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== OCAU Performance ==
 
== OCAU Performance ==
  
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OCAU FOLDING<br>
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* Active 465 Up 14
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* Avg User PPD 2966.1 Down 358.7
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PPD Avg / Users / Total<br>
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* <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">6k+ / 45 / Down 1 / 1,052,383</FONT>
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* 3k+ / 29 / Down 9 / 130,509
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* 1.5k+ / 42 / Up 13 / 89,429
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* 800+ / 35 / Down 3 / 38,966
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* 400+ / 57 / Up 2 / 31,583
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* 200+ / 69 / Up 8 / 20,264
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* 100+ / 75 / Up 15 / 10,675
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* 1+ / 113 / Down 11 / 5447
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Total PPD Team Avg 1,379,255 Down 120,229
  
 
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Revision as of 17:54, 30 April 2010

Contents

Folding@Home (also known as F@H or FAH) is a distributed computing project run by Stanford University which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. Instead of using a single computer, it distributes the workload over thousands of computers around the world, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved.

OCAU is currently the second-highest fifth ranked Folding@Home team in the world, not considering the standard Anonymous and Google based teams. The rankings in the Folding@Home statistics are of much pride, and are battled out between teams from everywhere united under almost any banner. OCAU was in stiff competition with the chief American team HardOCP, with the number 1 ranking changing hands often during the history of folding.

You can help Stanford University with the science by downloading and running the Standard Folding@Home Client or High Performance Client and entering your team number as 24 to join OCAU.

More information about OCAU's Folding@Home team can be found on the official Distributed Folding forum

We even have our own personal incentive badges of honor with Milestone forum signatures here.

Setup Guides

Buyers Guide

You can Fold on pretty much any PC and every bit helps however for those who wish to enhance their Folding performance or build dedicated Folding machines we have a guide with a example machine and stats on most CPU and GPU performance.

Folding PC System Recommendations and Stats

Installation Guide

If your not running Windows thats fine to:

We have our own guides as well in this thread to.

Note:
Windows is the most common Folding OS. Folding with the Console Clients is a tad quicker than the GUI versions. CPU Folding on Linux has generally been quicker than with Windows, however if your Folding on your GPU as well, Linux needs to run WINE and run the GPU Client from there thus running the clients as such are far slower than running on Windows.


Quick Console Client Setup
Setting up a folding program is not hard at all. Below is a step by step guide on installing the command line client.

XP User - SP3 (Recommended) and .NET Framework v2.0 Needed
Vista User - .NET Framework is already installed by default
You MUST have a logon password for this client to run.

  • Install the client to "C:\FAH"
  • Create a shortcut to the "Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe" file from that directory, place it on your desktop (or where ever, doesn't matter)
  • Start / Run Command , type "cmd.exe" (Vista will require Run as Admin "Right click")
  • You need to navigate to your installed directory using the "cd" change directory command ("cd \" gets you root, "dir" gets you directory list, "cd FAH" gets you your install directory - Quick way "cd \FAH")
  • Once in your install directory type "install.bat"
  • It will request your Windows logon account Username/Password
  • Once it runs you should see:

If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working

  • Now type "Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe -configonly"
  • You will now be prompted for answers regarding your setup
  • Username - "Your Choice of Name here"
  • Team Number - 24
  • Passkey - "Your Passkey here"
  • Ask before fetching/sending work - NO
  • Use proxy - NO
  • Acceptable size of work assignment and work result packets - Big
  • Change advanced options - Yes
  • Launch automatically, install as a service in this directory - NO (personal choice has been known to be buggy so for ease, NO)
  • Core Priority - Low
  • CPU usage requested - 100
  • Disable highly optimized assembly code - NO
  • Pause if battery power is being used - NO (only say yes for laptops)
  • Interval, in minutes, between checkpoints - 15
  • Memory, in MB, to indicate - 1024
  • Set -advmethods flag always - Yes
  • Ignore any deadline information - NO
  • Machine ID - 1 (Read below on information on how to run multiple clients)
  • Disable CPU affinity lock - NO
  • Additional client parameters - -SMP 4 -advmethods (-SMP "how many cores include Hyperthreaded)
    (you can let it auto detect if you wish by removing the core number ie -SMP -advmethods)
  • IP address to bind core to -
  • Close CMD window
  • Double click on your new shortcut (your now running Folding@Home)

Once that is done, the command window will now proceed on and start telling you about how it is downloading information. Let it run, and check that it is working and no errors are appearing. If there is, come into the F@H OCAU Forum and make a post, otherwise that it, your done.
Just remember to have it Running (you can automate it by setting it up as a service)

It is also advised to setup your Priority and Affinity for Folding@Home we have a Guide (half way down the post) to setup up WinAFC (available in both 32 and 64bit)

We recommend you grab HFM.net to monitor your clients progess.

Specific Items of Note

There are several arguments you can set to improve the clients performance on your computers. Users should be very aware that use of these arguments may cause instability (rare) and slow response times for users. If you're not sure if you need them, you probably don't.

  • bigpackets [yes/no]

This argument is set when you configure or reconfigure a client. It is not set at the commandline. By default, it is no, but if a user chooses yes, it allows reciept of WU's more than 5MB in size. These WU's have large points values assigned to them, often 600 points, so receiving them is appreciated if your system can process them in a timely fashion.

  • -advmethods [yes/no]

When used in conjunction with the bigpackets argument (decided when configuring the client), -advmethods will allow the reciept of experimental WU's, such as QMD's, that may adversly impact the performance of your computer/s. Experiences with this argument are varied, but the generally accepted solution is to only run one (1) client per machine which accepts these highly experimental WU's. Any additional clients on a given computer should run without the -advmethods argument. Currently, QMD WU's will only run on Intel CPU's due to a licensing issue with the compiler and the Intel math library.

  • Multiple Clients

You no longer need to run Multiple CPU clients as the New SMP2 A3 Core Client or NotFreds Virtual Machine Client are capable of using multi core CPU systems. You can run either a CPU client or GPU client, however running both is most welcome and a fast way of adding up PPD. (You will need one GPU client per Video Card "2 clients for multi core cards like GTX295"). Also when you are installing the clients, you must give each one a different Machine ID (Step 19 Above)

  • HD5xxx GPU Clients

You will need to add this flag -forcegpu ati_r700

Further Help

If you need any more help with anything feel free to make a post in the F@H OCAU Forum.

3rd Party Monitoring Tools

Stats

OCAU Performance

30/Apr/2010

OCAU FOLDING

  • Active 465 Up 14
  • Avg User PPD 2966.1 Down 358.7

PPD Avg / Users / Total

  • 6k+ / 45 / Down 1 / 1,052,383
  • 3k+ / 29 / Down 9 / 130,509
  • 1.5k+ / 42 / Up 13 / 89,429
  • 800+ / 35 / Down 3 / 38,966
  • 400+ / 57 / Up 2 / 31,583
  • 200+ / 69 / Up 8 / 20,264
  • 100+ / 75 / Up 15 / 10,675
  • 1+ / 113 / Down 11 / 5447

Total PPD Team Avg 1,379,255 Down 120,229

31/Mar/2010

OCAU FOLDING

  • Active 451 Down 17
  • Avg User PPD 3,324.8 Up 77.5

PPD Avg / Users / Total

  • 6k+ / 46 / Same / 1,169,852
  • 3k+ / 38 / Down 4 / 161,833
  • 1.5k+ / 29 / Down 6 / 62,902
  • 800+ / 38 / Down 16 / 41,064
  • 400+ / 55 / Down 5 / 31,326
  • 200+ / 61 / Down 17 / 17,654
  • 100+ / 60 / Down 4 / 8,372
  • 1+ / 124 / Up 35 / 6,481

Total PPD Team Avg 1,499,484 Down 20,250

28/Feb/2010

OCAU FOLDING

  • Active 468 Down 22
  • Avg User PPD 3,247.3 Up 357.4

PPD Avg / Users / Total

  • 6k+ / 46 / Down 1 / 1,150,841
  • 3k+ / 42 / Up 7 / 168,305
  • 1.5k+ / 35 / Down 9 / 72,678
  • 800+ / 54 / Down 4 / 57,114
  • 400+ / 60 / Up 2 / 34,516
  • 200+ / 78 / Up 11 / 21,981
  • 100+ / 64 / Down 5 / 8,829
  • 1+ / 89 / Down 23 / 4,900

Total PPD Team Avg 1,519,734 Up 103,680

28/Jan/2010

OCAU FOLDING

  • Active 490 Down 152
  • Avg User PPD 2,889.9 Down 356.1

Minor Update Production Totals

  • 6k+ / 47 / Down 18
  • 3k+ / 35 / Down 20
  • 1.5k+ / 44 / Down 7
  • 800+ / 58 / Down 23
  • 400+ / 58 / Down 36
  • 200+ / 67 / Down 32
  • 100+ / 69 / Down 25
  • 1+ / 112 / Up 9!!!

Total PPD Avg 1,416,054 Down 667,876

24/Oct/2009

OCAU FOLDING

  • Active 642
  • Avg User PPD 3,246.00

PPD Avg / Users / Total

  • 6k+ / 65 / 1,554,783
  • 3k+ / 55 / 233,682
  • 1.5k+ / 51 / 108,100
  • 800+ / 81 / 86,095
  • 400+ / 94 / 54,393
  • 200+ / 99 / 27,919
  • 100+ / 94 / 13,086
  • 1+ / 103 / 5,872

Total PPD Team Avg 2,083,930

External Links

Our TOP 10 Folding Competitors

The Battle rages

Over the history of the Project several teams have vied for the title of #1 contributor.

OCAU first took the No1 position on the 29-Oct-2001, 10 days after F@H2 started. oc.com and the Francophones also held the No1 spot in the first 10 days as well.

29/10/01 to 07/03/02: OCAU 129 days
07/03/02 to 11/03/02 [H] 4 days
11/03/02 to 12/03/02 OCAU 1 day
12/03/02 to 11/06/02 [H] 90 days
11/06/02 to 16/06/02 OCAU 5 days
16/06/02 to 17/06/02 [H] 1 day
17/06/02 to 20/06/02 OCAU 3 days
20/06/02 to 15/09/03 [H] 450 days
15/09/03 to 11/01/04 OCAU 118 days
11/01/04 to 23/06/04 [H] 162 days
23/06/04 to 21/04/05 OCAU 302 days
21/04/05 to 12/05/05 [H] 21 days
12/05/05 to 30/12/05 OCAU 231 days
31/12/05 to 21/09/06 [H] 264 days

So, as at 21-09-2006, sub-totals give OCAU as having 793 days in total as number #1 team, while [H] have had 993 days in the lead.

The Relic Trophy

Originally given to victims of The [H]orde as they overtook their hapless adversaries (tradition originally started by Kvizbar ([H]) against ARS Technica), The Duck was given new life by fxr91 (OCAU) when he Photoshopped/Gimped The Duck onto a stand and christened it. The Relic Trophy was born. Each time the trophy-holder is passed by the other team, the Relic Trophy is e-handed to the new #1, once it's positive the lead change isn't short-lived (usually a few weeks must pass before the handover))



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