you can thank thaddeus for that. looks like it will be our team logo.
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you can thank thaddeus for that. looks like it will be our team logo.
Dantrag is finally mine!
MINE!!!
AHAHHHAAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!
Did anybody else notice as of late that je_fro's posts more and more resemble his avatar? Poor fella, he probably failed to took his eyes off in time from the screen with the helices. :p
I was almost finished with my first WU when I left for class this morning.
I just got home and its started a new one thats going to take 37 days and it didn't count the one from this morning???
I checked the log file and it says that the core was corrupted and it downloaded a new one. Could this have caused my work on the first WU to have been either erased or not acknowledged? And whats with the 37 days?
EDIT: According to the site, I'm not doing anything either.
The corrupted core could be the cause of the first protein from not being counted. The 37 day thing is a time limit, if you don't finish it within that time it stops trying to fold that protein and sends it to someone else who will fold it faster. Quite unlikely that your protein will take that long. Rarely do they take longer than a week on a PII running 24/7 so anything more than that and they'll fold faster.
I'm working on a WU that is taking 30 minutes per frame for 250 frames (141/250). Its odd, because most of them take about 10 minutes average wile I'm useing the machine
I seem to get large WU, too, both that are currently folding count 400 frames. Now I have two PIII/500MHz folding 24/7, and like in your case they take ~30min/frame which results about in one week of folding time... and they don't give that many points either. :( Well, they still add up to the team effort and that's what finally counts. :) Microsoft, we're coming. :DQuote:
Originally posted by thaddaeus
I'm working on a WU that is taking 30 minutes per frame for 250 frames (141/250). Its odd, because most of them take about 10 minutes average wile I'm useing the machine
My WU has been going for a week and it's still only a little over half way done on a P4 1.6. Beat that:p
When you say 10 minutes average, you are refering to a ten minute ave for finish a frame right?:DQuote:
Originally posted by thaddaeus
I'm working on a WU that is taking 30 minutes per frame for 250 frames (141/250). Its odd, because most of them take about 10 minutes average wile I'm useing the machine
Are these large WU's worth the time it takes to fold them? I mean, I know the root of this is to "donate" our collective processing power, but couldn't we fold smaller ones faster and be more effective?
Yes 10 min average per frame
It's a trade off...if you have a powerful computer, do the bigpackets. If not, don't select that option and do the smaller ones. You are more richly rewarded (karmically and pointswise) for doing the more computationally expensive projects. Not all projects are created equally, so if you have like a gig of ram and a 2 GHz processor do the big ones.Quote:
Originally posted by pz Mike
Are these large WU's worth the time it takes to fold them? I mean, I know the root of this is to "donate" our collective processing power, but couldn't we fold smaller ones faster and be more effective?
(I'm not a folding guru, but there are some on the FAH forum...perhaps they can shed some light on your question...I don't have time to research it right now)
As of 15:43 april 12th we are 26 days away from MS!
I think we can get them before the end of April if we add enough new users!
I'm new to the team, but soon my xbox will be modded to fold, then that will be 3 comps folding here. I'm trying to get my friends to have it going during the day while at class and during the night while sleeping. Some fail to see the bigger picture and the value.
EDIT: I really just finished folding my first protein!!!! Yay!!! Hopefuly many many more to come.
I'm really getting concerned, cs.lmu.edu has been carrying us very well thus far, but his hourly average has really been falling lately. But as luck would have it, all the new users are able to make up cs.lmu.edu's losses
well, i think i've added over 2000 points today...i think i'm doing my part!
You have no idea how jealous I am....:mad:Quote:
Originally posted by happybunny
well, i think i've added over 2000 points today...i think i'm doing my part!
Not sure exactly how many points i added today, or recently for that matter. But .. I am gonna have problems adding more if I can't resolve this issue. I finally got a user created that worked ( no ideas, just wouldn't work for some reason) and I am now loggd into Linux box as user NOT root. I restarted F@H but it crapped out when trying to get the unit I just downloaded going. was about 5 % into new unit. So it is trying to get a new unit to work on and I am getting the following:
[02:04:19] - Error: Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[02:15:00] + Attempting to get work packet
[02:15:00] - Connecting to assignment server
[02:15:14] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.143).
[02:15:14] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[02:15:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[02:15:17] - Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
OK it is me, I am logged in as root again and F@H appears to be working fine, so I guess that is how this machine will work. OH well, ` ya win some, ya lose some :( At least it is working for the good of research.
Waiting before retry.
and still trying :( any ideas? do I have to re-install as user to make it work or... is there a problem with Stanfords site? ( I doubt the latter) ideas please?!!?
i had same issue with running on freeBSD...is this your OS?
No, sorry I am using Slackware 10.1, and all is current with 2.4.29 kernel.
I logged back in as root and it picked up the job that had been running and started just fine. It is probably some stupid rights issue, which if I had half a brain I could figure out all the fancy permission changing things, but I R DUM.
I know it's frowned on, not acceptable, stupid, etc, but I will probably leave it run this way til I completely break the machine and have to re-install. I have a netgear router/firewall and according to what I have read, Linux is pretty safe/hardy/tough to crack, so... I will have to live with it as is I guess. Want to keep the folding going as best as possible.
Well, although it's not really a good idea, you'll be okay having your fold run as root, especially since you're behind a firewall and (probably) don't have any sensitive services that could be attacked running on that machine. Just don't browse the web with that machine to download "interesting" executables. :p
Dagnabit!!! Windows 98!!
My trusty dusty Windows 98, PII 450 machine was merrily pounding away at a 2500 frame protein. The frames musta been pretty small cause it cranked out over a 1000 in relatively short order, uh.. a couple of days. Then I checked it a couple of days ago and it had BSOD'ed. So, I rebooted it and it started up again. Today I checked it and it was just dead, blank screen. Rebooted again and it never seemed like it ever started back up on the job it had.
OK, you're right. I know what you're thinking. ;)
I'm gonna save some of the old files on it that, for some reason, I think are still important, reformat it and throw slackware 10.1 on it and start over.
:rolleyes:
Looks like we have a lost a major contributor. Don't know for how long. Our hunt for MS will take much longer and the previously mentioned AV123 will come get us. Unless we have a pile of new procs/members....
Just joined the #justlinux F@H team, working on my 5th WU. These things are huge. 2500 frames!:) Going to set up my wifes comp to fold since she doesn't use it for anything anyways. Going to try an Xbox mod(linux) one of these days and that will be another one to use. BTW will F@H work on the Xbox mods(software)? Good day, all!
I'm still working on finding a good AMD Athalon 64bit distro to throw into my server, any ideas? I also did some cleaing up of my machine, so we'll if folding 2 instances throws it out of whack or if it some odd way does it at the same speed as one doubt it though I also just lost another computer so back down to 3 cpus. stupid bad memory, at least newegg has cheap awsome memory.
Debian (I think), Gentoo, Mandriva (I think), Fedora and SUSe all do AMD64 ports.Quote:
Originally posted by thaddaeus
I'm still working on finding a good AMD Athalon 64bit distro to throw into my server, any ideas? I also did some cleaing up of my machine, so we'll if folding 2 instances throws it out of whack or if it some odd way does it at the same speed as one doubt it though I also just lost another computer so back down to 3 cpus. stupid bad memory, at least newegg has cheap awsome memory.
Only run one instance of F@H per CPU, so on a dual system, thats 2 instances of F@H.
And yeah.. NewEgg usually has good memory.. just make sure its not pretending to be awesome stuff :)
I've edited client.cfg to
asknet=yes
But, when a wu is completed, it starts over anyway and rewrites my client.cfg to
asknet=no.
I want this particular linux machine to stop folding after this next wu. I didn't want to compromise a 'fold', but I may just have to 'kill' it if there's no elegant way to stop the process after the next wu.
You might want to shut down folding when you edit the cfg file (if you didn't already). It might load the options into memory and rewrite them when it finishes.
Hey, that might work.
I killed F@H. It was at about 10% on the next WU.
I edited client.cfg and then retarted ./FAH502-Linux.exe
It now shows:
Ask before connecting: Yes
And it looks like it's trying to startup the previous WU, showing 'completed 261720 out of 2500000 steps 10%'
The thing I'm seeing now is 'Extra SSE boost OK.'
I hope it's catching up and will start showing progress soon.
Thanks...
I wonder what would happen if you chmod it to read only?Quote:
Originally posted by bs_2003
I've edited client.cfg to
asknet=yes
But, when a wu is completed, it starts over anyway and rewrites my client.cfg to
asknet=no.
I want this particular linux machine to stop folding after this next wu. I didn't want to compromise a 'fold', but I may just have to 'kill' it if there's no elegant way to stop the process after the next wu.
Dunno... I'll have to wait a couple of days and see how cybertron's suggestion works.Quote:
Originally posted by Cerf
I wonder what would happen if you chmod it to read only?
The process did start back up and I'm now at 275000 out of 2500000 steps.
If it doesn't stop and ask me before proceeding to the next one, then I'll try the chmod way.
Thanks...
Worked:
Code:[20:30:32] Completed 2475000 out of 2500000 steps (99%)
[21:02:39] Writing local files
[21:02:39] Completed 2500000 out of 2500000 steps (100%)
[21:02:40] Writing final coordinates.
[21:02:40] Past main M.D. loop
[21:03:39]
[21:03:39] Finished Work Unit:
[21:03:39] - Reading up to 168720 from "work/wudata_06.arc": Read 168720
[21:03:39] - Reading up to 1277920 from "work/wudata_06.xtc": Read 1277920
[21:03:40] goefile size: 0
[21:03:40] Leaving Run
[21:03:41] - Writing 1481200 bytes of core data to disk...
[21:03:41] ... Done.
[21:03:41] - Shutting down core
[21:03:41]
[21:03:41] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[21:03:41] > Press "c" to connect to the server
I'm just wondering what happened to cs.lmu.edu. Is it just a coincidence that it died after 666 WU's? I think there might be a consipracy here...
What a maroon!!!Quote:
Originally posted by bs_2003
Dagnabit!!! Windows 98!!
My trusty dusty Windows 98, PII 450 machine was merrily pounding away at a 2500 frame protein. ... and it had BSOD'ed.
So, I screwed around and never got to the reformatting and installing slackware, since I looked at the machine and it had resumed working the next day, after rebooting.
Today it BSOD'ed again! It's like sticking your finger in a fire.. you don't do it a second time!
Now where's them slack CD's..... and that burn ointment. ;)
looks like satan was summond upon all their boxes.... :pQuote:
Originally posted by freakmn
I'm just wondering what happened to cs.lmu.edu. Is it just a coincidence that it died after 666 WU's? I think there might be a consipracy here...
That is what my first thought was, but what if they were chmodded 666. Doesn't that mean they are readable and writable by all? Perhaps that's why they can no longer execute?Quote:
Originally posted by blueINK
looks like satan was summond upon all their boxes.... :p
haha :)Quote:
Originally posted by freakmn
That is what my first thought was, but what if they were chmodded 666. Doesn't that mean they are readable and writable by all? Perhaps that's why they can no longer execute?
I just installed folding on three of my PCs and joined Justlinux team. I will add my gaming pc when it finishes rebuilding its Raid 5 array for the umpteenth time (takes about 19 hours). I have a question, is it possible to "Mount" a terminal in the task bar such that the last line (i.e. folding progress) is visible at all times? I seem to remember doing this (not the folding bit) at Uni but that was about 10 years ago. I guess another way would be to run folding in the background and run tail fahlog.txt in the "taskbar" console. What do you all think? Anyway I hope to get some Units finished soon.
I know the windows version locks the file, I thought the linux version made the file ro when running, guess i'll have to chek my server see if thats the case. Finally got a copy of Mandrake 10.1 Club x86_64 running so we'll have to see if theres any preformance increse.Quote:
Originally posted by Cerf
I wonder what would happen if you chmod it to read only?
(won't be doing much folding in windows though, formating a 250gb hard drive and its only at 8%)
That's exactly what I do. I have folding start as a service and then check it out just like you mentioned...Quote:
Originally posted by GmarAppledude
.... run folding in the background and run tail fahlog.txt in the "taskbar" console. What do you all think? Anyway I hope to get some Units finished soon.
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