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Congrats to team members
I am just a newbie (and it seems I am talking to myself on this forum) but I would still like to congratulate those who got some big milestone numbers up recently.
I do not know how you guys keep turning in such consistant good work over such a long period - it is something I can only aspire to at this stage (but I am trying).
It is such good work for eveyone to be folding to cure.
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Yes, congrats guys
Not sure why no one else is replaying to your posts... I'd like to help you with the SMP folding, but I've never even set up a client for it so I have no experience..
We need more of us turning in WU's to keep some other teams off our tale. If you know anyone on the forum that used to fold to cure but has stopped see if you can encourage them to get going again.
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I had a look and your figures show steady output - great stuff. Being a newbie at folding I an getting some good numbers but canot hold a candle to the stamina of you guys - yet.
I looks like you had around 7 machines turning in numbers at one point - any chance of getting those unit turning in WU's again?
It will be an honour when I my points build to slide in beside you, I may even try and beat the Mad Professor to it but that will be down to the wire.
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Well... unfortunately, four of those machines are laptops, therefore largely intermittent folders. I have two dedicated desktop machines, one of which was, up to this past weekend, folding for another team as a promise to someone on another forum (gee, I'm not posting there at the moment, so they can't bitch ), and a farm with no active machines in it (one doesn't have a usable video card so I can configure it and the other blew up).
I am overwhelmed with household projects at the moment and haven't had time to go into the Dngrlab and assess what I need to get the farm more productive. I need another motherboard for the one machine, and an PCI-e video card for the other, at least long enough to configure it to run in the farm. The farm server itself is a slow-ass P-II which isn't worth folding on anymore, I'm afraid. I should kill it once and for all and use one of the other boards to act as the server.
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It is a pity I am across the water and then some. I have some older items that might be suitable I would be able to help with and some I might free up in striving to get more ppd.
Excuse my ignorance, but what does the farm server do?
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The farm server has the hard drive and hosts the client computers. The clients have no hard drives or any other peripherals; they boot off the local LAN run by the server.
The OS is an extremely stripped-down Linux so that as much of the processor and available RAM is dedicated to folding.
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That makes sense and is very interesting.
So each farm worker is basically PSU, MB, CPU, Mem, Network card. No HDD, FDD, KB or Mouse - what about graphics? Are you able to control or monitor it from the server?
When the worker logs into the server, I imagine it downloads a script to load and run the app, do you map everything to a network drive with a home folder for each machine?
I have some old bits and pieces, but I think from earlier feedback they are too far gone to do anything with worth folding on: P100, P133 (about a dozen notebooks) and a some PII up to 400Mhz desktop boards and parts to make bare systems.
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P-IIs are good for making network servers and hardware firewalls based on Linux. As folders, they are just too damn slow anymore.
You've got the idea-- the machines boot off the network via PXE and the OS and folding data are all held in RAM. The Server saves the data at regular intervals on its hard drive.
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Keep hitting those milestones, we are about to drop a place, probably will have happened by the time you read this - so if you know anyone on the team who has stopped folding, see if you can convince them to fold to cure for the team and we can get that spot back.
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), and a farm with no active machines in it (one doesn't have a usable video card so I can configure it and the other blew up).
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