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Apr 28 2003 09:25pm

Ulic Belouve
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Ulic Belouve
Hey,

Just want to say that the Academy has a Folding@home team, so you can go to http://folding.stanford.edu/ and get the client. The team number for the JA is 31419.

MEGA EDIT:
There is now a nifty one-click that I've tweaked to work for our team. It's a quicker installer, and in addition, the greatest benefit of the One-Click is that it sets FAH up as a service so when ever the computer is powered up, it's folding.

Get it here:
http://webpages.charter.net/ulicbelouve/JAclient.zip

This one-click installer is the simplest way to install FAH on any Windows 2000 or XP Machine. Includes -advmethods flag.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the file listed above
2. Edit the client.cfg file with NOTEPAD to your username and bigpackets answer ("yes" or "no" - default is "no";).
3. Run the *.exe file.
4. The One-click will then create a directory (C:\Program Files\FAH), download the FAH console client, creates and installs FAH as a service in the registry, starts the FAH Service, and cleans up the extra download files after the install is completed.

Thanks to those that are cranking out the work thus far, and I woud like to see more people use it.

Any questions, you can check the site, it defines things more than I can. But I'll try to answer whatever.

From the F@H website:

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

From DJ Sith:
"The short story is Stanford is using the spare cpu cycles of various voulnteers to run protien folding simulations. It does this because it requires a LOT of computer horsepower to something like this, and Stanford's system's can't calculate that kind of stuff fast enough, so it sends data via the Internet to your computer.. you calculate stuff.. and then you send it back to standford. It's all done annonymously, and only when you're not using your computer (so you can leave it up and not se your FPS shoot down)."

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This post was edited by Ulic Belouve on Jan 09 2006 04:06am.

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May 21 2006 08:08pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

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Well first of all helping cure cancer and other life ending disease is a good thing. From what I remember, the program uses spare cpu... So if you arent running anything of course it is gonna hog all your resources.


Yes, it uses spare cpu-cycles, and sure, it's better turned off if you want to play a game, but I've never had any problems with it when I'm just chatting/surfing/working on my computer :)

I just need to remember that I better not close the F@H with Ctrl+Alt+Del, otherwise the work unit restarts. That sucks! :P
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May 21 2006 06:43pm

Tallepyon
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 Tallepyon

You might have accidentally started it. I do stupid things like that all the time ><

May 21 2006 06:27pm

Eica
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 Eica

Thanks. Although what I don't understand is how it only started happening now, when I installed it months ago.
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May 21 2006 05:33pm

Tallepyon
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 Tallepyon

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Alright, bumped, but not for a very good reason.

I installed this... thing.. back in March, and to be honest never got round to using it. Now, 2 months later and for no reason at all a proccess called FahCore_78.exe is taking up all my CPU Usage. It's impossible to terminate the proccess, or delete the root folder. I have since traced the proccess to this protein folding stuff. Thanks a lot Ulic, great idea :o

So basically, does anyone know how to remove all trace of this garabage from my computer?


Well first of all helping cure cancer and other life ending disease is a good thing. From what I remember, the program uses spare cpu... So if you arent running anything of course it is gonna hog all your resources.

May 21 2006 01:38pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

have you tried uninstalling it?

probably a dumb question, but I just thought I'd ask.

Anyway, this might be a helpful link for you
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This comment was edited by Bail Hope of Belouve on May 21 2006 02:00pm.

May 21 2006 11:38am

Eica
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 Eica

Alright, bumped, but not for a very good reason.

I installed this... thing.. back in March, and to be honest never got round to using it. Now, 2 months later and for no reason at all a proccess called FahCore_78.exe is taking up all my CPU Usage. It's impossible to terminate the proccess, or delete the root folder. I have since traced the proccess to this protein folding stuff. Thanks a lot Ulic, great idea :o

So basically, does anyone know how to remove all trace of this garabage from my computer?
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Mar 06 2006 09:27pm

R2D2
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 R2D2

AMD Athlon 64 bit 3400+
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Mar 05 2006 10:55pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

finished my fourth :)

seriously though, R2D2, that was way fast ... what kind of processor do you have?
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Mar 05 2006 08:37pm

R2D2
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 R2D2

Got my 2nd WU done heh.
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Mar 05 2006 08:28pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

what do you do? leave your computer on indefinitely? :P
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Mar 05 2006 12:17am

tarpman
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Moving steadily up the ranks, now with 36 WU complete. Go me! :D
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Mar 04 2006 11:26pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

I'm up to three so far, my fourth could possibly be completed tomorrow, if it runs for long enough :P
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I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion

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Mar 04 2006 08:33pm

R2D2
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 R2D2

Completed my first WU :)
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Mar 03 2006 10:39pm

R2D2
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 R2D2

I've joined as well. R2D2 was taken so I'm [JA]R2
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Mar 03 2006 09:54pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

hehe, still at it

I've joined the Jedi Academy team by the way :)
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I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion

Want to know Vladarion? Read the Article about his life here.


Jan 11 2006 02:52pm

JamesF1
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 JamesF1

I used to fold for another forum I visit - but I don't fold at the moment. I shall re-start for the JA in the next few days :)
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Jan 11 2006 01:31am

tarpman
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 tarpman

Added it to my mostly-idle server box on our team. Expect to see it clock a bunch of hours soon.
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Jan 09 2006 04:06am

Ulic Belouve
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 Ulic Belouve

MEGA EDIT:
There is now a nifty one-click that I've tweaked to work for our team. It's a quicker installer, and in addition, the greatest benefit of the One-Click is that it sets FAH up as a service so when ever the computer is powered up, it's folding.

Get it here:
http://webpages.charter.net/ulicbelouve/JAclient.zip

This one-click installer is the simplest way to install FAH on any Windows 2000 or XP Machine. Includes -advmethods flag.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the file listed above
2. Edit the client.cfg file with NOTEPAD to your username and bigpackets answer ("yes" or "no" - default is "no";).
3. Run the *.exe file.
4. The One-click will then create a directory (C:\Program Files\FAH), download the FAH console client, creates and installs FAH as a service in the registry, starts the FAH Service, and cleans up the extra download files after the install is completed.

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Jan 09 2006 01:15am

Mic Den Octela
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 Mic Den Octela

Quote:
I think this deserves a bump ;)


Word!

I'll join up with this as soon as I can.
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Jan 08 2006 05:30pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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 Bail Hope of Belouve

I think this deserves a bump ;)
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May 04 2004 05:10am

Coogee
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 Coogee

Bump :)
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Apr 30 2004 05:12pm

Battlin' Billy
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 Battlin' Billy

I think later on I might get my "spare" box working on this!

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Apr 30 2004 05:07pm

Orion
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 Orion

ah, got my linux box runing it. the executable starts on system boot :)
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Apr 30 2004 02:42am

Ulic Belouve
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 Ulic Belouve

I know there are some additional command-line switches that can be added to the shortcut to make things run smoother. I will look those up and post them.

But yeah, keep going, by all means.
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Apr 26 2004 05:46am

Lackeh- Retired
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 Lackeh- Retired

I'll have to grab this when I get home in the morning.
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