Posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:19 PM PDT by texas booster
I had a great folding day today and I finally broke into yellow territory at No. 6 in the top ten.
Keep up the good work, that's a great target. It is hard to hit for most of us.
800 points a day has been hard for me to average. I will have a great week, like last week, and then this week I can't buy a work unit.
I'm calling it the "seventh wave" effect. When I was stationed with the Air Force in Iceland I would often stand gazing at the dark gray Atlantic and count the waves boiling and raging toward shore. There seemed to be a pattern so that every seventh wave was a monster.
Today was a seventh wave day.
Just picked up 300 more points, pushing me over 2,000 for the day. There's a chance I'll get another 300+ before midnight.
You two newbies are putting down some outrageous numbers.
"I've updated the FAHUpload script for both Windows and Linux."
AWESOME!
I really like the tweaks to the monitor. Sorry it took me so long to respond. It took me a while to get all my systems to show up. I changed the names and categories so I could make sure they were uploading correctly. It now LOOKS like I have 6 CPUs folding instead of 3 (I wish, LOL). I know the old names will drop off in a week, so that's ok.
My problem in getting the scripts to work right was that I had used parenthesis ( ) in some of the fields. It took me a while to remember that using parenthesis keeps it from working correctly.
Great job, Egon. Thanks for the new toys to play with. Do you have any set way that you want us to enter CPU and RAM info so you can parse them for stats? (I put a lot of info in each, but I can move that stuff to notes and just show the CPU and Ram the way you want.) How about the category? I'm using that to indicate OS, either Linux or Windows.
Anyway, it just keeps getting better and better. Thanks again.
RT
"He configured his home linux server fast as lightning to report on Egon's FAH Monitor. I told him about using Windows XP scheduler on the Windows machines..."
OOPS - I forgot to mention to you that I never could make the Linux script work. I used the Windows script and put it in the FAH folder on the Linux box. I had to use my local network path for the location of the unitinfo.txt file - it looks like this:
//mylinuxbox/mylogonname/fold/unitinfo.txt
Since it is a Windows VBS file, I can't run it under Linux. But from my Windows box, I can browse my local network & locate the file, then run it manually from my Windows box if I want to update between the scheduled times. Of course, the Windows Scheduler runs it automatically at the scheduled times.
Oh, one more thing, you should run it manually the first time to see if your firewall wants to block it. You should be able to authorize it and configure your firewall to always let it run.
I hope that helps.
RT
Good Lord, your numbers are insane!
Are you folding from the mothership or something?
Freepmail a list of old server names, and their new equivalent. I'll have to run a query to associate the history from the old machines to the new.
I have no preference. It's not going to be able to be machine-parseable, and I haven't figured out a way for people to be able to choose from a list, so it's always going to vary, and be for anecdotal comparisons only.
How about the category? I'm using that to indicate OS, either Linux or Windows.
The section is used to physically group machines on the list. I added it primarily for people with large numbers of machines, so they could more easily locate them on the list. If it helps you to group them by OS, though, that's great!
I hate p1811_COL1_121_fragments. It just ain't worth the 512 points to lock up my desktop for a week and a half. That darn thing ought to be worth 2000 points. That one and a few others along with it. /rant
LMAO!!! Actually, yes he is!
It helps when you have some dual-processor Xeon servers at your disposal. :-)
After 2 errors and several days lost, I will no longer allow that unit on node2. I tried to get it to download a different WU but it always received the same one. So I had to turn off bigunits and scientific cores for now.
Both cores of my dual core box also have it. There have been no problems with those boxes.
Another error (on node2 the 2.0GHz A64 box):
[17:55:27] Protein: p1487_DPPC_DOPC_CHOL
[17:55:27] Writing local files
[17:55:27] Completed 196976 out of 1000000 steps (19%)
[17:55:29] Extra 3DNow boost OK.
[17:55:29] Extra SSE boost OK.
[17:55:30] Warning: long 1-4 interactions
[18:00:28] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[18:01:03] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[18:01:03] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0
[18:01:03] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
heh. I already have PIIIs. Barely squeeze one small WU a week out of it.
BTW, I suspected you might be running AMD processors and Linux OS. I have this feeling that they outperform Intel and Windows when matched heads up.
Intel's new Core 2 Duo is performing superior in all benchmark's that I have seen. I will likely buy a few.
I have not noticed much different performance on this laptop under WinXP or Slackware, I get about 100ppd(on a 1.2GHz Athlon4)on either.
"Deleting current work unit & continuing..."
OOPS!
I lost a 192 pointer on my laptop (93% done - AAARRRGGGGHH) when the HDD overheated and the system crashed. After I fixed it and rebooted, the WU was still there but the checkpoint hashes didn't match up so it started over.
8-(
Help!!! How does one restart the console version of F@H. I accidently closed the DOS window, and now I'm at a loss.....Colin
Well, if you are seeing a DOS box then you are running the folding app as an XP service. Just restart the computer. If you requested to "Start automatically as a service" in Win XP then it will restart and take off where it left off. You will see it only in the Windows task manager, but it will still be working.
Way to keep it going. With just three regular computers you have made it into the Top 50 of our little band, and are already in the Top 30,000 of all folders (over 500,000 total).
You are one of the consistent ones that keeps us ahead of the DUmmies.
"How does one restart the console version of F@H. I accidently closed the DOS window, and now I'm at a loss....."
texas booster replied: "If you requested to "Start automatically as a service" in Win XP then it will restart and take off where it left off."
Texas Booster is talking about when you started FAH for the first time and configured it. It should have asked you if you wanted to run it as a service, to which you should have responded 'yes'. If you did, then it will run in the background whenever you reboot or turn on the computer. You won't see a Dos window.
After rebooting, check the task manager. Here's how: right click on a blank space in the middle of the Windows Start bar and select Task Manager from the pop-up menu. Then, click on the Processes tab at the top of the new window and look for FAH504-console.exe in the list. If you find it, you should also find a FAHcore_?? running that is using most of the CPU time. That's how you tell that FAH is folding.
(You can also get Egon's FAH monitor which can check all of your systems for you. FReepmail Egon and ask him for the web page to download it - it's free.)
If FAH is not running after you reboot, then you need to reconfigure FAH. Here's how:
- Click Start, Run, then type "CMD" in the little run window. That will open a new Dos window.
- Navigate to your FAH folder - ex.: "CD C:\fold" (fold is what I named the FAH directory on my system)
- Your prompt should now indicate that you are in the FAH folder (whatever you named the directory)
- Type "FAH504-console.exe -configonly" and hit enter.
- Answer the prompts how you want making sure that 'team=36120' and 'run as a service=yes'
- The program will indicate that FAH has shut down after you answer the last prompt.
- Close the Dos window & reboot - voila - FAH will be running as a service in the background - no Dos window.
Hope this helps.
RT
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