Folding@Home News 25th Feb - 4th March 2011

dekez · 4 Mar 2011 at 14:22

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 25th Feb - 4th March 2011

Current Team Position: 36th
Current Team Score: 507,750,637
Crunched This Week: 5,569,865 (24hr avg. 795,702 ) down 29,725

Change from Last Week: -220,503

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We are currently 39th in team production

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Top 20 Producers (PPD)

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Michael_10
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Rudeolf
Zitron
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CANABAL
Cacey
brigzilla
Atushi
Ryan4227

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For some reason Kakao stats doesn't seem to be listing any teams, I've managed to get most of the data from EOC but the weekly points are done from the rolling Kakao week. EOC weekly is a week started at a certain point so I can't do the weekly points I'm afraid.

R5GTT · 4 Mar 2011 at 14:39

Thanks for the update dekez.

Nice to see myself at number 4 in the top producers

I still can't quite ever believe my eyes when I look at Biffa's 24hr stats though

Biffa · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:20

R5GTT said:
Thanks for the update dekez.

Nice to see myself at number 4 in the top producers I still can't quite ever believe my eyes when I look at Biffa's 24hr stats though

Meh its nothing, wait till Ba gets back up to speed...

Aptly these seem to be gagging to get out for a bit of fresh air.. :eek:

BaBa · 4 Mar 2011 at 17:48

Thanks for the news Mr Dekez

Another slow week for me but case mods and painting complete (well enough to start the build)

Water blocks are now mounted (after mods to get them to fit) and some pipe work done, might be up and running by the end of the weekend

Think i will start back on windows but move to linux when i get my head round what distro/kernel/scheduler to install :confused:

Nice collection of numbers Mr Biffa :eek:

dekez · 5 Mar 2011 at 01:39

Very nice tiffys Biffa!

BaBa said:
Thanks for the news Mr Dekez

Another slow week for me but case mods and painting complete (well enough to start the build)

Water blocks are now mounted (after mods to get them to fit) and some pipe work done, might be up and running by the end of the weekend

Think i will start back on windows but move to linux when i get my head round what distro/kernel/scheduler to install

Nice collection of numbers Mr Biffa

I'm currently pondering the same thing regarding which distro, I've tried ubuntu before which was very easy until something went wrong then I had no idea what I was doing! I'm thinking this time I might try debian, it will be harder to begin with but by forcing myself to learn the basics I might get more out of it and understand Linux better.

Edit: after reading more I'm just as confused as to which distro,how anyone can say Linux is anything other than a complete ball ache is beyond me! To many options lol.

BrownSparrow · 7 Mar 2011 at 09:19

My main cruncher nose-dived the day i went on holiday, typical! Therefore my output last week was pants.

How do folding rigs always know when you've gone on holiday? Do the folding clients have some code written into them that takes notice when your not watching over them like usual!? Or maybe this distributed computing lark is gaining sentience as the host machines get ever more powerful!! Eek!

dekez · 9 Mar 2011 at 18:48

I went for ubuntu in the end, as much as I'd like to learn more about linux I just don't have the time at the moment.

Many thanks to sculptor for for the hdds, I've got my system set up so it boots as normal, and I can now dip in and out of linux easily using the boot override in the bios to load ubuntu from the other hdd. This will give me time to play with it and get it set up as I want without having much downtime. I also put another 4 gig in

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dekez · 9 Mar 2011 at 20:16

Ok I'm up and running...kind of, I've installed the linux client and samba file sharing so I can monitor it across the network (and share everything else eventually). It's picked up an a3 unit, hopefully that is just random and a5 ones will start coming through. 2:15 TPF on a P7144 - 33,850PPD.

coolamasta · 10 Mar 2011 at 16:29

Hi chaps, thought I would pop in for a nose as its always interesting to see what a fellow folding team is doing, sorry biffa my latest certificate needed an airing too

If you haven't already I would check out the new A5 Bigadv projects on Ubuntu 10.10 as you get a nice boost in PPD over Windows

dekez · 10 Mar 2011 at 17:25

Mega tiffy!!!!

I've picked up an A5 unit in ubuntu now - P6901, 28:02 TPF, PPD 41,463.

BaBa · 10 Mar 2011 at 20:12

Dekez is it a stock ubuntu install?

dekez · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:03

Yes stock install of 64bit 10.10.

The actual install of folding was quite easy (considering), just follow the install guide here.

You can install curl with "sudo apt-get install curl" to use there first method of getting the client.

Also boinc was dead easy to install using:
("sudo apt-get install aptitude" to install aptitude package manager)
sudo aptitude install boinc-client boinc-manager

Update on my linux fun and games this evening -
Tried to create a link on the desktop to run folding, that ended up in it running the program from the desktop, creating new log file on the desktop, when I got rid of it all my progress was lost

so don't make that mistake!

Still no sound in ubuntu through the HDMI cable, apparently this is quite common from looking at the forums but despite trawling through loads of posts I'm still yet to find a solution.

File sharing is working fine with samba, although still not sure how to do it securely.

PS3 media server works great

VMware server doesn't work, tried a few workarounds but in the end I've gone with virtual box, it installed easily I just had to click the link on the website :eek:

no messing around in the terminal.

I also installed chrome, which looked to be an easy installer but ended up in the terminal as usual.

Still need to sort out how backups will work and install sabnzb, but overall I seem to be winning just about

BaBa · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:33

Ok you may have a problem when the WU ends with a very long write time if you are formatted in ext4 (default ubuntu) switching to ext3 will solve this (option on install).

You may also get more consistant frame times with the BFS scheduler.

I also had the same problem with HDMI audio when i ran ubuntu, had to download I think it was called alsa mixer.

I will see if i can find the link for you

What gpu are you running?

dekez · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:10

Yeah I left everything on defaults, if it causes a problem I should be able to create another ext3 volume somewhere and move the folding to that. Or worse case senario install again (oh joy of joys!)

What's the BFS?

If you've got the link that would be great

I've got the alsa mixer, and have tried unmuting the options for the hdmi but no luck.

I've got a 460.

Do you know how to securely share files on a NTFS drive to a win machine through samba? I've got the shares to work but I have to change the NTFS permissions to everyone which makes me a bit nervous.

BaBa · 10 Mar 2011 at 23:30

Not sure about the share sorry.

The BFS is Brain Fu** Scheduler it may give better frame times and or more consistant frame times than the standard install cpu scheduler.
Some have seen a significant differance in frame times thru a WU this may cure it.Link

If you search 'BFS linux bigadv' the top link on google may be useful(i dont want to link direct to the competition)

dekez · 11 Mar 2011 at 09:35

Cheers Baba, after reading more about ext4 thing I've decided to go for a fresh install, it shouldn't take too long now I know all the little quirks. I'll give that BFS a go as well

lovecats · 25 Mar 2011 at 00:24

dekez said:
I went for ubuntu in the end, as much as I'd like to learn more about linux I just don't have the time at the moment.

Many thanks to sculptor for for the hdds, I've got my system set up so it boots as normal, and I can now dip in and out of linuxr4 easily using the boot override in the bios to load ubuntu from the other hdd. This will give me time to play with it and get it set up as I want without having much downtime. I also put another 4 gig in .

That sounds good, but it is a little difficult to do it. I have similar experience.

zYx · 25 Mar 2011 at 02:10

Sos when I run it on my PS3, do I have to wait for the case to finish and if I turn it off half way through, will it be a waste?

dekez · 25 Mar 2011 at 08:42

zYx said:
Sos when I run it on my PS3, do I have to wait for the case to finish and if I turn it off half way through, will it be a waste?

No your PS3 will save it automatically when it shuts down. I would be wary of running it 24/7 on your PS3, it's fine here and there but it has been known to reduce the life of PS3s if left on continuously. Saying that I've done a fair bit on mine and it's still ok.