Posted on 12/25/2005 7:13:22 PM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week.
First, a big shout out to the SETI members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.
Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 104 processors and 76 users. We have a number of new users in the team, with Clara Lou, fzx12345, SamfromLivingston, brityank, manwiththehands and Tami all popping onto the hit list this week.
Malsua, uriah and Ken in Texas are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add systems and now accounts for 10% of the FR total. Great job!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 1196. We are poised to overtake (today):
carletonu (maybe in MN?)
Helms-Deep
2*ian
Dynadues
Soluchis
Greece and soon the
University of Pennsylvania!
We were passed by one team, SISD. My guess is that this team really is the computers of an Independent School District that were all "volunteered" to fold over the holidays. They are producing points at a rate of 37,000 points per day. As we gain members from the 100,000 FReepers that visit JimRob's place I expect that we will have a much greater long term growth than them.
thank you!
Thanks?
What you do is install the client from here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
and then type 36120 in the spot where it asks which "team".
That's pretty much it. If you have any more questions ask away.
Uh oh, now I may have to add in some more machines :).
I had a few boxes down for the past few days due to holiday, but they're back and cranking...I dipped a little in daily output, should be back up a bit soon. Thanks to all the new folks!
As to questions I read up thread, the GUI doesn't seem to sap cycles much, but I have fairly decent machines. I don't do the screensaver though, just tray icon. It's easier to see per-machine progress with the gui, but you can read the log on the console version. I have two of those going and both are identical boxes to ones running the gui and they have achieved almost identical output, and in fact the gui machines are up a WU, but that's just statistical error and luck of the WU.
I see we're currently 1125! Eat that Kos, DU!
Gunning for them...hehehe... up to 37 cpu's online now. A long holiday, and nothing much better to do (except contribute to science, and FR, and drink beer) while sitting here nursing a knee injury......
A word of caution, for those using the GUI version, check periodically, because I had 7 hang at "benchmarking" ,and
had to manually shut down, and restart the client. Wasted about 24 hours of processing time.... *sigh*
If you have 11 systems running I'll gladly relinquish my spot... I only have 4 at my disposal right now... more power to you!!
[quote]Uh oh, now I may have to add in some more machines :)[/quote]
Didn't see your reply, until I had already posted...
Have you had any luck in getting multiple instances of the console running?
I've got some quad processor servers, that I'd love to see
cranking out 4x the work...
Out of curiosity, what kind of systems were these clients running on? I haven't had a hang-up like that, and I've tried a couple of weird old machines, as well as a couple newer ones.
With a 4-quad, you need to install a seperate instance of the console (4 times) into its own directory. You need to run the console version wth the '-local' flag to tell it to look only at the files it its local directory. Then, when running the config for the console instance, in addition to specifying your user-id and team-number, you need to specify a "Machine-ID", from 1-x, where x is the number of processors on your machine.
You can use the same user-id and team-number, but each seperate instance of the console on a given machine must have a different machine-id (corresponds to the # of CPUs.)
2 of them were 2003 server, 2 were w2k advanced server, and one was a NT4.0 box. The other two were standard w2k server.
Awesome! I may have to lure you right up to passing me and kick the nitrous :).
Hehe, it's all just fun anyway. Just don't pass me till I hit #1.
OK.. thanks for the info. I'm going to pass judgement rght now; all I have tried is XpPro, XpHome, and 98SE.
You look pretty solid right now... we'll give it a week or two and see who else climbs up!! :-)
Yeah, and I can add the wife's 3200 in, but I've got 3 machines on this UPS and max cpus are sucking 600 of the 800 available watts. Not to mention electric bill.
At my last company, I had some 50 or so machines crunching on RC5-64...some are prolly still running since I noted that some machines contributed as recently as july 2003. Wish I could flip them, hehe.
ping me!
I had a problem with the console version - (that may be shared by the GUI version).
This was not a stability problem, but I plugged in a USB camera that rebooted my system for some reason. My current WU restarted back at 0% - when it had been working just over a week and was up to 70% [UGH]. FAH seems to save its work every couple of hours, I don't understand why this should happen, but on the forum, there were comments from other people who had this experience.
The GUI version saves its work at predetermined intervals. I think the default is every 30 minutes or so, and you can adjust that down if wanted. However, when you first restart F@H, all of the timing stats are off. Hopefully it resynched after a while, recovered, and you didn't really lose 70% of it.
What can I do to help?
I tried to setup the SETI screen saver a few years back and it messed up my computer.
The console version also saves it work at intervals. I thought I set it for every 15 min., but it seems to be logging a save about every 2 hr.
Either way the saves didn't help, the reboot was 2 days ago and it is now back up to 30% done on the same problem with the same download date. I lost over a weeks work and it was going pretty slowly, too.
I wondered if a system restore my recover the work, but it didn't seem likely enough to make the effort.
HTH
I just saw the above comment--interesting and possible. However, my school district wouldn't tolerate it. It's big on energy conservation over the holidays. Those computers would be turned off in about a day's time.
Yep - Stephanville Independent School District, in Texas. 2 people, Luke Reagor, and Aaron Pope, have 290 systems on line. It's the 26th of December, and they're still going like a bat out of hell, so I don't think it's an energy conservation issue.
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