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one last thing...

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[22:09:13] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[22:09:13] Version 1.54 (November 26, 2003)
[22:09:13]
[22:09:13] Preparing to commence simulation
[22:09:13] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[22:09:13] - Not checking prior termination.
[22:09:14] - Expanded 192878 -> 957589 (decompressed 496.4 percent)
[22:09:14]
[22:09:14] Project: 684 (Run 47, Clone 88, Gen 5)
[22:09:14]
[22:09:14] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[22:09:14] Entering M.D.
[22:09:34] (Starting from checkpoint)
[22:09:34] Protein: p684_TZ2_EXT_EXP
[22:09:34]
[22:09:34] Writing local files
[22:09:34] Extra 3DNow boost OK.
[22:09:34] Writing local files
[22:09:36] Completed 0 out of 2500000 steps (0)

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i just wanted to know what all this means... thanks for the help!

You're using SSE if you got the 3DNow boost. You must add -forceSSE to your targetline in your shortcut

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Originally posted by sapasion
You're using SSE if you got the 3DNow boost. You must add -forceSSE to your targetline in your shortcut

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when i added that it gave me an error...and sayin it wasnt a flag...

this is what mine looks like right now...

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winfah.exe" -advmethods -forceasm

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Originally posted by sapasion
You're using SSE if you got the 3DNow boost. You must add -forceSSE to your targetline in your shortcut

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-forceSSE only works with the 4.00 beta client.

For the 3.24 and 3.25 clients you want to use -forceasm, if you have an AMD chip. If you're running Intel it should pick up SSE automatically.


Another handy flag? -verbosity 9 Increases the output in the log file if you like to see more of what its doing.

Yeah I know its truly all in the Set-Up Thread

i read that, and did what it said, i just am not sure if it is actulay doing anything you know?

Is there a way to make it use more then 50% of my proc power? I have the bar all the way over to the right. Or is that hyperthreading at work.

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Originally posted by Muk108
i read that, and did what it said, i just am not sure if it is actulay doing anything you know?

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Sounds like you've encountered a common problem and no its not working for you right now. The surefire why to guarantee success is uninstall and reinstall. The greatest key is ensuring all flags are in place prior to the client starting. -advmethods and -forceasm or -forceSSE depending on which version you use are the two most important in your case. After those flags are in place then and only then can you run the client. Now is it possible to enable SSE during a WU without a uninstall/reinstall? Yes it is but it does not always seem to work. If you pause or quit the client and then add the flags and then resume it might work; it might not give it try that way first and if that doesn't work wait till your current WU completes and then uninstall/reinstall

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Originally posted by Alientank
Is there a way to make it use more then 50% of my proc power? I have the bar all the way over to the right. Or is that hyperthreading at work.

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I run two console versions on my HT P4s, which seems to give me 15% or so improvement in output. Just make sure they are in different directories and add the -local option. Then just set each instance to a different CPU affinity in the task manager.

ok it has been sitting on 0/2500 WU for the past 40 minutes. and i dont think that is normal. im on a 1.4 amd tbird. i have all the stuff setup correctly to my knowledge. im using folding@home 3.24 gui. i think that is all...

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Originally posted by Muk108
ok it has been sitting on 0/2500 WU for the past 40 minutes. and i dont think that is normal. im on a 1.4 amd tbird. i have all the stuff setup correctly to my knowledge. im using folding@home 3.24 gui. i think that is all...

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Yes, that's okay. My 1.4 TBird takes 44-47 minutes per iteration on large proteins. Just set it and forget it -- It adds up slowly but it all counts!

If you think the 1.4 Atlon is slow try a 850 Duron, but hey better than being wasted.

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Originally posted by gkline
If you think the 1.4 Atlon is slow try a 850 Duron, but hey better than being wasted.

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You wanna feel pain? Watch your fastest machine slow to a crawl on protein 254 -- that sucker more than doubled my time to complete a comparable point project. Only 17 hours left until that infestation is done! :mad: :D :D

RealBeast, which project # is protein 254?

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Originally posted by gkline
RealBeast, which project # is protein 254?

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p254, a 53.77 pt gromac -- real b@ll buster. Hopefully they gave the rest of them to the team ahead of us. :D Maybe it's the one that'll cure me someday. hehe.

Um it has to do with Insights into nucleic acid conformational dynamics from massively parallel stochastic simulations.:confused: