My idea...

Mikebert4

Mikebert4

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I've got a problem, I'm only online for around 4 hours a day (most of which is taken up playing WoW Tbh :rolleyes: ) and rarely do any of Machines finish a WU inside this 4-hour window.

SO i've been having a think. (yeah, I know, it's dangerous :p )

If I can configure a Proxy/Server to Grab and extra WU per PC for FAH and keep it safe, and then configure FAH to poll this Server for WU's rather than the central servers (stats could happily be delt with in the standard manner, i'm happy to wait for 'em) That way I won't have that horrid usless feeling when 3 PC's are sat around idling and not folding *shudders*

Has anyone else tried this? I'm trying to bury myself into the code and figure out exactly how to configure/program this, and I wonder if anyone else had a similar idea?

At the same time, i've looked at running a second - lower prioty- instance of FAH with deadlineless data, but I want points! Besides, it'll be fun to try and set this all up...


Any Ideas?
 
If i were you i would just run lots of instances. In fact i do.

Run 2 or 3 low priority instances and when the main one finishes there will always be 2 more to work on. If it doesn't get a chance to work on them very much then you would need to set deadlineless WUs.
 
Seti Classic had the capability of getting work from a local server.
I used to use a program called SetGate to control the clients on my network. One of its features was you could download a whole load of wus and then configure the clients to send and recieve wus from it. Then SetiGate would upload all the completed wus to seti and get new ones.

It might be a bit more difficult for folding because wus have deadlines, but it'd be good to have something to that effect.
 
I realise that it's more than enough to upload and download WU's.

I'd probably setup the one main client and a second client to cache a load of deadlineless WU's and use the priority to make it automatically switch.

That would be the least hassel :)
 
hmm... still going to build two machines and fold with them though :)

I was mainly looking more a moer boastable ;) way of running several machines folding on my network... plus I'd have to buy wireless cards for all the machines if I were to try for that route...

I'd rather have just one gateway and have the machines polling to it rather than having each machine sorting itself (as the ADSL router is downstairs and we'rve gone wireless)

I'd set it up with a Pentium 3 machine acting as the gateway (folding in it's spare time ofc :) ) and my gaming Rig/ a little Pentium 2 machine behind it (I have a netgear switch to connect them all together) i'll have to have the gateway acting as a Proxy to a secure sub-network, and suffer the configuration headaches, but this has the added bonus of me being able to run my own Teamspeak and FTP servers.


I suppose it's mainly for fun though :)
 
If you want to route all folding 'stuff' through one PC, your best bet is a proxy. Squid is my tool of choice.

Doesn't help with cacheing, but does help keep an eye on things, and just occasionally seems to help downloads 'work'.

For those that remember it, of my few contributions to making DC work, that has to rank as one of my finest. :cool:
 
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