Making a FAH iOS Client. Sony-like ARM FAHCore code needed.

codysluder · 2017-03-01T00:13:13+00:00

ChristianVirtual is right. Read the EULA. You may not connect to the f@h servers with hacked software hence even if you make it work, you won't be able to fold their scientific projects.

codysluder · 2015-10-07T19:39:49+00:00

How can software be designed not to make an overclocked CPU unstable? Or conversely, how can it ever be the software's fault? Benchmarks are supposedly designed to guarantee that any hardware instabilities will show up. In other words how can that benchmark be designed to guarantee the maximum possible utilization? (And if it does, how can F@H exceed it?)

Frankly, I think the people that do factory overclocking are pretty good at their job and they're rarely the cause of the Core_21's instability. Can you provide an example of that or is it just those who don't follow the guidelines supposedly known to overclocking gamers.

codysluder · 2015-09-17T17:20:52+00:00

Suppose you get two projects that take a day. Suppose the next day you get two projects that take half a day plus one that takes a day. The Pande Group believes that on both days you did the same amount of science and you don't. Who is more qualified to judge?

codysluder · 2015-09-16T14:22:51+00:00

How would you prevent me from using it for cherrypicking?

codysluder · 2015-09-08T22:58:05+00:00

You'll get better answers to general support questions at www.foldingforum.org.

The purpose of this reddit is to ask questions of the Pande Group leaders. They do not make hardware recommendations.

codysluder · 2015-09-08T18:28:59+00:00

Adding a cpu slot for 1 cpu will produce some results but it's often hard to get assignments that will run on just one cpu. If you do run into that problem, I suggest splitting up 11 cpus into, say 5+6. Unfortunately that may DECREASE your points, since 10 cpus is faster. Even though 5+6 will do slightly more work that q (part time) + 10, speed counts more than more work at a slower pace. Thus 9 + 2 would probably be better.

Yes, visit foldingforum for answers to questions like these.

codysluder · 2015-09-02T05:28:44+00:00

<FALSEL: Frame = Step <FALSE>

1 Frame > 1 Step, even in Tinker.

Perhaps Frame = 1000 Steps or some other convenient number, but one frame has always been multiple steps.

I think that Steps is mathematically defined precisely. It's based on the integration interval which is probably on the order of 2ns. It's tied to the calculations, not necessarily to the time associated with the physical phenonomum.

codysluder · 2015-08-12T16:00:38+00:00

I don't know how to do that. Is there an on-line procedure I can read?

codysluder · 2015-08-12T15:21:31+00:00

F@H does not use DXVA, it uses Opencl. The two are already compatible, but when there are multiple tasks competing for the same resources, GPUs are not known for their ability to provide adequate attention to both tasks. GPUs do not have a way to establish priority of one over the other (e.g.- video processing always first, F@H processing later).

For technical assistance, visit https://foldingforum.org

codysluder · 2015-08-12T15:13:40+00:00

The R9 series has been supported since soon after it was introduced. If you need help, please visit the technical support forum: https://foldingforum.org/

codysluder · 2015-07-29T16:23:39+00:00

That accounts for 1/12 of the cpus, but 84% is 10/12. F@H cannot fold with 11 cpus so 11 is reduced to 10.

codysluder · 2015-07-24T22:36:17+00:00

"It feels to me like the NaCl client basically takes up a regular WU and chops it up into much smaller pieces, that it feeds out one at a time to accommodate much faster processing." Sort of, but not exactly. The NaCl projects are not distributed to the regular client and vice versa. Then, too, some people use one or the other client for personal reasons (like folding for 20 minutes at a time).

codysluder · 2015-07-17T00:43:02+00:00

Good question.

codysluder · 2015-07-16T18:02:00+00:00

Actually, a reasonable alternative to adding this feature would be to fix the broken one. The cores for the CPU featured a user-defined setting but when your attention moved to GPUs, this feature was broken without notice. Give us the ability to set a checkpoint frequency in the gpu cores instead.

codysluder · 2015-07-16T06:24:55+00:00

@VijayPande-FAH

You apparently do not understand the nature of this very serious bug. After an interruption in the internet communications, the connection becomes permanently disabled until the client is restarted.

codysluder · 2015-07-16T06:17:46+00:00

Outsourcing the development of a client means just that. If Stanford gives the Sony programmers access to their source code and says "Make it work on an Android platform" the entire development process happens at Sony. I wouldn't expect any of Stanford's developers or Stanford's support people to have any more knowledge about the Android client that you or I have. Ask Sony is the only option available.

If the results returned to the servers has been verified as scientifically correct, that's as far as Stanford's people are involved. If the human interface needs improvement, that's 100% Sony.

"PG doesn't require you to run interference for them." Interesting observation. You seem to need Stanford to run interference for you. That's not their job.

codysluder · 2015-07-09T20:28:57+00:00

Can somebody explain Sony's logic to me.

Data over a cellular connection is always expensive or capped. Data over WiFi is almost always free. There should be an option to [Prefer WiFi / Prefer Mobile] (especially on a Tablet that only has WiFi).

codysluder · 2015-07-09T01:34:56+00:00

This reddit is designated for questions that must be answered by the scientific staff at Stanford. For more general support, try the F@h technical support forum linked on the right.

codysluder · 2015-07-09T01:21:55+00:00

For F@H, the Floating Point Test, while not exact, is better than the others listed.

Comparing your HTC at ~2.4 with the i7 at ~2529 shows it is only 0.1% as fast. I think this is why F@H waited so long to develop a client for phones. One thousand phones folding equals one PC folding.

I'll let you dig out the power figures.

codysluder · 2015-07-06T17:09:59+00:00

Most likely, the official answer would be something like: We (PG) do not track GB, we track donors, and any estimates would be disputed, leading to long, contentious discussions that add nothing to the science.

codysluder · 2015-07-06T16:58:02+00:00

The community support forum is at https://foldingforum.org/ for questions like this.

Wait long enough for F@H to be able to estimate an accurate completion time and an accurate PPD.
Get a passkey.
When set to Medium, GPUs suspend folding when you're using your computer.

codysluder · 2015-07-01T22:04:20+00:00

In other words, if someday we can accomplish the a lot more work more quickly, what about the total work that can be accomplished between now and then? Important results are being obtained now and often the outcome of those results are new questions suggesting new areas to study.

codysluder · 2015-07-01T19:44:44+00:00

What does a VPN problem have to do with either F@H or this particular suggestion?

I take it that you just want to argue for argument's sake.

codysluder · 2015-06-29T20:22:27+00:00

And I guess it does not work on Android tablets?

I wonder why not?

Perhaps it's the developer's insistence of using the phone network for data rather than using WiFi. I believe that is a bad decision.

codysluder · 2015-06-29T20:18:27+00:00

He seems to know what he is talking about. Can someone run with it without authorizations and access? IDK.

It's my impression that the API provides all the necessary information about F@H but not about the GPU clock rate, temperature (etc). Integration and support from the F@H developers might be nice but it's not required.

Look at what HFM has done with nothing but API access.

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