F@H VS. World Community Grid

darkertint · October 15th, 2009, 07:09 PM

I noticed a lot of people here run folding at home instead of World Community Grid. It seems like they are basically the same, but I was wondering what makes people chose F@H over WCG? I've never used F@H, but WCG has a lot of features that I like, from a good range of projects to select from, to a good application that gives a lot of options for running the grid.

KarmaKiller · October 15th, 2009, 08:07 PM

Well I'm not sure on the WCG thing. I've never ran that tbh.
But I am a folder. I basically run that because of what it's trying to accomplish. I have had many members effected by the diseases that folding is trying to cure, so that's why I fold.
Also, last time I checked, folding had more clients out to support some of the newer hardware. (mainly GPU's) I'm pretty sure WCG has updated since I checked, but that was one of the main reasons I got into it.
(Plus I ran seti@home before this, and this just seemed like it was for a better cause)

Sorry for the kind of bias answer, but I'm just not up to date on WCG like I am folding.

EDIT:
Also should mention TechIMO's small but mighty folding team could always use a few more team members. We're not heavy on people, or points really for that matter. But we're one of those teams that have a good time folding, and any of us would reach out and help any other team member without thinking twice. That's what makes our team so much better then all the other teams.

darkertint · October 15th, 2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

Well I'm not sure on the WCG thing. I've never ran that tbh.
But I am a folder. I basically run that because of what it's trying to accomplish. I have had many members effected by the diseases that folding is trying to cure, so that's why I fold.
Also, last time I checked, folding had more clients out to support some of the newer hardware. (mainly GPU's) I'm pretty sure WCG has updated since I checked, but that was one of the main reasons I got into it.
(Plus I ran seti@home before this, and this just seemed like it was for a better cause)

Sorry for the kind of bias answer, but I'm just not up to date on WCG like I am folding.

EDIT:
Also should mention TechIMO's small but mighty folding team could always use a few more team members. We're not heavy on people, or points really for that matter. But we're one of those teams that have a good time folding, and any of us would reach out and help any other team member without thinking twice. That's what makes our team so much better then all the other teams.

You're right, WCG doesn't have GPU support, but they make it really easy for you to select which diseases/causes you would like to fold, does f@h do that? BTW the I7 in my sig is my cruncher that is set to 100% 24/7... if I got something that utilizes GPU I might add a second or third 9800GT.. or just get a better card (do they have dual core GPU's now?)

KarmaKiller · October 15th, 2009, 08:49 PM

Ah nice.
And no, you don't get to pick which specific disease your crunching for. And tbh, most of us folders could probably care less. As long as it's helping, that's all we care about.

Also, maybe the project being ran by Stanford University has something else to do with it? I honestly don't know.

Aaron_8015 · October 15th, 2009, 08:51 PM

Well mabye you can run F@H on your gpu's if WCG does not make use of them......

darkertint · October 15th, 2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron_8015

Well mabye you can run F@H on your gpu's if WCG does not make use of them......

Is that possible, does F@H have a setting to only use GPU power and none of the CPU?

Aaron_8015 · October 15th, 2009, 08:55 PM

Oh yes, you need different clients for cpu and gpu's......

Folding@home - DownloadWinOther

Depending on if you want to use the system tray or the client version. You can try it out.... (we are team 111 by the way).

RamonGTP · October 15th, 2009, 09:59 PM

The GPU client still uses CPU cycles just not nearly as much.

Aaron_8015 · October 15th, 2009, 10:03 PM

Well I when I have two gpu clients running cpu is at 4-6% load....

KarmaKiller · October 15th, 2009, 10:29 PM

That's with 2 GPU clients going, and steam, in Windows 7.

(Also my pic kind of fails, but there is only 9% load on 1 core of my quad)

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if I got something that utilizes GPU I might add a second or third 9800GT.. or just get a better card (do they have dual core GPU's now?)

The GPU folding apps utilize Nvidia GPU cores, and that's what they crunch on. IDK how much you know about GPU's, but they are MUCH faster at crunching then the standard CPU, even your I7.
And they do make dual GPU cards. That's what I'm running. Currently their are:
9800GX2 = 2x 9800gtx
GTX295 = ~2x GTX275's
GTX295 "Co-Op" same as above, but a single PCB revision. 2 Core on one PCB as opposed to the dual PCB's like the 9800. The single PCB's versions run much cooler.