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Yes, updating the points system has been suggested for many years. It often has come down to that they know the current one has problems but haven't come up with a plan that wouldn't make things worse by ticking off one group or another. Personally I fold almost exclusively CPU WUs as I mostly use m...

If you have an unused GPU folding slot that you delete using the v7 Configure, by default it will be added back. To keep this from happening, once you have the GPUs you want configured, then set GPUs to false. The ones already configured with slots will remain, the client will not rescan to add GPUs...

calxalot wrote: ↑Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:11 am You would need to use v7 with next-unit-percentage

The v7 default was to download at 99%, but even with it set to 100% for most the download occurred faster than the post processing of the WU to pack it up for upload.

Bad WU has been reported to the researcher.

I don't know how to look up a WU ID with the v8 tooling, but in the WU info page I can see the other users that it's been passed to in the past week or so: On the Work Units display in the v8 web control the "i" icon at the right shows the WU ID information at the bottom before showing th...

Reported this to the person managing the download server.

This has been seen before on the v7 client. It appeared to be due to a timing issue with stopping and restarting, especially on Windows, at certain points in the processing. Usually setting the client to Finish will complete the WU currently processing and then resume processing the previous WU. Jus...

From the Server Stats page -https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats - that WS is down and has been for a couple days. Not sure when it will be back up.

In the US it is a hard time to get in touch with people at universities. Fall semesters at them are either just started or about to start. New grad students are being brought in, and some are leaving if they are finished with their research for their degrees. Some will just be getting back if they t...

That server is down and projects will not show as active from any server that is down. There may be a period before the list updates, I used to know how long that was.

You can only have one web control account with a particular passkey in settings. I removed/deleted old v7 before I installed the new one If you had installed v8.4.9 over the v7 client it would have read the old config.xml file and transferred in your username, team and passkey settings. The same if...

And the password for the web control account is not the same as your passkey.

There is a Users Guide available on the download page for the v8 client. Strongly suggest reading through it.

That would be just one full time paid developer. There are several volunteers, they work on what they can. The GPU folding core development is done by the researchers. The researcher who originally did much of the CPU folding core work left the project some years ago. So for example when they wanted...

As a side piece of knowledge gained, I learnt about Atto (and banano, etc.), which I knew nothing about before, and I think those crypto projects are pretty cool (distributing / rewarding with coins by f@h), as they end up adding folding power instead of just wasting electricity. Just a clarificati...

They have already stopped folding, at least for now. Possibly someone with access to a new bank of servers and was running folding to stress test them.