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    News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    The points keep racking up as the folders climb the rankings.
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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    Keep up the folding guys, we can so do this!
    Join the HEXUS Folding@home Team!!


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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    Fold on!

    If anyone needs any help setting up (should you decide to help) or general questions, don't hesitate to ask, we're a friendly (but, of course, quite geeky) bunch

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    That's quite impressive. I stopped folding long ago due to problems constantly arising. I just don't have the time to sit around and fix a program I am using voluntarily. Updates to the program also ground to a halt at the time...

    Anyway I've found something much better, where you can choose what you contribute to. You are not locked in to the medical industry.

    It's called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). I'm using it to support AQUA@home and MilkyWay@home.

    Hexus should consider creating a team for BOINC projects as well. Quite a lot easier to use and has more features like automatically stopping work while you are using the PC with timer settings(I use 5 minute idle time).

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    Quote Originally Posted by ExHail View Post
    That's quite impressive. I stopped folding long ago due to problems constantly arising. I just don't have the time to sit around and fix a program I am using voluntarily. Updates to the program also ground to a halt at the time...

    Anyway I've found something much better, where you can choose what you contribute to. You are not locked in to the medical industry.

    It's called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). I'm using it to support AQUA@home and MilkyWay@home.

    Hexus should consider creating a team for BOINC projects as well. Quite a lot easier to use and has more features like automatically stopping work while you are using the PC with timer settings(I use 5 minute idle time).
    I must say they've made great improvements with the bugs and whatnot so it's now very easy to install - I used to have great issues with the SMP (multi-core) client but that's got a lot better and simpler in recent updates.

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    I found DDY's instructions (salvaged from page 2 of folding chit-chat) very easy to use to set up the client:
    Quick step by step guide to set up SMP:

    1) Download SMP client here
    2) Unzip in to folder with write permissions, e.g. C:/Users/David/FAH
    3) Right click on the Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe and select create shortcut
    4) Right click new shortcut and click properties
    5) In the target box, type "-configonly" right at the end without quotes, click ok
    6) Launch shortcut
    7) Enter info as normal, answer yes to change advanced options
    8) Keep hitting enter (unless you want to change other settings) until you get to "Additonal client parameters", here enter "-smp" without quotes
    9) Keep hitting enter and the window would eventually disappear
    10) Delete shortcut
    11) Run Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe
    Thought it might save people trawling through the 50 page thread...

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    Perswaded me to start folding again, but gonna have to download core temp, since last time my CPU was reaching scary tempratures (100'C and throttling) eeek.
    Also does any one know if it is possible to limit the GPU usage on the GPU client?

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    It is possible. There's a slider in options.

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    My numbers have been a bit low since Christmas, however well done to all, Fold on!
    Should you be interested? Here's what I've been...
    Doing, Playing and Listening to.

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    Re: News - HEXUS folding@home team approaches 100 million point milestone

    We're going to be 2 million points short at the end of Feb so if there is anyone out there who is tempted to try folding, this is the time to start!

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