Thanks for taking the time to check out the team. Any question you have on starting to fold and help us advance up the league just post here and we'll help you out.
Regards
John.
New Members Welcome & Advice Thread
Thanks for taking the time to check out the team. Any question you have on starting to fold and help us advance up the league just post here and we'll help you out.
Regards
John.
Last edited by [XC] riptide; 08-02-2008 at 01:04 PM.
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
I'd do it once in a while but definately not 24/7. Like I can prob fold while playing cs. i am on a 2.8ghz 3800 venice. last time I tried installing it didnt like me very much or maybe it was just my 64 bit windows.
well i leave mine on when im asleep and when im just surfin the web
whats the xtremesystem stanford team number?
Originally Posted by ButtUglyMartian
36362. Welcome to the team!
Correct as in this new sig
Regards
John.
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
I am considering throwing some spare cycles that I have toward this, but I have a few challenges that might be a bit unique.
First off, my machines all have multiple CPU, and all run linux. Will the linux client natively use multiple CPUs? I tried to launch 2 copies of the client concurrently and it complained and quit.
Second, I have a bunch of machines behind a firewall. I am not running any sort of NAT or routing to the outside world, but I can probably set up a SSH tunnel. Has anyone gotten the client to work in this sort of environment? Any ideas/hints/methods to share?
All dual machines you will need two seperate directories with a client in each.
Its probably easier to use this installer:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...oto=nextoldest
I'm not sure on the firewall issue, but I'll hunt around.
Regards
John.
Oh, and Welcome to the team
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
OK I have set up a proxy on the front machine. I have been doing a fresh run of "./FAH502-Linux.exe" on each machine to initial configure, and it seems to be the case that every machine gets the same "Machineid=" line. I have read on the internet that each copy needs to have its own "machineid". So, I am not sure if this is a problem or not.
Well I think I have figured out a setup that will work. I've thrown 50 dual cpu machines (100 CPU total) at the problem for now. How long before I should start seeing my results on the stanford page?
a day or two depending on the procs...
happy 100 and welcome to the team
"Foldin, Foldin, Foldin...keep those benchers foldin..." (Lyrics by Angra, Music is Rawhide)
BOYCOTT MIR's
well, I hesitate to call myself part of the team just yet...I don't know if I'll be able to leave the machines running this all the time. There are some cooling issues in my computer room, and there are also some actual work that has to be done on them at times, so we'll just see. Maybe I will get addicted to the rush of "points" thougha day or two depending on the procs...
happy 100 and welcome to the team. I am mainly curious to see if I set everything up correctly.
100 machinesIf they only fold 10% of the time thats a tremendous effort
Regards
John.
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
Well, _something_ is FUBAR. Ran the machines overnight, and most of them completed at least one work unit, but all of them except the front node quit the client immediately on completion, and none of those that quit seem to have reported their results. I'm going to scale back to just a few nodes until I figure out how to get a proper setup, then turn the rest on for a while.100 machines
Regards
John.
Can you post a log file from one of the machines that didnt send in the results? Or are you sure its a networking problem?
BTW- Welcome to team Xtreme!
well I have a few leads on the troubleshooting. I think actually that it is a problem with "screen" as doing a "screen -d -m ./FAH502-Linux.exe" does not produce the expected resutls. My current try is to do an expect script that will launch an interactive shell, _then_ run the client, then escape out of screen. Looks promising so far, but it takes so long to see positive or negative results that I won't really know for half a day if this try worked.Can you post a log file from one of the machines that didnt send in the results? Or are you sure its a networking problem?
BTW- Welcome to team Xtreme!
Here is a sample log file from one of the machines that apparently completed a work unit, then quit, and open restart did not seem to try to send in its results.Can you post a log file from one of the machines that didnt send in the results? Or are you sure its a networking problem?
BTW- Welcome to team Xtreme!
screen
./FAHCore...
CTRL A + D
screen -x to reattach...
Intel Core i7 930 @ 4ghz | Gigabyte X58A-UD5 | 6GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 | Radeon 4850 | Crucial m4 128GB SSD
Intel Core i5-2400 | Asus P8H67-M EVO (Waiting to change to Z68) | 8GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 | 8x2TB Samsung F4-HD204 | OpenIndiana | ZFS raidz2
yes, I know how to use screen
Just noticed you were using Linux and I have never used it before so Im useless here.
I see you got 5 CPU's going so far, we'll see you at the top quickly.
Fold on!
well I was able to leave 38 CPUs to run over the weekend. I'm still waiting on a power drop in the machine room so that I can spread the electrical load out from one UPS that is a little bit overloaded before I can run all of them full bore.
We'll see how many points we can add to the team in a few days
Excellent!well I was able to leave 38 CPUs to run over the weekend. I'm still waiting on a power drop in the machine room so that I can spread the electrical load out from one UPS that is a little bit overloaded before I can run all of them full bore.
We'll see how many points we can add to the team in a few days
Yeah its gonna be hard to compete with the big teams but we arent doing too bad for only having 12 active folders(which I cant believe thats all we have). We need to do something to gain some attention to F@H.
We could all use my sig pic until we get something better?
Angra you have quite a few machines returning work now, looks like you sorted the installation out
Regards
John.
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
Pythogoras, can we sticky this please?
"Foldin, Foldin, Foldin...keep those benchers foldin..." (Lyrics by Angra, Music is Rawhide)
BOYCOTT MIR's
Done
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to that subject, it doesn't bother you anymore".
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