Please let these run! believe it or not, we are still testing new method improvements out even though casp has started. for example, I'm very excited about some improvements I think I may have just made to the energy function, but I won't know for sure until rosetta@home tests on proteins of known structure are finished.

i know a few people running multiple Q6600s with credit as expected. you should get something in the region of 1700 RAC from a 2.4GHz Q6600 on 24/7. If you're getting less then it might be because the CPU is throttling down... is it definitely running at 2.4GHz when Rosetta is the only thing running?

I'd love to get 1700RAC from a single Q6600!! I practice I've been seeing < 400 with Rosetta on 66% share.

For an example of low returns, see
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/workunit.php?wuid=121649462 It looks like somehow the credit system thinks some serious cheating is going on and scaling the granted credit severely.

I'll try setting Rosetta to 100% share on a Q6600 box & see what happens.

Can BOINC be setup to run one project on one core and a second project on the second core? Does it run more efficiently if it were to operate like this?

Currently, the project has two types of WUs, some require 256MB memory, some require 512MB. Your machines are hidden, so I can't tell. Do you have 256MB of memory?

I for one am unclear exactly how the system handles these memory limitations. Are you getting any messages in BOINC Manager as you attempt to download work? Do you know if a WU was actually downloaded before reporting the message?

I believe BOINC is working on some enhancements to the scheduling to help better accomodate such situations and deliver work that's appropriate to the client.

When a computer is idle it does use less energy than when it is running at 100%. I remember from FAD a P4 2.4ish computer would use about 60W increase at the wall. Which for a home user isn't that much (unless you live in the UK :( ) But times it by a computer suite at say a University, Company or Internet Cafe it get expensive, not just that but noisier (modern day variable fan speeds) and then you have to cool the room ...

And with even newer computer where they drop to even lower energy usages while idle the difference get greater. So while you and I think it's a good idea, it does cost a lot extra in the end to run this program just in electricity costs. Never mind bandwidth costs and problems.