How To Join The PC Pitstop Folding @ Home Team

[gagaman]

 

So you want to know more about folding at home?

• What is folding @ home? Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
• How does folding helps sciences? The science behind [email protected]
• Are there results from the folding @ home project? Recent Research Papers
• Folding @ home awards. Awards
• Folding Flashmovies:
• Folding For Humanity
• Folding For Our Future

Are you ready to Help Mankind? Download the [email protected] client.

 

• To join the [email protected] public distributed computing effort, simply click the download link.
• Choose the appropriate client for your computer's operating system. More information about the different clients can be read below.
• When installing, you will have to add a user name and a team number. For the user name, you can choose whatever name you like. As long as it isn't taken, it will be your name.

  To join the PcPitstop Folding Team, just add 32035 as a team number.

About the different clients:

• Windows clients
  • 'Normal' clients
    • Windows 2000/XP/Vista Graphical client

      This client shows you some nice graphics, simulating the folding process. It can also be used as a screensaver.

      This client is considered to be slower than the text-only console.

      For single core Intel Pentium or AMD processors.

      An installation guide with screenshots can be found here: Install guide for the Graphical client

    • [email protected] Windows Console Client

      This client runs without showing graphical output.

      Its considered to be faster than the Graphical client.

      For single core Intel Pentium or AMD processors.

      An installation guide with screenshots can be found here: Install guide for the Console Client

  • High performance clients (GPU, SMP)
    • NT/2000/XP/Vista GPU Client GUI version

      This version utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve higher performance.

      It supports several classes of GPU boards, including X1600, X1800, and X1900 series GPUs from ATI.

      Graphical output.

      Beta version

    • NT/2000/XP/Vista GPU Client console version (with multi-GPU support)

      This version utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve higher performance.

      It supports several classes of GPU boards, including X1600, X1800, and X1900 series GPUs from ATI.

      No Graphical output.

      Beta version

    • Windows 2000/XP/Vista SMP client console version

      This client is suited for Dual core or Quad core CPU's.

      Beta version

  • Older clients for backward compatibility

    A client for Windows 98/ME users (not recommended for Windows 2000, XP, or Vista).

• Playstation 3 client
  • [email protected] PS3

    If you have PS3 system version 1.6 or later, you will see a [email protected] icon in the Network column of the XMB (PS3 menu). Just click on the icon and that's it.

• Linux
  • Linux Console (x86) and BSD

    A console mode version of the client, similar to the console version for Windows. There are no fancy graphics.

  • Linux (x86-64 bit, only) SMP client console version

    A console mode version of the client, similar to the console version for Windows.This client is suited for Dual core or Quad core CPU's.

• Macintosh

  Basically, the clients for Macintosh are similar to the Windows clients.

Friendly competition? ... Statspages.

Every Work Unit (wu) your client finish, is rewarded with points.

Want to see how you did, take a look at these Statspages:

• Official Stanford Statspage: Stanfords Stats for the PcPitstop Folding Team
• The Eocs Statspage: EOC Stats for the PcPitstop Folding Team

  Very nice statspage with lots of info.

• Kakao Stats: Kakao Stats for the PcPitstop Folding Team

  Very detailed info.

Useful tools and information

• Official [email protected] forum: The Stanford [email protected] Support Forum
• Blog of Vijah Panda (the 'brains' and motivator behind folding @home): Vijah Panda's Blog
• The Point/Time Summary Work Units: Currently Running Projects
• The Stanford Server Status: [email protected] server status (check here if you're having problems sending/receiving results)
• Monitoring Tool: FahMon is a small open-source monitoring tool.

  An installation guide with screenshots can be found here: Install guide for FahMon

• Visualization: A website that allows you to see (almost) all the [email protected] WUs in 3D and manipulate them.
• Tool list of the official [email protected] Forums: A list of third party tools.

Install guides

There are some install guides in this forum. You can find them by clicking the links below.

• Install guide for the Graphical client
• Install guide for the Console Client
• Install guide for FahMon
• USB Stick Folding Guide --> no harddisk needed and still folding.
• Run Windows SMP as a service
• Dual boot XP/Vista service install
• Changing client preferences and adding flags
• SyncBack Install, With Pictures --> It backs up the client and if you lose a WU, you just have to have it put the files back.
• Set up Notfred's SMP under VM with GPU. Going for the big points

Still have some questions? We have some very helpful and skilled people who will certainly try to answer it. So don't hesitate to post a new topic

 

 

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edited on avril 3 '08: added install guide "SyncBack Install, With Pictures"

Edited September 27, 2009 by gagaman

[teacup61]

Thanks for doing such a wonderful job with it!

[cmstpprr]

Great Job Gag,

 

I wanted to do this myself a couple of months ago.........but was to lazy to get all the details compiled together correctly. I thought to myself, what if I was new to this Folding thing and i used the old pinned how to's, man would I be confused

 

Thanks again for your efforts I'm sure it will help all.

 

Keep up the effort everyone

[Norm1116]

Nice job!!!

[Sputum]

Excellent work gagaman! That will be an excellent resource for those interested in folding. I hope it will help with "recruiting".

 

Toast to gagaman!

Edited January 25, 2008 by Sputum

[flyfishingrules2]

Way to go, gags!

 

[gagaman]

 

[caintry_boy]

All right gagaman!!!

 

 

 

[RAH]

Think it would be a good idea to redo the "Install" too.

 

Things have changed a lot since it was done.

Put norm's SMP service install, and a new SMP-GPU-Dual GPU-CPU-Dual CPU etc.

 

Might be best to wait a little while for the new client though. Boy I wish they would

hurry up.

[gagaman]

Thanks Lou for making this pinned.

[Lou]

Thanks Lou for making this pinned.

 

 

 

No problem, give me a shout anytime. I would also like to mention that according to the latest "wu" Radio is still folding, although no one here at the Pit has heard from him since July. All attempts to contact him have failed. We Pray that all is well with Radio.

[gagaman]

We Pray that all is well with Radio.

 

Second that!!

[Champion_Munch]

Great job at redoing this. Only thing is the banner at the top is too wide for this page so it has a horizontal scroll.

 

with regards

[gagaman]

Thanks for pointing that out

I resized the banner... hope no scrolling is needed anymore.

I'm not that good with banners/pictures. Its just a quick copy/paste thing in paint.

 

Maybe someone can make a real cool banner for the pitfoldingteam??

 

[Champion_Munch]

Fits fine now. You've gone to alot of effort and it looks great, would be very helpful for the beginner (and for those of us who help others to join).

 

with regards

[Tx Redneck]

I joined and started folding on Saturday and I should be in the 170-180 range on the PcPitstop [email protected] Team in the AM.

 

: moovin on uuuuup: