New to Folding

[iggybaseball]

Hi I will be signing up with folding hopefully in the next 1-2 weeks. However i was wonderin if u have a computer runnin only folding, will there be any difference in th wu you can put out with 128mb of ram or 192mb? also would anyone be able to give me a rough equation to finding out how long each work unit would proximetely take to finish. the reason i would like to know this is that i am learning c programming an i would like to make a program that would take input from the user an calculate roughly how long it would take. hopefully ill be able to sign up next weeked or so. c ya later.

 

[Ploaf]

Hi I will be signing up with folding hopefully in the next 1-2 weeks. However i was wonderin if u have a computer runnin only folding, will there be any difference in th wu you can put out with 128mb of ram or 192mb? also would anyone be able to give me a rough equation to finding out how long each work unit would proximetely take to finish. the reason i would like to know this is that i am learning c programming an i would like to make a program that would take input from the user an calculate roughly how long it would take. hopefully ill be able to sign up next weeked or so. c ya later.

1st Welcome to the team, or soon anyway

As far as memory goes, if the only thing that the system does is fold then you won't notice any improvement going from 128 to 192MB. Itdoesn't really use that much memory. I have a few systems with only 128 in them running win98 and they seem to do fine, but all they do is fold and store some files for me.

As for finding out frame/wu times there is a thread here that goes over everyones times and there is a database of times at OCAU's team page. I'll get the URL's for those unless someone beats me to it.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/folding/

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58254

 

[plague]

1-2 weeks?!?! start now!!!

seriously though, it's always great to get new folders, tell your friends!

As for the memory question, I dont really think memory plays a big role in folding, It should be almost entirely cpu dependent.

Every protein takes a different amount of time to finish, so you would have to also input the protein that youre folding.

edit: nicely said Ploaf

 

[newhouse_00]

dont forget team 32

 

[res0r9lm]

I would almost bet 64mb will be as fast as 128mb

 

[iggybaseball]

thanx a lot for the feedback.

 

[SickBoy]

if it makes any difference, I'd think the best way to program a status program would be to parse the FAHlog.txt file looking for certain values (such as the integer in parentheses follwing "Finished a frame") and graph a status bar based on that.

SB