noop wrote:Hello everyone!
I have a couple of questions, so here we go lol
Current installed program: Windows XP/2003/Vista System tray client installer with viewer: 6.23
1) When the system tray client is installed, on any computer I run, if I click on display on the system tray icon, the display window comes up and nearly locks up my whole computer. I have a pc that performs well on games, so not sure why I cannot process this too?
The visualizer has never functioned properly and uses up a lot of resources that would otherwise be used for folding. Don't use the viewer at this time. If you want to know your Points Per Day, use a third-party monitoring client like FahMon, which can be found in the 3rd Party contributed software board.
2) Why do I get way less points on my main desktop that seems to process these folds with steps of 2,500,000, where as my crappy desktop only does 30,000 step folds and I get nearly the same point values? I remember reading in the points section about this, but I still don't think it is fair that if you spend lots of money on your computer and process loads of more data, you get a less reward
Hardware specs on your different computers would help. If your main desktop has more than one physical core, you can either run multiple copies of the uniprocessor client (as many copies as you have physical cores) or run one instance of the SMP client (not highly recommended for beginners due to it being beta and being more difficult to set up and maintain). Point are an rough indication of science completed, and are not strictly based on steps. A small protein could be simulated over a larger number of steps in the same amount of processor time as a large protein over a smaller number of steps. Both could be equally valuable and would therefore have similar point values.
In addition, the main indication of your systems' performance is Points Per Day, not necessarily the point value of a specific Work Unit. Ideally if you have two work units WU 1 and WU 2, and WU 1 takes twice as long to complete as WU 2, it should net you twice as many points. But the PPD should be the same, since points are based on time to completion. Note that this comparison does not always hold up, especially not between WUs that run on different clients.
3) Lets say your machine found a significant breakthrough. Would you get any recognition for that?
While some Distributed Computing projects do that, the timescales on each WU for Folding@home are too short for any one donor to be able to claim a breakthrough.
4) As a future request, could you make an option to start this up when the computer starts up instead of manually having to set this up?
I'm fairly certain that installing the client as a service will do this. It's pretty easy to do on the Console client (under Advanced Options), and possible, although more difficult to set up, with the Systray client. If the wiki doesn't help enough (
http://fahwiki.net/index.php/How_do_I_r ... Service%3F), someone else here could explain it.
5) I was wondering with all the work that everyone has done, how much time do you think we have saved if you to run this on a supercomputer? (If a supercomputer were to compute what everyone else has done, how much time would it take a supercomputer to do the equivalent I mean)
Thanks for your help everyone and hope to help continue folding
-Noop
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Afraid I don't have any hard data to make an estimate.
