Folding@Home Team Ubuntu recruiting notice

[MooPi]

I've been folding for a couple of years now and usually have multiple instances running over night and through the day when I'm out. Sorry Ubuntu team I'm a team of one Team_Pooh. I think I'm in the top 2 to 3 percentile of contributors.

[djchandler]

Looks like we are gonna overtake PlayStation.com Forums Team in about 7 or 8 days .

Take care budy .
Regards

And we're being overtaken by 5 more teams within a few months.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=45104

Our points are down from our top production from about a year ago.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1325

I realize there have been some problems running F@H on 10,10, but why not run SMP work units instead of multiple instances of the classic client? The points for A3 SMP WUs are far more than what you can get running even 6 instances on your Phenom II X6. I'm getting ~3300 points for some WUs done in 7.5 hours (60xx projects) or ~5600 points in 15.5 hours for 6701 or 6702 WUs. This is on a Phenom II X6 1090T with an easy overclock to 3.6 Ghz (stock at 3.2).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fo.../ManualInstall

I'm taking one for the team by cheating a bit, running the Windows 6.30 client natively. (My wife and I are doing a Windows 7/Office 2010/Sharepoint project.) You can do this also using WINE or in a virtual Windows machine, and it doesn't require 64-bit Linux.

Here is a work-around discussion for the Linux 64-bit client.
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=16447
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...=14782#p145834

[obscur156]

So we have to recruit more people for the team.

Thanks for the info,i will look into this budy.
Regards

[djchandler]

...I'm getting ~3300 points for some WUs done in 7.5 hours (60xx projects)...

CORRECTION: I'm getting these units done in under 6.5 hours, including upload. I'm still trying to understand why some WUs, such as the 67XXs, seem to penalize, and if it's only on AMD CPUs that this is happening.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummaryC.html

There's more information about the 10.10 Kernel issues on foldingforum.org.

And here's an explanation as to why folding one unit at a time is actually better for you as well as the project.
http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/ar...wu-returns.php

PS It feels like Canada here this AM. Temperature is -12ºC.

[obscur156]

Thanks again djchandler for the info.

What kind of heatsink and or cpufan are you using? (cpu cooler)
What temp do you get with your Phenom 2 x6 at 3.6 ghz when running F@H and the 6 cores at 100% ?

PS: It feels like i am in Kansas City metro this morning,only -4ºC here

[koven]

hey guys..im having some trouble with FAH 6.30 and HFM 0.6.1.251

smp is working fine, but i'm getting these messages between steps

fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented

also, my hfm will not open, here's the error

koven@ubuntu:~/Desktop/HFM$ mono HFM.exe

** (HFM.exe:11003): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/koven/Desktop/HFM/protobuf-net.dll could not be loaded:
Assembly: System.Runtime.Serialization (assemblyref_index=2)
Version: 3.0.0.0
Public Key: b77a5c561934e089
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/koven/Desktop/HFM/).


** (HFM.exe:11003): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.

** (HFM.exe:11003): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
Stacktrace:

at ProtoBuf.Serializer.TryGetTag (System.Reflection.MemberInfo,int&,string&,ProtoBu f.DataFormat&,ProtoBuf.MemberSerializationOptions& ) <0xffffffff>
at ProtoBuf.Serializer.TryGetTag (System.Reflection.MemberInfo,int&,string&,ProtoBu f.DataFormat&,ProtoBuf.MemberSerializationOptions& ) <0x00030>
at ProtoBuf.Serializer`1<object>.Build () <0x00373>
at ProtoBuf.Serializer`1<object>.SerializeChecked (object,ProtoBuf.SerializationContext) <0x0004f>
at ProtoBuf.SerializerItemProxy`2<HFM.Framework.XmlSt atsData, HFM.Framework.XmlStatsData>.Serialize (HFM.Framework.XmlStatsData,ProtoBuf.Serialization Context) <0x0004b>
at ProtoBuf.SerializerProxy`1<object>.Serialize (object,System.IO.Stream) <0x00057>
at ProtoBuf.Serializer.Serialize<object> (System.IO.Stream,object) <0x0006b>
at HFM.Framework.XmlStatsDataContainer.Serialize (HFM.Framework.XmlStatsData,string) <0x000b3>
at HFM.Framework.XmlStatsDataContainer.Write () <0x00057>
at HFM.Framework.XmlStatsDataContainer.GetEocXmlData (bool) <0x001b7>
at HFM.Forms.frmMain.RefreshUserStatsData (bool) <0x0002a>
at HFM.Forms.frmMain.UserStatsEnabledChanged () <0x00053>
at HFM.Forms.frmMain.Initialize () <0x00037>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) HFM.Forms.frmMain.Initialize () <0xffffffff>
at HFM.Program.Main (string[]) <0x00527>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) HFM.Program.runtime_invoke_void_object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>

Native stacktrace:

mono() [0x47b77f]
mono() [0x4aef3f]
/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0xf8f0) [0x7f488a3258f0]
mono(mono_object_new_specific+0x16) [0x4caa86]
mono(mono_exception_from_name_domain+0x1d) [0x50e1ed]
mono(mono_exception_from_name_msg+0xe) [0x50e4de]
mono() [0x41eb36]
mono() [0x483521]
[0x41fc4168]

Debug info from gdb:

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f487853a700 (LWP 11014)]
[New Thread 0x7f4878d96700 (LWP 11011)]
[New Thread 0x7f4878f97700 (LWP 11010)]
[New Thread 0x7f48795a1700 (LWP 11009)]
[New Thread 0x7f48797a2700 (LWP 11008)]
[New Thread 0x7f4888b76700 (LWP 11005)]
[New Thread 0x7f488b02d700 (LWP 11004)]
0x00007f488a32493d in read () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
8 Thread 0x7f488b02d700 (LWP 11004) 0x00007f488a32511d in nanosleep ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
7 Thread 0x7f4888b76700 (LWP 11005) 0x00007f488a323b50 in sem_wait ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
6 Thread 0x7f48797a2700 (LWP 11008) 0x00007f488a32511d in nanosleep ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
5 Thread 0x7f48795a1700 (LWP 11009) 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
4 Thread 0x7f4878f97700 (LWP 11010) 0x00007f4889df6d03 in epoll_wait ()
from /lib/libc.so.6
3 Thread 0x7f4878d96700 (LWP 11011) 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
2 Thread 0x7f487853a700 (LWP 11014) 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
* 1 Thread 0x7f488b022740 (LWP 11003) 0x00007f488a32493d in read ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0

Thread 8 (Thread 0x7f488b02d700 (LWP 11004)):
#0 0x00007f488a32511d in nanosleep () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x0000000000556342 in ?? ()
#2 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 7 (Thread 0x7f4888b76700 (LWP 11005)):
#0 0x00007f488a323b50 in sem_wait () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00000000004e4aaa in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#4 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#6 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 6 (Thread 0x7f48797a2700 (LWP 11008)):
#0 0x00007f488a32511d in nanosleep () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x000000000056f134 in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000507d21 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#5 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#6 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#7 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 5 (Thread 0x7f48795a1700 (LWP 11009)):
#0 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x000000000055b45d in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000005736d6 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000005078b4 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#6 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#8 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 4 (Thread 0x7f4878f97700 (LWP 11010)):
#0 0x00007f4889df6d03 in epoll_wait () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00000000005084f7 in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#4 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#6 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 3 (Thread 0x7f4878d96700 (LWP 11011)):
#0 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x000000000055b45d in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000005736d6 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000508903 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#6 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#8 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f487853a700 (LWP 11014)):
#0 0x00007f488a321bc9 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x000000000055b45d in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000005736d6 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000005078b4 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000505035 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000000000570073 in ?? ()
#6 0x000000000058de21 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007f488a31c9ca in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#8 0x00007f4889df670d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f488b022740 (LWP 11003)):
#0 0x00007f488a32493d in read () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x000000000047b8f4 in ?? ()
#2 0x00000000004aef3f in ?? ()
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0x00000000004caa86 in mono_object_new_specific ()
#5 0x000000000050e1ed in mono_exception_from_name_domain ()
#6 0x000000000050e4de in mono_exception_from_name_msg ()
#7 0x000000000041eb36 in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000483521 in ?? ()
#9 0x0000000041fc4168 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

================================================== ===============
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
================================================== ===============

Aborted

could anyone please help me? i'm running 10.4

[The Real Dave]

Celerons aren't likely to increase ur power bill by much; they are predominantly mobile/budget architectures (like my Sempron). Besides, a system like that would probably draw only about 150W at load, so your power bill would rocket by about...... 2 cents. So don't worry about your bill, unless you are overclocking to a large degree
Hope this helps.

No, they're not that powerful, but seeing as I plan on folding for the foreseeable future, even a small saving a year is a big thing. Going by your estimation of 150W, running flat out 365.4 days a year, would work out as,

.15kW x 8769.6Hours/Year = 1315.44kWH/Year @ €0.1325/kWH = €174.30/Year

That's a lot of money >.<

Instead, look at it running for 15 Hours a day,

.15kW x 5481Hours/Year = 822.15kWH/Year @ €0.1325/kWH = €109/Year

That's a saving of €65.30/Year, whilst still doing my bit.

I run a Dell Optiplex GX150, PIII/256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 24/7 as my standalone headless firewall/router. It rarely spins up the drive & the CPU barely does more than idle.

I measured the electrical power usage of this machine over a period of some days. @ 19 cents a kW it costs $54-/year to run. That is Oz dollars which are about the same as the US dollar these days.

So that gives some idea of the costs. If the CPU was working harder &/or the drive was working it would cost more.

I doubt very much that a Celeron would use less than the PIII 700Mhz.

Very true, as the above calculations show >.< I used use a PIII Katami @ 451Mhz as my main server once upon a time, running FreeNAS


Also, I've managed to convince my school's IT guy to allow me to run F@H on a few school machines, C2Ds OCd to 3.2Ghz. I've four of these machines running, but as of yet, they havn't uploaded a single WU, which makes me think something's gone wrong. Must have a look at them.

[jerenept]

No, they're not that powerful, but seeing as I plan on folding for the foreseeable future, even a small saving a year is a big thing. Going by your estimation of 150W, running flat out 365.4 days a year, would work out as,

.15kW x 8769.6Hours/Year = 1315.44kWH/Year @ €0.1325/kWH = €174.30/Year

That's a lot of money >.<

Instead, look at it running for 15 Hours a day,

.15kW x 5481Hours/Year = 822.15kWH/Year @ €0.1325/kWH = €109/Year

That's a saving of €65.30/Year, whilst still doing my bit.



Very true, as the above calculations show >.< I used use a PIII Katami @ 451Mhz as my main server once upon a time, running FreeNAS


Also, I've managed to convince my school's IT guy to allow me to run F@H on a few school machines, C2Ds OCd to 3.2Ghz. I've four of these machines running, but as of yet, they havn't uploaded a single WU, which makes me think something's gone wrong. Must have a look at them.

Hmm... true about the power hike; I was more considering the monthly increase if you ran the machine normally.

The computers in your school are overclocked? that's incredible; I would love to go to your school

[The Real Dave]

Hmm... true about the power hike; I was more considering the monthly increase if you ran the machine normally.

The computers in your school are overclocked? that's incredible; I would love to go to your school

They're overclocked because I did it Though to be honest, the system isn't great. Individually the computers are powerful, and tailored to their roles (the DCG ones for example have powerful graphics cards for easy CAD rendering) but everything is stored centrally on a server, accessed over a 100MBit network, which just isn't fast enough to run >200 computers, especially when it could be 90-100 under heavy use at any one time >.<

[bredsaal]

Hi everybody. I just wanted to let you know that I've got SMP folding on Ubuntu 10.10 working!