FR Folding@Home Project Update - Congratulations to the New Leaders!

Just a heads up, ALL the smp clients expired on the 30th
The client will only check it own deadline following a restart - so all you freepers that leave your rigs on 24/7 it makes no differance. But worth updating now as a random reboot in a week/months time will stop you folding dead.

Windows SMP - download new client installer - Stop existing client - run - say ‘no’ to removed existing - reboot pc - restart client (if you say yes, you need to run the install.bat file again following the reboot)

Linux SMP - stop client - download new client (small file) - open in archive manager (default) - extract files over existing - restart client. Job done.

Both should start crunching without any loss of WU’s.

One of my upgrades has had tremendous failure and the other system (SMP) has suffered cataclysmic failure. One of them (SMP) is under warranty and will be replaced in about a week (maybe two) and the other should have the replacement part in a few days.

My numbers will be back up then.

Have another significant upgrade coming in about 2 weeks (mid-level upgrade to a very slow system). And finally a real SMP system is in the works (about a month) and I’ll have real numbers to post (and should consistently cross 5K per day).

That’s exciting. I gave up on the Linux SMP system for now. It keeps reporting that the AMD 64 X2 is not SMP capable, so I started running two single cores on it. Now if I could make it start F@H as a service on restart then all would be fine.

I downloaded the latest ATI drivers (Catalyst 7.6) and was able to increase the overclocking on my ATI 1650 video card. Cuts about 10% off the folding time of a work unit, but the fan runs all the time.

Here is the latest report on the worldwide goal of a folding PetaFLOP:

OS Type............Current TFLOPS*....... Active CPUs
Windows.......................177.................... 185786
Mac OS X/PowerPC......8......................... 10546
Mac OS X/Intel.............15......................... 4828
Linux..............................41....................... 24396
GPU...............................46.......................... 772
PLAYSTATION®3.......452.......................24958
Total.............................739..................... 251286

The Playstation 3 folders have realy dropped for now. I expect that most of them are turned off during the week and are playing games on the weekend. Once some team has a Fold-a-thon focused on PS#3’s then we will be close to a 900 TFLOP sustained rate.

Hope to have a new thread up here soon. Feel free to ping me with worthy news articles that discuss teh basic research in Alzheimer’s and Huntingtons Disease.

Why can’t use set up the standard units client as a service?
It’s the second question on the list after -config or -configonly flags. (or are you running a standard linux client) if your using linux try finstall to load the clients.

sudo apt-get update>
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs #Answer yes to its request for disk space
cd ~

wget -c http://ra.vendomar.ee/~ivo/finstall
#Make finstall executable
chmod +x finstall
#Run script
./finstall

It’s the same commands for setting up smp (but without smp at the end of the last command line script.

http://www.aeternum.co.uk/smp/smp-part2.html

Hope that helps

Thanks for joining the team.

You can keep track of your progress here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120

It normally takes a week or so for the first points to show up. If you used your FReeper name then we can ping you when it arrives.

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