Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 15th March 2007

FreeStream · 16 Mar 2007 at 17:30

Berserker said:
Well, as much as I *cough* don't like being smug *cough* and really *cough* don't *cough* want to shout about it and say I told you so, I really did say that there would be no repeat of last weeks' shenanigans. Yes, I told you so.

I've been playing a lot*

diogenese · 16 Mar 2007 at 18:49

shadowscotland said:
Thanks for the News Rich - better late than never

Above 7k again so I'm a happy bunny.
But my current lack of progress with Ubuntu was ecliped by the easiest install ever last night on to my newly install 'spair' IDE HD.
Went on like a dream, no problems at all, web connection A-ok, booted from HD, installed all the updates (all 138!) but ran out of time before I could run finstall.
With a little luck and SB's guide I'll be SMPing with the best of you this weekend

Time to stomp some slackers

Noooo!!! You can't get SMP going yet, I've got to catch up! Especially as my graph has been upset by a rogue 587 pointer sneaking in

Stelly · 16 Mar 2007 at 18:57

thanks mate

Stelly

joeyjojo · 16 Mar 2007 at 18:58

Bigstan said:
Team output up again this week - well done.

That's what it comes down to tbh.

Welcome new people.

I like seeing the estimates drop by more than 7 days every week, so lets keep that Rich

Good solid output again from me. I can't stop getting these 1760 pointers. Incredibly stable graph in sig

shadowscotland · 16 Mar 2007 at 23:41

diogenese said:
Noooo!!! You can't get SMP going yet, I've got to catch up! Especially as my graph has been upset by a rogue 587 pointer sneaking in

Up and running now

- but only on one core :confused:

Don't think I missed any thing also this line of text isn't doing anything

bunzip2 < fahmon-2.1.5.src.tar.bz2 | tar xf-

odd message about 'f' being a old something or another.

Also (and this is odd) I can access OCUK via firefox - most other sites work fine, and I can post via IE... :confused:

SiriusB · 17 Mar 2007 at 00:24

Not sure I understand your problem... Does Firefox not work... or IE... and err.. are we talking about Ubuntu? :| im confused

Berserker · 17 Mar 2007 at 00:28

shadowscotland said:
bunzip2 < fahmon-2.1.5.src.tar.bz2 | tar xf-

Click to expand...

Bah. Why do people have to make things hard on themselves?

tar xjf fahmon-2.1.5.src.tar.bz2

If you want to see what it's doing, add a 'v' after the 'j'.

PS - might be worth going after one of the unofficial fahmon builds, particularly for SMP/GPU clients.

diogenese · 17 Mar 2007 at 00:45

shadowscotland said:
Up and running now - but only on one core
Don't think I missed any thing also this line of text isn't doing anything

odd message about 'f' being a old something or another.

Also (and this is odd) I can access OCUK via firefox - most other sites work fine, and I can post via IE...

Check the beginning of the guide thread... use ./finstall smp otherwise you just get a standard install.

I abandoned fahmon, failed on the scons bit even using modified builds and getting extra bits as described on pande forums

Stelly · 17 Mar 2007 at 08:59

Sorry Billy

Stelly

Carnage · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:46

bad week for me... i lost internet for 5 days so had my machine sitting idle for pretty much the whole week

A.N.Other · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:50

Bah. Production has dropped right down for me. Main PC and laptop have been *not on*. I should be back in the land of the living next week, so should be bak on 10,000 ish.

Welcome to all the new peoples!

SiriusB · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:06

Bah! Bloody family!

SOMEONE in my house decided they would use my PC last night instead of the laptop... since they didn't know how to use Ubuntu they restarted the computer and left it! I have only just discovered it. I have lost nearly 24 hours of folding time and will most likely miss the final deadline meaning 2 days of folding will be wasted.

going to have to lock my machine when I am not at home

lay-z-boy · 17 Mar 2007 at 20:57

Bah! to you all

SiriusB, may i advise:

Lock on the door
Unplug the power or turn off your screen
Tell people to fak orf if they request use of your pc
place mines around your pc so they wont be able to go near it again

shadowscotland · 17 Mar 2007 at 22:00

well it's finally sorted (well good enough anyway)

@SB - sorry typo ment that post didn't make sence.
In VM/Ubuntu I can't view this forum or any part of OcUK :confused:

(every other site I tried was fine)
All is well via XP/IE.

@Mr. B - didn't know i was making it hard on myself

just following the guide

Anyway I've droped Two shortcut to the Fahlog & unitinfo on my desktop so not really bothered with Fahmon, just for ddp's

@D as to the single core issue my stupid fault - set up VM via the 'quick' route which didn't have the 1or2 processors option. Changed it via edit but that didn't help smp to use both cores. was running at 24mins a step, but cann't remember the WU

Currently running a 1496 with 26mins a step, 99% load, 420Mb ram ([email protected])
How's that compare?

diogenese · 18 Mar 2007 at 00:13

shadowscotland said:
@D as to the single core issue my stupid fault - set up VM via the 'quick' route which didn't have the 1or2 processors option. Changed it via edit but that didn't help smp to use both cores. was running at 24mins a step, but cann't remember the WU

Currently running a 1496 with 26mins a step, 99% load, 420Mb ram ([email protected])
How's that compare?

1496 isn't a SMP wu :confused:

shadowscotland · 18 Mar 2007 at 16:22

diogenese said:
1496 isn't a SMP wu

Pesky pesky pesky! Time to unistall ubuntu and VM WinSMP is here

VeNT · 18 Mar 2007 at 16:33

shadowscotland said:
Pesky pesky pesky! Time to unistall ubuntu and VM WinSMP is here

loving windows SMP!

shadowscotland · 18 Mar 2007 at 17:18

VeNT said:
loving windows SMP!

as long as you never turn it off

VeNT · 18 Mar 2007 at 17:52

shadowscotland said:
as long as you never turn it off

meh, deadlines are slack for me tbh.

shadowscotland · 18 Mar 2007 at 18:09

VeNT said:
meh, deadlines are slack for me tbh.

That's not what I mean - had to uninstall due to doing a restart to soon after a Ctrl+C of the client window. smpn.exe just would close via task manager on the reboot

all sorted now (and not planning on turning it off again either

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