PM

One can check the stats of the WU here...
Folding@Home

Quiksilver's current WU

p1814_Collagen_POG10more_refolding

# of Atoms: 1116
Preferred (days): 30.00 days
Final deadline (days): 44 days
Credit: 153.00
Frames: 100 but the screenshot says 500
Code: AMBER

2.8 Ghz and 3.0 Ghz is raw computing power. I only have an AMD 64 3000+ which clocks in at 2.0 Ghz, 200 FSB x multiplier of 10, chip myself.

There is a small blurb in here about speeding things up some.
Folding Tips and Commands - AMD Forums
Some units are able to take advantage of SSE optimization boost. However in your own particular case both you and Jeff were working on the same protein only his was the first step and yours was the second step. Since AMBER coded folds cannot utilize SSE optimization then it must be the processes running in the background. Are you sure there is not some sort of security program acting as a resident scanner and stealing CPU cycles away from folding? If processes keep stealing away CPU cycles then only the idle ones are left. And there are gaps of time when Jeff does not use the computer that has Folding@Home on it (like using his laptop) so there is a burst of idle CPU cycles to help him along. When I was on Windows last week during usage a frame took about 7 minutes and without usage around 2.5 minutes. Now on Linux with this large protein it is taking about 45 minutes per 1% even with 3DNow and SSE boost on since I'm working on a GROMACS core. The only other suggestion would be to get the no nonsene text only console version for Windows instead of the GUI version.

No: I'm sorry that you cannot transfer those points to another team, but they do count towards points for your user name. Once you have a WU submitted to this team when you go to your page of stats it will list both teams probably in order of most credits first.

EDIT: To QuikSilver

Is your system clean of spyware, etc.? Have you defragged your disk lately? BTW maybe you should update the bios and motherboard driver from the manufacturer's homepage and your video card straight from the homepage of the chipset brand (nVidia/ATi/etc.). Sometimes things just work faster after you do this.

Quiksilver · #15 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 12:16 PM

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EDIT: To QuikSilver

Is your system clean of spyware, etc.? Have you defragged your disk lately? BTW maybe you should update the bios and motherboard driver from the manufacturer's homepage and your video card straight from the homepage of the chipset brand (nVidia/ATi/etc.). Sometimes things just work faster after you do this.

I updated the Nvidia driver for my video card a while ago. This computer is less than two months old and I run spyware checks periodically, my computer's clean =). It doesn't really matter all that much to me, I was just wondering. Finally got my first WU for BBB done. The next one I have says it has 20,000 frames and takes around ten seconds per frame =O.

I see detn8r contributed a piece of work too while Jeff already got his second 153 pointer down and ready. The one I'm working on has 369 or something like that...woo.

Motherboard should be up to date considering it's two months old o_0.

WhiteMateria · #16 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 09:44 PM

WU complete and updated for the team. Yeah buddy!

Here is the next protein for me...

p2051_abeta_4mer
# of Atoms: 2544
Preferred (days): 33 days
Final deadline (days): 47 days
Credit: 267.00
Frames: 100
Code: GROMACS

EDIT: I am wondering if detn8r is folding on his new machine that he got or if it is his old one and if so what is it? He seems to have some speed on those WUs from what I can tell.

**detn8r** · #17 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 11:51 PM

Nah.. not yet. I'm still running on my AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2Ghz).

WhiteMateria · #18 (**permalink**) 09-24-2006, 12:45 AM

And then when you get your new computer you can run 3 clients at the same time. 1 on your AMD and 2 on your Core 2 Duo chip. A nice little folding farm there...