folding@home and Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Master Shake · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

Joined up. Only using one of my cores for this the other for my day to day stuff.
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Kraymer · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 349 Location: Germany

Hm, I hadn't used foldingathome for a while now.. Now I joined the GLUE group, updated to 5.0.2-r4 (due to non-working@startup init script) and started the client.. Strangely it uses ~1/3 system cpu power, reportet by top. It used to use more than 99% niced cpu before which is what it should do.
I played around with the "Disable highly optimized assembly code" option but that doesn't make any difference. The only thing I changed was to switch over to no-deadline packages since I don't want that folds get lost (which happened before because I started the client irregularly and sometimes passed deadlines). Somehow I can't imagine that

Anyone an idea what is going wrong here?

highvoltage · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 6

Count me in.

I just signed up after a day of unsuccessfully screwing with boinc/setiathome. Oh well, I like this project better anyways; it's probably a lot more useful. :wink:

skellr · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

The foldingathome ebuild needs some tlc and a version bump. I'd join the GLUE team but I'm folding elsewhere atm.

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: WI, USA

version bump? the next "version" is 64bit SMP only. That's more than just a bump.
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skellr · Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject:

A new ebuild for that would be good.

There is also a 5.04 version for x86.

skellr · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:13 am Post subject:

Maybe someone could update the link on the first post.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=11298

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Erulabs · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 48 Location: erulabs.com

Im joined up... With my Cell processor!

Just got the new patch for the PS3 and can run f@h under the PS3 O/S now!

That should significantly help the gentoo team... adding roughly 300Tflops to the grid :-D

skellr · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

Nice

nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

Clete2 · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

I'm getting roughly 3 units per day out of my PS3 which is ~1,000 points!

I have these computers running:

2.8GHz P4 w/HT 800MHz FSB (not 24/7)
2.2GHz P4 (500MHz FSB) (24/7)
Playstation 3 (24/7)

I transferred to the GLUE team a couple of months ago but only had that 2.2GHz PC running so I was only ranked in the 600's. Now that I have added my PC and my PS3, I'm in the low 400's about to step into the 300's. I'm in the top 20 in PPD so I should jump up quickly.

Let's take Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere to the top!

Btw my name on there is Clete2 and my old team was Sharky Forums.
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ColeSlaw · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject:

I'm ranked #13 ATM on the GLUE team. I guess I'm going to have to get a PS3 if I want to keep competing!

For you folks new to folding, a nice 3rd party statistic site is http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

We'll save the world one cycle at a time

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asheron · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 40

how do i tell my cpu usage that gentoo is using for it??? I started the init script, and i think its running, but i dont know how to tell XD i also have it running on windows, which oooh pretty little display tell me all i need to know and lets me use 100% of cpu. lol dont hate because i have my gentoo, xubuntu, and windows running for 11298!
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ColeSlaw · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

I remember some GUI's out there for folding@home, but I can't recall any of the names of them. Perhaps somebody else here remembers their names?
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ksool · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Just signed up with 5 machines:
2x3GHz P4, 2x~400MHz PII, and one dual 400MHz PII.

Using the init script though, I get 8 FahCore processes of which either 2 (P4's and dual PII) or 1 (else) are actually doing any work, but the other processes are taking up memory. Is there anyway to fix this, memory on most of my systems is at a premium.

inindo · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 5

I just joined as well with Gentoo on an AMD 4800 X2 running 24/7. Also considering using my PS3, can anyone tell me how much heat the PS3 produces when running this constantly? Thanks.

robnotts · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

Running foldingathome on 3 machines here... Gentoo AMD x2 3800+ (32bit mode), PS3, and Celeron Laptop (windows)... the PS3 kicks out a bit of heat, but the fans boost every so often which seems to cool it down... clock out a fair amount of work units that way,, so not doing bad on the scoring either...

rob.ng15 on the GLUE scoreboard
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Zillode · n00b Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 54

I have some problems with foldingathome: every time I start it I get the following notice:

This account is currently not available.
* Starting Folding@Home on CPU 1 ... [ ok ]

I have set my username in client1/client.cfg using the /opt/foldingathome/initfolding command

greetz

Zillode · n00b Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 54

ok, I fixed it: you need to add a shell to the foldingathome user (passwd) (/sbin/nologin was causing this message)

Sedrik · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject:

How will this affect my power consumption? I'm guessing that it will increase but will my computer actually drain more power through the power cable?
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Zillode · n00b Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 54

It will surely use more power, because PC will be on load 1 (100% usage). I tested it on several computers:
Idle: 35 watt
folding on: 85watt

Sedrik · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject:

ok, thanks.

quite stupid question but wanted to make sure.
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PaulHindt · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:11 am Post subject:

I just installed Folding on my gentoo laptop...count me in!
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Tolstoi · l33t Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 678

Just joined too!

Tolstoi · l33t Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 678

Just stopped the service - my P4 is just too loud when running with that load