Folding Forum

Hi. I've just come back to FAH after not running it on my machine for a few months, and I looking to do some more advanced setups. Right now I'm folding on my laptop though I plan to set up my gaming rig as well sometime in the future. Anyways I have a few questions, some of which I may put in future posts as I remember what they were.

1. Is it possible to pause work in the console clients, the way you can with the systray clients? I know about the -oneunit flag but that's a little different since it completes the current WU before stopping. I'd like to be able to pause it immediately without exiting the client the way you can in the systray client (this is pretty much the only reason I use the systray client since the viewer is broken).

2. On the download page for the GPU clients it lists the default choice which seems to work on both ATI and Nvidia cards, as well as another one that has a special Nvidia themed viewer. Is t his the only difference between these clients? The reason I ask is because some of the documentation on the site suggests that there are specific GPU2 clients for Nvidia and ATI cards.

3. How do you set the windows based clients to run at startup? I remember this being easy with the 5.03 client but I haven't figured it out with the latest version.

4. Not really a question, but something I'd like advice on since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. I'm currently running 2 uniprocessor systray clients on this PC. I have this computer set up to dual boot windows and ubuntu, and I migrate between them. I'd like to be able to "share" my two clients between both OSes so that they're productive (not that I care about points, I'm doing this to contribute to science). I have two systray clients running on windows now, and I successfully moved the clients to new directories on my shared partition while still using the .exe in the Program Files folder to launch them both(I just modified the shortcuts to access the different data folders). Since the linux clients place the fah6 executable within the data folder, it seems that putting a copy of that executable in the data folders on my shared partition and then running them would cause them to run just as they had before. I haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it works. I also don't know how to set up shortcuts in ubuntu though that doesn't really relate specifically to FAH.

5. In the linux each FAH client runs 4 instances of the core (though only one is active per client), is this normal?

6. Not relating to clients, but if I join or switch teams will my accumulated points be transferred to that team or will it only count new points I generate after that point?

1. I don't believe that is possible without a major change in how the console clients interact with the user.

2. I don't know.

3. The first method is to simply ( or not so simply with the SMP console) configure the console to run as a service. This allows the console to start running as soon as the machine is booted with no requirement that a user be logged in. The second way is simply place a shortcut to the console/systray client in the startup folder however, this requires the user to actually login.

4. The Linux and Windows clients use different cores and will not necessarily run each others WU's. So currently, sharing WU's is not really a good idea. My suggestion here is that rather than dual booting try getting a virtual processor program such as VMware and run both operating systems simultanously choosing the host OS to also fold.

5. I'm not sure what you are asking here. If you are running the multiple Linux SMP clients there should be four threads for each client, all of which should be running. However, if you are using the uni-processor Linux client there should be only one thread operating per client, and if you have multiple clients then all of the threads should be active.

6. Old Points stay with the old team so a new team will only get new points. All the points (both new and old) will still be credited to you. You will simply have multiple teams listed, each with it own points.

Regarding #5. When I launch the 2 FAH (uniprocessor) clients in linux, it lists 4 separate instances of FahCore_a0.exe for each client in the system monitor but only 2 get CPU runtime.

That's too bad about the dual boot, it would've been nice to share the work between the OSes. It's only really an issue on this computer as my other one is almost exclusively Windows.

Another question: Do the viewers work with the console clients? (both CPU and GPU)