What is Folding @ Home?

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Usefull info. I'm running the graphical style with an AMD 64 processor so I tried using the

C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceSSE

But when I then try and start folding it just brings up a box with the permitted switchs - both of the above feature - but it doesnt like them for some reason.

Have reduced it to

C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods

And it's fine!

Any ideas ???

I don't know about the flags thing, but I have found the console is a nice way of running FAH as a "let it run" service. Means I no longer have to watch the molecular cr4p going on, and even for a PC numpty like me, the DOS/command prompt stuff is fairly OK to comprehend

(thanks to TKW for going through this with me the other night! )

the good old "c:\FOLDING\FAH504-Console -config" seems simple enough to use and I know its working after getting some points on the board yesterday.

Don't forget that FAH isn't restricted to Windows. There's a (console-only) version for all flavours of Linux, which will also run (with a suitable flag) under OpenBSD.

Don't forget that FAH isn't restricted to Windows. There's a (console-only) version for all flavours of Linux, which will also run (with a suitable flag) under OpenBSD.

And Macintosh.

I'm wondering if its worth having stickies for:

Setting up program version on windows

Setting up as a service on windows

Setting up on Linux

Setting up on Macintosh OSX

:confused:

Anyone?

I'll happily do a tutorial for setting up the graphical version for windows.

can do it this week/weekend wiv photo's n evryfink

This thread is so useful I decided it needed a good kick up the ar......

well, just loaded it onto my new mac Mini with dual core cpu...

only to find i need to run two clients...pants.

will have to re-read these instructions carefuly before doing it.

Here to hoping the release a new client that actually fully uses dual core cpu's SOON!

To install onto dual cpu/core system, install 1 client using a processor ID of 1, then install it again into a different folder using a processor ID of 2. You then have 2 folding sessions on the same machine.

The above doesnt apply to a single hyperthreading CPU though.

Anybody got any info on how to make it work when you ahve more than 8CPU cores working on the task at hand? The machine ID is only 1-8

DO we want a linux multi core how to doing as i'm pretty good with that now