I'll get there one day...more folding related questions.

[voodoopenguin]

Well I'm back folding again after several months off and I'm using the latest 'folding@home' 5.02. Well into my first protein but I was hoping to use both processors so have now started up InCrease.

When I started folding@home it immediately found my old name and team and the same thing happened when I started up InCrease so I know that is set up OK. InCrease also saw the protein I was doing and the percentage I had got to so I assumed it could take over from folding@home but when I stopped folding@home all my folding stopped. I left it a while to see if InCrease would pick it up but it didn't.

Do I have to wait for this protein to finish before I start using InCrease? If I do that and then start InCrease will it get a new protein for me and will it use both processors as at the moment it is still only using one? I'm using Activity Monitor to check.

On a slightly related topic, the two columns of blocks you can have for the Activity Monitor jump about a lot. If I'm not doing anything then one column is grey and the other is to the top with green showing that folding@home is using it all. However, while I watch the column that is green swaps from the left side to the right and then back again and keeps doing that. Is the folding really jumping from one processor to another all the time? Seems a bit strange to me but then I'm a bear of little brain at times.

[kj4btkljv]

Are you using an Intel Mac? If so, using Increase isn't required, or really necessary anymore.

I'm using a lot of Intel Macs now, and I just download the software from Stanford. It's a system pref. piece of software, so no Increase needed.

Also, multi-processors can't fold a single work unit. The more processors you have, the more units you can work on at the same time. I really wish it worked the opposite, since quad and octo-core Mac monsters could chew and spit out a single unit pretty fast.

Jeff

[voodoopenguin]

[quote kj4btkljv]Are you using an Intel Mac? If so, using Increase isn't required, or really necessary anymore.

I'm using a lot of Intel Macs now, and I just download the software from Stanford. It's a system pref. piece of software, so no Increase needed.
It's a 2.8 Intel iMac. So can folding@home deal with two at once? I cannot see where I can get it to do that.

[Harbourmaster]

voodoo

Increase and F@H can not co-exist.

Start by removing both increase and your current F@H client.

Then...

You need to download one of the "beta" clients from Stanford in order to use both processors.


This one to be exact. click this link to download the SMP client for multi processor Intel Macs: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup...-Intel.zip

once you run the installer you should be forlding with both processors.

[voodoopenguin]

I must be doing something wrong. I stopped both InCrease and folding@home then trashed the programs. I downloaded the link you gave Ken, installed and then ran the program but it just says it is Folding@home Viewer which shows a demo of a protein spinning. There is a drop-down menu showing 'Preferences' but that is greyed out. What do I do now?

[Harbourmaster]

Well I sounds like you didn't get all of the old folding stuff out of your system.

You will need to do a search for anything with the names Folding or increase and trash them, be sure to search on invisible items as well (though I am not sure if there are any )

It's possible that the client that yo0u just downloaded was corrupted or my link was bad.
Go to the main Stanford Downloads page and grab the Mac OS X (Intel) SMP
OS X 10.4+ 6.10 beta2 client they list the MD5 checksum hash on the page so that you can verify the file once it is done downloading to be sure that the file is O.K. once you have verified the file run the installer and enter your details you should be good to go.

there is also a SMP page that gives some details about the client but it is a little out of date since it was written for the beta5 client.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup...Q-SMP.html

[kj4btkljv]

If this thread is still being read, this is where Increase has dumped stuff on my G5 PowerMac:

Users - Library - Increase
Users - Library - Application Support - Increase
Applications - Increase
Users - Library - Preferences - InCrease.plist

All of this stuff must be purged in order to switch from Increase to the Stanford SMP folding package. The first three are folders full of files, the last is just a file. Dump it all in your trash can, restart the computer, download the Stanford software, then start folding through the System Preference Pane.

Hope that helps...

Jeff