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Same here. Sucks pretty hard.	877 Views / 9 Replies
Same here. Sucks pretty hard.
Posted by Welnic, on Jul 1, 2010 at 01:45 AM, in Feedback

Folding. Bring it on.	1,937 Views / 28 Replies
Folding. Bring it on.
Posted by Welnic, on Feb 4, 2008 at 03:10 PM, in Team MacNN

Yes, that is correct. There is a version that...	693 Views / 7 Replies
Yes, that is correct. There is a version that uses more than one processor but it only runs on Intel rigs. You need to have another folder for it to run in, and then copy just the client into that...
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 29, 2008 at 02:43 PM, in Team MacNN

Just to note that the process you want to kill is...	693 Views / 7 Replies
Just to note that the process you want to kill is the CLI client itself, not the core that actually does the work. This is whatever you ran to start folding. I've renamed my client fah6, so if I run:...
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 28, 2008 at 03:15 PM, in Team MacNN

Of course, just not turning the computer off...	2,669 Views / 23 Replies
Of course, just not turning the computer off doesn't totally fix this problem. It also heats up and cools down if you change the load on the processor. The solution? Run a distributed computing...
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 24, 2007 at 01:29 PM, in Mac Desktops

I don't think that you have to nuke what you...	3,727 Views / 11 Replies
I don't think that you have to nuke what you already have to increase the partition size. I think that you can go into to bootcamp and increase the partition size dynamically.
Posted by Welnic, on Dec 21, 2006 at 05:38 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems

I would have rather gotten a tower with single...	2,341 Views / 13 Replies
I would have rather gotten a tower with single dual core processor, but since that is not an option I ended up with a 24" iMac. The display is pretty stunning. I play Civ4 on a variety of machines,...
Posted by Welnic, on Dec 12, 2006 at 06:30 PM, in Mac Desktops

The new SMP client has helped me out quite a bit....	1,299 Views / 21 Replies
The new SMP client has helped me out quite a bit. I have a mini with a dual core intel that I don't have to leave in windows anymore. And on my 24" iMac I no longer have two copies of ubuntu running...
Posted by Welnic, on Dec 12, 2006 at 03:13 PM, in Team MacNN

I warmed up the 1,000,000 mark for you. :)	1,296 Views / 13 Replies
I warmed up the 1,000,000 mark for you. :)
Posted by Welnic, on Jul 11, 2006 at 03:16 PM, in Team MacNN

I've quit buying stuff just for DC, so my output...	556 Views / 1 Replies
I've quit buying stuff just for DC, so my output is going to be pretty flat from now until I change my mind. But it is not going to go down much, either.
Posted by Welnic, on May 21, 2006 at 07:14 PM, in Team MacNN

When the time listed is cpu time, then it doesn't...	122,727 Views / 970 Replies
When the time listed is cpu time, then it doesn't matter if you were doing anything else with the computer. If it says 3600 seconds that means that the computer worked on the wu for an hour. If it...
Posted by Welnic, on Aug 16, 2005 at 10:50 AM, in Team MacNN

If you are trying to download BOINC, for SETI or...	554 Views / 4 Replies
If you are trying to download BOINC, for SETI or Einstein or whatever, I didn't have any problems downloading at the main boinc site: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php But you can download...
Posted by Welnic, on Aug 8, 2005 at 08:03 AM, in Team MacNN

When this script runs the -local tag applies to...	646 Views / 6 Replies
When this script runs the -local tag applies to the directory that it is in. I would change the script to: #!/bin/sh cd /Users/james/F@H11 ./fah5 -local advmethods -verbosity 9 & The & will...
Posted by Welnic, on Jul 24, 2005 at 08:47 AM, in Team MacNN

To run as a background process you just have to...	704 Views / 12 Replies
To run as a background process you just have to add & to the end of the line: ./boinc & Since once you do that you can't really tell what is going on, I pass the text output into a file: ...
Posted by Welnic, on Jun 1, 2005 at 11:37 AM, in Team MacNN

I only have one machine still on Climate...	653 Views / 10 Replies
I only have one machine still on Climate Prediction, it seems to be running fine. Since the work units take at least a month getting new work is not a problem very often. But the fact that it leaves...
Posted by Welnic, on May 25, 2005 at 09:32 PM, in Team MacNN

If you go to your account at Einstein you should...	853 Views / 8 Replies
If you go to your account at Einstein you should be able to edit your Boinc general preferences. In there you can set the maximum number of processors to use. As long as you have that set to 2 then...
Posted by Welnic, on May 19, 2005 at 02:13 PM, in Team MacNN

I haven't had any problems, but I only have F@H...	647 Views / 4 Replies
I haven't had any problems, but I only have F@H running on one rig and it isn't really doing anything else right now. When I have had trouble in the past with updates or a full new install I think it...
Posted by Welnic, on May 17, 2005 at 11:20 AM, in Team MacNN

Ditto for me. I have really been wanting a new...	4,666 Views / 53 Replies
Ditto for me. I have really been wanting a new rig, to me this seems to be best bang for the buck. This will be the fourth refurbished G5 that I have ordered, the other three for work.
Posted by Welnic, on Apr 27, 2005 at 01:26 PM, in Mac Desktops

Peak in Climate Prediction	543 Views / 2 Replies
I have reached my peak rank in Climate Prediction. Number 7 overall, but 9 out of the 10 guys right below me are catching me. I also have the top Mac, 26th overall and the top AMD, 28th overall....
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 19, 2005 at 09:29 PM, in Team MacNN

The windows version has a built in service...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
The windows version has a built in service installer. I'm not sure that it works on 2000, though. I installed it on a bunch of XP boxen, but I think there was some issue on the one 2000 box I tried....
Posted by Welnic, on Oct 7, 2004 at 03:26 PM, in Team MacNN

I'll start cranking on Tuesday once dFold is...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
I'll start cranking on Tuesday once dFold is over. I have to keep going over there to hold on to tenth.
Posted by Welnic, on Oct 2, 2004 at 02:26 PM, in Team MacNN

Re: Re: MACH5 cluster	549 Views / 3 Replies
I think it would still take about 3 weeks to do a unit. But at the end of 3 weeks it would have done 2200.
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 30, 2004 at 10:51 AM, in Team MacNN

Except that in cpdn they don't have the...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
Except that in cpdn they don't have the verification crap, you just get the credit when you trickle. But it still doesn't make any sense. Not that I'm bitter about the verification, but I have...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 28, 2004 at 03:33 PM, in Team MacNN

If you are trying to download anything and you...	600 Views / 7 Replies
If you are trying to download anything and you just see a lot of gibberish show up in your browser, go back and either Option-click or right-click on the link and select Download linked file as....
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 28, 2004 at 11:44 AM, in Team MacNN

That RAC seems to be totally useless to me. One...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
That RAC seems to be totally useless to me. One of my computers has been running constantly on cpdn, turns in about 400 points a day and has been doing that for the last 24 days. Its RAC is 400....
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 28, 2004 at 12:47 AM, in Team MacNN

F@H is very straightforward about how the credit...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
F@H is very straightforward about how the credit with team switching works and that makes it easy to understand. You can see just looking at your stats that you could have points that you did on...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 24, 2004 at 05:59 PM, in Team MacNN

How does cpdn deal with credit when you change...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
How does cpdn deal with credit when you change teams? Does the credit that you currently have stay with the old team? Do you still show up in some fashion at the old team? Definitely if you total up...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 24, 2004 at 12:42 PM, in Team MacNN

If you run ./boinc -attach_project it will ask...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
If you run ./boinc -attach_project it will ask you for the URL of the project that you want to add. Run that in the boinc folder that you already have cpdn running. It will then add seti and then if...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 19, 2004 at 05:47 AM, in Team MacNN

The best way to see what is going on with these...	2,075 Views / 77 Replies
The best way to see what is going on with these issues is to use top, which shows you the running processes and how much of the processors each is using. I use the command: top -u -s 20 The -u...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 18, 2004 at 07:45 PM, in Team MacNN

It works fine to kill the boinc process. You do...	722 Views / 15 Replies
It works fine to kill the boinc process. You do not want to kill the hadsm3se process, which is the one that actually does all of the work, as data would be lost and the boinc process would probably...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 18, 2004 at 07:23 PM, in Team MacNN

I like to add something so that you can see what...	722 Views / 15 Replies
I like to add something so that you can see what is going on: @reboot cd /Applications/boinc; /usr/bin/nohup ./boinc > output.log & This puts the output that you would see in the terminal if...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 14, 2004 at 09:06 PM, in Team MacNN

Actually, I'm thinking of doing something with...	710 Views / 18 Replies
Actually, I'm thinking of doing something with one or more of the BOINC projects. I've been doing some Climate Prediction, and I'll probably look at Predictor once that is open for signups again. I'm...
Posted by Welnic, on Sep 9, 2004 at 10:48 PM, in Team MacNN

As I read it, it sounds like the guy worked at...	8,982 Views / 48 Replies
As I read it, it sounds like the guy worked at Radio Shack. That seems to be a good reason to be excited about it.
Posted by Welnic, on Aug 29, 2004 at 03:40 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components

I don't see anything in your crontab that would...	760 Views / 14 Replies
I don't see anything in your crontab that would not run. You can call more than one command on a line. I have the following line in my crontab (now commented out) from when I ran chessbrain, and it...
Posted by Welnic, on Jul 16, 2004 at 04:17 PM, in Team MacNN

Here is the performance ranking on the last...	843 Views / 14 Replies
Here is the performance ranking on the last version of the client: http://www.md5crk.com/stats/perf.php You don't have to scroll down too far to see where my 2GHz G5 ended up. ;) I have been...
Posted by Welnic, on Jun 24, 2004 at 12:43 AM, in Team MacNN

I have picked up a couple of Double Gromacs on...	631 Views / 13 Replies
I have picked up a couple of Double Gromacs on one of my G4s. They use Core 79. I don't have any real idea of whether they were worth more or less per time than a regular Gromacs.
Posted by Welnic, on May 5, 2004 at 03:27 PM, in Team MacNN

Running it as a service really does work well....	447 Views / 2 Replies
Running it as a service really does work well. There are ways of doing that by using RegEdit or something, but I also just use FireDaemon. I had to get the full version so that I could run two...
Posted by Welnic, on May 1, 2004 at 12:50 AM, in Team MacNN

I think that it would be the other way around,...	631 Views / 11 Replies
I think that it would be the other way around, they would not want us to support SETI. If they wanted to be found they could just show up. If they want to hide then they would do something like cause...
Posted by Welnic, on Apr 21, 2004 at 03:15 AM, in Team MacNN

I had 3 dual 800-1200MHz G4s and one HT 2.4 GHz...	707 Views / 5 Replies
I had 3 dual 800-1200MHz G4s and one HT 2.4 GHz P4 doing F@H. In an effort to chase down OCC I moved over my private farm, which is 12 2000-2400XPs. My borged company machines stayed on dFold. I also...
Posted by Welnic, on Mar 14, 2004 at 01:52 PM, in Team MacNN

I have seen both "Closed for maintenance" and...	458 Views / 3 Replies
I have seen both "Closed for maintenance" and something like what mikkyo saw.
Posted by Welnic, on Mar 13, 2004 at 11:13 AM, in Team MacNN

Update on upgrades, my replacement for the...	757 Views / 17 Replies
Update on upgrades, my replacement for the upgraded to dual 800MHz G4, a dual 2GHz G5, does 20% of p520_BBA5-pf in 1:53.
Posted by Welnic, on Mar 9, 2004 at 12:20 PM, in Team MacNN

If you are looking at work units that are...	916 Views / 9 Replies
If you are looking at work units that are actually in your folding folder, then you are running with the -local flag. I think that this means that you would need both -local and -send all to send...
Posted by Welnic, on Mar 3, 2004 at 06:37 PM, in Team MacNN

If you are not seeing anything after the...	916 Views / 9 Replies
If you are not seeing anything after the FINISHED_UNIT line that seems strange. I don't think that F@H has a setting for not turning in data. This is what I see after a work unit finishes and uploads...
Posted by Welnic, on Mar 3, 2004 at 01:42 PM, in Team MacNN

I just poked around in some FAHlogs. Running on...	757 Views / 17 Replies
I just poked around in some FAHlogs. Running on the p520_BBA5-pf protein my home computer (stock dual 800MHz G4s) did 20% in 5:28. On the same protein my work rig (dual 800MHz G4 upgraded from 400MHz...
Posted by Welnic, on Feb 27, 2004 at 10:01 PM, in Team MacNN

I upgraded a 400MHz G4 (it has an AGP slot) to...	757 Views / 17 Replies
I upgraded a 400MHz G4 (it has an AGP slot) to dual 800MHz G4s. I have a machine at home that came with 2 800MHz G4s. As far as doing distributed computing I have never noticed a difference in output...
Posted by Welnic, on Feb 26, 2004 at 03:27 PM, in Team MacNN

It's not the MacNN stats though, FAH's official...	541 Views / 4 Replies
It's not the MacNN stats though, FAH's official stats are borked.
Posted by Welnic, on Feb 11, 2004 at 11:29 PM, in Team MacNN

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid...	3,806 Views / 30 Replies
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=197922
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 26, 2004 at 02:47 AM, in Team MacNN

Looks like both teams are feeling the affects of...	3,414 Views / 102 Replies
Looks like both teams are feeling the affects of the increase in Tinker units for x86 machines. I'm just glad that my G4s are still getting Gromacs.
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 25, 2004 at 08:52 PM, in Team MacNN

In the folding directory there is a file...	588 Views / 7 Replies
In the folding directory there is a file FAHlog.txt. This contains exactly what you would see if ran folding in a terminal in the foreground. If want to keep tabs on what is going on run: tail -n...
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 21, 2004 at 07:20 PM, in Team MacNN

All of those flags apply to linux boxen as well...	735 Views / 12 Replies
All of those flags apply to linux boxen as well as windows. All of my AMDs are linux boxen, actually. The hot ticket for linux used to be to run the windows version in Wine, I would think that...
Posted by Welnic, on Jan 21, 2004 at 12:17 PM, in Team MacNN

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