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We are No1 again.
This happened at 22:00 WST with a lead of 60 points,
keep up the good work overnight and hopefully extend our lead
tomorrow. We have taken the No1 spot for the third time 2 weeks,
this battle with the [H]orde has certainly inspired both teams to
great things and as a result good deal more work for Stanford.
Have you checked the stats lately because if you
haven't you are in for a big surprise after losing ground to the
[H]orde yesterday we have had quite a few amazing stats updates in
the last 4 to 5 hours. The gap is now (19:00
WST) 9 points that's right 9 points after being
523 points just 8 hours a go. That is great work from all of you out
there, you can all be proud of what you have done in the past few
days to turn this around and fight back and be this close to the No1
spot.
A bit of action and news from the Stanford mob
regarding the next client update.
Announcement:
One more beta feature to try out! You can get the beta 6 client
(numbered 6 just for uniformity across platforms) at the usual
http://folding.stanford.edu/beta3/
. They have an expiration date of July 5, 2002.
The added feature is that there is now the option of specifying, in
the configuration, whether you would like to participate in
Folding@Home, Genome@Home, or have no preference between the two. On
the Linux version and Windows console version, this is a prompt you
will get if you answer "yes" in the initial configuration to the
question of whether you want to change Advanced Options. On the
Windows GUI client, you can specify the preference by going to the
Advanced tab in the Configure window. By default, "No preference" is
chosen.
This really is a "preference!" What happens when you specify either
Folding or Genome is that when you next go to the assignment server
(this may or may not be after your current work unit is done;
eventually you will though), your preference will be tagged on to
the request. If your preference can be satisfied, then it will be.
But if it can't be (for instance if no work for that project is
available for your type of machine), then you'll just get work from
the other project. The situation right now is a good example of
this: No Genome servers are up, so even if you specify Genome as
your preference, you'll get Folding work.
That was a lot of writing for a really simple thing, but enjoy!
-Guha
Apparently the gurus at Stanford have been doing some testing with
some GAH work units as
plasticsurgeon found out this morning after uploading a
completed wu he downloaded a Genome wu and a new core to process it.
When the next client is released there will be options to choose
which units you wish to process.
But apparently you still get
FAH credit even though you have just processed a GAH work unit. So
if you see your client download a new core (FahCore_c9.exe)
and start doing strange work units that's the reason why. Bare with
the process until the new client has been released then you can
choose to do Folding only units but still that is no guarantee if
the FAH servers are down you may still end up doing a genome unit.
Update: Apparently you don't
get credit yet for any Genome work units if you are using the FAH
client pre beta6 as
frozenlyse just
found out. Stay tuned I'm sure there will be a lot more developments
regarding this in the near future.
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