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[Sazar]

How much stuff are you fixing up?

 

[Dark Atheist]

so far im about 40-45% though about 60 DVD's have about 10 films left and the rest are epsiode discs and they should take long 30 min eps - 4 im doing tonight are progressive and they dont take very long - suppose i could do 1 night back ups one night off one night folding

edit: least i know i got it working right after i remembered to run it as admin, and looking in take manager there are 4 processes running
and i have told it to d/l work units over 5mb - see if that will help me with a few points, atm the encode is taking 97%

edit2: apart from the message working, does it update how far its got in the work unit?

edit3: if i kill the app will it continue from where is left off like the gui version or will i have to start the work unit again ?

 

[Dark Atheist]

[23:07:24] + Working ...
[05:46:41] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[05:46:41] Sending work to server
[05:46:41] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_01.dat
[05:46:41] - Error: Could not read unit 01 file. Removing from queue.
[05:46:41] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[05:46:41] + Attempting to get work packet
[05:46:41] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:46:42] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.64).
[05:46:42] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[05:46:42] Loaded queue successfully.
[05:46:55] + Closed connections

can someone explain that to me please - is that saying i have wasted near 20 hours trying to to do a unit and it wont send it, because if that is the case i can see folding @ home being wiped from my pc

 

[Dark Atheist]

is there a vista gadet for folding because all the ones i seem to find are geared towoards dual core - not quad - and they always give me the error of no being able to find the folding exe even when i give it the full path

 

[Sazar]

Run 2 instances of Netryder's Vista Gadget for dual-core systems. Point to the correct paths and you should be good to go.

I don't think it works with the SMP client, but I haven't used it so I can't tell.

Hope that helps somewhat.

 

[Dark Atheist]

thats the version i tried, kept saying it couldn't find the path, and i tried it with

C:\Program Files\Folding\fah.exe
and
C:\Program Files\Folding\FahCore_a1.exe

and it wouldn't have any of it

 

[Sazar]

Just point it to the folder and see what happens.

I think it pulls data from the .txt files, not the actual .exe so simply pointing to the correct folder SHOULD work.

 

[Dark Atheist]

well that aint what it says in the readme, but will try it anyway - bound to be a 4 core version of the widget soon i would think

 

[Sazar]

Have you looked on the Folding Forums run by stanford? Don't know if they have a proper widget but I haven't looked through all their 3'rd party contributed items yet.

Thread/forum link below.

http://foldingforum.org/viewforum.php?f=14&sid=1e094f5dd28761353a324b65f09ff3be

 

[Dark Atheist]

i'll have a goosy in a bit

 

[Dark Atheist]

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding
Executable: C:\Program Files\Folding\fah.exe


[12:59:07] - Ask before connecting: No
[12:59:07] - User name: Carpo_ (Team 35216)
[12:59:07] - User ID: 21BFF07522C92013
[12:59:07] - Machine ID: 1
[12:59:07]
[12:59:07] Could not open work queue, generating new queue...
[12:59:07] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[12:59:07] + Attempting to get work packet
[12:59:07] - Connecting to assignment server
[12:59:08] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.64).
[12:59:08] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[12:59:08] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:59:26] + Closed connections
[12:59:26]
[12:59:26] + Processing work unit
[12:59:26] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[12:59:26] Core found.
[12:59:26] Working on Unit 01 [February 20 12:59:26]
[12:59:26] + Working ...
[12:59:26]
[12:59:26] *------------------------------*
[12:59:26] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[12:59:26] Version 1.74 (March 10, 2007)
[12:59:26]
[12:59:26] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:59:26] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[12:59:43] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:59:43] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[12:59:43] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[12:59:43] - Going to use standard loops.
[12:59:43] - Files status OK
[12:59:53] (decompressed 513.6 percent)
[12:59:53] 2 (decompressed 513.6 percent)
[12:59:53] cket
[12:59:53]
[12:59:53] Project: 2653 (Run 12, Clone 78, Gen 59)
[12:59:53]
[12:59:54] Entering M.D.
[12:59:54] one 78, Gen 59)
[12:59:54]
[12:59:54] Entering M.D.
[13:00:00] Rejecting checkpoint
[13:00:02] Protein: Protein in POPC
[13:00:02] Writing local files
[13:00:03] Extra SSE boost OK.
[13:00:03] Writing local files
[13:00:03] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0 percent)

looks like its working properly now - had to make myself owner of the folder it was in :/

 

[Sazar]

Cool. Post some pics of the gadget you are using

 

[Dark Atheist]

well i was getting a few issues with it even after i changed perms - so i have installed it to d: drive but even though (after my short test run) it said i had 2% done the gadget stayed on 0%

edit: seems to be working again but they are all saying 3% which i don't think he right - i will add screen shot in the morning

 

[Sazar]

The gadget samples separately from your .txt file. It picks up information at intervals so it is unlikely to be 100% accurate.

It is there as a matter of convenience and presents a relatively accurate visual representation.

 

[Dark Atheist]

i don't think this is too bad for about 9 hours worth of work

 

[Dark Atheist]

is there an x64 version out - i doubt i will be using freebsd server as they dont have a version of bsd - i will have to mess about and put linux compatibility layer in

 

[Sazar]

The good news is our team totals and average are rising again. I would like us to reside around 20k a day if possible

But 15k is nothing to sniff at.

 

[Dark Atheist]

well although i had done 46% seems after the x64 install something went bad with my back up so will have to do it from 0%

 

[fitz]

I have a desktop under my desk here at work that I've been using as my main folding machine. Finally replaced it (was an old P4) with a slightly newer box - but the nice thing is the new box has two physical CPU's which means I can now run the SMP client. Been finishing the SMP Workunits about every 2 days meaning I push my daily average to ~700-800 points per day..

 

[Dark Atheist]

how you stop the smp client without it always getting narky and deling the work unit you have 50% done, eveery time i stop it after its been running overnight, it says that it was shutdown imporperly and there is a file_io_error, and that is deleting the work unit and continuing.

But nothing seesm to happen and the cpu is idle