FR Folding@Home Project- ATI Stream Computing Drive Bio-Medical Research at Stanford University

ATI Website and Stanford University ^ | Nov 13 2006 | Vijay Pande

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Is there a way for me to change mine to 30 or is it too late?

I went to the f@h forum, but, didn't see anything about changing it.

I apologize for bugging you so much.

[texas booster]

Open the directory that F@H is in.

Edit the file client.cfg. It may show up as a single line. That's Ok.

Scroll across to Checkpoint=3 and insert a '0' after the 3. Save the file.

Do the same thing to the other F@H folder.

Reboot and you should be fine.

My F@H client.cfg file:

[settings]
username=Texas_Booster
team=36120
asknet=no
machineid=1
local=7

[http]
active=no
host=localhost
port=8080
usereg=no

[core]
priority=96
cpuusage=75
checkpoint=30

[clienttype]
type=3

CPU usage is set at 75% since this is from a low cost laptop. I don't want to chance overheating the system.

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Thank you very much.

[JosephW]

There is another problem. The username should be set to josephw instead of pbrown. I've noticed a lot of freepers have made this kind of mistake. Do not enter your username instead enter josephw.

And some of you wondered how I climbed up the list so quickly :)

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Ohhhh, so that's the problem???? And all this time I thought there was a problem with F@H. I'll get right on it./sarc lol

[Drango]

The username should be set to josephw drango1 instead of pbrown.

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With this version of F@H, is there a way to find out the estimated time of when my WU's will finish? They've given me two p2124 proteins.

[JosephW]

There you go confusing users. The username should only be drango1 on a Mac. All PC based system should use josephw.

[Drango]

Remember when we hacked into DU and changed some of their user names to our own and ran up massive points for FR? Good times.

Let's do it again. Use your decoder ring to see how below.

If you are from DU, slink away. We have no decoder rings and there is no conspiracy to hack your site. Or is there? 

Great idea huh?

[Egon]

With this version of F@H, is there a way to find out the estimated time of when my WU's will finish? They've given me two p2124 proteins.

Not with the console version, no.

FAHMonitor is able to do this, as well as some other available monitoring applications.

According to FAHMonitor's compiled stats, our group of users has completed p2124 350 times, with an average completion time of 164 hours 41 minutes.

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Thank you. Then I'll just sit back and let it do it's thing.

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it's - its?

[texas booster]

For the console version you either need to do some math or you need Egon's monitor.

It happens that I am working on one of the p2124's myself. If you open up the "unitinfo.txt" file you will see something like this:

Current Work Unit

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Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011
Download time: November 30 02:21:18
Due time: March 20 02:21:18
Progress: 42% [||||______]

Keep in mind that there are lots of variations of the p2124 data set.

I started on Nov 30 at 2:21 am. It is now Dec 3 at 10:00 am. It is 42% finished. That gives me 3.333 days of work / 42% = 7.936 days to complete problem. Call it 8 days on this particular system. (Rounding off is my friend).

I searched the web and found numerous discussions on the Excel function DATEDIF. A real mathematician that knew Excel could create a spreadsheet to find th result.

Its probabaly already been done for F@H, I just haven't found it yet.

Calling for expert help!

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This is 1)Current Work Unit ----------------- Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011 Download time: December 2 00:45:59 Due time: March 22 00:45:59 Progress: 38% [|||_______]

2)Current Work Unit ----------------- Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011 Download time: December 2 00:45:59 Due time: March 22 00:45:59 Progress: 35% [|||_______]

Please tell me I'm seeing things. They won't be finished till March! eeeek.

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Sorry, very ugly.

1) Current Work Unit -----------------
Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011
Download time: December 2 00:45:59
Due time: March 22 00:45:59 Progress: 38%
[|||_______]

)2 Current Work Unit -----------------
Name: p2124_lambda_5way_melt_4_10011
Download time: December 2 00:45:59
Due time: March 22 00:45:59 Progress: 35%
[|||_______]

[texas booster]

No, that is the last date that this work unit can be received for credit, when downloaded on your start date.

Stanford needs to keep the results fairly current, so they have established that you have 120 days for completion. A lot of work units are run on systems that do not have regular Internet access, do not run every day or are old and slow.

[texas booster]

Thanks for joining the team. It looks like you got a pretty big work unit your first time out.

Please ping us if you have any questions!

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Ok. Thanks. Sceered me for a minute there. :-)

[Egon]

Just noticed something interesting:

I run FAH on my desktop workstation, which runs Ubuntu Linux. If I have Mozilla Thunderbird open (not minimized-- haven't checked minimized), it's taking 96% of the CPU cycles, leaving F@H with only 1- 2%.

So, regardless of the OS you're running, you might want to check periodically against "top", or Windows Task Manager and see if any of the applications you leave running on a regular basis are hogging the CPU.

[papasmurf]

Egon:

I've been playin' around with Ubuntu for about a year now. I finally loaded it (dual boot) on my Tablet PC so I can start to actually learn something.

What I really need to know, most of all-first of all, are commands (with example usage) and syntax. I have some instructions on how to get the Tablet portion running, and the pcmcia, but I don't understand them! LOL

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks so much...


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