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#1171

March 1st, 2008, 09:46 AM

Thr3ddy

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Finished my first WU last night

Right now I have one sitting here that won't finish till April 8th. Although, I'm setting up 3 computers (PIII, PIV) to contribute to the cause.

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jabba_29 agrees: FTC!!!

BlackDenton agrees!

Ebot agrees!

zynder agrees: Nice. Keep folding...

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#1172

March 1st, 2008, 06:39 PM

JohnFrank

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Thr3ddy

Finished my first WU last night

Right now I have one sitting here that won't finish till April 8th. Although, I'm setting up 3 computers (PIII, PIV) to contribute to the cause.

Congrats on your first WU.

Good luck with the other machines as well. Look forward to seeing your points on the board.

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#1173

March 1st, 2008, 08:13 PM

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I'm setting up the Pentium III and IV as we speak (Win2K3 R2 STD Server), I also have a Pentium II left over, but I'm kind of wondering what OS to put on it..

I own licenses for pretty much every MS OS that's out there but I'm leaning towards *nix for this one.

Edit:

F@H Systems Set-Up:

Code:

o-----------------------------------------o
|   CPU    |     SPEED     |      OS      |
o-----------------------------------------o
|Xeon 5160      3.00 GHz        Win2K3    |
|Xeon 5140      2.33 GHz        Win2K3    |
|Core 2 Duo     1.8? GHz        WinXP x64 |
|PIV            2.53 GHz        WinXP     |
|PIII           733 MHz         Win2k3    |
o-----------------------------------------o

Last edited by Thr3ddy : March 3rd, 2008 at 04:57 PM.

#1174

March 1st, 2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Thr3ddy

I run several machines that do big WU's and tried Vista 32 and XP and had no troubles with the points I get from Vists (in fact those are all Vista now), I have 1 XP machine running regular WU's and it is fine also. I read that it does not make much difference going to 64 bit OS in folding points so I have not bothered. Sorry have no feedback to give you on any *nix setup's, someone else might jump in with that info.

#1175

March 2nd, 2008, 06:42 AM

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Just passed 300 WU's in my efforts to Fold to Cure for our Dev team.

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Thr3ddy agrees!

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jabba_29 agrees: And a shiny "top 3 folder" badge to boot.. keep it up!

#1176

March 3rd, 2008, 12:16 AM

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Just rolled over 150,000 points. Diseases, run and hide.

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Thr3ddy agrees!

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Ebot agrees!

JohnFrank agrees!

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#1177

March 3rd, 2008, 02:37 PM

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Anyone???

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Originally Posted by Ebot

So does anybody know if they make a parallel processing version of the code? Ever since college i have always wanted to put some computers together and play with parallel processing. Now that i have a few boxes lying around, i thought "hey, why not!" maybe i can even help out in the process.

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Last edited by Ebot : March 3rd, 2008 at 02:39 PM.

#1178

March 4th, 2008, 05:49 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ebot

Anyone???

Well yes and no. The SMP version could be called parallel processing but from what you are probably referring to no.... The folding code development efforts are only really put into projects that can have a significant return to the folding efforts and they have a lot of projects on their plate that can yield big returns.