DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 (edited) Hyeforum-Armenian Team Send the Folding@home Armenian(HyeForum) team to the first position. Do I need to be a HyeForum member to join? No! This team is the official Folding@Home Armenian team. That being said, it should therefore be seen as an Armenian computing power, than a simple Forum member project. We STRONGLY encourage you to find many others to join. HELP us to be in the FIRST position. PLEASE JOIN NOW!!! OK! I want to join the Hyeforum-Armenian Team, but how? To join the team, first you need to download the software from here. We discourage you strongly to download and install the screen saver only version. For those that want a simple way to install and ignore, the Graphical Client version is recommended even though slower than the console one. For those that have installed the console version(the fastest and most stable under normal circumstances) and want to find a way to run it in background, install Electron Microscope III, you can download it from here. Now to join the team, add the team's number in the configuration panel (on graphical clients) or enter the team number the first time you run the client. Our team Number is: 39937 Without the team number, the computations completed with your system won't be added in our team. If you have any problem in joining the HyeForum-Armenian Team, you can send a Personal Message or contact the founding Member of the Hyeforum-Armenian Team, Domino, or better you can submit your questions here asking for help. Folding@home Windows installer doesn't do anything If you are attempting to install the Windows graphical client or screen saver(which we discourage you strongly to do), and see "Setup is starting..." pop up, but then nothing else happen (no error message even), the problem is likely due to the presence of files named "setup.exe" in some directory present in your path (likely culprits are the directory in which the F@h installer is, your Desktop, and your temp directory). Remember that you may have multiple temp directories, depending on your operating system. Delete or move the setup.exe files and all should work fine. Index Project details, big pictureI just finished a WU and now I got another for the same protein. Is there something wrong?Does Folding@home run on dual processor machines?Why should I update my Folding@home software to the current version?The Screen Server only versionHow do the results get back to Folding@home?How long does it take to finish a work unit? How do you measure a work unit?Are there any limits to how long my machine can take to finish a work unit (WU)?How can I change my username?Are there any characters I should avoid in a username?What about security issues?About this FAQ Edited November 9, 2004 by Armen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 (edited) Project details, big picture: What is protein folding? Please see the scientific background section of the official Stanford site for more details. Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@Home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. They will not sell the data or make any money off of it. Moreover, they will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, on their website. Edited November 7, 2004 by Fadix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 I just finished a WU and now I got another for the same protein. Is there something wrong? No, most likely everything is fine. Folding@home team is studying the dynamics of a few proteins, so you're likely to get the same protein to work on multiple times. Each WU gives us additional information about the dynamics of that protein, so it is important to us. Indeed, if they were to do only 1 WU per protein, they would not learn very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Does Folding@home run on dual processor machines? Yes, you can. Additional processors must run the console version (with the "-local" command-line argument if run on Windows). First, make additional directories for each processor and copy the FAH Console executable file into each. Then configure them with the -config switch, filling in settings for each. It is very important to make sure that under the "Advanced Settings" option each copy is given a unique machine ID (from 1 to 8). The first copy will default to a machine ID of 1, so additional copies should be given IDs of 2, 3, 4, etc. Each may then be run out of their installed directory, using the -local switch on windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Why should I update my Folding@home software to the current version? The Folding@home team is constantly and rapidly improving the Folding@home software. They release new versions to fix bugs reported by the users to help make the project run as smoothly as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 The Screen Server only version We discourage you to use the screen saver only version of the Folding@home software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 How do the results get back to Folding@home? Your computer will automatically upload the results to their server each time it finishes a work unit, and download a new job at that time. At this time, there may be problems if your computer is only connected to the Internet sporadically. They are working on better support for these cases. Only the console version currently works at all over a modem connection, and there still may occasionally be a few bugs with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 How long does it take to finish a work unit? How do you measure a work unit? This varies, of course, on the speed of the computer and the size of the protein under study. Depending on the protein and the property studied, different size work units may be used. The project summary page has information on particular proteins' sizes and the deadline allotted each for completion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Are there any limits to how long my machine can take to finish a work unit (WU)? Yes. Depending on the work unit, unfinished work units for most projects "expire" and are reassigned to new machines. Since new WUs are generated by finishing old ones, they must keep things moving along by expiring units. As they move to longer WUs they will extend this time as needed. For instance, for the villin molecule they are currently using the expiration time of 3days. Some expiration times are shorter. You will get stats credit for all units that you complete, even if they have expired, but they will not be as useful scientifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 How can I change my username? The simplest way to change your username is go to the configuration panel (right click in the graphical display or click on the sys tray icon). You can change your username at any time. However, old work units will remain credited to the old username.(Don’t forget that you have to keep the SAME Team Number(39937) even when changing your user name) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Are there any characters I should avoid in a username? We strongly recommend to stick to just letters, numbers and underscore. Right now, the characters # ^ ~ |. # are reserved and used for firewall differentiation etc. Finally, please note that usernames are case sensitive, so "Dave" and "dave" and "dAVE" are all different usernames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 What about security issues? The Folding@Home team have worked very hard to maintain the best security possible with modern computer science methodology. Their software will upload and download data only from their data server at Stanford. The Cores are also digitally signed to make sure that you're getting the true Stanford cores and nothing else. How is this possible? They take extensive measures to check all of the data entering your computer and the results they send back to Stanford with 2048 bit digital signatures. If the signatures don't match (on either the input or the output) the client will throw away the data and start again. This ensures, using the best software security measures developed to date (digital signatures and PKI in version 3.0), that they are keeping the tightest possible security. Finally, the client/screen saver are available for download only from their web site, so that they can guarantee the integrity of the software. They do not support Folding@home software obtained elsewhere and prohibit others to distribute the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 (edited) About this FAQ This FAQ is a simplified and modified version of the official Folding@home FAQ , if you don’t find your answer here, you can start reading the official version, because in the one you are presently reading there are many information missing. Edited November 9, 2004 by Fadix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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