Folding@eGO team, round 2! (If you don't know what folding is, please read)

[TBone01]

we might get our computer lab computers at school to fold

 

[s3rv0]

Sweet Tbone! Even sweeter if you can get them to do it for our team, though understandable if the school doesn't want to randomly pledge allegiance (pun unintended) to our team and do that.

 

[!Woodstock!]

Now that the summer heat is gone, I can start folding again. Woot.

 

[Xzbit]

I joined today, i done things like this before.

 

[s3rv0]

Now that the summer heat is gone, I can start folding again. Woot.

Was wondering why you (and some others) stopped at like 1 WU. Glad to have you back aboard. Consider your folding PC both a computer and a space heater in the fall and winter months.

 

[!Woodstock!]

Consider your folding PC both a computer and a space heater in the fall and winter months.

My case sits right by my feet, keeps them warm.

 

[s3rv0]

Yeah my subwoofer sits down by my feet, I put my feet up on it as like an ottoman, plus the top stays just a little bit warm all the time. Nice and cozy.

 

[Darklethal12]

Folding now. Great work, never knew about this.

 

[Tidus]

Wow, this is awesome. I am currently folding. =D

 

[Jawneh]

I'm back myself too. I haven't had a chance to leave my computer up and running for quite a while now. Doing it again though. ^_^

 

[SMiles]

Yeah, Im gonna be down for awhile. One of my sticks of RAM decided to die so now I am waiting on my RMA to come back. The worst part is it is a discontinued ram which means that it needs to be repaired...

 

[WaterSnake]

Almost at rank 2000.

Doing AWESOME!

 

[s3rv0]

Yeah Snake, I came to post that. Sooo close, but we've definitely hit a plateau now. Ranks will come harder, so anything you can do to improve your WU's or get the word out, if you're willing and able, GO FOR IT!

 

[s3rv0]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[LiquidToeNail]

This is awesome for the short time we've been folding as a team - great job all!!:thumbup:

 

[SMiles]

1898!! Lets keep up the good work guys!!!

 

[fathobo]

Lets get more people guys! REVIVE THIS TOPIC SO EVERYONE CAN SEE!!!!

 

[Whisker Biscuit]

Yes, we need everyone to do this

 

[WaterSnake]

S3rv0 or someone, make a tutorial on how to optimize. I can't seem to find any sort of mulitcore client.

 

[FreakingHell]

@ Watersnake - Here is a post I made earlier in this thread. Included is a link to a guide for VMWare multicore folding and a few of my own optimizations.

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100498063

That is the best guide I have found for setting up VMWare and notfreds.

Although instead of setting the priority and affinity manually through task manager(meaning you'll have to do it every time you start the clients), I manually set it in the folding.vmx file.

For a quad-core cpu, to run two instances of VM, add the following for the first instance:

priority.ungrabbed = "idle"

processor0.use = "TRUE"

processor1.use = "TRUE"

processor2.use = "FALSE"

processor3.use = "FALSE"

And for the second instance:

priority.ungrabbed = "idle"

processor0.use = "FALSE"

processor1.use = "FALSE"

processor2.use = "TRUE"

processor3.use = "TRUE"

I also am running a program called WinAFC to automatically set the GPU cores to high priority, making sure the CPU cycles get done before anything else on the CPU, especially the CPU clients.

Doing these two things(Using VMWares instead of Windows SMP, and using WinAFC to auto set GPU client to high priority and the affinity to use all 4 cores), I have increased my PPD from ~4500 to ~7750+(the + is dependant on how much I use my computer throughout the day. If I don't touch it, I easily hit 8000 PPD). Those numbers are if I fold 24 hours a day. This is rare, because this is also my gaming rig.

I am running a Q6600 and an 8800GT; no overclock on either component.