ive tried many times to use folding at home, but i can never get it to work :( It never runs, and the command line version says it cant get a hold of a work unit, i think there some settings from my previous attempts which need deleting but i dont know where to look

Go to the notes for the beta version. They have detailed instructions for uninstalling. After you do that, try one of the PPC versions and see how it works.

Susato,

Thanks for a thorough and clarifying post. And welcome to the Forums!

Best regards,
ArcticStones

Just started.
 

Well I have installed InCrease but I am not sure it is doing anything - take a look at the pic of the gui.

Zalister, many thanks for finding and posting this. I clicked the link in the original post to find that it wasn't valid anymore. Backspacing the url a bit got me to the Team Mac OS X site.

Its url is:

http://teammacosx.homeunix.com/

I'll be looking into this. Again, thanks.

Hey GavinBKK - Your screenshot of InCrease indicates an older version (2.2) - it's currently up to 2.3.8 as of November 2007. I'd recommend upgrading - Calxalot keeps adding features and improving the information in the window. There's even a "check for updates" feature under the InCrease menu in the latest version (requires OSX 10.3.9 or higher)

Also, if you go to the Tools menu and hit "Download qd updates" that refreshes the database of work units allowing InCrease to display the full data for the current work unit. I do this every month or so, or if incomplete data is showing for a work unit, as seen in your screenshot.

Another way to see if Folding is running: open Activity Monitor and look for a CPU-intensive process named FahCore_**.exe (the ** represents a two-character wildcard). You'll find one of these per instance of folding on a PPC machine; four of them if you're folding SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) units on an Intel Mac.

And double-clicking on the unit currently folding will bring up the log file, FAHlog.txt, for that work unit, allowing you to check the timestamps in the left hand column. This is coarse tracking at best but useful if you suspect the process has been delayed.

We've been updating lately, so drop by and visit us at http://teammacosx.com - Thanks!

I have tried F@h many times, but each time i have failed to achieve anything (i think). First of all which version should i install? the console or the smp? When i use the smp, i turn it on in the system preferences, and nothing happens, and i have no way to monitor my progress, and when i click on the app that comes with it my demo is all screwed up

I really want to get into F@H but can someone set me on the right track??

The Intel smp (multi processor) versions are still beta, so if you're having trouble with them I suggest you report it to the Folding@home website, but first check to see if it is running or not. Open Activity monitor and see if there is a folding process running. You can sort by %CPU, since the folding process(es) should be using the at the highest percentage on both cpus.

The best version IMHO is the console version which can be run from the GUI shell "InCrease" available at the developer's site, www.calxalot.net.

Before you run the console version, you should get rid of all the extra stuff that comes along with the Stanford installer. When you run the installer it puts the following onto your drive:

3 directories (the first one is actually the Folding application):

/Applications/Folding@home.app/*
/Library/PreferencePanes/Folding@home.prefPane/*
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Folding@home/*

and one file:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/Folding@home.plist

Your best bet is to keep the directory
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Folding@home/* which has your client.cfg (configuration) file, your current work unit and your log file, and discard the other three.

Then check to see that there is only one copy of client.cfg and one of FAHlog.txt on your system (they should both be in the /Users/USERNAME/Library/Folding@home directory) Trash any other directories containing FAHlog.txt and client.cfg.

Now you're ready to install InCrease. Download it from Calxalot's site, put it in your applications folder and drag it to the Dock. Open it from the Dock. It will attempt to path to your client.cfg file . If it's not successful, then from the top bar menu select Groups > Create Local Group and enter the path to the directory containing client.cfg.

When you hit the Start icon, InCrease should take over smoothly from there, downloading and installing the latest Folding client, obtaining a work unit, and beginning to fold it.

Hope this has helped - let us know how you are doing with it.

When are the finally going to get the Universal version going anyway? I'd like to get moving on this again.

Yes, keep it on top
 

I seldom visit the Coat Room, and I just found this yesterday.

I've set it up on my two fastest machines already.

Should I ask here or in the UNIX forum if anyone knows how to configure it so it begins folding very soon after startup, and will run in the background even if there is no one logged in, it can run?

I see there's a command line version for the Motorola machines, but I don't see that for the Intel ones.

Thanks for starting this thread and keeping it afloat so I could find it.