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FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're Now # 57 of all teams with 18,000,000 Points
Stanford University Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project ^ | 01/07/2007 | Stanford University

Posted on 01/07/2007 11:28:30 AM PST by texas booster

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To: JosephW; Egon

You two guys are killing me !!!! :)

I'm the jam in a sandwich, that's about to get squashed !!


I advise you both to shut your computers down for about a month. I think that would be best for all involved. Especially me !!! LOL


41 posted on 01/11/2007 4:56:46 PM PST by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: contrarian

Congrats to our newest folder!

It took a bit but the points posted,


42 posted on 01/12/2007 5:44:26 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Egon

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=17551&highlight=

Here is a request from the folding forums for a Linux SMP monitor.

Might be fun to read about someone elses' travails for a bit.


43 posted on 01/12/2007 5:47:20 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: dfwddr
I'm the jam in a sandwich, that's about to get squashed !!

Heh. Worried about being squirted out the bottom?

44 posted on 01/12/2007 6:09:07 AM PST by Egon (I stand beside you as your partner, in front as your defender, behind as... hey! nice butt!)
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To: texas booster
Might be fun to read about someone elses' travails for a bit.

Yeah, Linux is a challenge with whatever route you choose. The problem is: there isn't really any native scripting (to the level required for our purposes).

I'm debating opening up the FAHMonitor to the general folding community. I guess close to a year of Beta is likely sufficient?

On a related note: Turns out, Macs can be included in the FAHMonitor by pretty much using the Linux instructions and script. My brother just added his to my "fold", as it were.

45 posted on 01/12/2007 6:12:44 AM PST by Egon (I stand beside you as your partner, in front as your defender, behind as... hey! nice butt!)
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To: contrarian; antiRepublicrat

Well, how is folding going for ya'll?


46 posted on 01/13/2007 10:08:26 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Egon

Can you tell me who, on the team, is a Linux person? I installed FAH in my Kubuntu OS yesterday, and it only seems to be running at 80% of the processor by default, leaving about 15% idle. I'd like to get that up to 90%. I'm such a newbie at Linux, I don't know how to go back into settings with a cosole. ~sigh~


47 posted on 01/14/2007 4:46:21 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Egon

Hey, we are all glad that you have the new Folding@Home SMP client running now, but can you back it off just a bit? ;}

Is this increase in production from the SMP client, or have you borged a server farm as well?

48 posted on 01/14/2007 7:21:37 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Clara Lou

Look here for info on Linux console setup:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/console-userguide.html

Here is a FAH Forum discussion on Ubuntu, same question:

http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic17339.html

Here is a discussion on slowing down the client, along with a link to a Linux site:

http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic16639.html

Hope that this helps. My Linux skills are pretty limited.


49 posted on 01/14/2007 7:35:08 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster
Hey, we are all glad that you have the new Folding@Home SMP client running now, but can you back it off just a bit? ;}

Woohoo! All your folds are belong to us!

Is this increase in production from the SMP client, or have you borged a server farm as well?

My brother's damned two Macs (with SMP) are outperforming my remaining 11 machines by themselves!

They're averaging 1350 ppd. I believe, based on information on the F@H site, that at least part of the high points values on the SMP projects are bonuses for participating in the beta phase. I'm not sure how much (if any) the point values will drop once they go "production" with them.

In the meantime, I've managed to stave off Joesphw for awhile, and I'm breathing up LSimpson's tailpipe for the #8 slot-- a spot I never thought I had a chance to reach.

I think you're relatively safe, though-- unless I find a collection of Macs sitting idle somewhere...

50 posted on 01/14/2007 9:34:03 AM PST by Egon (I stand beside you as your partner, in front as your defender, behind as... hey! nice butt!)
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To: texas booster
Thanks for the links. From what I read there, it looks as though I need to just leave things alone.
I tried to install FAH about 6 times using 6 different sets of instructions before I finally figured out 1) how to make a new folder [you wouldn't think it would be that difficult]; 2) to put the FAH-504-linux.exe file into the folder; 3) to do the "chmod -x..." thing; 4) and then to run a command in the console to run the program. That's OK--I'm never paying for Vista.
51 posted on 01/14/2007 10:45:41 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou
...I don't know how to go back into settings with a cosole.

Along with the resources that TB pointed you at, you should be able to bring back the settings by invoking the executable with the "-configonly" option:

./FAH504-Linux.exe -configonly
I don't think the Linux version has an option to set the percentage for processor use, though. I'd use the top command to see what's using your processor. If you're only folding at around 80% or so, I'm betting that you have some other process (or two) that's consistently using the other 20%.
52 posted on 01/14/2007 11:14:45 AM PST by Egon (I stand beside you as your partner, in front as your defender, behind as... hey! nice butt!)
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To: texas booster
Well, how is folding going for ya'll?

Slowly, but surely.

53 posted on 01/14/2007 11:57:23 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Egon

I opened KsysGuard performance monitor, and, aside from FAH, Firefox is the biggest user, at about 4% now and then. Occasionally, something else will use up to 2%. I can't identify any other user.
The only reason that I care is that my processor isn't very fast. I hate to be using only 80%.


54 posted on 01/14/2007 12:55:00 PM PST by Clara Lou
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To: jackal

Thanks for joining the team.

Please post if you have any questions about folding.


55 posted on 01/14/2007 10:48:00 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Clara Lou

You can also try adding a "@reboot" line to your crontab file so FAH will start automatically when the system is restarted. It would look something like:

@reboot cd /home/FAHdirectory ; ./FAH504-linux.exe

More info here:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001021.html


56 posted on 01/14/2007 11:54:38 PM PST by walkerk
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To: walkerk

Thanks for that interesting piece of information. I made changes to crontab. We'll see if it works next time I do a reboot. =)


57 posted on 01/15/2007 5:19:42 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: texas booster

Only 969 days until you need to start watching your rear-view mirror for me!


58 posted on 01/15/2007 7:27:27 AM PST by Egon (I stand beside you as your partner, in front as your defender, behind as... hey! nice butt!)
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To: Egon; texas booster

SPEAKING of rearview mirrors...

These guys are really ramping production. At their current pace, they'll catch us in 2 years, but looking at the numbers they're posting, I don't expect that they'll be content to maintain their current pace.

http://www.outcastfolding.com/

Here are their recent numbers (while you're perusing this data, try to keep in mind that there are only 60 members on their team):
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=40530


59 posted on 01/16/2007 5:06:48 PM PST by HKMk23 (PRO-LIFE: Because a Person's a Person, no matter how small.)
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To: HKMk23

Looking closer at the numbers, they seem to have 18 regular folders. Yep, just 18 that contribute regularly.

They have two folders that contribute more points than Klutz - one has over 400 systems. Another gets 25,000 ppd from 27 systems.

Another guy, ChelseaOilman, is one of the main contributors to the F@H Forums. He gets 4,000 ppd from 6 computers. Think Egons' SMP Macs for that kind of throughput. And he recently joined their team.

What makes little sense is why they collapse, dropping ppd for a month, and then shoot up again. They are on a pace to hit 2,000,000 points for January alone.

Hey, if they got the horsepower, let them use it. We will just need to hold bake sales to buy all Folding FReepers new SMP systems with X1900 video cards.


60 posted on 01/16/2007 5:20:36 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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