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Postby obujordan » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:40 pm

I was just wondering what OS's people are using for folding?  I tried Ubuntu, but I the machine to DSL because of the low overhead and RAM demands (it looks like I can fold with 32 MB of RAM).
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Postby Ravage » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:36 pm

I'm currently running Ubuntu, but with quite a bit more ram than 32 megs.  It works great with either an smp client or gpu clients, but not so hot with both.
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What OS's are being used for folding?

Postby jackrabbit » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:44 pm

32MB of RAM? That may be enough for the OS, but your folding client will find that greatly lacking.

To answer your question about the OS's: currently Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. Used to fold on Slackware, Debian and Windows XP.
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Postby BrokenWolf » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:21 am

I use Centos 5.x for most of my systems.  1GB of ram or more normally.

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Postby susato » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:04 am

I have two systems on Snow Leopard, one on Tiger, a PPC G4 and G5 on Panther (my husband's computers) and two running Ubuntu.  I had two running Win XP for a while... should get them back up and running but life's been very busy lately.
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What OS's are being used for folding?

Postby gannett » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:13 am

I have Ubuntu 9.04 on the main folding machine - recently moved on to new i7 - 930 hardware. I had a go at GPU folding on Ubuntu 9.10 but gpu folding failed out of the box, probably a drivers issue. I can reboot same machine into win7 if needed.

Also running a Leopard Mac Mini & G5 but have stopped folding on G5 as it is quite slow and now sleeps and wakes up without crashing.

Looking at http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2979/bigadvppd.png you can see that Ubuntu is a popular choice for SMP and BigAdv folding. Getting multiprocessors to work together is a bit harder under windows but there is some beta work going on over in that space.

If the machine is of the vintage where 32MB was a normal memory size its processor speed may be a bit too slow to get much folding work done within deadlines.

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Postby lilrabbit129 » Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:36 pm

I have a machine using CentOS 5.3 to fold, and another that has used Ubuntu ( I forget exactly which one it was). In the past I've also used Fedora.

I'm also folding on an XP machine, and a few Win7 machines. Currently no OSX machines though =(.

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Postby ozarkdave » Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:37 pm

Right now I'm just using OSX. In the past I've used Win2k, FreeBSD and (I think) OpenBSD.
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