Official TBCS Folding Team

[Oneslowz28]

Well my brother in-law just converted his desktop to an HTPC since he has a bad ass MSI gaming laptop now. So I will be throwing my 8800 GTS 512 and a GT240 in my HAF X along with my 2 5870s and my Phenom II X4 965 BE @4.01 Ghz Should be good for about 20k PPD

[Airbozo]

I don't have time to figure out the MP software, but if we can get the clients working right, I will have 160 cpu's to fold on for a couple of days (and possibly double that). I can justify it by calling it a "burn in". The ETA for these systems is the end of April and if I time it right I can have them fold, er uh, Burn IN, for a long weekend.

Here is a link to the hardware:

http://www.supermicro.com/servers/blade/TwinBlade/

10 twin blades = 4 cpu's per chassis.
Right now the order is for 4 chassis but may get bumped to 8!

To get the F@H software working might take access to a MP system, and I can ask my IT guy to setup a VPN tunnel to an MP machine at my desk for someone to check out the client with.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

EDIT: We will be using the E5640's...

[Oneslowz28]

WOW That would be pretty awesome!

[Oneslowz28]

Well I have tried to install the F@H Tracker and every time it begins downloading the clients it will not start the CPU/SMP client download. I have had this problem on 4 different machines now, 2 of them being on 10Mb connections. Anyone else have problems?

[x88x]

When I set up my second machine, it wouldn't start the CPU client download until after the GPU clients were already downloaded, but other than that, no. Strange.

[dr.walrus]

When I set up my second machine, it wouldn't start the CPU client download until after the GPU clients were already downloaded, but other than that, no. Strange.

same

[Oneslowz28]

It would dl both of the GPU clients and would try to start the CPU for about 90 seconds then would throw up a "Unable to download client(s)" error in the log window.

[x88x]

Weird....well, one workaround for that would be to run it once on a system that the download works, then copy that whole directory to other systems. Then you just have to start it and configure it for each system instead of having to re-download it each time.

On another note, I was wondering about something. Back when I was folding with BOINC, they had stats pages for each participant, that showed what projects they were contributing to, how much they had contributed to each project, what systems they were using, recent production stats for those systems, and so on. Is there anything like that with FAH? Mainly, I want some sort of way to verify that all of my systems are actually checking in WUs...heck, a few times, the only way I knew a system had died was because it stopped submitting WUs.

[Oneslowz28]

I think that we get those stats once we reach the top 800 teams

How big is the directory folder? Someone zip it and email it to cgantt@cjganttphotography.com

[x88x]

I ran across this tool. It's handy for keeping track of your various clients. You just point it at the install directories for all your clients and it checks the FAHlog.txt files every now and then, and figures out the various statusy-stuff.
http://fahmon.net/

What I did for monitoring my other systems is just have the FAH stuff in a shared directory, then mount the share on my main system, and point fahmon at that. ..it does take a while to figure out some of the columns...but I don't think that's any different with the tracker either.