Folding@home on PS3

[Jinx]

wolves_wanderer said:

Yep, downloaded the new one which is supposed to detect ATI hardware (but doesn't) and when I reinstalled
The older version it doesn't work any more. My video card is now bored

Got it working yet?

I have a little batch file that just runs the exe with the additional commands i.e. open up note pad, type

cd c:\program files\folding@home\folding@homegpu\
[e-mail] -forcegpu ati_r700

then save as folding.bat

And robert should be your wife's brother.

[wolves_wanderer]

Jinx said:

wolves_wanderer said:

Yep, downloaded the new one which is supposed to detect ATI hardware (but doesn't) and when I reinstalled
The older version it doesn't work any more. My video card is now bored

Got it working yet?

I have a little batch file that just runs the exe with the additional commands i.e. open up note pad, type

cd c:\program files\folding@home\folding@homegpu\
[e-mail] -forcegpu ati_r700

then save as folding.bat

And robert should be your wife's brother.

Still says core not active grrr

[Jinx]

wolves_wanderer said:

Still says core not active grrr

Try the ati_r800 switch instead?

[Jinx]

Just had a thought - are there more than one gpu's in your machine (perhaps an onboard graphics chip)? If so has the superfluous one be de-activated in the bios? If not you may want to add the -gpu0 or -gpu1 switch?

[wolves_wanderer]

No, from looking at the logs it can't find a work unit to download because it can't find a server. I'll have to have a look on some folding forums I reckon, unless you've got any more ideas?

[peanutjb]

Joined on main PC, more likely to follow (have preciously too many PCs and a couple of PS3s if needs be!)

[surfymark]

Hi Guys!

Just come across this thread and have set up my PS3 to start doing this.

Wanted to get into Distributed Computing for a good cause like this for some time but never knew how to do it!

One question I have is:

On the PS3, is there a setting so that when it finishes a calculation, rather than shutting down, it just picks up another one?

Many thanks
Mark

[XJSsometimeSoon]

Just joined the PH team, feel free to add me to PSN (reesy83)

[Silent1]

surfymark said:

Hi Guys!

Just come across this thread and have set up my PS3 to start doing this.

Wanted to get into Distributed Computing for a good cause like this for some time but never knew how to do it!

One question I have is:

On the PS3, is there a setting so that when it finishes a calculation, rather than shutting down, it just picks up another one?

Many thanks
Mark

IIRC just turn off the shutdown when complete option.

[surfymark]

Silent1 said:

IIRC just turn off the shutdown when complete option.

Ah ok thanks for that!

M

[JasonJH]

What a great thing to be part of, I shall be joing up to the PH team tonight.

[paulrussell]

I've just joined aswell.

[neilus]

Didn't realise PH had a team, will have to change my allegiance from the lifeboat team to PH.

Neilus

[MarkRSi]

Was running BONIC/World Community Grid on my home server, but I've set this up and joined the PH team (I think...).

Thing is my home server is a single core netbook with an AMD processor clocked from 1.5 to 1.8GHz, so probably about a 1/2 of one of the PS3 umpteen cores

[Morningside]

Just joined. Running on PC.

[MarkRSi]

After running overnight (After clearing remaining BOINC tasks so F@H has full use of the CPU)




This might take a while...

[MarkRSi]

Still going... over 90% now

I've ran F@H on a couple of machines just to try it out... I don't think I've reached 100% on any of them but it says on here...

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=...

...I've got 11 work units...? is that completed units, or units I've taken out to fold/work on? How does the score get incremented?

Edited by MarkRSi on Tuesday 10th January 22:25

[Morningside]

Well I now have it running on two computers. The other one being my web server that does nothing except that and as it has such a low meaningless job 24 hours a day I thought it could 'earn' it living. So lets see how Morningside-1 goes.

[Silent1]

MarkRSi said:

Still going... over 90% now

I've ran F@H on a couple of machines just to try it out... I don't think I've reached 100% on any of them but it says on here...

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=...

...I've got 11 work units...? is that completed units, or units I've taken out to fold/work on? How does the score get incremented?

Edited by MarkRSi on Tuesday 10th January 22:25

You've put the team page up for PH, not your page so i can't tell.

[MarkRSi]

Silent1 said:

You've put the team page up for PH, not your page so i can't tell.

Well I've just submitted my first unit and got 1000 points!

Yay.