w00t! Started Folding..

[Phoshious]

Finally got F@H setup as a service, etc. So here I am.

Folding on an Athlon 2100+.

 

[BillR]

Welcome aboard, glad to have you and all that good stuff

Fold on

BillR

 

[Celerator]

Phoshious,

Welcome aboard. Be sure that your service is setting -forceSSE and -advmethods. By the way, how did you set up as a service?

 

[amohedas]

You can use a program called firedeamon to set up folding as a service then use a program called Electron Microscope to view how you are chuggin' along.

Hope that helped

 

[Phoshious]

Yeah, I used that FireDaemon app.


forceSSE and -advmethods - What do those do?

 

[Celerator]

[color=sky blue]-advmethods [/color] communicates to the assignment server at Stanford that you want to work on the latest protein work units. Generally these have been higher point producers (Gromacs vs. Tinkers).

[color=sky blue]-forceSSE [/color]tells the client that it should use SSE instructions, if available, and if the folding client runs into problems, to continue using these instructions (force them). AMD chips that support SSE gain substantially with -forceSSE.

[color=sky blue]-verbosity 9 [/color]is another flag you can set that writes more details into the log file. Note the space before the 9. This flag doesn't affect performance but it can help one to figure out what is happening when things are not working as expected.

I'm not sure where one puts these when running as a service, but I'm sure one of the [H]ard experts will fill us in.

 

[Phoshious]

Alright, so I thought it was a service (actually - it was, it was showing up in my processes) but I don't think it's doing anything, so for now it's just running in my taskbar (which I hate ). That doesn't really work, because if someone logs off, I want it to still run.

Any ideas on how to do this 'the easy way'?