Hi!
I'm new here on the forums and somewhat new to Folding, used to do it occasionally in the past but now I have the equipment that can run it better.
I do have a (possibly complicated) question which is at the end.
Right now I have our dual Xeon E5645 (32GB, Server 2012 Essentials) at the office running folding @ home, That's 24 threads! Getting about 23k points per day now and next week our FirePro W7000 comes in! Plan to run the software on "Full" settings at least 12 hours per day.
Tomorrow I put together my 3 way SLI 660ti rig and plan to fold about 12 hours per day as well. Amd 8 core paired with it. Curious to see what I get.
I'm excited to see some serious points coming in and hopefully I'll be able to help out!
So on to my question, I've currently replaced 7 of our workstations at our office with small workstations running a MSI C847IS-P33 motherboards with a dual core celeron @ 1.1GHZ (dual core) and I would like to use these for folding on a time schedule. Our hours at 8am-6pm M-F and I would like to run F@H when we're closed. I was curious if anyone's ever don't this before, their all running W7 32bit.
Anyway appreciate any help or comments!
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Re: New Member With a Simple (Hopefully) Question
Hello DrDilbert, welcome to the forum.
On the workstations, you will be running a CPU only client, no GPUs. So install the client as a service. Then use scheduled tasks to net start and net stop the service on whatever schedule you like. I've done with with the previous version of the client. I had one set of start/stop tasks for weekdays (Mo-Th), and one set for the weekend (Fr-Su).
On the workstations, you will be running a CPU only client, no GPUs. So install the client as a service. Then use scheduled tasks to net start and net stop the service on whatever schedule you like. I've done with with the previous version of the client. I had one set of start/stop tasks for weekdays (Mo-Th), and one set for the weekend (Fr-Su).
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Re: New Member With a Simple (Hopefully) Question
Thanks for the reply!
I figured that's how I would do it, definitely appreciate the info!
I figured that's how I would do it, definitely appreciate the info!
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Re: New Member With a Simple (Hopefully) Question
Please note that it is stated in the EULA that permission is required to run F@H on systems that you personally don't own. Thus, I would suggest that you have written permission to allow F@H to run on the servers so that it won't have a negative impact on your job since verbal agreement is slightly harder to track down when compared to a written agreement 
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Re: New Member With a Simple (Hopefully) Question
Do note that GPU folding as a service under W7 is not supported. A service install works fine for CPU-only though.