Folding@Home

[Handruin]

I finally got my A/C. I'm back to folding again...

Groltz, in addition to what you're saying, one of those active contributers isn't even registered on the forum. :x

 

[fb]

I'll add a PIII 700MHz in a few days... but the bad news is that I might lose a Xeon 2.8 next week.

 

[Bozo]

Had a power failure while I was away. Lost two days folding

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Will Rickards]

Set up two client consoles on my new AMD x2 3800+ system.
Hopefully I did it right and you should see my stats appearing in a few days.
I'm going to bed now, I just wanted to set this up before that.

 

[P5-133XL]

The point spike that people that carefully watch the stats are seeing is from F@H crediting everyone for a variety of WU's that previously were not properly credited.

Enjoy your new found points while they last.

 

[Bozo]

"The point spike that people that carefully watch the stats are seeing is from F@H crediting everyone for a variety of WU's that previously were not properly credited."

Damm......here I thought that was from the PIII 800 I added :wink:

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Bartender]

Once the temperature begins to drop, I just might use some of Buck's extra computers and start crunching again. The extra heat will be nice. I think he was trying to fire up some of his old dualie systems, and they weren't behaving. He might have to upgrade them.

 

[fb]

I finally added the PIII 700 and the Xeon 2.8 will be folding for at least another month.

 

[Will Rickards]

Why does extremeoverclocking.com's stats page have us at 102 but stanford's stats page has us at 104?

 

[P5-133XL]

There are two teams that are not counted - Default and Google. They both contain people that are running FAH but do not specify a valid team. If someone is runnning the Google client then they are attached to Google and if they are running any other client then they get attached to default.

 

[Will Rickards]

I've produced 600 points exactly for the past three days.
Is that odd?

 

[Groltz]

I've produced 600 points exactly for the past three days.
Is that odd?

No.

A lot of these Gromacs RIBO proteins are 600 points exactly. They take about a day to accomplish.

 

[Groltz]

We've ascended in rank to 101st place!!!!!

Way to go, active contributors....all 14 of you.

 

[Bozo]

I have always run folding in console mode. That way I could see what's happening.
If I set up folding to run as a sevice, is there a way to see the progress it's making?

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Fushigi]

I have always run folding in console mode. That way I could see what's happening.
If I set up folding to run as a sevice, is there a way to see the progress it's making?

Bozo :mrgrn:

Look at unitinfo.txt int he Folding directory. It contains the work unit info & your % done. I bookmark the file for easy access.

 

[P5-133XL]

you can use a 3rd party program for monitoring. Tool list

 

[Groltz]

Mark, do you have a personal favorite among the monitoring programs?

I've been using F@H LogStats. It's OK, but nothing more.

 

[P5-133XL]

My personal favorite was Logstat but it hasn't been updated so long that most WU's don't even showup properly: It was perfect, but now it is basicly useless. The one I'm currently using is FahMon: I don't really like it, but it does the job.

Most people use EMIII, but I find it to be annoying because it is too flashy. Now note, that most use the program to monitor a single machine but my criteria is different: I need it to monitor multiple machines, so what I like/need is different than most. It doesn't hurt to try out several and see what is right for you.

 

[Pradeep]

Added four P4 3.6GHz for the weekend at least

 

[Groltz]

Kicked into 102nd place by The Pabster :eekers:

 

[CougTek]

The good news is that we should be back in the top 100 (well, #100), in 40 days, according to the conquest/overtake projection. We'll be kicked off the top 100 quickly, but it wasn't our last presence in that prestigious group.

Remember when we were 34th?

 

[Bozo]

Zow-wee, what caused that last spike??

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[Handruin]

What's the best way to make the FAH client run as an automatic service under SuSe 9.3 (or any Linux for that matter)?

 

[Mercutio]

The easiest thing to do is probably make a little script that you can place in the appropriate place under /etc/init.d somewhere.

 

[Handruin]

Sorry for the ignorance...once I place the script there...how do I start it?

I planned on making the script point to my install location like:

/root/fah/FAH502-Linux.exe

Then what do I do to start the service? I'm not very savvy with Linux yet.

 

[i]

I really think an cron job would be simpler.

Easy to change, easy to see, easy to 'nice' it, and easy to run it under your own account.

Issue a "man 5 crontab" at the command prompt. Read about "The Eight Special Strings" (sounds like a cheap movie, doesn't it).

       Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may appear:

string         meaning
             
@rebootRun once, at startup.
@yearly        Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".
@annually      (same as @yearly)
@monthly       Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
@weekly        Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".
@daily         Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".
@midnight      (same as @daily)
@hourly        Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".

 

[i]

The "code" tags are pretty useless, aren't they.

How the hell do you get a non-proportional font in here?

 

[i]

Oh well.

My vote it is on a cheap and cheerful cron job, launched by the "@reboot" string.

Note: Jobs started by the cron demon normally have their console output stored while running, and then the whole output from the app is sent to you as a mail message when the app terminates. You may want to specify MAILTO="" at the start of the crontab if whatever you're lauching runs in a verbose mode. Otherwise, you'll get a heck of mail message the first time the app shuts down.

 

[Mercutio]

One of our rivals seems to like init as well.

 

[Handruin]

That seemed to work, thanks Merc! And also thank you i for the crontab suggestion!

 

[Fushigi]

Congrats to Mark for passing 1 million points!

 

[P5-133XL]

Thanks,

First year 60,000
Second year 300,000
Third year 1,200,000 (estimate)

It's hard to believe that this project has been running almost 3 years.

Now onward and upward to 2,000,000+

 

[P5-133XL]

Congrats should be going out to the entire SR team - As a group, we have completed 4,000,000 points!

 

[timwhit]

Shouldn't that be SF?

 

[P5-133XL]

Yes, but I can't correct it by editing it.

 

[Bozo]

Don't know how much longer I can keep folding at this pace. The POS ASUS board doesn't recognize the USB ports any more. That, and the onboard Promise controller died. ASUS tech support sucks donkey ..... I finally got a phone number to call them. If I RMA the MB, that will be a 3.4 GHz machine off line for a while.



Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[CougTek]

This is our last day, ever, in the top 100 F@H teams.

 

[Bozo]

I had to shut down two P4 3.0GHz folding machines.

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[CougTek]

That's not what will cause our fall. We would need around 20 more 3GHz Pentium 4 just to keep team Latvia's pace and delay our fall from the top 100. Don't feel guilty about it. You still out-produce me by quite a margin.

 

[CougTek]

Make that 70 3GHz Pentium 4. I somehow hit the wrong button on my calculator when I advanced the previous number.