Folding@Home

[ajamison]

I am going to buy myself a Dell Percision with two

2x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 2.66GHz, 2 X 4MB L2,1333

and
4GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (8 DIMMS)

3x 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM NCQ Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™ configured in RAID 5

A
Dell 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FP Widescreen, adjustable stand, VGA/DVI
and
256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 3500, Dual DVI or Dual VGA or DVI + VGA

and for the sound SoundBlaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic(D), w/Dolby® Dig 5.1

With two Quad cores I will blast away the competition lol

**Can Fedora 7 support two Quad core proccessors in a desktop


On a side note if I decide to do this it will cost over 8K but hey I figure if I am gonna go all out and replace my desktop which i need to then why not spend alot mwuhahahaha

[ajamison]

with the folding client does it look at each core on a multi core processor as a seperate CPU in other words would it run 8 instances of the folding clinet one for each core if you have 2 Quad cores

[JN4OldSchool]

AJamison, it is one hell of a rig, but you want my honest opinion? It is a HUGE waste of money. I mean, if you have it then spend it, but...My dual core 4800 is plenty fast for anything I might do. 4GB or RAM seems perfect these days, I mean, you have to do some serious crunching to even touch that. I would actually go big on the video, like top of the line SLI, a super size monitor, maybe a light scribe DVD-RW, all the beels and whistles. I like your HD setup. 1 terrabyte would be the minimum I would build today. I dont know, I just think the CPUs are overkill. Of course your FAH score would be awesome, but is just that worth all them bucks?

Oh, your last post? Yes. I run two clients, one on each core.

edit again, make sure the X-FI has a Linux driver, it didnt and I doubt it does now.

[SlowJet]

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-SMP.html

You could 8 normal 32 bit clients with ht off but they have an SMP beta
So you would use 64 bit and run 1 with ht off.

The idea is to save time, not more WU's.
The smp WU's have more complex trajectories for the folding molecules.

It would be fun to watch you fly to the top of the list. FAh in Fast Forward. :)

SJ

[SlowJet]

AJamison, it is one hell of a rig, but you want my honest opinion? It is a HUGE waste of money. I mean, if you have it then spend it, but...My dual core 4800 is plenty fast for anything I might do. 4GB or RAM seems perfect these days, I mean, you have to do some serious crunching to even touch that. I would actually go big on the video, like top of the line SLI, a super size monitor, maybe a light scribe DVD-RW, all the beels and whistles. I like your HD setup. 1 terrabyte would be the minimum I would build today. I dont know, I just think the CPUs are overkill. Of course your FAH score would be awesome, but is just that worth all them bucks?

Oh, your last post? Yes. I run two clients, one on each core.

edit again, make sure the X-FI has a Linux driver, it didnt and I doubt it does now.


<whispers>
Newman

[Firewing1]

I dont know, I just think the CPUs are overkill. Of course your FAH score would be awesome, but is just that worth all them bucks?
edit again, make sure the X-FI has a Linux driver, it didnt and I doubt it does now.
I agree - Even at that my 7300 GS is fine at low to medium quality settings for most games (including nexuiz which is very GPU intensive) and it's only a 400MHz, 256MB card. If you have lots of money to spend, I would buy two smaller rigs eg 8800GS + 500GB hard drive + Core2Duo 2.8GHz + Audigy (as JN4 pointed out I don't think X-Fi made it in yet) since with dual core you notice a difference, but not many apps are multi-threaded enough to use all four cores at once, nevermind 8.

Oh, and don't forget an overclocker's mobo and RAM whichever choice you make, the overclocks on conroes are killers! I cheaped out on my RAM (I bought ValueSelect rather than high-end) and I'm regretting it because my overclock is limited to 2.8GHz... I know with better RAM I could have easily gone to 3.2 or more!
Firewing1

[SlowJet]

XEN KVM FAH compiling re-spins encryption compression to name a few.

I won't buy another computer until I can get a dual quad - or a dual 30 core coz it could take that long.


SJ

[Firewing1]

XEN KVM FAH compiling re-spins encryption compression to name a few.

Yes, but how many of us have a fully encrypted filesystem and compile things all the time? The odd compile or two but nothing serious for most of us... I dunno, to me just not worth those extra few seconds when you can buy a whole second machine with the money you'll save!
Firewing1

[SlowJet]

Yep, I've been there, but now I see the newer new future.

Try to keep up. :)

SJ

[ajamison]

If you think the only reason for that massive powerhouse would be Folding you would be wrong I was looking at it for a while and my current desktop is almost an antique in computer standards.

If I got it the main reason would be games I won't lie with that much space I would partition a 100gb for a small vista partition since vista comes with it and run my main games.

So if i got that machine it would be for other things but my folding would go way up

[JN4OldSchool]

Haha, me and NSUD got us a running gun battle going, but the writing is on the wall for me...I should put a FAH client on 3 more computers and see if I cant squeeze some more speed but then I think of all that added heat in my house and I probably wouldnt gain much with the smaller CPUs. It is fun watching the charts the last week or so anyway. :)

[leigh123linux]

Haha, me and NSUD got us a running gun battle going, but the writing is on the wall for me...I should put a FAH client on 3 more computers and see if I cant squeeze some more speed but then I think of all that added heat in my house and I probably wouldnt gain much with the smaller CPUs. It is fun watching the charts the last week or so anyway. :)

Why don't you rush out and get a couple of quad cores :)

[JN4OldSchool]

Why don't you rush out and get a couple of quad cores :)

Oh man...I am just starting to think about pulling the mobo on this big daddy box. Not quite time yet though. Maybe next year. Ahh...I am just having a little fun with that post, it isnt a competition. We are all doing our part, it just so happened that I was the rising star last year with my new PC. Now it is the next guy(s) turn. I was actually surprised how fast I climbed the chart, but I religiously run three clients without hardly ever shutting down.

[Firewing1]

Haha, me and NSUD got us a running gun battle going, but the writing is on the wall for me...I should put a FAH client on 3 more computers and see if I cant squeeze some more speed but then I think of all that added heat in my house and I probably wouldnt gain much with the smaller CPUs. It is fun watching the charts the last week or so anyway. :)

haha JN4 you've got some competition in town... Give it 7.2 years! :D
Firewing1

[leigh123linux]

Oh man...I am just starting to think about pulling the mobo on this big daddy box. Not quite time yet though. Maybe next year. Ahh...I am just having a little fun with that post, it isnt a competition. We are all doing our part, it just so happened that I was the rising star last year with my new PC. Now it is the next guy(s) turn. I was actually surprised how fast I climbed the chart, but I religiously run three clients without hardly ever shutting down.

I was just joking :) ( I am going to wait ( quad cores are expensive ) or maybe I will get a Tyan mobo and use two dual cores )

do you use ktorrent they released a new version and it rocks ( see link )

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=159962

[JN4OldSchool]

I saw your last post Leigh, no I stay away from torrents myself. I will use transmission on occasion but I like to stick with the mirrors. I just have never had any luck with torrents. But I will try out the new ktorrent just to see it. Maybe I will try a new distro this weekend...

@ Firewing, that chart will change daily. NSUD had passed me up the other day but then he must have shut down or something because I came back on him. But he is way faster than I am, you will see his graph climb even sharper if he stays up any length of time. Irie111 is the same way. I believe he is just shut down at the moment, but man, he shot up the charts! So if you had your computer off or anything you need to take that into account. I just completed 3 big jobs so I had a good score a couple days ago.

[Firewing1]

I was reading about those - How do I enable "big jobs"? I have 2GB RAM so may as well put it to good use!
Firewing1

[irie111]

It is sad JN4OldSchool... I am fixin' to own ya'... lol
All in good fun... Watch as I smoke right by ya'... :D
Later gators...
KEEP FOLDING...
irie111 :cool:

[Firewing1]

I just changed my overclock from 2.8GHz to 3GHz, I wonder if a effectively a 400MHz will make a difference...
Edit: oops, just realized this brings my 667MHz RAM to 800MHz... Back to 2.8 it is.
Firewing1

[JN4OldSchool]

Firewing, you might have to reconfigure your clients to allow those large jobs. There is an option for it though, something along the lines of allow 5MB or over downloads. Check my number of jobs against everyone else, this is because for some reason I only get the large jobs that are worth many points. It will take a few days to complete a job though. I am not really in it for the competition and I pretty much just forget FAH is even running. I dont monitor it or keep track of anything, it just runs in the background. Every few days I check the site to see what I'm doing.

[leigh123linux]

I just changed my overclock from 2.8GHz to 3GHz, I wonder if a effectively a 400MHz will make a difference...
Edit: oops, just realized this brings my 667MHz RAM to 800MHz... Back to 2.8 it is.
Firewing1

Haven't you got any memory multipliers ? ( ratios )

[Firewing1]

I'm already at 2 the lowest - 1 isn't there :(
Firewing1

[leigh123linux]

I'm already at 2 the lowest - 1 isn't there :(
Firewing1

Ok , Have you got a memory selector i.e use the "ddr 533" ( underclock the RAM ) setting instead of the "ddr 667" , this should give more scope to overclock the CPU , then use the memory multiplier to get the RAM to "ddr 677" . ;)

[snoze]

i don't know what they are trying to fold. If they think they can fold a protein usng their technique then they should first try to fold ubiquitin, which is well known protein and have only 76 residues. It seems to me that these groups like folding@home, robbeta@home, so many etc@home are competing to each other using same software boing(but their own method). If you read wikipedia about these software then you will find that they are trying to find solution for many diseases like Parkinson etc where they are trying to fold beta emiloid etc... for which only partial structure is known.

If they think that they can really fold a protein then they should try to fould first smallest protein like ubiquitin for which structure is well know... i will say this is a true test for their folding mechanism.

good luck for folder and their folding mechanism.

[ajamison]

They have been doing this for years and each team helps to contribute to the over all picture it is just a way to keep track of friends or groups and see how much a specific group has done but the over all folding of every group contributed to the overall picture allowing for millions of computers folding small parts of larger protiens

[Syncro]

The FAHlog.txt log on my /home/fah/foldingathome states my correct config (username) but failed connections to the server. They also stop records at the end of March.

There's a 'CPU1' folder in the same dir and it's logs show business as usual until June 8th, correct team but 'Anonymous' as my username.

Ideas? :)


There was a separate config file in that CPU1 directory. Changed the settings, restarted the folding service and I'm at #165 on the list :D

I'm gunning for your spot Dr. Zarkov :p

[ajamison]

I am going to get my new laptop soon it is not as nice as the desktop i was looking at which can be found a few pages back but it is going to make F7 go super fast compared to the laptop i have now.

Anyway it is dual core and has 2gb of ram so hopefully that will help my score. I had 3 desktops with constant foldong but unfortunately one desktop's HD crashed on me and it is just barely working so until i can get a new drive i am down to 2 desktops :(

[JN4OldSchool]

It is sad JN4OldSchool... I am fixin' to own ya'... lol
All in good fun... Watch as I smoke right by ya'... :D
Later gators...
KEEP FOLDING...
irie111 :cool:

Own me? Lol, you look like a bloody bottle rocket! How many servers on your farm :D But hey, I'm still puttin along...

[xeonman9000]

I installed it a few days ago and my statistics are still empty:

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=xeonman9000&teamnum=37988

Any idea why? It's definitely using my CPU:

top - 02:46:00 up 12:38, 2 users, load average: 2.22, 2.32, 2.36
Tasks: 169 total, 3 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3%us, 0.4%sy, 98.1%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061680k total, 1977564k used, 84116k free, 104552k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 64k used, 2096408k free, 878040k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3256 fah 39 19 122m 102m 1484 R 97 5.1 726:42.67 FahCore_78.exe
3259 fah 39 19 122m 102m 1484 R 97 5.1 726:45.54 FahCore_78.exe
3356 root 20 0 165m 77m 8484 S 1 3.9 12:47.78 Xorg
3586 michael 20 0 177m 9.8m 6392 S 1 0.5 1:16.73 artsd
3590 michael 20 0 639m 62m 32m S 0 3.1 12:32.41 amarokapp
3638 michael 20 0 43640 10m 1456 S 0 0.5 1:59.85 ruby
12248 root 20 0 605m 46m 23m S 0 2.3 0:05.74 seamonkey-bin
12302 michael 20 0 203m 13m 9.9m S 0 0.7 0:00.20 konsole
1 root 20 0 10320 684 572 S 0 0.0 0:00.69 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.94 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.21 events/0

[Firewing1]

Can you post both your configuration files for CPU0+1?
Firewing1

[xeonman9000]

CPU0:

[settings]
username=xeonman9000
team=37988
asknet=no
bigpackets=yes
machineid=1

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


CPU1:

[settings]
username=xeonman9000
team=37988
asknet=no
bigpackets=yes
machineid=2

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

[Firewing1]

Configs are fine... Have you finished a WU yet?
Firewing1

[xeonman9000]

I don't know, how can I find out?

[Firewing1]

Check FAHLog.txt or unitinfo.txt
Firewing1

[xeonman9000]

unitinfo.txt:
[root@lambert CPU1]# cat unitinfo.txt
Current Work Unit
-----------------
Name: p1171_p1164_RIBO_H2O_froz
Download time: July 24 19:17:45
Due time: October 12 19:17:45
Progress: 86% [||||||||__]


FAHLog.txt:
[21:55:40] Completed 205000 out of 250000 steps (82%)
[22:10:40] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[22:17:56] Writing local files
[22:17:56] Completed 207500 out of 250000 steps (83%)
[22:32:56] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[22:41:05] Writing local files
[22:41:05] Completed 210000 out of 250000 steps (84%)
[22:56:05] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[23:04:11] Writing local files
[23:04:11] Completed 212500 out of 250000 steps (85%)
[23:19:12] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[23:27:21] Writing local files
[23:27:21] Completed 215000 out of 250000 steps (86%)
[23:42:21] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[23:50:11] Writing local files
[23:50:11] Completed 217500 out of 250000 steps (87%)
[00:05:12] Timered checkpoint triggered.

I guess it hasn't done one yet.

[ajamison]

it can take a while as the whole point is to use idal cpu cycles so it does not interfeere with your normal operations

[Firewing1]

For anybody who doesn't like folding as it can slow down games, install folding and run this:
EDITOR=gedit crontab -e
Add this:
# enable 12:00am every day
0 0 * * * /etc/init.d/folding start
# disable 8:45am every day
45 8 * * * /etc/init.d/folding stop
Now save the file and quit.

This will enable folding at 12am so you fold at night and then shut it down at 8:45 am.
Firewing1

[utp216]

The motherboard in my Fedora box finally died. I knew there was something wrong with it a few months ago when I first installed Fedora on it. I recently bought a PS3 and installed the system updates and the Folding client. It looks really cool when it's running on that machine!

My new motherboard is sitting on my desk right now. Install time! ;)

[ajamison]

For anybody who doesn't like folding as it can slow down games, install folding and run this:
EDITOR=gedit crontab -e
Add this:
# enable 12:00am every day
0 0 * * * /etc/init.d/folding start
# disable 8:45am every day
45 8 * * * /etc/init.d/folding stop
Now save the file and quit.

This will enable folding at 12am so you fold at night and then shut it down at 8:45 am.
Firewing1
Dumb question but the defualt save location for a file genetated that way is int he /tmp folder where should i save it to actually have cron use it

[Firewing1]

Cron will install the /tmp file to where it needs to be :)
Firewing1

[ajamison]

AH ok that makes better sense

[JordanN]

I'm steadily rising through the ranks again. I have a dual-core 2.0 Ghz cpu (overclocked in BIOS to 2.25 Ghz) folding for me now.

[learninlinux]

Hello all: I'm having problems sending work results?
[02:09:33] + Attempting to send results
[02:09:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[02:09:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[02:09:33] (171.64.65.58:8080)
[02:09:33] - Error: Could not transmit unit 02 (completed August 5) to work server.


[02:09:33] + Attempting to send results
[02:09:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[02:09:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[02:09:33] (171.64.122.76:8080)
[02:09:33] Could not transmit unit 02 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[02:17:10] Writing local files
[02:17:11] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16%)
[05:34:13] Writing local files
[05:34:13] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps (17%)


[08:09:33] + Attempting to send results
[08:09:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:09:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[08:09:33] (171.64.65.58:8080)
[08:09:33] - Error: Could not transmit unit 02 (completed August 5) to work server.


[08:09:33] + Attempting to send results
[08:09:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[08:09:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[08:09:33] (171.64.122.76:8080)
[08:09:33] Could not transmit unit 02 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[09:13:19] Writing local files
[09:13:20] Completed 90000 out of 500000 steps (18%)
[12:47:24] Writing local files
[12:47:24] Completed 95000 out of 500000 steps (19%)

I can get new work, but not send the results. Is anyone else having these problems? I see that the server was down on the 25th of last month, is it still down? Always learninlinux.

[gthill]

Hello all: I'm having problems sending work results?
[02:09:33] + Attempting to send results
[02:09:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[02:09:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[02:09:33] (171.64.65.58:8080)
[02:09:33] - Error: Could not transmit unit 02 (completed August 5) to work server.

I can get new work, but not send the results. Is anyone else having these problems? I see that the server was down on the 25th of last month, is it still down? Always learninlinux.

You get this occasionally, wouldn't worry too much about it. Maybe restart your folding process and see if that helps, otherwise it will eventually get picked up. The server maybe down and it could be some time before it is received. I have had results held in queues for ages on a few occasions.

[Syncro]

Just broke the top 100! Keep folding people!

[kkalinux]

I am in also, started last night. :) Fedora on Mac hardware....nice combo. ;)

Kurt

[Athaki]

I joined the team

[kkalinux]

I joined the team



Welcome aboard.

:)

Kurt

[xeonman9000]

I'm trying to set this up on my Debian server as well, but got stuck at step 5, what is an equivalent Debian command?

fisher:~# chkconfig --level 35 folding on
-su: chkconfig: command not found

EDIT: Never mind: I found a good solution at: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/05/23/folding-home-installation-configuration-automation-ubuntu-debian-rhel-fc/

[gthill]

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/debnotes.html

look under the heading 'boot time services'

[JN4OldSchool]

I cheated on my debian server. As it runs 24/7 anyway I just installed folding in my main user account and just manually start it whenever I have to reboot (which is very very seldom :) )

[gthill]

I cheated on my debian server. As it runs 24/7 anyway I just installed folding in my main user account and just manually start it whenever I have to reboot (which is very very seldom :) )

Does Debian have an /etc/rc.local (or something like) file for starting scripts at boot time?

[JN4OldSchool]

Does Debian have an /etc/rc.local (or something like) file for starting scripts at boot time?

Surely. I just havent dug that deep into it.

[Phoenixfolding]

I folded back on windows for a while for the guru3d team. Now that I'm on the Fedora boat, I figured I'd lend a hand with the Fedora team. Viva la Folding!

[armandocl]

want to lean more

[leigh123linux]

want to lean more

Try here

http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html

http://folding.stanford.edu/

[gthill]

Going, going, gone soon. After 2 years of folding I have just cancelled my isp, shutdown my pc's, quit my job, bought a backpack and a hitchhikers guide to the unknown. I have made space for my laptop so I'll probably poke my head in the forum from time to time.

I think my 24hr points average is going to slide downwards rapidly.

happy folding

Gordon

[Syncro]

Could someone update the original post to work on FC7?

Commands 'service', 'adduser' and 'chkconfig' don't work.

(I'm doing this from a gnome shell - if that has anything to do with?)

[gthill]

Could someone update the original post to work on FC7?

Commands 'service', 'adduser' and 'chkconfig' don't work.

(I'm doing this from a gnome shell - if that has anything to do with?)


you mean a gnome-terminal or a bash shell !!!

You must login to root and set the environment with
su - # ( su space minus)
passwd

this then sets up certain paths to find the commands you can't find.

you can also find them as a normal user by specifying their full path

/sbin/adduser
/sbin/service
/sbin/chkconfig

but you won't have permissions for most of sbin


I don't think anyones going to update anything because you haven't done your homework

[Syncro]

A simple "You're doing it from the wrong terminal" would have sufficed, but thanks :p ;)

Back on folding.

[h*klown]

Is this just a post to see how fast you can crunch a huge file cause if it is id run it on my 64f7 box at home

[kkalinux]

Anyone have any issues with this new client? I was running all four cpus at approx 70 to 90% with the previous beta. \
This new beta is only running one cpu at a time but alternating between the four.
Verrrry slow folding at this rate. :(

Kurt

[kkalinux]

Anyone have any issues with this new client? I was running all four cpus at approx 70 to 90% with the previous beta. \
This new beta is only running one cpu at a time but alternating between the four.
Verrrry slow folding at this rate. :(

Kurt


Well, if I would have read the release notes first...... :( I have to pass option to the client with ./fah6 -smp

to get the four cores working. :rolleyes:

That is us guys, (me anyhow) read directions last! Ha

:D

[daveReed]

I have been reading online about how some people have used wine to install the windows core. They said that it increases their efficiency. Theses posts are a few years old and I was wondering if they are still valid? I find it hard to believe that emulation would be more efficient than a native kernel.

[Firewing1]

I doubt that. Wine isn't emulation but more a rewrite of the Windows functions, but either way I bet the Linux core is a lot more optimized and performing now that it was then.
Firewing1

[JN4OldSchool]

Hey NUSD, you got yer ears on? That is quite the running gun battle we got going on!!! :D I'm afraid to reboot, might give you that edge! Been going on now for months, I would say we are pretty evenly matched. 'course irie111 left us all eating his dust...

[quietdragon]

The original howto has been quoted below for posterity, but I now recommend using the finstall script instead.

The finstall script at http://ra.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/finstall is quite sophisticated. I prefer a less ambitious approach.

I'm using FC6. Here is /etc/sysconfig/Folding@Home:

FOLDINGATHOME_USER="foldingathome"
FOLDINGATHOME_NICE="+6"
FOLDINGATHOME_HOME="/home/Folding@Home"
FOLDINGATHOME_ARGS=


Here is /etc/init.d/Folding@Home:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Folding@Home.init This shell script starts/stops and Folding@Home service.
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 01
# description: Folding@Home
# processname: Folding@Home
# config: /etc/sysconf/Folding@Home

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/Folding@Home ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/Folding@Home
fi

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

RETVAL=0
prog="Folding@Home"

FOLDINGATHOME_BIN="$FOLDINGATHOME_HOME/Folding@Home"

[ -x $FOLDINGATHOME_BIN ] || exit 5

start() {
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
daemon $FOLDINGATHOME_NICE --user $FOLDINGATHOME_USER $FOLDINGATHOME_BIN $FOLDINGATHOME_ARGS
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/Folding@Home
return $RETVAL
# echo_success
}

stop() {
echo -n "Shutting down $prog: "
killproc $FOLDINGATHOME_BIN
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/Folding@Home
return $RETVAL
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
status)
status $FOLDINGATHOME_BIN
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL


Here is /home/foldingathome/Folding@Home:

#!/bin/bash

BINDIR="$0"
BINDIR="${BINDIR%/*}"

cd $BINDIR || { echo "$0: Cannot cd to $BINDIR" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }

LOGDIR="/var/log/Folding@Home"

# Use an eval here to force the shell to wait until the daemon has
# been properly initialised. Returning before the daemon has initialised
# may result in problems if the caller quickly decides to stop the service.
# This is because the trap handler may not yet have been installed: only
# the subshell will terminate resulting in the Folding@Home server and
# its slaves continuing torun.

eval $(
./FAH504-Linux.exe |
{

# /sbin/service will issue SIGTERM to this subshell to stop
# the service. Use a trap to translate the SIGTERM into a
# SIGINT and send the SIGINT to the entire process group.
# It is ok to allow the calling shell to continue once the
# trap is in place.

trap "kill -INT 0" TERM
echo :
exec >&-

# Start the logging daemon to capture the output of the
# Folding@Home server. The logging daemon will rotate log
# files as required. The subshell can close this end of
# pipe once the logging daemon has control of it.

/store/daemontools-0.76/command/multilog s100000 n10 "$LOGDIR" <&0 &
exec 0>&-

# Wait for either the logging daemon to terminate or the service
# to be stopped via the trap.

wait $!
} &
)

[ajamison]

ok guys I have been out of the running for a while but I am about to turn my PS3 on and let it fold for our team until I use it of course. Also for some reason my server stopped sending WU so I need to check that but I am not out of the running yet :)

[JN4OldSchool]

yep. I have been down for a week now but I have got my main rig back online now and I will be adding the others post-haste. Plus...My son is rebuilding his rig, getting an X2 of some kind and 2GB RAM for now! I told him he can use my net if I get to run FAH on his box :D

Watch out NUSD, enjoy your lead while you can, I'm a-comin!!!

[Mack]

Dear fellow folders,

If you're running an x86_64 smp kernel, my experience is that the beta smp folding software is dramatically faster than the 32 bit software running on two cores independently. On an Athalon dual core 4200+, I'm averaging around 31 pph. My wife's slightly faster dual-core pentium running 32 bit fc6 averages (sum of both cpus) a bit more than a third of that.

I installed with

./finstall smp

which worked perfectly, except the program to view the currently folding protein--- fpd ---
is 32 bit, which won't work with my 64 bit libGL.

The source code fpd.c is available at

http://linuxminded.xs4all.nl/mirror/www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html

Though I understand it hasn't been updated for several years, it compiles perfectly:

gcc -o fpd -L/usr/X11R6/lib fpd.c -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lXext -lm -lc -I/usr/lib64

The "-I/usr/lib64" may be unnecessary/wrong, but is harmless.

I don't get direct rendering:

libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

But that doesn't much matter in this case, since the folding protein isn't moving around.

I'm running the now officially obsolete kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
with xorg 7.1 and mesa-libGL-6.5.1-8.fc6.x86_64. I've got ATI radeon xpress 200 graphics and am using the fglrx driver. I've also got a mess of headers installed, so some of those may be relevant to the compilation.

Incidentally, I want user fah to have a really strong pass phrase because (1) I regularly use NoMachine's NX to run to xdm sessions remotely and I don't want it to be too easy to log in as fah, and (2) I'm ridiculously paranoid. To run fpd as me rather than fah, whom it's a nuisance to log in as, I (as root) added myself to group fah:

[root@my_hostname ~]# usermod -a -G fah my_user_name

so that

[my_user_name@my_hostname ~]$ /home/fah/foldingathome/folding status 1 fpd

does it. (Remember to restart X to pick up the change in group membership.)

[ConfusedNewb]

Installed and entered team #37988
One more Fedora Folding@Home user...

EDIT- P.S. I don't see it in the process list. Is it supposed to be there after I do the folding start command? Or does it run as a hidden process or maybe piggy back off the a system one?

[xeonman9000]

top should output something like this:

top - 13:50:09 up 26 min, 2 users, load average: 2.19, 2.04, 1.66
Tasks: 148 total, 3 running, 145 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.3%us, 0.3%sy, 88.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061640k total, 1032880k used, 1028760k free, 25084k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 0k used, 1052248k free, 374876k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3016 fah 39 19 121m 102m 1484 R 87 5.1 24:20.89 FahCore_78.exe
3019 fah 39 19 121m 102m 1400 R 85 5.1 24:30.14 FahCore_78.exe
3182 michael 20 0 232m 33m 9.9m S 22 1.7 0:07.54 kdesktop
3200 michael 20 0 554m 36m 20m S 2 1.8 0:36.76 amarokapp
3451 michael 20 0 88912 11m 7312 S 1 0.6 0:00.86 npviewer.bin
3501 michael 20 0 14736 1116 824 R 0 0.1 0:00.03 top
1 root 20 0 10308 712 592 S 0 0.0 0:00.43 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0

[ConfusedNewb]

I know this is going to be a stupid question but.... what's top?

[xeonman9000]

If you open up a command line (KMenu, System, Terminal [in KDE]) and type the word top followed by enter, it will display currently running processes, much like the Task Manager in Windows.

[ajamison]

except that it only shows the top like 15 proccesses

[ConfusedNewb]

Oh, I tried typing top before in terminal and it didn't work. Now it works though. Shouldn't FAH show up in under the process tab of the system monitor though?

EDIT- OOOH, there we go. Under view, I had it set to only show process from my user account:rolleyes:. It shows up now that I set it to show all.

[marko]

One of the lesser known features of "top" is that if you run it and press the
"1" key, it will break down the stats for each core if you have a multicore
PC (see the red highlighted section, this is a dual core system).

top - 20:37:19 up 73 days, 4:53, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 55 total, 2 running, 53 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 11.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,85.0%id, 4.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 4.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515740k total, 429540k used, 86200k free, 161760k buffers
Swap: 1502036k total, 0k used, 1502036k free, 199112k cached



Pressing "W" will save the configuration of your top session into
a file in your home directory called .toprc so you don't have to reconfigure
your preferences each time.

Mark

[Firewing1]

New X2 4400+ box folding :)

[ibpalle]

My e6300 box has been happily folding for a time now. I switched to the beta fah6 x64 binary but the init script does not work for that.

Anyone know of an updated init script so I can start the folding service at bootup? Or are we waiting for an official v6 first?

[Mack]

Hi ibpalle,

Just yesterday I dropped back from using the beta fah6 smp version to the stable version. The same init script (version 5.9 according to the header in it) works fine for me.

Incidentally, I had no problems at all with beta fah6. It worked much more efficiently, I think. But they're setting such short deadlines that several times my computer missed them running full time. (It's amd dual core athalon 4200+.) The fah6 executable is actually 32bit. Somewhere in the documentation it's explained that they don't want to try to maintain both 32 and 64 bit, so they're sticking to 32 bit. If it were 64 bit, I'll be it would be that little bit faster I need to meet their short beta-testing deadlines!

[skoona]

My e6300 box has been happily folding for a time now. I switched to the beta fah6 x64 binary but the init script does not work for that.

Anyone know of an updated init script so I can start the folding service at bootup? Or are we waiting for an official v6 first?


gfhcmd (daemon) and gfhcmc (client) are available as alternate to th init script you mentioned. If you have issues let me know.

[savage]

Haha I finally have a decent PC folding for the team, but I've re-installed Fedora so many times the stats think I have like 7 active CPUs in the last 50 days, that's more than we have in the house, let alone me folding with. :D

And is it me, but doesn't the stats site spend more time updating than actually displaying stats?

Savage

[aleph]

hello,

How much network traffic does this daemon typically take up in a month? I'm in a college where they sniff at all our traffic, count the bits and bytes and we must pay! (about 4 USD per month within a quota of 10GiB per account. What exceeds the quota is further charged.)

Anyway I wish to join. If the daemon is not a so big an ethernet hog I'll keep it running whenever possible.

===========

Edit: 4 USD a month may sound not that much to most of you but it is not the same here...

[aleph]

JN4OldSchool,

I thank you, truly, and my apologize for all. I did a revision to the original post, in the hope that it's not too late.

[JN4OldSchool]

JN4OldSchool,

I thank you, truly, and my apologize for all. I did a revision to the original post, in the hope that it's not too late.

Thank you.

[xeonman9000]

I've got my PS3 folding for us now too :D (obviously when not being used for other things).

[savage]

Finished my PC upgrades, gone from a 1.8Ghz Duron and 1.3Ghz Celeron to a 3Ghz Dual Core and a 2.4Ghz Quad Core (clocked to 3Ghz) folding for the team.

They're munching through work units at a rapid rate :D

[gthill]

Finished my PC upgrades, gone from a 1.8Ghz Duron and 1.3Ghz Celeron to a 3Ghz Dual Core and a 2.4Ghz Quad Core (clocked to 3Ghz) folding for the team.

They're munching through work units at a rapid rate :D

Well! That certainly put a spike in your graph.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=145829

[mohbana]

can you limit this to say 1 or 2 cores?

[ajamison]

yes u can when you install it you get an option to set it up for additional CPU's each time it enables a seperate core so if you do not want all of your cores using it then only set it up for 2 and the other 2 will not run it

[skoona]

Dr._Alexi_Zarkov,

Are you still folding? I never expected to overtake your score (quad cores are nice though).

Everone,
We now have an overall team ranking of 198. That's a hugh improvement from the last time I looked.

[savage]

Well! That certainly put a spike in your graph.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=145829:D I never knew that existed, but yeah, I went from about 2 units a week, to around 6 a day on average.

The Quad runs 24-7, the dual is on and off 24-7.

Edit:That site is mental, they must have some dirty great big database behind that.

Am tinkering with OC'ing the dual, running memtest is going good at 3.7Ghz

[pedromatiello]

Joined. Not that my Athlon XP 2400+ will break any records, but every bit helps, right?

[bassel.safadi]

Joined, I have a dual core 3400 box which will run 24/7
and a dell precision 690 workstation with tow quad core xeon 2.66,
unfortunately I can't fold allover the time with dell workstation and I don't even know how to run all it's 8 cores, I have tow active cores only for now..

[skoona]

...and I don't even know how to run all it's 8 cores, I have tow active cores only for now..

First to you and all before you - Thanks for Folding on the Fedora Team!

Running 4 or more cores:
There are three methods to do this.
1. Manually, by writing your own script to change directories and start each client in a different directory.
2. Using gfhcm-daemon and gfhcm-client, a daemon that will run and number of the FAH504-Linux.exe folding client, and control and monitor their progress.
3. Running two copies of the new SMP folding client FAH6.exe (each one runs over 4 cores), The folding scripts toping this thread will work for this. gfhcmd will also do it, but needs and update to verify its readings (I'm working on the update now).

Manual Setup: (for which automation attempts to simply)
1. mkdir ~/Folding
2. mkdir ~/Folding/{Client1,Client2,Client3,Client4,Client5,Client6,C lient7,Client8}
3. Copy/download the folding exe client into ~/Folding/Client1
4. cd ~/Folding/Client1
5. ./FAH504-Linux.exe -configonly (answer all prompts)
6. cp client.cfg ../Client2/
7. repeat above into Client3 thru 8
8. edit each client.cfg file to change machineid=x to a value 2-8, i.e. Client4 equals machineid=4
9. Setup is complete. Each ClientX instance will download the Fah_Core* it needs and establish its own working directories. Do step 10 to make this happen.
10. $ cd /home/username/Folding/Client1 && /home/username/Folding/Client1/FAH504-Linux.exe &' Do this for each Clientx dir.

Choose a method and I can help you set up to run eight cores, when ready.

[Firewing1]

Sorry for being mostly unrelated to folding, but I wanted to show you a little trick in Bash :p

mkdir ~/Folding/{Client1,Client2,Client3,Client4,Client5,Client6,C lient7,Client8}
Can be condensed to:mkdir ~/Folding/Client[1-8]
Then for the loop part you can run:
cd ~/Folding/Client1
./FAH504-Linux.exe -configonly
for client in [2-8];do
cp client.cfg ../Client${client}
sed -i 's/machineid=1/machineid=$client/' ../client.cfg
done
for client in Client[1-8];do
cd /home/username/Folding/$client
./FAH504-Linux.exe &
done
"for client in [2-8]" puts 2, then 3, then 4, etc into the value of $client and then runs the loops. Same for the last, except the last one has a value of Client1, Client2, etc. The sed just modifies the machine number.
Firewing1

[skoona]

Firewing1,

Good tips all. I started to include similar info - but decided to show the raw steps, so users can write their own scripts, or follow other scripts better. Would you consider posting a script that installs and initializes multiple cores? I'm tied up with the SMP client; testing a tracking method to monitor it better.

Note: When starting FAH504-Linux.exe please use the full path, as in /home/username/Folding/ClientX/FAH504-Linux.exe. Most automated monitors sort out which client goes with which directory by looking at the path prefix on the execute command.

for client in Client[1-8];do
cd /home/username/Folding/$client
/home/username/Folding/$client/FAH504-Linux.exe &
done


This command will show you what I mean. Try it with and withour the full path. Which Fah_Core* belong to which FAH504-Linux.ex clients? Answer: use the -lifeline flag to match pid numbers. '$ ps -ef | grep -e FAH -e Fah'

Ok, thanks again for the tips - I found them very useful.

[Firewing1]

No problem, glad I can help! I can't make a script for installing it (don't know how/don't have time to research, sorry) but I can make the full script for the configuration and startup if you'd like.
Firewing1

[skoona]

Firewing1,

Can you make scripts for the FAH6.exe SMP client? Similar to the last couple posts.

I think the first post on/of this thread covers the regular folding client in fine fashion. New users can follow those directions to install and run. My package gfhcm-server|client|standalone cover the some space adding centralized monitoring. What's new is the SMP Client "FAH6.exe"; ignoring GPU and PS3 folding clients. I think the SMP client needs a review, and updated scripts. I am updating gfhcmd to better support that CLIENT, and will post an update to sourceforge in 10 days or so.

For a similar investment in Time and AC Power, the SMP Client delivers 5x the number of points on average: Project 2605 was 3 days and 1760 points. Some of us with Quad+ cores may want to consider switching to this client.

[Firewing1]

I haven't installed or experimented with it so I can't really help for the SMP client :(
Firewing1

[bassel.safadi]

skoona thanks for helping me, the second method sounds easier and more likely to work for me, will try it soon,

by the way I have a bad feeling for the time that each wu takes on the dual core box, it's running for 74 hours and still in 70% of the work, same thing happens with the quad box they have a work assignment for me that will takes as the fah client said eight days.. is that normal?

[skoona]

I will help you any way that I can, on either option.

Time per work unit.
I run my dual core with the SMP client to test gfhcmd with right now. I run my quad-core with 2 individual FAH504-Linux.exe clients, sometime 4. My quad has received work units that take 45 minutes for 10points, other that took 9 days 25minute for 1161 points. So time and points are all over the place, and I user 5 days as the high average.

Don't worry about time and points. Worry about HEAT. I use LM_SENSORS and GKRELLMD/GKRELLM to monitor fans/temps/workloads. I start throtling the folding client back when any core reaching 50C. Most of my machines hang out at 45C for the work I've given them.

Thanks for Folding...

[bassel.safadi]

I'm now worried about HEAT after installing the LM_SENSORS


# sensors

w83627dhg-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore: +1.14 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V)
in1: +12.14 V (min = +11.77 V, max = +9.19 V) ALARM
AVCC: +3.22 V (min = +2.85 V, max = +0.02 V) ALARM
3VCC: +3.22 V (min = +2.27 V, max = +3.09 V) ALARM
in4: +1.94 V (min = +1.16 V, max = +0.07 V) ALARM
in5: +1.59 V (min = +0.63 V, max = +0.91 V) ALARM
in6: +6.37 V (min = +0.20 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
VSB: +3.22 V (min = +3.26 V, max = +2.59 V) ALARM
VBAT: +3.22 V (min = +0.26 V, max = +2.48 V) ALARM
Case Fan: 0 RPM (min = 4166 RPM, div = 4) ALARM
CPU Fan: 4411 RPM (min = 4891 RPM, div = 2) ALARM
Aux Fan: 0 RPM (min = 16071 RPM, div = 4) ALARM
fan4: 0 RPM (min = 135000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM
fan5: 0 RPM (min = 3308 RPM, div = 4) ALARM
Sys Temp: +46.0°C (high = +0.0°C, hyst = +3.0°C) ALARM sensor = thermistor
CPU Temp: +58.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) sensor = diode
AUX Temp: +127.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) ALARM sensor = thermistor
cpu0_vid: +1.225 V


AUX Temp: +127.0°C
I googled for AUX Temp, and found in some fourms people how said that the AUX give bogus reading, what ever the AUX thing is, I must shutdown the system for an hour just to cool down.

[xeonman9000]

Yeah, 127 is the maximum value of a signed byte, so it's probably not a coincidence. 58 is about right for a stressed quad-core CPU, not particularly near its limits, it should be fine.

[skoona]

58C is kinda HOT. If you are using gfhcmd/gfhcmc throttle the CPU usage back to 60 percent (fahlimit)to see where the temps go. I say there HOT because nothing I have runs that high. One of my dual sockets machines got to 55C and I took out the heat sinks - cleaned them and repasted them. Now it runs at 44C down from 55C.

AMD 64 X2 4800 {stock cooler}
it8716-isa-0228
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore: +1.30 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
VDDR: +1.94 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+3.3V: +3.31 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+5V: +5.11 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
+12V: +12.42 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)
in5: +3.18 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
in6: +0.10 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
5VSB: +5.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
VBat: +3.14 V
CPU Fan: 1439 RPM (min = 1000 RPM)
Case Fan: 2884 RPM (min = 1000 RPM)
temp1: +28.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +60.0°C) sensor = transistor
CPU0: +35.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = transistor
CPU1: +28.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +60.0°C) sensor = thermal diode
cpu0_vid: +1.300 V

AMD MP 2400+/Dual{stock cooler}
w83627hf-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1: +1.63 V (min = +1.44 V, max = +1.86 V)
VCore 2: +2.51 V (min = +1.44 V, max = +1.86 V) ALARM
+3.3V: +3.25 V (min = +2.82 V, max = +3.79 V)
+5V: +4.92 V (min = +5.89 V, max = +5.03 V) ALARM
+12V: +12.10 V (min = +2.74 V, max = +6.93 V) ALARM
-12V: -12.94 V (min = +5.57 V, max = +5.73 V) ALARM
-5V: -5.05 V (min = +1.63 V, max = +4.55 V) ALARM
V5SB: +5.35 V (min = +6.18 V, max = +0.62 V) ALARM
VBat: +3.46 V (min = +3.95 V, max = +1.46 V) ALARM
fan1: 2812 RPM (min = 852 RPM, div = 8)
fan2: 4017 RPM (min = 831 RPM, div = 8)
fan3: 4017 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 8)
temp1: +27.0°C (high = +47.0°C, hyst = -18.0°C) sensor = thermistor
CPU0: +43.5°C (high = +70.0°C, hyst = +65.0°C) sensor = transistor
CPU1: +48.5°C (high = +70.0°C, hyst = +65.0°C) sensor = transistor
cpu0_vid: +1.650 V
beep_enable:enabled

Intel Q6600 2.4 Quad OC@3.0G {ThermalTake CL-P0401 cooler}
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +44°C (high = +100°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1: +43°C (high = +100°C)

coretemp-isa-0002
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 2: +39°C (high = +100°C)

coretemp-isa-0003
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 3: +43°C (high = +100°C)


I do have great air coolers though and a 4U case for each machine.

[Firewing1]

What did you use to clean the heatsinks?
Firewing1

[oblivescence]

I just joined. I got a 2.5 Ghz C2D. I used the finstall script on the first post, but had to retrieve it through google cache as the site was down and had to rim out the parts in the install script where it tried to download the faq and documentation from that site as well. Also, someone might want to put in the directions that if you type "./finstall smp" it will install the smp version, which is worth allot more points if you have a dual or quad core. Some of the newer people might not know this. Anyways I'm hoping for a little over 1000ppd. I finished 2% of a 1760 point WU in about 47 minutes so far while I'm surfing online. Happy folding.

[skoona]

Firewing1,

Chips & cooler bottoms; Isopropyl Alcohol, and my wifes cotton face pads. Then I used a qtip to apply a small amount of Artic Silver {very very very small amount}.

For the coolers I used a brush and compressed air. It takes a little time to take the fan off and re-install it. But its worth the effort. That cleaning will last about 18 months to 2 years.

James,

[skoona]

oblivescence,

Happy Folding and thanks for joining. I didn't know the finstall would install the SMP client. thanks for the tip. I have had it running on for a few weeks while I figure out how to monitor it better. It seems to run well.

James,

[bassel.safadi]

I just visited
http://fedorafolders.squarespace.com/
I think this website made for fedora folders team,
it's not updated, and have broken links in it for example the production stats link in the website, goes to a webcam porno site.

now let's compare it with the [H]ardOCP team's website:
http://www.hardfolding.com/
they do have a powerfull website that works and that make them even stronger,

I'm thinking about making a website for fedora team, some thing like: www.fedorafolders.net or so,
but need your help and advice, actullay it will be much better if we did it together, I do have a dedicated server (theplanet) and can make a CMS for the site, I want to make it English and Arabic, there are no arabic donaters in the folding project, we can get them in also.

So what do you think?

please vote for the domain

for me:
fedorafolders.net will be good cuz it's a network of members and computers.. it's not a company (.com ) nor an organization (.org)
I've registered the .net and .org,

now let's talk about the content of the site, is it going to be just an advertisement website for the fedora folding community and the folding it self, or it will be more advanced like overclockers website..

how want to contribute for this website?

for me I'll do the following:
1- hosting
2- content management system, includes: user registration , and a discussion area for members and guest, a news section, and a stats section for the team and it's members, (what else do we need here? let's discuss it)
3- Arabic translation

as you noticed my English is not good enough so I think we need writer for the main sections of the site..

also it will be a great idea if a graphic designer contributed for the website

Before I post this I asked skoona for his help and he told me to post it here that we all can help, (great thanks to skoona)
we need your opinions to improve the idea and make it happen

Thanks a lot
Bassel

[learninlinux]

Hello all: I just d/l'd and installed the new 6.02 client. It registered me as anonymous team 0, how do I tell the client who I am to get the stats for the group? Thanks, learninlinux aka jeanpool

[Seve]

Hello all: I just d/l'd and installed the new 6.02 client. It registered me as anonymous team 0, how do I tell the client who I am to get the stats for the group? Thanks, learninlinux aka jeanpool
Hello:
Look for the client.cfg file and change
team=XXX
to
team=37988

Seve

[Firewing1]

Just curious, has anyone been folding for over 3+ years on the same hard drive (24/7, or close to it) without failure? My WD Raptor failed recently and I'm wondering if folding 24/7 could have something to do with it - 1.5 years is pretty short for a hard drive!
Firewing1

[leigh123linux]

Just curious, has anyone been folding for over 3+ years on the same hard drive (24/7, or close to it) without failure? My WD Raptor failed recently and I'm wondering if folding 24/7 could have something to do with it - 1.5 years is pretty short for a hard drive!
Firewing1

Excessive heat / poor case cooling is the normal reason why raptors fail , I would be surprised if folding was responsible !

[Seve]

Hello Firewing1:
It could be ... I had to give up folding until the winter months come back. Way too much heat for my main box to function.
I have very good cooling etc. but I have no control over the ambient temperatures and they are way too high as is.

Seve

[Firewing1]

Excessive heat / poor case cooling is the normal reason why raptors fail , I would be surprised if folding was responsible !
Hm, I'll try buying an extra fan... That would be odd though, since I have a 120mm fan at the back, two air holes on the side of the case and a Freezer 7 Pro cooling the CPU + RAM clips...
Hello Firewing1:
It could be ... I had to give up folding until the winter months come back. Way too much heat for my main box to function.
I have very good cooling etc. but I have no control over the ambient temperatures and they are way too high as is.

Seve
Could be that - In the summer my case temp gets to be 42C sometimes :eek: I wish I had went with an X2, for some reason I can never get this E6400 below 50C, even without the overclock. I'm going to try buying some thermal paste, I'll see if that helps.
Firewing1

[leigh123linux]

Hm, I'll try buying an extra fan... That would be odd though, since I have a 120mm fan at the back, two air holes on the side of the case and a Freezer 7 Pro cooling the CPU + RAM clips...

Could be that - In the summer my case temp gets to be 42C sometimes :eek: I wish I had went with an X2, for some reason I can never get this E6400 below 50C, even without the overclock. I'm going to try buying some thermal paste, I'll see if that helps.
Firewing1


I need 2 x 120mm fans + 2 x 80mm fans to keep my case cool as I have 5 hard drives in one case.
My AMD x2 runs @ 33c with no load & 55c under heavy load.

Have you considered using a heat duct to vent the heat from the CPU ;) as this will reduce the case temperature!


http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0211162

[skoona]

I am this userid jscott15@comcast.net, and I have been folding for more that 3 years. on the same hardware. While I'm not happy that my processor temps are 5-10 C higher at idle than what I would like, i've had no disk issues. To leigh123's credit, I have always had the tempurature management issues covered (i.e. great heat sinks, thin layers of paste, great airflow, etc.)

One anomaly: Fedora 7 & 8 cratered my AMD north/south-bridges via kernel libata improvement. To of my four machines had to take an 8 month break until kernel xxx with Fedora 9 finally resolved the problem. The problem presented as a ide failure in my raid5/6 arrays. Turned out not to be a real disk failure, just a stupid upgrade on my part: How many times have you heard - if it aint broke, don't fix it?

[skoona]

Temp management topic:

I highly recommend these two products for excellent airflow and cpu temp cooling.

A. Thermaltake CL-P0401 110mm Full-Range Fan CPU Cooler - Retail $55 @ newegg.com
B. ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25" Drive Bays - Retail $79@newegg.com

I have tried a lot of stuff, but this has been the best combination.
my Intel Q6600 runs at 40c loaded, and 35c idle, a AMD 64 X2 4800 run at 40c loaded and 34c idle. That only 6c above case temps of 28/29c -- 4-5 serial disks each. My other machine have the same cases but not the cooler average 55-58c loaded and 42c idle on stock coolers and case temps or 32/30c (4 ide disks each).

695 watts being consumed for a montly cost of $40.55 USD

If you know of a high performance cooler for a AMD Socket A cpu, please tell me.

[NavyChief]

Have been following this thread on another forum
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=568721

it looks very promising for gaining big PPD running the GPu client paired with the Linux SMP

They say they have a working wrapper for the windows, but the geek speak is way over my head.

My challenge to our Fedora guru's is to translate their wrapper into fedoraese
in a manner /level us noobs can understand.

The stuff I understand so far is. { sorry this only helps folks with NV cards }

1. need to get the latest CUDA driver from

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

2. Wine needs the 32 bit CUDA toolkit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

redo the search to get the 32 bit toolkit.


3. A bunch of directories need to be created { under Wine } mirroring the windows format for " Programs " & "Application data"


Any one up to a challenge

I believe they have done most of the heavy thinking already. :D


here's a link to files uploaded by the guy's working on the wrapper

http://shelnutt.twomurs.com/patches/cuda/


they would probably welcome in-put in regards to the Nvidia driver calls.

[savage]

Adding a 3Ghz Celeron D to the mix, parents new PC :)

[SkonesMickLoud]

Just joined (forums and FAH team) as a double agent!

I'll be splitting my time between this team and the Ubuntu team.

[savage]

Just joined (forums and FAH team) as a double agent!

I'll be splitting my time between this team and the Ubuntu team.We have a sleeper agent... when the time is right, we'll strike :D

Welcome to the forums and the Fedora Folding team :)

[LaughingBoy]

Just joined (forums and FAH team) as a double agent!

I'll be splitting my time between this team and the Ubuntu team.I've been a while on here, but I've been folding for another team (currently ranked near 63?), but I can say for a fact that the GPU client whoops the CPU client's butts. I was getting ~2KPPD with a few Opteron 2360s and my measly 8600GT clocks in 3+KPPD leaving my Quad core to do what it pleased.

I know some enthusiasts getting ~10KPPD per GPU...

I wish they (Stanford) would get their act together and release a Linux GPU client.

[stanmc]

I was getting ~2KPPD with a few Opteron 2360s and my measly 8600GT clocks in 3+KPPD leaving my Quad core to do what it pleased.

I know some enthusiasts getting ~10KPPD per GPU...

I wish they (Stanford) would get their act together and release a Linux GPU client.

I'm thinking of getting an Nvidia card to put in the upgrade to my WinXP system. I'm looking at the 9600 series as they have 64 Stream Processors and I believe the 8600 has 32 Stream Processors. How much more work should I expect from the video card with the greater number of Stream Processors?

I'd sure love to see the Linux GPU client also. Today I'm putting together an AMD 9950BE quad core unit under Fedora9 and moving my oldest dual core over to XP probably to use the GPU client.

[renichms]

Okay, so I downloaded this and had it install and there was no prompt for team. No walking through the install. It only asks if you want to use other utilities. So how do I get it to function like the little walk-through on page 1 here?

RN

EDIT: Also, is it possible to set the PS3 to the same team?

[griffse]

Are the instructions from the first page still valid? I want to install this on a few of my computers and run as available for the fedora team if so. Thanks for your time.

[Demz]

i would assume they would stil work, i cant see why they wouldn't work still

[renichms]

Are the instructions from the first page still valid? I want to install this on a few of my computers and run as available for the fedora team if so. Thanks for your time.

As far as I can tell, something has changed so the instructions only get you partially into the install. I posted quite some time ago and got no response so suspect there are some problems with it right now. Good luck though and if you can figure it out, please post some sort of guide.

RN

[ajamison]

renichms - Yes you can set your PS3 to the same team i have also I just installed it yesterday on a secondary desktop and it worked exactly as described in the first post so I am not sure why yours did not but you can edit this manualy by going to the /home/fah/foldingathome/CPU1/client.cfg and change the team attribute to 37988 you may also need to do this to multiple folders if you have multiple cores each core would have a CPU folder like CPU1, CPU2 and so on. and in each folder you would need to edit the client.cfg file

Also fah is the username you set for your install the guide sets it as fah so unless you changed it that should still work

griffse - It should work the same if it does not please post the error or what not I will try to see if i can help. I am not the creator of the script but due to lack of response from those that posted the thread I thought i might step up and try to help the best i can


Side not the cfg file can not be edited in gedit you have to use a command line editor such as nano at least in my expereince

[renichms]

ajamison, thanks for the tips. A few months ago, I got the PS3 on my team. A few months ago, I got OS X Server and put it on the computer that had Fedora (though I also put Fedora on my newer Mac). All the Macs are set up for Folding@Home too, so it's all running, making my little contribution.

RN

[ajamison]

Cool I want to get back into Mac but I can not afford a mac so maybe when and if Apple decides to make OSx platform independant so it can be installed like Linux then I can try it.

I did have a mac back in the days of OS7 if that shows you how long ago that was

[kromberg]

I have a question I hope some can answer. I am running the 6.02 smp client on my machine. I have the following script execute on boot up from /etc/rc.local

#!/bin/bash
cd /root/fah
./fah6 -smp > /dev/null &


The problem is that when the fah6 starts there is always a comm error, so it deletes the current work unit and downloads another. It is frustration in that many times the current work unit will be 80 to 90 percent done and a days worth of work goes down the drain.

What can i do to prevent this?

Keith

[griffse]

Thanks for wanting to help. I tried running it, but it made my CPU run at 169 - 200 Fahrenheit and I was afraid it would fry the CPU. Is there anyway to tone it down so I can run it on this older laptop.

[ajamison]

Thanks for wanting to help. I tried running it, but it made my CPU run at 169 - 200 Fahrenheit and I was afraid it would fry the CPU. Is there anyway to tone it down so I can run it on this older laptop.

Not by itself you can however install Skoona's gfhcmc and gfhcmd programs that allow you to scale down the CPU usage to as low as 10% i belive. you can download them from my repository linked in my signature or directly from Sourceforge by going here

gfhcmc - Client (front end) (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184226&package_id=214296&release_id=503356)

gfhcmd - Daemon (service for the client) (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184226&package_id=214295)

You do have to edit the daemon bash file to reflect your fah user by doing

su -c 'gedit /etc/init.d/gfhcmd'

scroll down and replace youruserid with the name of the user you have set to run fah usually if following the tutorial here it is fah. then save and if started reboot the daemon.

edit the configuration file

su -c 'gedit /etc/gfhcmd.conf'

scroll down and where you see a path at the bottom change it to your home directory for fah forexample if your fah user is fah change it to

/home/fah/foldingathome/CPU1

make sure if you want to run multiple cores you add a ; after CPU1 and then repeat the line changing CPU1 to CPU2 and so on.

u can then open the gfhcmc client and set it up pretty easy and you then have controll over the CPU % used
I have a question I hope some can answer. I am running the 6.02 smp client on my machine. I have the following script execute on boot up from /etc/rc.local

#!/bin/bash
cd /root/fah
./fah6 -smp > /dev/null &


The problem is that when the fah6 starts there is always a comm error, so it deletes the current work unit and downloads another. It is frustration in that many times the current work unit will be 80 to 90 percent done and a days worth of work goes down the drain.

What can i do to prevent this?

Keith

I am not sure Keith as the SMP client is still in beta (if i remember correctly) I use the Fah5 one and follow the instructions on the first page. if you run that script it lets you setup several instances of fah to run on each core. if however you want to use both cores to process one work load then you would need the SMP which unfortunately i am not familar with sorry.

[orangecones3]

Hi guys...

sorta my first post @ these forums....I do a proper into in the proper section for this later....

anyway, just wanted to say I joined the team, and my little contribution is:
Pentium 3 866mhz
512mb Ram
ATi 7200 64mb
40gb 7200rpm hdd
Ubuntu 8.10

it will be folding 24/7 as its sole function.....
This i a spare computer that would otherwise be in the dump...at least this way its being useful.

[lollysticky]

this might sound as a stupid question, but heck:

how do I enable multicore support?

I've got a OC'ed Phenom II X3 @ 3,4Ghz machine, but the FAH6.0 client only utilizes one core while the rest remain idle and unused. How can I fix this? I've tried running the configuration, but that didn't work, and I can't really find a solution when googling :)

I'd like to get at least 2 cores to fully focus their attention on the FAH client, while the remaining one can easily support all other tasks (it functions as a file and work server)

[ordinary]

It took a while, right at two years, but I finally made a million points. Sadly, my network is down for a few days (maintenance, reconfiguration, etc.) so points aren't racking up right now.

Who wants to meet on the other side of 10,000,000?