Some foldingathome questions

synthead · 2008-05-12 20:53:44

I have two computers to my avail that are dual-core 32-bit. I would like to take full advantage of both cores. The SMP version seems to do this because on my dual-core 64-bit laptop, there are several fah processes listed in top (and I'm running foldingathome-smp). It looks like foldingathome-smp is 64-bit only though ...

[jenna@myhost fahmon]$ yaourt -Ss foldingathome
aur/foldingathome 504-3 [installed]
    Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
aur/foldingathome-smp 6.02beta1-1
    Folding@Home SMP (x86_64 only) is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.

And other one: I read in guides that you can use GPUs with foldingathome. How would I set this up?

Aaron · 2008-05-12 21:52:43

I believe the GPU client is still in open beta, and can only be run on ATI cards. (I may be misinformed however)

Refer to:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-ATI

smartcat99s · 2008-05-13 02:59:30

The GPU client is currently only available for Windows.

To run on both cores of your 32bit laptop, you would basically install the regular foldingathome client and duplicate everything.

The second client would run with machineid 2 instead of 1

Last edited by smartcat99s (2008-05-13 03:00:44)

synthead · 2008-05-13 20:08:58

smartcat99s wrote:

The GPU client is currently only available for Windows.
To run on both cores of your 32bit laptop, you would basically install the regular foldingathome client and duplicate everything.
The second client would run with machineid 2 instead of 1

Ah nice, I will see if I can modify /etc/rc.d/foldingathome to do this. Thanks!

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