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Has anybody been getting protein #p1302_1ryp_AAAA_free ?

If you have, does it seem to fold faster then the other 13xx proteins of the same point value?

I don't know why, but if my desktop gets one of these, its like my Prescott Pentium 4 just goes into another gear and smokes this WU out in less then 22 hours! My Northwood-powered notebook doesn't even come close to this.

I normally run just one client on my desktop while my notebook runs two clients. To check, I closed one client on my notebook and let it just work on the same WU. Talk about a difference in machines. According to EMIII, my desktop was running an average of almost 260ppd! The notebook was trailing behind it at about 160ppd.

Normally, both of these rigs are fairly close in average. The desktop is only clocked about 450Mgz faster.

Does anybody know if there is something special about these new WU's that makes them sing on my Prescott? Maybe SSE3 perhaps?

I've been getting lots of those lately and them seem to fold just as fast as the other 13xx WU's on my Barton rig. Atleast to any degree that I've noticed, anyways.

i only wish i knew, i have never done one.

I have completed three of these bad boys.

They are woth 242 points, here are the times:
26:13:20
25:08:20
25:40:00

That means that the most ppd I recieved was 231, and the average was 226 . That's better than I usually do with the large gromacs, but not by more than 5ppd better.

This was all on my AMD Barton 2500+ @ 2200-2299 via varrying bumps in the fsb and voltages.

Have you done other large gromacs? The large gromacs are woth bonus points, and they might be using SSE to the max.

Dan O.

ive done 1000, 10000, 3000, series with various protien nrs.

now mostly 300 series

and everything seems to be dam slow.

there new projects, developed for the 5.02 core, no set times or points. these were older projects also, so the point structure should be close.

wish i could find the beta page.

i have done some 581s recently that were 220 points, on half of a xeon 78 hours, 47 min frames i think

I used to have it and posted it several times on the other forum. But do to some screw up I lost it.

Am I the only one who is getting nearly nothing but these 13xx WU's? I swear my past 20 WU's have been nothing but 1301's, 1302's, and 1303's. I only ask out of curiosity. Why is my lowly Barton rig being sent all these monsters?

i have a hunch its the servers we are attached to.

I wouldn't complain X_ArchAngel! These projects are all worth bonus points.

See, when I was doing the older gromacs I was getting 80-130 points a day on my two rigs. Now that I'm doing mostly P13xx's I'm averaging 210-230ppd on my two rigs.

Those 3 that are I mentioned are the only three P1302's that I have recorded in EMIII.

I have done:
66 P1301's (though not all of them to 100%, maybe half)
9 P1302's
2 P1304's
3 P1306's
17 P1307's
I have done some P1308's and P1309's but Stanford seems to have no record of them.

The P1307's are my favorite. They are 80pts, and I average just as good as the other P13xx's, so it makes my averages more even. If I get a lot of P1308's (worth 320pts), my averages jump around too much.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining as I seem to average over 200 ppd by crunching these things 24/7. It's just I find it odd that they comprise nearly every work unit I get and there's nothing special about my rig - no SSE2 or 64-bit float-point capabilities; other people with rigs twice as good as mine get the lesser valued WU's.

I feel like I'm hogging all the good ones, hehe.

Oh well, doesn't matter to me, like I've said before. As long as the folding gets done.

I have 1306 running right now on my desktop. Its worth over 300 points and it looks like its going to take about 30 hours. My notebook is running #1309 and 1301. One of them will finsh late today and the other sometime Tuesday....

I noticed that I had a little typo on my first post. I ment to say that my destop was doing them in under 22 hours....opps

Still, I'm not complaining. Both of my rigs are running these proteins pretty good. Both now show at or above 240ppd average according to EMIII.



Your not they only one. Since I upgraded both rigs to ver 5.01 (and that was over a week ago) I've had ONE WU that wasn't a 13xx. (I think it was some small Tinker.)

yea there giving all those junk wus to me. trying to keep my averages down

and a quite pertinant question, what servers are these wus coming from, we tend to keep going to the same servers, for completion and new downoad, maybe i need to break my cycle of servers, i tend to go to three more than others

GM, you have to tell your F@H client to accept these WUs.

1. Use the conole client and enable large WUs (over 5mb)
2. Add the -advmethods flag in the registry

Then you should get about 95% large WUs, giving you more ppd.

Dan O.

You can also manually add the -advmethods flag to the gui client. You just add it to the end of the shortcut that's used to start the client.

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods
Your path may differ, make sure there is a space between the" and -

Yeah, but can you enable large WUs on the GUI client? I don't think so...

Yes you can, there's a check box on the connection tab of the configuration panel to allow receipt......... units larger than 5mb.

Of course, as I'm figuring out the hard way, the gui client is a bit slower than the console version. But for those who don't want to mess with command line voodoo, the gui client offers quite a bit.

Hey, that would go well in the proposed faq as well. Most people don't realise you can enable some of the command line options in the GUI client.

I'd perfer to use the CLI client myself if there was a way to hide the running program to the icon tray instead of it taking up precious room on the taskbar. I usually have lots of windows open as it is, so I need the space.

Thought there was an invisible option with the CLI client, maybe it's only when you run it as a service. I know it can be done, someone was using it to install unauthorized clients on p2p machines awhile back.