the funny thing is, all those points you're putting up with 37 regular clients can be made with 4 SMP clients.... it's sad really.



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All it takes is the installation of a small piece of software and your computer will start completing Work Units for the project and the team. The Folding@Home process runs at the lowest possible priority so you can run it 24X7 without slowing down your computer or interfering with your everyday computing tasks. If you have a Sony PS3 Game Console you can also run Folding@Home (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3) on it with great results.

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Go to http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download,download and install the software. Our Team Number is 59.

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Windows Computers:
We recommend using the "text-only console” client for most windows computers. If you have a dual/quad/etc core processor, be sure to install and run the SMP client to get you and the team <strong>far more points</strong> than the standard console client (but sometimes it has problems starting as a service, so you might have to restart the client manually or automatically via startup folder when your computer restarts). In general, its best to stay away from the graphical clients. If you have a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, its best to turn off Hyperthreading in the BIOS if you know how. Feel free to post in this thread with any questions.

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There are both "text-only" consoles and SMP clients for Linux and Macintosh computers too! If you have a dual/quad/etc core processor be sure to run the SMP client as you'll get far more points than the text-only client. But the text-only clients also help out too if you only have single-core processors.

PS3:
PS3s currently provide over 60% of the processing power in the Folding@home network and are capable of producing many points for the team. If you have PS3 system version 1.6 or later, you will see a Folding@Home icon in the Network column of the XMB (PS3 Networking menu). Just click on the icon and that's it. If you don't have 1.6 or later, perform a system upgrade. Make sure to use Team #59!

The more computers and PS3s you run the clients on, the more points your username and the NCSU team earns! Install as many clients as you can and watch your username/team progress at the stats page - http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

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[Edited on November 16, 2007 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

11/16/2007 2:42:06 PM

its pretty fun watching your points jump up even in the team rank.

my pc is running the smp client, and then my backup computer is running the regular. it takes like 3 or 4 days to complete a work unit. my smp computer can finish one in about 1.2 days or less.

11/17/2007 11:44:42 AM

WTB, root access to my research lab's idle Xeons.

11/17/2007 3:03:16 PM

^ shouldn't need root. any user can run folding, download and run "nohup ./fah6 -smp"

11/17/2007 4:49:20 PM

...nevermind...

[Edited on November 18, 2007 at 12:37 AM. Reason : blah]

11/18/2007 12:15:51 AM

Quote :

"all those points you're putting up with 37 regular clients can be made with 4 SMP clients.... it's sad really."

thats why i love the SMP clients

11/18/2007 7:13:13 PM

i wish i had more. but, you make do with what you've got. 37 pc's sitting around doing jack shit, might as well fold even if the best one of them is a lowly p4

11/18/2007 7:34:20 PM

yeah, but at what cost really, i mean 37 x 150W = 5.5kW of electricity, 4 x 200W = 800W

it adds up, not to mention the heat being released, then you're paying another 6-7x the cost of air conditioning to cool the units

unless of course it's at work

[Edited on November 18, 2007 at 8:56 PM. Reason : .]

11/18/2007 8:56:08 PM

If that's 5.5kW continuous, that's like $0.44/hr in electricity or $10/day


but as long as he isn't paying for it, who cares?

11/18/2007 9:01:38 PM

you also have to consider it's 18,700 BTU's of cooling required as well, that's some expensive setup

11/18/2007 9:05:51 PM

Quote :

"then you're paying another 6-7x the cost of air conditioning to cool the units"

more like 2-3x the cost to cool it down

11/18/2007 9:05:57 PM

its winter, I use my pc's to warm up my rooms.

11/18/2007 9:12:31 PM

^^Watts in direct proportion to BTU's, the ratio of power is 7:1, thus the amount of BTU's would be 7:1 as well... but you get the idea, it's $texas

11/18/2007 9:55:38 PM

Quote :

"unless of course it's at work"

ding ding ding. how else would i have 37 pc's?

and they're spread out around the country in about 10 different sites

11/18/2007 9:57:29 PM

wtf, the client i have installed here at work just always says: "attempting to get work packet"

it worked fine before on the uber shitty computer i had)

11/19/2007 9:01:48 AM

what client did you install? what OS? can you paste in the important part of your log file?

sometimes it takes like 15 minutes or more to find a WU to download. i bet if you give it some time it will eventually find some work to do

11/19/2007 9:05:03 AM

regular client, (same install file from the old computer), windows xp

Quote :

"[14:18:15] + Attempting to get work packet [14:18:15] - Connecting to assignment server [14:18:16] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [14:18:16] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [14:18:16] Loaded queue successfully. [14:18:16] - Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry."

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 9:23 AM. Reason : ]

11/19/2007 9:22:54 AM

Some servers are down:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html

11/19/2007 9:49:54 AM

#90!!!

11/19/2007 10:40:13 AM

inc post on ncsufolding.com?

11/19/2007 11:11:34 AM

installed on two servers at work now... theyre damn near wasted energy 2/3 of the day, might as well do something with them

11/19/2007 11:19:28 AM

^ sweeet, SMP client or regular console client?

11/19/2007 11:32:00 AM

SMP on both... they're both around 3ghz, dual core, one is 64bit. Hopefully they will help a little bit at least. How do I see how much these things are helping?

11/19/2007 1:27:58 PM

^^^^ yea, any major milestone is worthy of putting a post on ncsufolding.com, it'll help us keep good records of our major milestones for future reference when we're #50 and we look back and laugh that we were in the 90's

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 1:28 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2007 1:27:59 PM

Quote :

"SMP on both... they're both around 3ghz, dual core, one is 64bit. Hopefully they will help a little bit at least. How do I see how much these things are helping?"

GG man, that will be a huge help.

To check your contribution to the team check the stats page: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

Do you already have a username or did you just enter one? If its a new username then your name won't show up until you submit your first work unit. If you want to see how many points you're producing per machine you can install http://fahmon.net/ . You can run it individually on each client machine or just run it on one computer and monitor multiple clients over the network.

11/19/2007 1:34:01 PM

I think it must be a new name... I thought I had contributed before at some point but my name isn't on the list so either I didn't or it's been too long since I last did... It's 12% done with a job already so it's movin

11/19/2007 2:21:14 PM

with 2 SMP client you should be able to get 2k-3k+ PPD depending on what processors you're running them on (with GHz and L2 cache size being important stats)

11/19/2007 2:59:41 PM

so at some point it's gonna start working? b/c i dont think it worked at all this weekend...

some way to point it at a functioning IP?

11/19/2007 4:22:07 PM

^

so youve been getting this message all weekend?

Quote :

"Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do."

you should be able to look in your fahlog.txt to see

11/19/2007 7:16:43 PM

Quote :

"[07:58:16] + 788480 bytes downloaded [07:58:16] + 789667 bytes downloaded [07:58:16] Verifying core Core_a1.fah... [07:58:16] Signature is VALID [07:58:16] [07:58:16] Trying to unzip core FahCore_a1.exe [07:58:16] Decompressed FahCore_a1.exe (2035712 bytes) successfully [07:58:16] + Core successfully engaged [07:58:21] [07:58:21] + Processing work unit [07:58:21] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe [07:58:21] Core found. [07:58:21] Working on Unit 01 [November 20 07:58:21] [07:58:21] + Working ... [07:58:29] CoreStatus = 63 (99) [07:58:29] + Error starting Folding@Home core. [07:58:34] [07:58:34] + Processing work unit [07:58:34] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe [07:58:34] Core found. [07:58:34] Working on Unit 01 [November 20 07:58:34] [07:58:34] + Working ... [07:58:42] CoreStatus = 63 (99) [07:58:42] + Error starting Folding@Home core. [07:58:47] [07:58:47] + Processing work unit [07:58:47] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe [07:58:47] Core found. [07:58:47] Working on Unit 01 [November 20 07:58:47] [07:58:47] + Working ... [07:58:56] CoreStatus = 63 (99) [07:58:56] + Error starting Folding@Home core. [07:58:56] Folding@Home will go to sleep for 1 day as there have been 5 consecutive Cores executed which failed to complete a work unit. [07:58:56] (To wake it up early, quit the application and restart it.) [07:58:56] If problems persist, please visit our website at http://folding.stanford.edu for help. [07:58:56] + Sleeping... "

What's the deal? SMP client console version

11/20/2007 3:10:41 AM

That status code is normally a permissions issue.

You need to run the install.bat file (found in the install folder) and supply it with a windows account username and password (password can't be blank)...the account must have admin access.

http://forum.folding-community.org/./viewtopic.php?t=20867

Let us know if you still have problems after that

11/20/2007 8:02:35 AM

Quote :

" ################################################### ############################################################################### Folding@Home Client Version 5.03 http://folding.stanford.edu ############################################################################### ############################################################################### Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home [21:29:21] - Ask before connecting: No [21:29:21] - Use IE connection settings: Yes [21:29:21] - User name: Arab13 (Team 59) [21:29:21] - User ID: 69B6C3AD74B4805E [21:29:21] - Machine ID: 1 [21:29:21] [21:29:21] Loaded queue successfully. [21:29:21] Initialization complete [21:29:21] + Benchmarking ... [21:29:27] - Preparing to get new work units... [21:29:27] + Attempting to get work packet [21:29:27] - Connecting to assignment server [21:29:28] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:29:28] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:29:28] Loaded queue successfully. [21:29:28] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:29:34] + Attempting to get work packet [21:29:34] - Connecting to assignment server [21:29:34] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:29:34] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:29:35] Loaded queue successfully. [21:29:35] - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:29:46] Opening http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=59... [21:29:55] + Attempting to get work packet [21:29:55] - Connecting to assignment server [21:30:26] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet) [21:30:26] + Could not connect to Assignment Server [21:30:26] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:30:26] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:30:26] Loaded queue successfully. [21:30:26] - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:30:47] + Attempting to get work packet [21:30:47] - Connecting to assignment server [21:30:47] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:30:47] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:30:47] Loaded queue successfully. [21:30:47] - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:31:31] + Attempting to get work packet [21:31:31] - Connecting to assignment server [21:31:52] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:31:52] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:31:52] Loaded queue successfully. [21:31:52] - Error: Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:33:27] + Attempting to get work packet [21:33:27] - Connecting to assignment server [21:33:27] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:33:27] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:33:27] Loaded queue successfully. [21:33:27] - Error: Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:36:17] + Attempting to get work packet [21:36:17] - Connecting to assignment server [21:36:17] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:36:17] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:36:18] Loaded queue successfully. [21:36:18] - Error: Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:41:46] + Attempting to get work packet [21:41:46] - Connecting to assignment server [21:41:46] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:41:46] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:41:46] Loaded queue successfully. [21:41:46] - Error: Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [21:52:37] + Attempting to get work packet [21:52:37] - Connecting to assignment server [21:52:38] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [21:52:38] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [21:52:38] Loaded queue successfully. [21:52:38] - Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [14:22:41] + Attempting to get work packet [14:22:41] - Connecting to assignment server [14:22:41] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet) [14:22:41] + Could not connect to Assignment Server [14:22:41] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet) [14:22:41] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2 [14:22:41] + Couldn't get work instructions. [14:22:41] - Error: Attempt #10 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. Folding@Home Client Shutdown. --- Opening Log file [November 20 14:23:43] # Windows Graphical Edition ################################################### ############################################################################### Folding@Home Client Version 5.03 http://folding.stanford.edu ############################################################################### ############################################################################### Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home [14:23:43] - Ask before connecting: No [14:23:43] - Use IE connection settings: Yes [14:23:43] - User name: Arab13 (Team 59) [14:23:43] - User ID: 69B6C3AD74B4805E [14:23:43] - Machine ID: 1 [14:23:43] [14:23:43] Loaded queue successfully. [14:23:43] Initialization complete [14:23:43] + Benchmarking ... [14:23:46] - Preparing to get new work unit... [14:23:46] + Attempting to get work packet [14:23:46] - Connecting to assignment server [14:23:46] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [14:23:46] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [14:23:47] Loaded queue successfully. [14:23:47] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. [14:23:58] + Attempting to get work packet [14:23:58] - Connecting to assignment server [14:23:58] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133). [14:23:58] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [14:23:58] Loaded queue successfully. [14:23:58] - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry. "

so, yes, that same error, over and over and over and over

11/20/2007 9:25:44 AM

Did you set it to use IE settings? You need to always choose no. Setting it to yes creates problems (like the one above). Create a shortcut to the fah.exe executable, right click it, go to properties, and add the flag -configonly to the target. run that shortcut to change the settings to the ones below.

Quote :

"User name [?]? Team Number [59]? Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service (yes/no) [yes]? Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]? Use Internet Explorer Settings (no/yes) [no]? Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? Allow receipt of work assignments greater than 5MB in size (no/yes) [yes]? Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]?"

11/20/2007 9:44:22 AM

n/m connected and got a WU finally...

good god that was a pain in the ass....

[Edited on November 20, 2007 at 11:00 AM. Reason : s]

11/20/2007 10:59:25 AM

if you didnt change the IE setting to NO i would...it could cause problems later on.

11/20/2007 11:15:01 AM

oh i changed things like you had on your list.

11/20/2007 11:18:26 AM

96% done with a job

11/20/2007 11:26:31 AM

^sweet

those SMP client produce sooo many points. the more of them we install/run the faster we'll shoot up in the rankings. just look at our points so far today. we've already reported 35k points and we're only 1/2 way through the day. that because we had a bunch of SMP work units turned in this morning.

the only thing we have to watch out for is when they finally move to the V6 SMP client I bet all the beta SMP clients we're running now will expire. so we'll have to upgrade all the SMP clients as soon as the v6 is released or the beta clients will expire and our production will fall off the chart.

11/20/2007 1:13:03 PM

any word on when that will be?

11/20/2007 1:16:01 PM

^ i haven't heard anything...i think its expected in the next few months tho
this thread talks about it some: http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic21682.html



who is it that runs the server that produces this banner? It looks like its not running anymore

11/20/2007 1:31:26 PM

Ok, it seems to be working now. I ran the install.bat and did everything the same as the first time, but now it's working. Time to install this on my roommates computer

I'll have 2 running the SMP client and 1 running the normal client under my name.

11/20/2007 2:26:00 PM

Great, welcome to the team!

Try to run the SMP client as a service by following the instructions on the last pagemessage_topic.aspx?topic=118820&page=47

11/20/2007 2:34:53 PM

schpenxel Last updated: Tue Nov 20 12:00:03 PST 2007
Tue Nov 20 20:00:03 UTC 2007

Date of last work unit 2007-11-20 10:22:04
Total score 1760

woohoo, haha

11/20/2007 3:28:57 PM

^congrats, you just jumped from #380 to #197 on the team 8 more work units and you'll break the top 100

[Edited on November 20, 2007 at 5:04 PM. Reason : .]

11/20/2007 5:03:23 PM

^^^I've actually been on the team it's just been a while since I had this running.

Quote :

"Date of last work unit 2004-04-04 20:11:04"

I can't really tell if my SMP clients are working right or not. I'm at 16% on both with 0% cpu usage and no FahCore_a1.exe processes (where there used to be 4 on each). No one has been on either computer all day. Mine last updated at 06:27:33 (which is about 8 hours after I started it). I'm guessing that is GMT. Based on the spacing of the other updates, it should have completed another 5000 steps (out of 500,000) about 13 minutes ago. I'd like to make sure this is running right before I leave town for a week.

11/21/2007 2:12:53 AM

Quote :

"with 0% cpu usage and no FahCore_a1.exe processes"

thats the biggest indicator that nothing is happening. if you're CPU isn't at 100%, something is not working right.

Are you running the SMP client as a service? If not look on the last couple pages for instructions.

Either way you need to restart your SMP client(s) and make sure they're consuming 100% of the CPU usage

11/21/2007 8:44:32 AM

I'm gonna get a PS3 going on this and a few other computers later today... I think I have close to 10 I can get going, especially over the holidays while nobody is using them.

11/21/2007 9:06:53 AM

Quote :

"Are you running the SMP client as a service? If not look on the last couple pages for instructions."

I was going to wait for it to finish the first WU (because I wasn't sure if it would resume) before I did that but I went ahead and just did it now to both computers. I hope it works because I won't be around in 8 hours to check on it.

11/21/2007 11:33:48 AM

^ well once you set it to run as a service and reset the computer (so that the service can start) as long as the CPU is running 100% it should be fine.

^^ badass. with that many machines folding you should be in the top 3 producers on the team within a week or less!

11/21/2007 1:29:41 PM

dont know if its working or not but i am getting "trying to unzip core fahcore_a1.exe
-couldnt open file fahcore_a1.exe
+error: could not extract core
+ core download error (#6), waiting before retry..."

i swear they need to make this shit more user friendly...the only one i can regularly get to work easily is the graphical client

[Edited on November 21, 2007 at 11:33 PM. Reason : new laptop with vista basic]

11/21/2007 11:33:18 PM