Folding@Home Team Ubuntu recruiting notice

[nbcthreat]

If you're like a lot of folks on here you have a cutting-edge system that spends most of its time idling on a blank screen or running a cool screensaver. It's possibel to donate your spare cycles to cancer and other medical research using Folding@Home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_at_home

There are a couple of Ubuntu teams, but we're in the process of attempting to unify behind the team with the most points. Here's the link.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=45104

And here's the wiki page.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu?highlight=%28folding%29

Also, here's a great post on Hackaday about tips for competitive folding.

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000673058540/

Come join the team and have some competitive geeky fun while helping cure diseases! What could be better?

[erikpiper]

How well does it work with systems that have a (relatively) low uptime? As in, my nice machine is a dual booting gamer- can it start itself automatically? Any bugs?

[Zelut]

It can start itself automagally at boot on either side (Linux or Windows). I've got a personal team (24 machines) running on both platforms and I haven't seen any problems.

I'd join the team but I've already put so much work into my own team :)

[erikpiper]

Nice!
I would keep it off of my windows though, as when I boot into that it will be gaming only, then a reboot.

When I finish it, I will start folding.

(Windows induced reinstalls...)

[Swab]

Nice!
I would keep it off of my windows though, as when I boot into that it will be gaming only, then a reboot.

When I finish it, I will start folding.

(Windows induced reinstalls...)

It won't effect your Windows gaming as the client program only uses spare clock cycles.

[nbcthreat]

I believe it was Ars Technica that did a test and found that the WINDOWS client had almost literally zero effect on responsiveness. The only reason I don't run it while I'm working on my laptop at work is that it means that the laptop gets hot and the fan runs full-time which is annoying. I run it on everythine else.

[erikpiper]

Really? Cool!

[Goddess_of_Linux]

Why not help out Seti@home...

[nbcthreat]

Well, the answer to your question is that SETI@Home is about to be completed. They're running out of work. So there's no chance of Team Ubuntu passing everyone else and ruling the world, which should clearly be our objective.

[nbcthreat]

As you can see, good old fashioned American competitiveness is the real motivator here. I heard there's something about "curing something" involved here somewhere as well, but mostly I just want to be BETTER than someone else and this is my big opportunity.

[Zonkle]

I'm in ;)

[Swab]

We just entered the top 2000! Congratulations everyone...

And to everyone else... come join us, it's a good cause and promotes Ubuntu!

[psusi]

I'd like to help but it appears that it is not supported on amd64. Why that is, I have no idea, since it should be faster.

[nbcthreat]

You can run it on AMD64, you just won't run as fast as if it were a P4. They're working on it. The new releases will have optimizations for all CPUs.

[ned.b]

Any processor helps, even if it isn't running optimally :smile:

[Swab]

Merry Christmas Team Ubuntu! Production is way up on just a few weeks ago.. well done everybody!

[briancurtin]

Why not help out Seti@home...
probably because i dont believe in aliens/extra terrestrials/etc...

[nbcthreat]

Holy Hell, Ned!

I thought I was kicking ass until I saw you on the board. How many cores do you have running? What's your setup?

[nbcthreat]

By the way, we're on track to pass 20 teams today, moving from 1,875 to 1,854. Rock on TeamUbuntu!

By the way, team banter keeps us fresh in the forums and brings more people to the team, so keep up the trash talk.

[ned.b]

Holy Hell, Ned!

I thought I was kicking ass until I saw you on the board. How many cores do you have running? What's your setup?

:p hehe

I have a few machines running... at the bottom end is a PII running at 333Mhz (Ubuntu) - it hasn't managed a single work unit after a couple of weeks full time! At the other end is an HP DL380 G4 Server with a 3.2 Gig Xeon - this thing Folds like you would not believe! It doesn't have a hard drive yet so its running Knoppix for the time being. My desktop is a P IV 3 Gig (Ubuntu) which is by no means slow. Other machines are only part-time but altogether I am running 7 clients - at the moment ;)

What about the rest of you?

[Rinzwind]

*Reporting as a new recruit*

My P4 3.0 now running folding@home for team 45104 :)
(as soon as I find out how to add to a team :) )

[ned.b]

*Reporting as a new recruit*

My P4 3.0 now running folding@home for team 45104 :)
(as soon as I find out how to add to a team :) )

Welcome! :-)

When you first run the client on a box you have the option to specify a team; if you need ammend any of the details you first entered then start the client with the -config switch. For example from the directory you run your client from type:

./FAH502-Linux.exe -config

[red_Marvin]

I have it installed on my parents' 2.6GHz PIV.

Btw, when I switched from team ubuntuforums to team ubuntu, I reinstalled it in /opt
with the scripts supplied on the wiki page, and i wonder: does it run for all users now?

If not, is there a way to make it run no matter which user is logged in, but only run
one instance (as it should) when multiple users are logged in?

[nbcthreat]

I've got my P4 2.4 HT at home running 2 clients. I have a small P3 700 at home, and my Pentium M laptop here at work when I'm gone. I had had my two unused P4 laptops at work running for a while, but it was a hassle because I only have one net connection here in the office and had to keep moving the cable around to upload work units. Now that I feel the heat, I've got them plugged in in another office so they don't require maintenance. That's two more P4 cores. I should be rocking.

[nbcthreat]

Oh, and by the by. On Windows, the client is set up to run super-nice and not interfere at all with what you're doing. On Linux, I don't know what the deal is. It does seem to slow down my UI a bit when I have my folding clients running on my box at home, so I started running them with "nice" and it seems to make it more responsive. Something you might try if your box is feeling sluggish while you're folding in the background.


nice ./FAH5*

[ПОПТОНЖ]

How do you set the number of cpu clocks? I have a compact machine and I can't afford a ten degree rise in temp (if it will even run reliably at 100% workload - frankly I'm not sure). I'd like to restrict it to 50% core but that question never came up when I ran -config an selected to set the "advanced options."

[nbcthreat]

Hmm... that comes up as an option for me when I run with -config. I think it's "request x percentage of cpu" or something.

[Swab]

I've got my P4 2.4 HT at home running 2 clients.

Is there an advantage to running 2 clients on one CPU?

[chimera]

I joined our team...

[nbcthreat]

Is there an advantage to running 2 clients on one CPU?

Well, there's some debate on the subject. But the tweaking article I link to at the beginning of the thread and in the wiki suggests that running two clients on a hyperthreading chip will accomplish more points per hour overall. Check out hyperthreading on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

[ned.b]

I joined our team...

welcome to the team :)

[Swab]

Well, there's some debate on the subject. But the tweaking article I link to at the beginning of the thread and in the wiki suggests that running two clients on a hyperthreading chip will accomplish more points per hour overall. Check out hyperthreading on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

Oh well.. no HT P4's here :( I'm using advmethods here on my main box... but I still never seem to get any big point units...

[nbcthreat]

We'll pass another twenty or so teams in the next 24 hours. We're kicking ass and taking names. We need more cores!

1,867 0 2005-12-28 06:00 TeamUbuntu 1,867 1,375 9,149 99,706 0
1,866 0 2005-12-28 07:22 Elite Bastards 1,866 597 5,563 99,735 29
1,865 0 2005-12-28 08:21 Overclockers@Columbia 1,865 46 401 99,828 122
1,864 0 2005-12-28 11:45 Texas Combo 1,863 227 1,217 99,977 271
1,863 0 2005-12-28 14:44 ConklinBruce 1,860 0 241 100,169 463
1,862 0 2005-12-28 15:01 i3solutions 1,858 51 292 100,181 475
1,861 0 2005-12-28 15:46 ExtremeMhz 1,862 166 2,068 100,117 411
1,860 0 2005-12-28 17:26 =BBC= 1,857 0 972 100,262 556
1,859 0 2005-12-28 17:27 Server Support Forum 1,859 383 2,335 100,170 464
1,858 1 2005-12-28 19:01 grygorek_team 1,861 893 3,788 100,121 415
1,857 1 2005-12-28 21:30 Toms Hardware FR 1,854 0 136 100,537 831
1,856 1 2005-12-28 21:33 jdt_umbra_w4zkk 1,855 48 495 100,507 801
1,855 1 2005-12-28 22:12 U.S. Navy 1,856 166 917 100,499 793
1,854 1 2005-12-28 22:28 polypeptides 1,853 0 0 100,602 896
1,853 1 2005-12-29 03:04 Lucid Technologies 1,852 166 510 100,789 1,083
1,852 1 2005-12-29 04:59 Capella 1,851 41 844 100,842 1,136
1,851 1 2005-12-29 05:43 Aisan Bitron Louny s.r.o. 1,850 0 407 100,940 1,234
1,850 1 2005-12-29 06:26 3GUpload 1,864 1,492 8,055 99,865 159
1,849 1 2005-12-29 09:43 dockter 1,846 0 0 101,215 1,509
1,848 1 2005-12-29 09:54 Team dad 1,848 34 678 101,112 1,406
1,847 1 2005-12-29 10:08 Chelmer - NZ 1,849 166 883 101,090 1,384
1,846 1 2005-12-29 13:56 Staynalive.net 1,842 0 0 101,445 1,739
1,845 1 2005-12-29 14:45 Khousid 1,844 86 1,020 101,290 1,584
1,844 1 2005-12-29 15:20 Pokkari 1,845 342 1,520 101,219 1,513
1,843 1 2005-12-29 17:38 Dutch Max Power (DMP) 1,847 658 2,438 101,129 1,423
1,842 1 2005-12-29 17:47 #atlantic.canada 1,841 0 0 101,654 1,948

[nbcthreat]

We've got some catching up to do here people.

TeamUbuntu

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 04:14:57
Active CPUs within 50 days 46
Team Id 45104
Grand Score 99752 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 539 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1891 of 41892
Home Page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team45104.html

Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 05:17:32
Active CPUs within 50 days 915
Team Id 11298
Grand Score 13640966 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 116412 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 44 of 41892
Home Page http://www.gentoo.org
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team11298.html

[Swab]

We'll pass another twenty or so teams in the next 24 hours. We're kicking ass and taking names. We need more cores!

1,867 0 2005-12-28 06:00 TeamUbuntu 1,867 1,375 9,149 99,706 0
1,866 0 2005-12-28 07:22 Elite Bastards 1,866 597 5,563 99,735 29
1,865 0 2005-12-28 08:21 Overclockers@Columbia 1,865 46 401 99,828 122
1,864 0 2005-12-28 11:45 Texas Combo 1,863 227 1,217 99,977 271
1,863 0 2005-12-28 14:44 ConklinBruce 1,860 0 241 100,169 463
1,862 0 2005-12-28 15:01 i3solutions 1,858 51 292 100,181 475
1,861 0 2005-12-28 15:46 ExtremeMhz 1,862 166 2,068 100,117 411
1,860 0 2005-12-28 17:26 =BBC= 1,857 0 972 100,262 556
1,859 0 2005-12-28 17:27 Server Support Forum 1,859 383 2,335 100,170 464
1,858 1 2005-12-28 19:01 grygorek_team 1,861 893 3,788 100,121 415
1,857 1 2005-12-28 21:30 Toms Hardware FR 1,854 0 136 100,537 831
1,856 1 2005-12-28 21:33 jdt_umbra_w4zkk 1,855 48 495 100,507 801
1,855 1 2005-12-28 22:12 U.S. Navy 1,856 166 917 100,499 793
1,854 1 2005-12-28 22:28 polypeptides 1,853 0 0 100,602 896
1,853 1 2005-12-29 03:04 Lucid Technologies 1,852 166 510 100,789 1,083
1,852 1 2005-12-29 04:59 Capella 1,851 41 844 100,842 1,136
1,851 1 2005-12-29 05:43 Aisan Bitron Louny s.r.o. 1,850 0 407 100,940 1,234
1,850 1 2005-12-29 06:26 3GUpload 1,864 1,492 8,055 99,865 159
1,849 1 2005-12-29 09:43 dockter 1,846 0 0 101,215 1,509
1,848 1 2005-12-29 09:54 Team dad 1,848 34 678 101,112 1,406
1,847 1 2005-12-29 10:08 Chelmer - NZ 1,849 166 883 101,090 1,384
1,846 1 2005-12-29 13:56 Staynalive.net 1,842 0 0 101,445 1,739
1,845 1 2005-12-29 14:45 Khousid 1,844 86 1,020 101,290 1,584
1,844 1 2005-12-29 15:20 Pokkari 1,845 342 1,520 101,219 1,513
1,843 1 2005-12-29 17:38 Dutch Max Power (DMP) 1,847 658 2,438 101,129 1,423
1,842 1 2005-12-29 17:47 #atlantic.canada 1,841 0 0 101,654 1,948


You're going down U.S. Navy!

[Swab]

We've got some catching up to do here people.

TeamUbuntu

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 04:14:57
Active CPUs within 50 days 46
Team Id 45104
Grand Score 99752 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 539 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1891 of 41892
Home Page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team45104.html

Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 05:17:32
Active CPUs within 50 days 915
Team Id 11298
Grand Score 13640966 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 116412 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 44 of 41892
Home Page http://www.gentoo.org
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team11298.html


They must be fairly upset that they don't get to compile their own core :)

[Rinzwind]

I'm still on 0 according to the stats-page :(

[Swab]

I'm still on 0 according to the stats-page :(

What's your username? How many units have you folded?

[ned.b]

I'm still on 0 according to the stats-page :(

Rinzwind are you overclocked?

"Overclocking
... If your machine is heavily OC’d and you are seeing weird stats reported on the Team stats page i.e. 5 work units returned but 5 points granted, you probably are seeing early work ends (EWEs). These are where the simulation reached a point where it could not continue. This is usually caused by an unstable OC, though not always. If this is the case you should turn your OC down a bit to lend stability to the system. "

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000673058540/

[Rinzwind]

No Sir.
I buy quality stuff that works perfect out of the box ;)
No OC'ing for me :D


What's your username? How many units have you folded?

<--- that's ofcourse my username.
And the 2nd question I can not answer (working ...)

[chimera]

lol, I have a p4 3.2ghz overclocked to 3.815ghz:D hope everything works OK because I'm not going to downclock it just for this.

[asimon]

We've got some catching up to do here people.
[...]
Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 05:17:32
Active CPUs within 50 days 915
Team Id 11298
Grand Score 13640966 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 116412 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 44 of 41892
Home Page http://www.gentoo.org
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team11298.html
I am amazed that they have any cpu cycles left for things like Folding@home. ;-)

[chimera]

I am amazed that they have any cpu cycles left for things like Folding@home. ;-)
:lol:

[Lord Illidan]

I'm in boys...
Got a celeron 2.0 GHZ working on it... dunno if I can keep it on all the time...still, will try.

Of course, it is Ubuntu, what else?

[nbcthreat]

New member. One more man on the oar. Excellent.

[red_Marvin]

Hmm, to answer my own question (if anyone els wondered the same):

top reports that fahcore is running even on other users...

[Rinzwind]

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 21:12:41
Total score 166
Overall rank (if points are combined) 337045 of 519439
Active processors (within 50 days) 1
Active processors (within 7 days) 1

:)

[chimera]

Yay, it appears my first workunit was completed about 7 hours ago:D (I'd post it earlier, but I was sleeping)

[nbcthreat]

Looks like we'll be passing the 1,800 ranking post in 3 days.

[chimera]

Good to hear
I'm currently running Folding@Home 24/7, and I'll get another machine to run it on, in January I hope

[Swab]

So I was thinking we could post a plea for more folders into each of the non-english Ubuntu forums.

We'd need to come up with our spiel in English then have it translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, and Portugese.

Thoughts?

Edit: This is taken from a posting on the folding@home forums:


Most of your computer’s computing power goes unused. For example, surfing the net, writing essays, and listening to mp3’s uses between 5 – 30% of your computer’s resources. The rest simply goes wasted. By simply downloading the Folding@home program and letting it run, you can help save lives. The program doesn’t affect your computer’s performance at all. It unobtrusively uses your computers wasted power to study protein misfolding.

The Folding@home project is dedicated to help study the causes of Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease. By doing this, the project hopes that its contribution to understanding the underlying causes of these horrible diseases will help in the search to find a cure or vaccine. In fact, they are already helping. Folding@home is the only distributed computing project that has produced significant results and published them in a major scientific journal such as Nature.

Running the program doesn’t cost you anything. It turns off when you turn off your computer and it only uses the CPU cycles that you are not using. So, when you run a game that needs 100% of your computer’s resources, you’ll have 100% of your computer’s resources.

Folding@home is a non-profit project put out by researchers at Stanford University. All information produced by the project is made available to others free of charge.

Go to: folding.stanford.edu to dowload the client or for more information.

We could add on something about TeamUbuntu at the end.

[chimera]

I think it would be a much better idea to have everyone in the same team...lots of small teams will never make it to the top, but a single, big team could. There is an ubuntu.si F@H team(slovene ubuntu community), but I rather joined the central team and I'm asking everyone else to do the same, because forming a small team which will never have more than 10 members isn't helping anything. Every ubuntu F@H user should join the same team.

[Swab]

I completely agree, we need everyone to sign up for TeamUbuntu!

[asimon]

*deleted*

Why is the delete function no more? :-(

[asimon]

As you can see, good old fashioned American competitiveness is the real motivator here. I heard there's something about "curing something" involved here somewhere as well, but mostly I just want to be BETTER than someone else and this is my big opportunity.

This whole thread (so far six pages) prooves your statement very well. :-)

[chimera]

I don't know about you, but I joined to help promote Ubuntu, and having 3 teams(all ranked below 1000) isn't going to accomplish that. Now if all three teams were to join in the central one (TeamUbuntu), which place would we be at?

[mcduck]

I joined the team too. I rarely shut down my computer, so now I can let it do something useful when I'm not around. ;)

asimon: that's just the way humans are. People rarely do anything if there's absolutely no reward. I think the ranking system is rather good idea, as it makes participating in the project much more interesting, and will surely help getting more people to donate their CPU time.

[nbcthreat]

This whole thread (so far six pages) prooves your statement very well. :-)

It should be noted that that comment was made with tongue firmly planted in cheek. There aren't going to be any gold medals if we make it to the top 100, the top 10 or the top 1. It's just funny that geeks are always pushing for better, faster, smaller and I think it's good that the FAH guys have recognized this reality and done some moral judo to point all that energy in a direction that actually accomplishes something positive for the human race.

Also, I would like to add, "TeamUbuntu rules!!!!!!!!!" YEAH!

[chimera]

It should be noted that that comment was made with tongue firmly planted in cheek. There aren't going to be any gold medals if we make it to the top 100, the top 10 or the top 1. It's just funny that geeks are always pushing for better, faster, smaller and I think it's good that the FAH guys have recognized this reality and done some moral judo to point all that energy in a direction that actually accomplishes something positive for the human race.

Also, I would like to add, "TeamUbuntu rules!!!!!!!!!" YEAH!

In other news, we're already ranked 1853!;)

[ned.b]

We'll pass another twenty or so teams in the next 24 hours. We're kicking ass and taking names. We need more cores!

1,867 0 2005-12-28 06:00 TeamUbuntu 1,867 1,375 9,149 99,706 0
1,866 0 2005-12-28 07:22 Elite Bastards 1,866 597 5,563 99,735 29
1,865 0 2005-12-28 08:21 Overclockers@Columbia 1,865 46 401 99,828 122
1,864 0 2005-12-28 11:45 Texas Combo 1,863 227 1,217 99,977 271
1,863 0 2005-12-28 14:44 ConklinBruce 1,860 0 241 100,169 463
1,862 0 2005-12-28 15:01 i3solutions 1,858 51 292 100,181 475
1,861 0 2005-12-28 15:46 ExtremeMhz 1,862 166 2,068 100,117 411
1,860 0 2005-12-28 17:26 =BBC= 1,857 0 972 100,262 556
1,859 0 2005-12-28 17:27 Server Support Forum 1,859 383 2,335 100,170 464
1,858 1 2005-12-28 19:01 grygorek_team 1,861 893 3,788 100,121 415
1,857 1 2005-12-28 21:30 Toms Hardware FR 1,854 0 136 100,537 831
1,856 1 2005-12-28 21:33 jdt_umbra_w4zkk 1,855 48 495 100,507 801
1,855 1 2005-12-28 22:12 U.S. Navy 1,856 166 917 100,499 793
1,854 1 2005-12-28 22:28 polypeptides 1,853 0 0 100,602 896
1,853 1 2005-12-29 03:04 Lucid Technologies 1,852 166 510 100,789 1,083
1,852 1 2005-12-29 04:59 Capella 1,851 41 844 100,842 1,136
1,851 1 2005-12-29 05:43 Aisan Bitron Louny s.r.o. 1,850 0 407 100,940 1,234
1,850 1 2005-12-29 06:26 3GUpload 1,864 1,492 8,055 99,865 159
1,849 1 2005-12-29 09:43 dockter 1,846 0 0 101,215 1,509
1,848 1 2005-12-29 09:54 Team dad 1,848 34 678 101,112 1,406
1,847 1 2005-12-29 10:08 Chelmer - NZ 1,849 166 883 101,090 1,384
1,846 1 2005-12-29 13:56 Staynalive.net 1,842 0 0 101,445 1,739
1,845 1 2005-12-29 14:45 Khousid 1,844 86 1,020 101,290 1,584
1,844 1 2005-12-29 15:20 Pokkari 1,845 342 1,520 101,219 1,513
1,843 1 2005-12-29 17:38 Dutch Max Power (DMP) 1,847 658 2,438 101,129 1,423
1,842 1 2005-12-29 17:47 #atlantic.canada 1,841 0 0 101,654 1,948


Where do you get these stats from?

[Swab]

Where do you get these stats from?

http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=45104

[ned.b]

I have taken the liberty of editing our wiki entry...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu

If you are regular posters in these forums how about creating a sig with a link to our wiki page - we could end up with thousands of team members and hit the top spot :)

[ned.b]

Who has the rights to edit our team logo on the stanford site?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/changeteam.pl

We ought to link to an ubuntu logo...

[Swab]

Who has the rights to edit our team logo on the stanford site?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/changeteam.pl

We ought to link to an ubuntu logo...

I presume it's affi.. but we don't know who he is.

Edit: According the wiki MattTGalvin was the first person to edit/create the FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu page...

[jdong]

I've done folding on and off, but right now I have pretty little idle CPU, because most of the time I'm either doing movie recoding/encoding/transcoding or Backports builds. But if I had a system regularly on with CPU cycles to donate (a few at school under my command come to mind) I'll definitely funnel them your way.

[ned.b]

I've done folding on and off, but right now I have pretty little idle CPU, because most of the time I'm either doing movie recoding/encoding/transcoding or Backports builds. But if I had a system regularly on with CPU cycles to donate (a few at school under my command come to mind) I'll definitely funnel them your way.

great! :)

[Swab]

Now that we are a top 2000 team we appear on another stats site http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=45104

[Swab]

Apparently we will enter the top 1000 on 03.07.06, 4am / 65 days :)

[Omnios]

Sounds good I cant help money wise but this sounds like a good way to help out a good cause.

386kbs cable withs days of uptime

Cheers ,!!..

[Swab]

Sounds good I cant help money wise but this sounds like a good way to help out a good cause.

386kbs cable withs days of uptime

Cheers ,!!..

Welcome aboard! Let us know if you need any assistance.

[chimera]

I was wondering, how long does it usually take you people to finish one work unit?

[mcduck]

I was wondering, how long does it usually take you people to finish one work unit?
I dont' know. I completed my first 3 units in 2 days, and now I've been doing one unit for 3 days already.. (now it's at 96% so it'll finish today) I've got AthlonXP @ 2300 MHz and 1GB of RAM..

edit: finished, and that was worth it. 600 points intead of 46 points that I got from the quicker units :D

[chimera]

Good, I thought it was just me. I was contributing my CPU cycles to LHC@Home back when they still had workunits, and it ussually lasted 30 minutes to 5 hours in there, that's why I found workunits taking so long to finish weird...

[jdong]

They typically take 12 hours to finish on my Sempron64.

[o_fortuna]

Hey, cool! I just joined. I have an Athlon x2 3800+ :smile:. I don't quite get it though... how do I use both processors fully? I get the feeling I'm only using 50% since the CPU frequency scaling thingie says 1GHz for both processors and the individual processes only use 48% of the CPU.

Oh well. It's fun to be helping out!

[nbcthreat]

Check out this tweaking article mentioned in the first post in the thread and linked to on the wiki. It'll answer your question about getting the most out of dual-core PCs.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu?highlight=%28folding%29

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000673058540/

[Omnios]

K,k finaly got around to setting up folding@home last night and have two machines running it, I chose low resources in config for over night operation on two machines my main P4 1.6ghz and a old P2-350 and havent noticed ny slow downs as of yet. Im going to tun the P2-350 as dedicated for a while and see how it goes as it is only used as a web forum back up computer.

[ned.b]

K,k finaly got around to setting up folding@home last night and have two machines running it, I chose low resources in config for over night operation on two machines my main P4 1.6ghz and a old P2-350 and havent noticed ny slow downs as of yet. Im going to tun the P2-350 as dedicated for a while and see how it goes as it is only used as a web forum back up computer.

Great! :)

[joshuapurcell]

I went ahead and joined, although I'm a pipsqueak at the moment... running on an old Thinkpad T21. This is my only computer now that my old desktop motherboard died and the other Athlon64 went back to my brother. Within the next month or two I'll have a very ominous addition to the team though, no doubt. This laptop is merely a placeholder :D.

[trash]

any ppc version expected?? I've seen no mention of it anywhere

[ned.b]

I went ahead and joined, although I'm a pipsqueak at the moment... running on an old Thinkpad T21. This is my only computer now that my old desktop motherboard died and the other Athlon64 went back to my brother. Within the next month or two I'll have a very ominous addition to the team though, no doubt. This laptop is merely a placeholder :D.

Every contribution helps - but especially ominous ones! :)

[Swab]

any ppc version expected?? I've seen no mention of it anywhere

There's a Mac client...

[trash]

thanks but I didn't think i needed to specify for linux ppc here lol.
mac osx is not linux so If I've overlooked it could you post the url

[Omnios]

Somting good arleady happened running my porocessor at near 100% showed me I had a sevear cpu heating problem where the cpu woudl gradualy heat up to 50*. I tryed cleaning it about half a year ago with just a vacume this time I got up the nerve to unclip tho top part with the fan and vacumed it with a small fuzzy vacume nozzle and got a qtip out to clean the fan wich was caked on. Anyways probably saved me a big head ach in the future and right now is running at 43* to 44* which is a lot better than over 50*. Its running a lto cooler now even without Folding@home running.

Now back on tarket I have two huge projects running. On my main I have a, Completed 56000 out of 250000 steps (22%) running done in about 24 hours
and on my P2 I have
Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16%) running for alsmost 36 hours

[Swab]

Somting good arleady happened running my porocessor at near 100% showed me I had a sevear cpu heating problem where the cpu woudl gradualy heat up to 50*. I tryed cleaning it about half a year ago with just a vacume this time I got up the nerve to unclip tho top part with the fan and vacumed it with a small fuzzy vacume nozzle and got a qtip out to clean the fan wich was caked on. Anyways probably saved me a big head ach in the future and right now is running at 43* to 44* which is a lot better than over 50*. Its running a lto cooler now even without Folding@home running.

Now back on tarket I have two huge projects running. On my main I have a, Completed 56000 out of 250000 steps (22%) running done in about 24 hours
and on my P2 I have
Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16%) running for alsmost 36 hours

You might want to get some fresh thermal paste on that CPU.

[joshuapurcell]

I just added an IBM xSeries 235 to the folding group. This isn't the ominous computer that I'm hoping to add to the group within a couple of months, but it's not bad: It has two 2.8GHz Xeon processors and 1GB of memory.

[ned.b]

I just added an IBM xSeries 235 to the folding group. This isn't the ominous computer that I'm hoping to add to the group within a couple of months, but it's not bad: It has two 2.8GHz Xeon processors and 1GB of memory.

sounds ominous to me! :eek:

[ned.b]

The number one team only has 1,618 active users - I think we can take em :) - we just need a few more folks...

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=1

[Omnios]

Well I finished a huge folding 250k steps that took about 4 or 5 days on a P4-1.6ghz and my old p2 is chuggung away at about 57% on a 500k step project. Anyways how long does it take the foling team page take to update I want to see the results of my charity work

Edit: never mind it updated.

[sumadartson]

Now donating left over cycles to science.

[Swab]

nice one geezer

[ned.b]

We have just hit 1,500

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=45104

nice

:)

[LanceM]

So with 65,072 forum members, TeamUbuntu only has 46 folders?

[ned.b]

So with 65,072 forum members, TeamUbuntu only has 46 folders?

yup - so far...

[LanceM]

I joined but am still waiting for my name to show up on the list.

[ned.b]

I joined

thats great! :)


but am still waiting for my name to show up on the list.

It will appear on the list shortly after you have completed your first block

[mstlyevil]

I just joined team Ubuntu. I used the team number posted in the wiki so I hope it is the right one.

[ned.b]

I just joined team Ubuntu. I used the team number posted in the wiki so I hope it is the right one.

Bravo! :)

Wikki has the right info, the team number is 45104

[mips]

I just joined team ubuntu.

There is however a typo in the wiki.


Save these scripts to the same directory, and name them folding_install.sh and foldingathome, respectively. Then do

chmod 500 foldingathome folding_install

That should be chmod 500 foldingathome folding_install.sh

[ned.b]

I just joined team ubuntu.

There is however a typo in the wiki.



That should be chmod 500 foldingathome folding_install.sh


nice one & well spotted!

I have corrected the omission :)

[o_fortuna]

I'm having a problem with F@H on my Athlon XP 2200+. It just won't do any work. This is what I get from the log file.

[18:58:07] Writing local files
[18:58:07] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:58:07] Writing local files
[18:58:07] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0)
[19:00:37] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[19:00:37] Going to send back what have done.
[19:00:37] logfile size: 8252
[19:00:37] - Writing 8788 bytes of core data to disk...
[19:00:37] ... Done.
Over. And over. And over.

Does this have something to do with the processor? I know it's not that fast, but it doesn't seem to be overheating or anything. This probably is why I have so many workunits next to my name on the sites page - I think the computer has been downloading work units left and right and not finishing anything! What do I do? (This particular computer runs Windows XP, while my main works just fine, running Ubuntu.)

[jasay]

Installed following the wiki instructions (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHome) and joined the team. Is there a way to view the progress of the workgroups while running the daemon?

Edit: I guess there are log files showing everything. That'll work.

[asimon]

I'm having a problem with F@H on my Athlon XP 2200+. It just won't do any work. This is what I get from the log file.

[18:58:07] Writing local files
[18:58:07] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:58:07] Writing local files
[18:58:07] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0)
[19:00:37] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[19:00:37] Going to send back what have done.
[19:00:37] logfile size: 8252
[19:00:37] - Writing 8788 bytes of core data to disk...
[19:00:37] ... Done.
Over. And over. And over.

Does this have something to do with the processor? I know it's not that fast, but it doesn't seem to be overheating or anything. This probably is why I have so many workunits next to my name on the sites page - I think the computer has been downloading work units left and right and not finishing anything! What do I do? (This particular computer runs Windows XP, while my main works just fine, running Ubuntu.)

I have here an old Athlon-XP too which is doing fine (using version 5.04beta) Did you try to increase the verbosity level, i.e. to start the client like

./FAH504-Linux.exe -verbosity 9
for more detailed output. Maybe you get some helpful error message than. It's at least worth a try.

[o_fortuna]

Well, whatever. I tried to use the new 5.04beta (after uninstalling the old one of course) and, two minutes later, the computer froze. If I remember correctly, a long while ago I installed Google Compute on the computer, and the same thing happened. There's probably something wrong with the hardware (considering only 480 of my 512 megabytes of RAM are detected). I won't worry about it, though. The X2 is blazing fast, it gets 2 jobs done 5x faster anyway. :)

[chiefofthejojos]

There's probably something wrong with the hardware (considering only 480 of my 512 megabytes of RAM are detected).

Is your computer a laptop? If so, I would guess that your onboard video card is stealing 32 MB from you RAM. This is how it works on my laptop, and I must say I felt a little jipped when I found out that the video card had no ram of it's own.

[chiefofthejojos]

I'm a little nervous about my system here. It's an AMD Sempron 2200+ and Folding@Home always makes it run at 100% CPU, is this normal/safe?

[red_Marvin]

Folding@home runs on your spare cycles, which is the ones that otherwise wouldn't
be used, which is the most of them if the computer is idle
You could always open up gnome-system-monitor (or equivalent) and checking it's
nice value, if it's zero or higher you got no problems then it runs "in the background".

[mstlyevil]

I'm a little nervous about my system here. It's an AMD Sempron 2200+ and Folding@Home always makes it run at 100% CPU, is this normal/safe?

Your CPU is supposed to run at 100% with Folding@Home. That is what the program does is it uses otherwise idle CPU cycles. The program is structured so that when you use your computer, the F@H processes run in the background so you do not have a performance hit. Whatever you are deoing has first priority so the program either slows or pauses until you are done and then resumes. 100% CPU ususage means that it is working correctly.

[o_fortuna]

Is your computer a laptop? If so, I would guess that your onboard video card is stealing 32 MB from you RAM. This is how it works on my laptop, and I must say I felt a little jipped when I found out that the video card had no ram of it's own.
Actually, it's a desktop, but now that I think of it, it does have a cheapo integrated S3 graphics card that has 32 megabytes of memory. I had thought that was separate, since I had another computer that was the same but with a slower processor (and it ran F@H just fine - got 6500 points out of it, just not for TeamUbuntu :( ), and that computer always (as far as I remember) had 512 megs of available memory. Of course, after a few months I installed a real card, so that might have reclaimed my memory and I just forgot.

Anyway, this (current) computer never did anything with F@H anyway. It took five days working on its first unit, then its time expired. After that, it kept freezing. Wierd, and that's why I think it's a hardware issue, since my old computer was practically the same hardware (both were eMachines too).

[chiefofthejojos]

100% CPU ususage means that it is working correctly.

I see, that makes sense. But is it safe for my laptop to run at 100% all the time? won't that burn out the cpu?

[mstlyevil]

I see, that makes sense. But is it safe for my laptop to run at 100% all the time? won't that burn out the cpu?

As long as the CPU tempurature does not exceed it's rated limit, I do not think you have anything to worry about.

[DarkDancer]

I'm in, I think, it's installed anyway, not sure how to tell if it's runniung, and I think it has me as anonymous.........not sure about that either.

[mstlyevil]

I'm in, I think, it's installed anyway, not sure how to tell if it's runniung, and I think it has me as anonymous.........not sure about that either.

Go to Applications-system tools-system monitor. If the CPU is running at 100% then Folding@Home is running.

[drizek]

Is there a way to donate my leftover cpu cycles to Jesus?

(sorry, i just had to with everything going on in the US now...)

Anyway, im going to go look for some superkaramba themes to monitor this. my cpu is only running at 800mhz though, and it wont go upto 2ghz like it is supposed to. i think its cause fah is running as root and cpu scaling is done by the user. lame bug. might have to end up going with wine.

[DarkDancer]

Oh, well then, no it's not running......how do I restart it? (had to reboot)

[mstlyevil]

Oh, well then, no it's not running......how do I restart it? (had to reboot)

It should restart if installed properly upon reboot. Try following the link in my signiture on how to install it and see if that does not clear up the problem.

[drizek]

well you have a choice of running it as a daemon or manually. when i restarted the computer, mine is running at the full 2ghz now so hopefully ill get some work done soon. the superkaramba theme i downloaded doesnt work very well though. it only lists the pid of fah, it is supposed to display the work unit and hte progress.

nevermind, the cpu just went back down to .8ghz. wine it is...

no, nevermind again, figured it out

[DarkDancer]

The instructions mention 2 files, I only have one and it is not names the same sa either in the instructions. I have FAH502-Linux.exe.

[drizek]

the two files are listed at the end of theinstructions page, just download them and rename them.

[DarkDancer]

I can see the names of the 2 files, but am not sure where to get them, is there a link? Hey we aren't running the beat are we, cause that's not what I downloaded....

[drizek]

oh, use this guide instead

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHome?highlight=%28folding%29

i thought that was the one you were looking at.

[mstlyevil]

I can see the names of the 2 files, but am not sure where to get them, is there a link? Hey we aren't running the beat are we, cause that's not what I downloaded....

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHome?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=folding_install.sh-10092005

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHome?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=foldingathome-10092005

These are the two files. You have to rename them according to the how to.

[DarkDancer]

Ok, as per usual I had no luck with the wiki instructions, so I will try Mostly evils.....

[DarkDancer]

Thanks evil, got the files and will make sure it is working.

[mstlyevil]

Thanks evil, got the files and will make sure it is working.

No problem.

[DarkDancer]

It's working, thanks to everyone for all your help... ;)

[drizek]

*bump*

Were currently in 1294th place. come on, join up and we can move up even further. ive got three systems running it now. Even if you only contribute a little bit, every little bit helps.

I also modded a superkaramba theme to monitor it. If anyone wants it, i can give it to you. Im sure someone can make a gdesklets port as well.

[chiefofthejojos]

OK! I'm in! I've got 5 (sometimes 6) cores running. :D

[chimera]

OK! I'm in! I've got 5 (sometimes 6) cores running. :D

Nice...I'll consider talking to the sys admin about running on the school computers (that's about 60 machines)

[mstlyevil]

I just checked the team statistics and we have grown by 10 members in the last few days and drastically increased the number of CPU's to 100. I thought I would post this just to say keep up the good work.

Also, I thought I would ask others to post information for Folding@Home in their signitures. I believe the more people exposed to this information, the more that will join.

[drizek]

I was planning on adding one, still trying to think up a catchy phrase. Can we sticky this topic?

Oh, and we are in 1289th place now. moved up 5 places in about 6 hours. not bad.

[Swab]

We need a few more folders to fire us into the top 1000! All help appreciated.

[galgoz]

This might have been asked already but what is the advantage of using this over ibm's http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org ? They are linux capable now and I want to contribute but only to one system.

[Bone Down]

I setup a desktop at home to do this as it is out of service and resting 18 out of 24 hours a day.... last i looked I thought that team 45104 was 1178 or soemthing like that?

1209 when I joined the team.

[ned.b]

This might have been asked already but what is the advantage of using this over ibm's http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org ? They are linux capable now and I want to contribute but only to one system.

It seems that both projects are good causes - just a matter of personal preference I guess. That said, if you join us you can help promote Ubuntu at the same time :)

[drizek]

the ibm aids project compares proteins to drugs wheras folding at home just folds protein. it is more "generic" i guess. I dont think either one has an advantage over the other. they are both good projects.

Anyway, were at 1172 now. w00t. we can get down to 1100 by February.

A nice goal would be to reach 750 by the time dapper is released.

[drizek]

i cant figure out how to put links in my sig...

[galgoz]

I was actually wondering more about how the apps differ. In the IBM one on linux I don't see how it stops running without you telling it to stop, the windows version can be set to only run when the screensaver is running. Is there something like this in the other program??

[drizek]

Just set it up on another laptop.

I now have it running on:

2.26ghz Pentium m
2.00ghz Pentium m
1.73ghz Pentium m
3200+ Athlon xp

[nbcthreat]

Galgoz, what are you packing in the picture there? An SKS?

And Swab... watch your back. I got 3 more cores today.

[galgoz]

I actually don't remember, a buddy of mine was taking some pictures before I went off to Iraq in 2003 and he used one of his rifles for a prop. I could ask him. I do know it wasn't an SKS however, that much I remember.

[nbcthreat]

Disregard. That's a bare M16A4, right? It's so unusual to see one without anything on the rail.

[nbcthreat]

Is it civilian or DOD? If it's civilian and it felt stamped, then it's probably a tarted-up AK.

[galgoz]

I asked my buddy and it is a dawoo dr 400 which is a varient of the m 16 .223.

[Swab]

Galgoz, what are you packing in the picture there? An SKS?

And Swab... watch your back. I got 3 more cores today.

I'm not panicing just yet... I still have a few more machines should I need them :)

[chimera]

So am I the only one still only running this on a single computer? :D

[mstlyevil]

So am I the only one still only running this on a single computer? :D

Nope you can count me as a single computer running folding@home. Now you don't have to feel so lonely. ;)

[drizek]

w00t, were at 1148. with a little work, we can break 1000 by february.

[nbcthreat]

Galgoz, who were you with for OIF 1?

[bloodborne]

Just throwing up a quick post saying I have joined the Ubuntu team and the effort to help out our fellow man. Humanity to others! My Ubuntu takes on a whole new meaning. :)

[galgoz]

Galgoz, who were you with for OIF 1?

I am in the reserves. We were there for a year and passed to several commands.

101st Airborne
3rd coscom
4th ID
10th Mountain

[nbcthreat]

I am in the reserves. We were there for a year and passed to several commands.

101st Airborne
3rd coscom
4th ID
10th Mountain

Sounds like you were on your way in when I was on my way out.

[galgoz]

I was there from May 2003 to April 2004.

[nbcthreat]

I started rolling back to Kuwait in... June 03, I think. 3ID got real lucky. The actual invasion was a very easy rotation.

As for folding... beware all. I just slapped a giant rocket engine to my folding account. The next few days should be fun... Maybe I can get us above 1000 that much faster.

[ned.b]

ATTENTION SMP/HYPERTHREADING CPU USERS!

Running 2 cores? Have you assumed you are automatically using Hyperthreading/SMP on your shiny new install of Breezy? Read on...

If you click Applications/System Tools/ System Monitor/Resources do you see 2 CPU entries? If so bravo and you can probably ignore the following blurb. If not then check out Poofy's guide to selecting the right kernel for your machine:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=85917

When I did this ooh absolutely ages ago (I definately haven't been running on 386 kernels for the last couple of months - no way ;) ) I had a problem - my machine locked up totally, it seems my Belkin wireless adapter does not support SMP kernels - yet, but maybe a few of you can squeeze some extra work units out and boost TeamUbuntu's performance...

[nbcthreat]

I'm using hyperthreading on a few machines. My home system is a P4 with HT and I have two instances of folding running on that.

Today, though, I installed 4 instances of folding on one machine... my secret weapon (big grin).

[nbcthreat]

The competitive folding article in the wiki and in the first post describes how to optimize for HT. It's a must-read for all team ubuntu members. I noticed that our points per unit hav been dropping, people must not be optimizing.

[Swab]

When will we have a 64bit folding client? It's really frustrating!!

[drizek]

wow, yesterday was our most productive day so far. were doing pretty crappy today though.

[nbcthreat]

We break the 1100 milestone tomorrow. Swab, did you get more cores? I thought I was going to start catching up...

[drizek]

we should be at 1105 in he next 3 hours. id say well hit 1100 by midnight pacific time.

then we have 4 days to move up 100 spaces. not going to be easy, but certainly not impossible. we need to move up 1 place every hour, which has been the trend lately.

Edit: lol, i think im getting a little obsessed with this. i like graphs...

[nbcthreat]

We just broke 1100. We'll break 1000 in 5 days. Come on, folks, bring your friends! More on the rope!

[Grey]

I have it running on my laptop. (Not for this team though, sorry guys). I have a Pentium M 1.73GHz, with CPU scaling enabled of course. I'm not sure if there's a hit on my battery life, as I haven't done any extensive testing on that. But the CPU stays at 800MHz with F@H running. Which is good enough for me. When the CPU jumps to 1.73GHz for another app, it takes about a second longer to drop down to 800MHz again when I am done with it... but it does a good job.

[mips]

Standing on 1050 out of 42457.

C'mon join us, many hands make light work !

[nbcthreat]

Okay, Swab. Now I can tell you to watch your back.

WE BREAK 1000 TOMORROW!

[Swab]

Okay, Swab. Now I can tell you to watch your back.

WE BREAK 1000 TOMORROW!

I'll wait for you to get a bit closer...

[ned.b]

We have passed the 1000 milestone!

nice! :)

[mips]

We have passed the 1000 milestone!

nice! :)


:confused: says 1009

[ned.b]

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=45104

[mips]

:oops:

[ned.b]

The stats differ between sites - I don't know which is more accurate but I prefer the higher one! :p

[nbcthreat]

OK. Next milestone: 900. Looks like we hit it in 6 days. More on the oar! We're going to need more horsepower to get in the top 100.

[Swab]

OK. Next milestone: 900. Looks like we hit it in 6 days. More on the oar! We're going to need more horsepower to get in the top 100.

So what's the plan? Maybe we could get folding@home into automatix and have it default to TeamUbuntu :)

[mips]

So what's the plan? Maybe we could get folding@home into automatix and have it default to TeamUbuntu :)

You would have to speak to Arnieboy about that. While you do that you might as well speak to Keyes to include in easyubuntu.

Can this thread not be made a sticky ?

[Swab]

901 Arch Linux
918 SuSE Linux Users

Reelin them in !

[LanceM]

It would be nice to catch FedoraFolders. They are only two spots behind Microsoft.

[drizek]

The stats differ between sites - I don't know which is more accurate but I prefer the higher one! :p

lol, yes i think the lower actually is the more accurate one.

and just so you guys realize where we are, it will take us 2 years to reach 150th place, which will be the highest we will ever get(at this rate).

And instead of 900 out goal should be to reach 800th place because once you hit 800, the extreme overclocking site starts tracking individual stats as well as team stats.

I say we need to hit 800 by the 15th of february. we should be at 600 by the 5th of march. 500 would be a good goal for the dapper release in april 24. We will need about 620,000 points to reach 500th place. were at 240,000 right now. That means we need about 380,000 points in the next 80 days. That means we need to produce an average of 4750 points a day. This is very doable consider our current average is 4629 and lately weve been pulling in over 5500 a day.

[chiefofthejojos]

Doesn't anyone have access to fix the picture at the top of the team stats page? It's driving me crazy!!

[ned.b]

Doesn't anyone have access to fix the picture at the top of the team stats page? It's driving me crazy!!

Yes...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=222790#post222790

Matt Galvin is the guy that set the team up and who therefore has the rights to change the details.

[mips]

If you have broadband and dont mind downloading work units bigger than 5MB then select this option when installing folding at home as you get more points for bigger work units. They take a bit longer to process though.

[nbcthreat]

We break 800 in 3 days. Booyah.

[chiefofthejojos]

I say we need to hit 800 by the 15th of february.
Didn't quite make it. :(
That's ok, we're almost there. 830 when I checked. So, Matt Galvin, eh? How can we reach him? Does he have an account in the forums?

[Swab]

Didn't quite make it. :(
That's ok, we're almost there. 830 when I checked. So, Matt Galvin, eh? How can we reach him? Does he have an account in the forums?

His email address is on his wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MattGalvin

[NightwishFreak]

Just a question, is there a Folding@home client for ubuntu-ppc? I am stuck using my powerbook G4 until I finish building my new computer, and I think it would be sweet to be able to help the team. Any info would be appreciated :D

[chimera]

strangely weird error:


chimera@HOMEPC:~$ ./FAH502-Linux.exe

Note: Please read the license agreement (FAH502-Linux.exe -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.



--- Opening Log file [February 15 13:55:06]


# Linux Console Edition ################################################## #####
################################################## #############################

Folding@Home Client Version 5.02

http://folding.stanford.edu

################################################## #############################
################################################## #############################

Launch directory: /home/chimera
Executable: ./FAH502-Linux.exe


[13:55:06] - Ask before connecting: No
[13:55:06] - User name: chimera (Team 45104)
[13:55:06] - User ID: 509D1C01CDAC1D4
[13:55:06] - Machine ID: 1
[13:55:06]
[13:55:06] Loaded queue successfully.
[13:55:06] + Benchmarking ...
[13:55:10]
[13:55:10] + Processing work unit
[13:55:10] Core required: FahCore_65.exe
[13:55:10] Core found.
[13:55:10] Working on Unit 01 [February 15 13:55:10]
[13:55:10] + Working ...
[13:55:10] Folding@Home Client Core Version 2.53 (June 29, 2004)
[13:55:10]
[13:55:10] Proj: work/wudata_01
[13:55:10] Done: 22863 -> 142986 (decompressed 625.4 percent)
[13:55:10] nsteps: 5000000 dt: 2.000000 dt_dump: 250.000000 temperature: 298.000 000
[13:55:10] xyzfile:
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[13:55:11] TINKER: Software Tools for Molecular Design
[13:55:11] Version 3.8 October 2000
[13:55:11] Copyright (c) Jay William Ponder 1990-2000
[13:55:11] portions Copyright (c) Michael Shirts 2001
[13:55:11] portions Copyright (c) Vijay S Pande 2001
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wtf?

[mips]

Just a question, is there a Folding@home client for ubuntu-ppc? I am stuck using my powerbook G4 until I finish building my new computer, and I think it would be sweet to be able to help the team. Any info would be appreciated :D


I found this http://www.blueprint.org/proteinfolding/distributedfolding/distfold_download.html
but dont know how relevant it is to FAH.

[TechSonic]

Horse Pucky. I only help SETI, they are the only ones that seem legit.

[chimera]

Just a question, is there a Folding@home client for ubuntu-ppc? I am stuck using my powerbook G4 until I finish building my new computer, and I think it would be sweet to be able to help the team. Any info would be appreciated :D


There is a F@H Mac OSX client...just go to http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=45104 , click downloads and scroll down, select Max OSX text console.

[Swab]

Horse Pucky. I only help SETI, they are the only ones that seem legit.

yeah the search for space aliens really seems legit....

[mips]

Take me to your leader....

To be honest I would support SETI as well.

[ndhskp]

Hello to everyone in the Folding@Home thread. Hard to believe that I'm only getting around to posting just now. Check out the username nate_homier, looks I'm falling in the ranks but just you wait I will be upgrading later this spring from a 1.8Ghz P4 to a 3.4Ghz P4 presscott core cpu. I had a couple of other cpu's thats why I had climbed before to 6th place and now I'm down to 1 cpu.

Anyway I am totally jazzed about our team's climb to the top. Let's work harder at pestering our fellow Ubuntuiens about joining "Team Ubuntu" somebody here said there was like 65,000 forum members. Man what we could achieve with numbers like that, we'd shoot straight to the top in a day or 2. So okay maybe not pester well just call it enthusiastic encouragement!

Also I updated my Folding@Home howto to give credit to the wiki authors. Sorry that it was so long in comming guys. Also really cleaned it up and made it allot easier to understand. Cheers!

[chiefofthejojos]

Check out the username nate_homier, looks I'm falling in the ranks but just you wait I will be upgrading later this spring from a 1.8Ghz P4 to a 3.4Ghz P4 presscott core cpu.
HA!! You'll never catch me with just one cpu! :p ;)

[ndhskp]

HA!! You'll never catch me with just one cpu! :p ;)
Allright no more mister nice guy! ;) Your going down! :p Just give me several months to put together a sever farm made up of 64 AMD Opterons severs each a 32 way cpu setup and 32 GB of ram per cpu. Yah right after I win the lottery. :rolleyes:

Actually this spring I got another couple of servers comming in so well see then. :)

[jdong]

ok, I've sent 3 of my computers to 45104. 9 units folded so far, 2 more coming up.

[Swab]

We just entered the top 800!! Which means we get some new stats over at Extreme Overclocking (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=45104)

[chimera]

Yay

We're getting higher and higher...all the other teams on the same page seem extremely small compared to us:mrgreen:

[garnertr]

We've got some catching up to do here people.

TeamUbuntu

Date of last work unit 2005-12-28 04:14:57
Active CPUs within 50 days 46
Team Id 45104
Grand Score 99752 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 539 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 1891 of 41892
Home Page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team45104.html


Well, I've been a member for a few weeks, PC#1 is up/running giving me a comfortable 45-50th place. I just cranked my Laptop on last night, so it will be sometime before results start populating, but I figure that will bump me up to 35-40th position.

QUESTION: Does anyone know the threat or way to make F@H start automatically and run in the background? (I'm using KDE Ubuntu...thanks!)

thanks!!!

[o_fortuna]

Well, I've been a member for a few weeks, PC#1 is up/running giving me a comfortable 45-50th place. I just cranked my Laptop on last night, so it will be sometime before results start populating, but I figure that will bump me up to 35-40th position.

QUESTION: Does anyone know the threat or way to make F@H start automatically and run in the background? (I'm using KDE Ubuntu...thanks!)

thanks!!!
Well, when you run the install scripts here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHome?=%28folding%29), it offers to set up a daemon which runs at startup. Frankly, I don't have a clue how to do this myself, but I found the script from that page in /etc/init.d . I wonder if you have to do more than just put it in there to let it start up?

[ndhskp]

Well, I've been a member for a few weeks, PC#1 is up/running giving me a comfortable 45-50th place. I just cranked my Laptop on last night, so it will be sometime before results start populating, but I figure that will bump me up to 35-40th position.

QUESTION: Does anyone know the threat or way to make F@H start automatically and run in the background? (I'm using KDE Ubuntu...thanks!)

thanks!!!
Well you can use the wiki as well as my howto. The fact that you use KDE really should not make any diffrence. Both the wiki and my howto operate in the terminal so you just need to use the KDE version of the terminal. My signature has links to both the wiki and howto.

[garnertr]

So am I the only one still only running this on a single computer? :D

Greetings, I was on an old PC, but last night I got my laptop up and running... I'm keeping my on the newspaper and any old PC's I see, I'm snagging.. :)

Its not hard, just start small and put them on, don't worry if all you have access to is one pc, its ok.. and do NOT install on your work machine w/ out explicit permission from your sys admin...

[chimera]

well, according to www.fahstats.com , we should hit their third page (>=750) in the next 7 days, so keep up the good work people!:D

[ndhskp]

Hello everybody.

There is a new version of the script out on the wiki. The wiki and howto have been both updated.

Laptop users are strongly encouraged to read the wiki for special information.

Personally I think the new script is excellent.

New features:

Single file
No sudo mode
Sudo still there
Documentation, more of an notice really

Come on and try it out. Check the wiki or howto

Cheers

[KermitJr]

Ndhskp, thanks for the scripts. Made it really easy to setup.

Anyway, add one more person and a few cpus to TeamUbuntu.

Cheers,
KermitJr

[ndhskp]

Ndhskp, thanks for the scripts. Made it really easy to setup.

Anyway, add one more person and a few cpus to TeamUbuntu.

Cheers,
KermitJr

The user jpkotta (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=36735) is the author of the script file and the wiki and I am the author of the howto. I am glad you decided to join "TeamUbuntu". Welcome.

jpkotta (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=36735) Here is a link to his profile

[nbcthreat]

Well, Swab, according to the extreme overclocking stats site it looks like I'll pass you to take first in May unless you can bring some more heat... :-)

We need more team members.

We break 700 in less than a week.

[TTT_travis]

Hi I just joined my server to folding at home, I want to add my other ubuntu box but thats a desktop and I only want folding at home to run as a screensaver like in windows

[RCRedneck]

Joined this am from work. Will do the home machines when I get there. Have a few other machines here at work that I'll get online too.

Mike

[LanceM]

We have over 50 new team members in the last 45 days. I was number 47 on January 10 when I joined.

[ndhskp]

Joined this am from work. Will do the home machines when I get there. Have a few other machines here at work that I'll get online too.

Mike

Warning make sure you have permission to use those buissness machines like that. You may wish to talk to your boss first about folding@home and explain the benefits. If however the boss says no then you have to respect the boss's decision. Always get permission first before installing folding@home on machines that you don't own.

Of course RCRedneck if you own the machines then welcome aboard.

I thought I should bring this important issue aboard. Cheers.

[ndhskp]

Hi I just joined my server to folding at home, I want to add my other ubuntu box but thats a desktop and I only want folding at home to run as a screensaver like in windows

They don't have a screensaver for Linux. It would be cool if they did make a screensaver for Linux. I myself however prefer the no nonsense console version.

Cheers

[TTT_travis]

hmm I'll probably wait to run it on my families linux box then, its slow enough as it is, maybe once I up the ram to 768 it will perform better.

[Swab]

Well, Swab, according to the extreme overclocking stats site it looks like I'll pass you to take first in May unless you can bring some more heat... :-)

We need more team members.

We break 700 in less than a week.

Well... there is that old dual xeon I could use.... ;)

[mjwood0]

Just joined the cause. Not a real powerful machine (hopefully that will change soon).

Stats:
PIII 1.2 GHz Laptop w/ 256MB RAM

A couple of questions.
1) How long does it really take to complete a unit? I've got my first one which is 500000 in size. So far, after a couple of hours, I've gotten 1% done.

2) When I installed, I didn't choose any advanced settings. Particularly, I'd like to save my status more often. Since this is a laptop, there will be times when I'm on for just a half hour or so (granted, there are times when I'm on for hours) and I would rather save the progress every 5 minutes or so. What do I have to add to the conf file to do this?

Great cause, and I always like to support Ubuntu when possible!

[xhie]

Im in on all 3 boxes,

the startup command yall are using is just /path/FAH502-Linux.exe right?

[ndhskp]

1) How long does it really take to complete a unit? I've got my first one which is 500000 in size. So far, after a couple of hours, I've gotten 1% done.

2) When I installed, I didn't choose any advanced settings. Particularly, I'd like to save my status more often. Since this is a laptop, there will be times when I'm on for just a half hour or so (granted, there are times when I'm on for hours) and I would rather save the progress every 5 minutes or so. What do I have to add to the conf file to do this?
In response to your question 1. How long depends on your paticular machine. So after 2 hours your at 1% so now you have enough to do some basic math and figure out this wu on your own. Roughly every 2 hours= 1%, like I said roughly.

In response to your question 2. What ever command that you used to invoke folding@home just do it again only this time add an option. However I should add that you really need to run your laptop at least 10 or 12 hours every day or the time required to complete a wu will be very long and you might even miss an deadline. Refer to the folding@home howto or the wiki in my sig.

-config or -configonly

[ndhskp]

Im in on all 3 boxes,

the startup command yall are using is just /path/FAH502-Linux.exe right?

What are you talking about exactly? The FAH502.exe may work but I don't think so. Refer to my howto or the wiki in my sig. It's far better to set this up as an daemon in "init.d".

[mjwood0]

In response to your question 1. How long depends on your paticular machine. So after 2 hours your at 1% so now you have enough to do some basic math and figure out this wu on your own. Roughly every 2 hours= 1%, like I said roughly.
I left it running overnight and am up to 12%. I don't think the deadlines will be too much of a problem. This WU is not due till April.


In response to your question 2. What ever command that you used to invoke folding@home just do it again only this time add an option. However I should add that you really need to run your laptop at least 10 or 12 hours every day or the time required to complete a wu will be very long and you might even miss an deadline. Refer to the folding@home howto or the wiki in my sig.

-config or -configonly

Thanks, but i have it running as a daemon. Can I still execute it manually? Just stop the service, run the command and then start the service again?


Thanks for the help! I may not be earning a lot of points for Team Ubuntu, but every little bit helps, right?

[mjwood0]

Okay. I answered my own question.

To reconfigure Folding@Home when running as a daemon:

1. Stop the service

sudo /etc/init.d/foldingathome stop

2. Run the same command the service runs, specifing the -configonly option. For me, this is /opt/foldingathome/config/FAH502-Linux.exe

sudo /opt/foldingathome/config/FAH502-Linux.exe -configonly

3. Select the options you want. Your current values show up as defaults so you shouldn't have to do anything but hit enter if you don't want to change them.

4. When you are done, restart the service.

sudo /etc/init.d/foldingathome start

Worked fine for me! Good luck all!

[ndhskp]

I left it running overnight and am up to 12%. I don't think the deadlines will be too much of a problem. This WU is not due till April.



Thanks, but i have it running as a daemon. Can I still execute it manually? Just stop the service, run the command and then start the service again?


Thanks for the help! I may not be earning a lot of points for Team Ubuntu, but every little bit helps, right?
Every little bit counts absolutely. Welcome to the team. Even if you have an older computer we want you. My computers cpu is pretty old Intel 1.8Ghz.

[drizek]

AFAIK, the slower the cpu the more points per workunit you get. so ya, run it on an old computer, its still helpful.

[xhie]

So its gonna start up on its own right? I dont wanna have to look at it. And shutting it down? Do I have to do something to get it to save what its doing or will it just take care of itself when I shutdown?

[vbmaster]

I already known the folding project and I was e dedicated cpu% donator on my windows system. When I came to ubuntu, I imediatelly searched a way of continuing to donate to the project, and i find it easely...

i fold to Portugal@Folding and my sub-team is in the 110-120 rankpossition.

First Folding then sex... :P

[Swab]

So its gonna start up on its own right? I dont wanna have to look at it. And shutting it down? Do I have to do something to get it to save what its doing or will it just take care of itself when I shutdown?

There's nothing you have to do, just install as a daemon as shown in the wiki, and forget about it.

[Swab]

I already known the folding project and I was e dedicated cpu% donator on my windows system. When I came to ubuntu, I imediatelly searched a way of continuing to donate to the project, and i find it easely...

i fold to Portugal@Folding and my sub-team is in the 110-120 rankpossition.

First Folding then sex... :P


Would you consider changing to TeamUbuntu? :KS

[vbmaster]

Would you consider changing to TeamUbuntu? :KS

xD... errr... i have my national pride you know... :P

[Swab]

xD... errr... i have my national pride you know... :P

Oh well, I had to try!

[mjwood0]

And shutting it down? Do I have to do something to get it to save what its doing or will it just take care of itself when I shutdown?

As others have said, no. You don't have to. FAH periodically saves it's work. By default, this setting is 15 minutes. Therefore, if you start your computer and shut it down after less than 15 minutes, you loose all work for that time.

For this reason, I changed my default to 5 minute saves. This way, since I run on a laptop, when I'm going during the day and my computer is turning on and off, I still get credit for most of my CPU's work.

Something to think about if you shutdown frequently.

[KermitJr]

Congratulations, everyone!

TeamUbuntu is under 700 on fahstats.com!!!!

Should break 600 in a few weeks.

KJ

[chimera]

omg...it's been working on this HUGE WU now for a couple days now...it's got 20 000 000 steps, I wonder how much point that'll translate into? Right now it's 79%, but running a bit slow cos I'm also running amule and bittornado.

[Yagisan]

I've just set up all the boxes at work to run folding@home for team ubuntu, but as most boxes are sub 400Mhz (with the exception of our 2 servers) it may take a while for anything to appear, on the other hand, it is a nice quiet thin client setup. Sometimes it is nice being the boss :)

[o_fortuna]

omg...it's been working on this HUGE WU now for a couple days now...it's got 20 000 000 steps, I wonder how much point that'll translate into? Right now it's 79%, but running a bit slow cos I'm also running amule and bittornado.
You know, if you're crazy, like me, you can go to this website (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html) to see what everything's worth. I think I might have the same one as you -- 404 points :D

[Swab]

I've just set up all the boxes at work to run folding@home for team ubuntu, but as most boxes are sub 400Mhz (with the exception of our 2 servers) it may take a while for anything to appear, on the other hand, it is a nice quiet thin client setup. Sometimes it is nice being the boss :)

That's great! We are really flying now.

[xmastree]

Count me in too.
I joined the other day. Nothing completed yet though, I'm at 41% right now, after two days. That's on an Athlon64/2800/1GB.

[Swab]

OK nbcthreat... how the hell did you get a 1,112 point work unit?

[drizek]

WOW, good job guys. 12056 points today. were at 696 now.

[Yagisan]

It seems that folding@home isn't very fault tolerant :( just had a 400 frame work unit with 390 completed restart from 0 because of an unschedualed shutdown (read blackout). Days of work - all gone.

[vbmaster]

Hey guys, what's happening at folding?

Now, when I start the program, it promps me a message about gromacs and doesn't work a shi*.

I already installed gromacs... what could be the problem?

[nbcthreat]

OK nbcthreat... how the hell did you get a 1,112 point work unit?

I have no idea. But it looks like I get a thousand-point plus work unit every few days. I'm not sure which system that is. It might be my dual-core hyperthreaded Xenon server, although I have that running four instances, so that doesn't seem right.


I'll be number one in 30 days. Boo-yah.

[Swab]

I have no idea. But it looks like I get a thousand-point plus work unit every few days. I'm not sure which system that is. It might be my dual-core hyperthreaded Xenon server, although I have that running four instances, so that doesn't seem right.


I'll be number one in 30 days. Boo-yah.

Right, that there is a call to arms... I'm gonna bring a few more boxes online tomorrow!

[ndhskp]

Count me in too.
I joined the other day. Nothing completed yet though, I'm at 41% right now, after two days. That's on an Athlon64/2800/1GB.Welcome dude, right on.

It seems that folding@home isn't very fault tolerant just had a 400 frame work unit with 390 completed restart from 0 because of an unschedualed shutdown (read blackout). Days of work - all gone.Wait a minute folding@home has regular checkpoints that are user set. You choose how often to save your state any where from 3 to 30 minutes. So if you loose work due to a crash then at the most you loose 30 minutes of work. However if your saved states are corrupt and folding is in your root directory then you may have bigger problems.

Hey guys, what's happening at folding?

Now, when I start the program, it promps me a message about gromacs and doesn't work a shi*.

I already installed gromacs... what could be the problem?Your question is a bit confusing. Have you read the howto or the wiki? The links to the howto and wiki are in my sig. I believe that you don't install gromacs and the only thing to install is the folding@home client. If you still have problems let us know.

[vbmaster]

No I didn't folow the instructions of the link of your sign.

I just acessed to Folding@Home site and downloaded the Linux version. Mine it's a bit different of yours, but it was working just fine.

I'll make the steps of the link ;)

thanks

[Yagisan]

Wait a minute folding@home has regular checkpoints that are user set. You choose how often to save your state any where from 3 to 30 minutes. So if you loose work due to a crash then at the most you loose 30 minutes of work. However if your saved states are corrupt and folding is in your root directory then you may have bigger problems. Checkpoints are every 15 minutes (which is about 2 frames on that box), and it was installed in /opt with that nice script on the wiki :) I checked the disks and they are fine, journal was intact, no replays needed, no raid errors, just the following message in the FAHlog.txt

[08:01:56] Error: Hashes not equal on file work/wudata_01.dyn
[08:02:45] Starting from initial work packet

[ndhskp]

Checkpoints are every 15 minutes (which is about 2 frames on that box), and it was installed in /opt with that nice script on the wiki :) I checked the disks and they are fine, journal was intact, no replays needed, no raid errors, just the following message in the FAHlog.txt

[08:01:56] Error: Hashes not equal on file work/wudata_01.dyn
[08:02:45] Starting from initial work packet

Bummer then. Hmm maybe this power outage happened during a checkpoint write. I was under the impression that folding@home had multiple checkpoints, maybe not. I hope this don't turn you off just try to hang in there.

[ndhskp]

I have no idea. But it looks like I get a thousand-point plus work unit every few days. I'm not sure which system that is. It might be my dual-core hyperthreaded Xenon server, although I have that running four instances, so that doesn't seem right.


I'll be number one in 30 days. Boo-yah.


Right, that there is a call to arms... I'm gonna bring a few more boxes online tomorrow!

Geez what did you guys do? Steal a Borg cube and convert it to a folding@home computer. Both of you got your afterburners on overdrive! Well don't stop keep cranking.

[xmastree]

Well, I've now opened my account...
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=xmastree&teamnum=45104

:-)

Hmm... see that link in my sig? Guess where I'll be rolling some more out soon...

[deathbyswiftwind]

how can i register for a team?

[Yagisan]

Bummer then. Hmm maybe this power outage happened during a checkpoint write. I was under the impression that folding@home had multiple checkpoints, maybe not. I hope this don't turn you off just try to hang in there. It didn't turn me off, it was just disappointing to lose all the work. I also suspect the power was cut in the middle of a checkpoint. I do wish there was a native amd64 client though, I'm sure with an extra 8 XMM (for SSE/SSE2) and 8 general purpose registers, it could get a nice speedup, perhaps 10% to 90% depending on how optimised the code was (obviously anything in assembly isn't going to get faster until an amd64 specific version is coded).

-- Edit. --
Yay! 1 box has sent in a result at last :) http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=Yagisan&teamnum=45104
Took an AMD Duron 850Mhz from Feb 227 to Mar 3 to do 1 WU.

[Swab]

how can i register for a team?

Follow the instructions in the wiki, link is im my sig. You enter a team number when setting up the folding client.. TeamUbuntu is 45104

[Swab]

Geez what did you guys do? Steal a Borg cube and convert it to a folding@home computer.

Only a little one...

[JavaJoe]

I just added 5 computers to the Ubuntu team. Everyone helps!