So for page 7, I will bttt the previous question.

Quote :

"I have done that, but it never gives me the option to choose a percentage. it gives me "idle" or "low" for the core priority. I looked at the CPU usage for the whole computer and it is hovering around 2% of the CPU's capacity.# here is what printed from the console when I run the program using the -configonly option: # Linux Console Edition ####################################################### ############################################################################### Folding@home Client Version 4.00 http://folding.stanford.edu ############################################################################### ############################################################################### Arguments: -configonly [02:52:36] - Ask before connecting: No [02:52:36] - User name: aaronburro (Team 59) [02:52:36] - User ID = 38BB37C52C0B1930 [02:52:36] - Machine ID: 1 [02:52:36] [02:52:36] Configuring Folding@home... User name [aaronburro]? Team Number [59]? Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]? Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? y Client Type (no-pref/fah/gah) [fah]? Core Priority (idle/low) [idle]? Disable highly optimized assembly code (no/yes) [no]? Interval, in minutes, between checkpoints (3-30) [15]? Ignore deadline information (mainly useful if system clock frequently has errors) (no/yes) [no]? Machine ID (1-8) [1]? [02:52:46] - Ask before connecting: No [02:52:46] - User name: aaronburro (Team 59) [02:52:46] - User ID = 38BB37C52C0B1930 [02:52:46] - Machine ID: 1 [02:52:46] [02:52:46] -configonly flag given, so exiting. Terminated Disable highly optimized assembly code (no/yes) [no]? Interval, in minutes, between checkpoints (3-30) [15]? Ignore deadline information (mainly useful if system clock frequently has errors) (no/yes) [no]? Machine ID (1-8) [1]? END OF INFO "

add to the page the stats link for reference w/ image,

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overview.php?TeamID=59



link to the download for those that want to do something useful with a new year resolution http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html

and just say these last two days the CPU's have been good to me, lets hope they stay like that... as I will be happy for a while.

as they say, Keep Folding!

12/25/2003 11:05:53 PM

Quote :

"I have done that, but it never gives me the option to choose a percentage. it gives me "idle" or "low" for the core priority. I looked at the CPU usage for the whole computer and it is hovering around 2% of the CPU's capacity.#"

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but you did restart F@H without the -configonly flag right? It looks like they do not give you an option to set the CPU usage, but that should not be the problem since default is 100. What does the rest of the log say? It should give an error if there is one.

12/26/2003 12:24:23 AM

nah, there is no error, I'm just not certain that it is running at 100% CPU. Again, looking at the system monitor in RedHat, the CPU is only being used at about 2-3%. Oh, and the reason I used -configonly was just to show you what the output was. I of course don't use that flag when I want to fold.

[Edited on December 26, 2003 at 12:42 AM. Reason : ]

12/26/2003 12:41:47 AM

here is a screenshot of the system monitor screen:

12/26/2003 2:06:17 AM

It's working fine. It's the core that does all the work and it is running at 96% CPU usage. You are on your way man!

12/26/2003 10:56:25 AM

yeah, I came to understand this a bit later on, too. hey, 4 CPUs runnin now... only prollem is every now and then they want to quit folding after each frame. Trying to get EMIII to see the linux box is a pain, too, but i'll get it. and with that, EMIII just let me know one of the computers has quit folding. damnit. it seems the service stops after each frame. might have to firedaemon it

12/27/2003 2:47:36 AM

^^^I'm not sure why the core is running 3 times above? Do you have more than one instance running?

[Edited on December 27, 2003 at 10:07 AM. Reason : .]

12/27/2003 10:07:07 AM

if so you don't want that... it will f' up your WU's unless they are in different directories.

[Edited on December 27, 2003 at 12:14 PM. Reason : btw, are you on the NCSU team?]

12/27/2003 12:13:47 PM

Quote :

"[02:52:36] - User name: aaronburro (Team 59)"

I think it has just been awhile. The good news is 1 WU was returned yesterday.

Quote :

"Date of last work unit 2003-12-26 05:06:23 Active processors (within a week) 1 "

12/27/2003 12:55:42 PM

yeah, I'm on the NCSU team. as for the three cores running... well, that's just what it shows. i only run it once, naturally...

and, yeah, I DO actually have 4 CPUs running... 2 of them are rather lame, P3 600 and a P3 700, but they get the job done. Plus, I have had trouble w/ the services stopping after each frame is completed...

12/27/2003 4:03:50 PM

you should be producing much more... atleast something weekly do you run it all the time or just sometimes? the 600-700 should be doing atleast one to two a week, are they still having problems?

12/27/2003 7:34:16 PM

well, just started em yesterday.

12/27/2003 10:48:25 PM

nice they will help us take down Hawaii

12/28/2003 12:23:54 AM

im in

12/29/2003 3:16:38 AM

Nice you just passed like 20 people

hopefully you can help us turn this slope the other direction

I was thinking most people must be on break from folding while at home with the parents. Instead they should be hooking their parents CPU's up with the program (since it is for a good cause and all).

12/29/2003 10:08:32 AM

Welcome to our newest member: HiWay!
Here is a repost of a flash video made for recruiting new folders. It's pretty well done.
http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

12/29/2003 10:27:18 AM

nice i have been looking for something of that nature... also sounds like the score from american beauty. will have to try and convince those at work will just forward the email and the team number, etc...

12/29/2003 10:53:51 AM

Well, looks like things are on the up and up for us... Ranked 106 currently. Won't make top 100 my Jan 1, but won't be long. I hope to get my P4 2.8ghz (533fsb) up soon. This will no doubt help us out some. I'll have 9 machines running soon....

12/29/2003 7:35:19 PM

I have 2 instances running on 3 machines. If you want to do this, not only do they have to run in their own directories, but you should also use the -local flag on at least one of the instances. I run it on both. If not, it will reference the instance registered in the registry. Just my $.02.

I am right aren't I KRUZNBY?

12/29/2003 7:41:40 PM

That's right. I always forget the -local flag at first. Glad to see you will be ramping up!

Just noticed chemp(scanZero) is ramping up big time. Nearly 2k/week. Way to go!

[Edited on December 30, 2003 at 1:47 AM. Reason : chemp]

12/30/2003 1:34:24 AM

so i have been looking at pics of farms on the web... i have two amd k7 processors (500 and 700)that i would like to get folding if i could do so cheaply. i have some other random parts but would like to find a cheap mobo w/ integrated lan/vid/etc... to try and hook up... any thoughts?

12/30/2003 4:34:05 PM

Unless you can get a cheap used mobo, it's not worth it to buy a new one. Someone was selling a ECS K7S5A on TWW for $20 I think, but I think it will only take Durons and XP's. I had a AMD 450 and it was horrible at Folding compared to a PIII450. The old AMD's had poor Floating Point performance. There's usually a thread on [H]ard|OCP on building the cheapest/best boxes/blades. If you or anyone else is short a part, you can post here and maybe one of us can help you out. garfuss's warehouse sale maybe a good place to look for a bunch of cheap video and LAN cards.

12/31/2003 10:01:17 AM

Good Recruiting Article:
http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/pdf/june2003/Behind.pdf

12/31/2003 10:51:18 AM

^^ true and it would be more energy efficient to get something new with the power consuption... will be thinking and keeping it in mind.

also aaronburro should be going green soon if he keeps it up... also we are up on users participating which will hopefully edge us back up and move our stats forwards and keep off the other groups...

12/31/2003 3:48:09 PM

just a note to people such as stone and poe from the team... if you throw in the -advmethods tag to your shortcut you won't get the big burdens anymore this will make it where your production will probably double... mine did

it will make it where you won't get as many tinkers which take forever and aren't balanced "point" wise.

1/1/2004 12:12:35 PM

Happy New Year everyone! We just passed the University of Hawaii today. I'd like to thank everyone for their support and contined effort. I know we have some people that come and go and that will always be the case. When this thread started, we were producing around 3,000 points/week and we have quadrupled that to around 12,000. Soon we will be in the Top 100 and then the next step will be to lead the ACC in folding by passing Georgia Tech Sometime in March at our current pace. I'd also like to see some of our Folders get into the Top 1000 users. I can never quite break 1000, but maybe someday.

Congrats on a great year and good luck this year!

1/1/2004 2:10:58 PM

my last one was 2500 :| :|

1/1/2004 2:35:24 PM

"going green?" sorry, i'm not up on teh lingo. Oh, and it seems that the service mostly trips out when I do anything which uses up a lot of CPU time, such as games. I just now restart the service after anything like that, and I have no real prollems.

1/1/2004 2:54:28 PM

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_members.php?TeamID=59

Producing >500, <1000 will make you "go green" on the stats page... something fun to watch...

KRUZNBY it looks like you are in contentions for it but still a ways to go for top1000 http://statsman.ww-testsites.co.uk/folding2stats/html/users.html the lowest on the chart has ~8,000 more than you. it is fun to watch that stat though. I am going for top 10 on team then top 5,000 users, makes the journey more fun to have goals here and there...

1/1/2004 3:21:00 PM

Ok. Not to sound discouraged or anything, but can anyone explain to me how anyone can have 514 active processors in a week? http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/userpage?name=plext I was just looking at the top 1000 players and he's #1, averaging 3.5+ mil. in a week? How is this possible? I think we're doing great though BTW...

1/3/2004 12:20:55 AM

I heard someone on their team is an IT leader or something at a major university. I'm guessing that's where they come from.

1/3/2004 12:54:38 AM

KRUZNBY, the ramp up is b/c of two quad cpu boxes got some WUs for the christmas break. we'll see if I can keep them running...as they are my performance boxes for development testing. which entails fresh images to be loaded of the OS, etc, etc.....=not WU completion friendly.

1/3/2004 1:16:24 AM

^Great idea to burn them in over the holidays! I know there are some people over at [H]OCP that run hard diskless with either thumb drives or off a CD. I'm not sure how well that would work on a quad system, but at least you would not have to re-install F@H each time you load a fresh image. Better yet put F@H in the image. jk Let me know if I can help out.

1/3/2004 3:50:55 AM

Welcome to our newest member: FTM!

1/4/2004 10:58:38 AM

 422 users online. 
   169 authenticated. 
   253 anonymous. 
 3295 posts today. 
 12319 total users. 

Team Name NCSU Wolfpack 
Team Rank 106 
Total Points 294884.28 
Total WUs 9779 
Users (Active) 103 (30) 

1/5/2004 4:30:26 PM

^It must be working.
Welcome to our newest member: kwa77ace!

1/6/2004 12:17:10 AM

105

1/6/2004 12:09:58 PM

anything for the team...well almost anything

1/7/2004 9:56:41 PM

104 scanZero nice with the orange...

1/8/2004 9:39:15 AM

300000

1/8/2004 10:16:06 AM

teh

1/8/2004 11:00:20 PM

thats really tight on no processors keep it up

we are about to hit 10,000 WU's and also we are on course to be top 100 within a month, all pushes will help

1/9/2004 6:48:06 PM

we have hit 10,000 WU's also here is an interesting article about a 600CPU computer stanford uses for testing out it's WU's before we get them. It's #319 in the world's fastest.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7090

[Edited on January 10, 2004 at 3:04 PM. Reason : added link]

1/10/2004 3:00:05 PM

w00t, 4CPUs and i am clizzimbin the ladder. wonder where I will end up...

1/12/2004 4:03:04 PM

nice , hopefully you will go green again

i want 5% of teams points and, top 5,000 soon... then eventually top 1,000 which might take a while.

also i want the team in top 100 soon, which should happen by March, then we will be looking for Georgia Tech, etc... always something to look forward to...

1/12/2004 4:25:08 PM

^^Good to have have you back! I made a purchase today on a "slickdeal" from HP. I hope my order goes through.

1/12/2004 5:21:51 PM

nice i saw that this am. was debating it... it is a slickdeal coming with the os and all... have you got any confirmations yet?

1/12/2004 11:45:30 PM

Quote :

"Your order is approved and being sent to manufacturing. As soon as your order is shipped, your tracking information will appear at the bottom of this page."

I also got an order confirmation email. I'll keep my fingers crossed. It would be a nearly ideal folding rig with the exception of not being able to overclock the board.

Welcome to our newest member: Michael_Heath!

[Edited on January 13, 2004 at 1:34 AM. Reason : new member]

1/13/2004 1:27:08 AM

Welcome to our newest member: ECUJAMES!

1/13/2004 8:37:13 AM

103... nice ramp up [user]chemp[/user] and Noen and everyone else... we are ing...

1/13/2004 8:50:19 PM