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by theMASS
Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:57 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

Hey, theMASS!! I think there is a problem with your config. It's not set to team 2630 :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: WE NEED YOU! I suppose at the very least I owe 2630 some of my cycles. I still however have loyalty to 39227 as I wouldn't have been aware of the F@H project without my daily gadget reading...
by theMASS
Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:22 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

I'm not sure about the min. memory for A2 core but one of my VMware setups is set for 512MB and freezes with it while the other set for 600+ MB works fine. Could be a completely separate issue from the A2 core freezing though. With VMW Server set at 512MB I get out of memory errors within a few min...
by theMASS
Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:43 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

Has anyone done any testing to figure out what the minimum memory requirement is to run the a2 core? 800MB works for me, just wondering if anyone has already figured it out so I don't spend time reinventing the wheel. ;) Also as a side note: I still haven't received an a2 core project on any of my q...
by theMASS
Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:36 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

Hi notfred and everyone else on this board, First off let me say thanks for puting the effort into creating this utility. This is my first attempt at running a linux client in vmware so please excuse any noob sounding questions I might have. I am running windows XP and Windows Vista on my PCs with ...
by theMASS
Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:59 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

I just got back in town today and installed the new version at the office. It picked up the WU that was in progress without any issues. Still waiting on an a2core WU.

UPDATE: Got an a2 WU on the C2D @ work. So far so good.
by theMASS
Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:39 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

theMASS , Did you ever conclude your tests on the /2 vs /4 config. I have read threw that area of the thread .. and it seems like you were getting around 10%+ boost at a min ... I have noticed that on the 3065 ... there is not much boost from going 2x SMP ... but all others get a good boost. I have...
by theMASS
Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:47 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

You guys are having problems because you are running the vmdk (virtual disk). Go back and read my guide. It runs directly from the ISO. So far it has a 100% success rate. Zero errors. By using the ISO as the virtual HD, you are emulating the exact same method notfred used. If you want to use the VM...
by theMASS
Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:46 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

OH.... and excuse me for not giving a BIG THANKS to notfred! As always your work is greatly appreciated.

Restore from the virtual drive works!
by theMASS
Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:08 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4831/95714686by2.th.jpg Getting this error on one of my instances.... Very often and frequently after resetting the VM. Don't know what WU's you were getting that on, but now that I see it, that's the issue I mentioned above where I setup a second instance and had...
by theMASS
Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:19 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance
Replies: 164
Views: 35358

Re: Diskless Folding Virtual Appliance

Hey notfred... I seem to have an issue with a VA running in VMWare. It seems as though "time" is getting stuck per the FAH log. Hang check log looks normal with a check every 5 minutes. It was progressing normally at around 12:16 - 12:28/frame or so until the 34% mark. Then it seemed to &...
by theMASS
Tue May 20, 2008 3:18 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

We tried USB-HDD, USB-ZIP, USB-Floppy, etc in bios. It actually runs and detects "fold64" and seems to be going along perfectly. Then *wham* "Unpacking initramfs...<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: invalid compressed format (err=1)"[/quote That's pretty bizarre. I assume you tried ...
by theMASS
Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:05 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

Hi, first i would like to say thanks to notfred for an easy way to pxe boot tons of clients :D but after i rebooted the clients, i can see on the main page on the only dualcore in my farm, "it says "Found 2 processors"" but it only has one instance, with prior version i had two,...
by theMASS
Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:29 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

I have been getting the "Hard drive image is corrupted, not backing up" message also. Doesn't seem to be much of a problem, except when the machines get restarted. They go back to zero. Since I don't shut them down, no big deal, usually. Last night had a power outage. All went back to zer...
by theMASS
Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:21 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

Ah ok, thanks :) I look forward to the release where you can save to a virtual disk then :) Would this also be the reason why FahMon claims that the diskless instance is *Hung*? Thanks for a great program. FahMon has trouble monitoring VM clients. If you have a windows box FahSpy does much better m...
by theMASS
Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:13 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

A member on the F@H forum posted the following issue: I had this running on two machines with the .iso and fold64.vbx in the VMPlayer folder. On one machine all was well and on the second all was running fine except that for some reason it seemed to be reading the system clock about 3.5x faster tha...
by theMASS
Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:10 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

A member on the F@H forum posted the following issue: I had this running on two machines with the .iso and fold64.vbx in the VMPlayer folder. On one machine all was well and on the second all was running fine except that for some reason it seemed to be reading the system clock about 3.5x faster than...
by theMASS
Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:58 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

I'm also seeing the "not backing up message", but I'm able to do a backup tar from the web interface. What's the procedure for restoring from that tar? Can we just untar it to the USB stick and start again? I would think so, but that was one reason why I set up TFTP in the first place ins...
by theMASS
Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:39 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

You're going to need a separate USB drive per VM, and note that it can get tricky under Linux hosting to get the VM to pick up the drive so that the guest VM can use it. I don't run Windows so I don't know if it suffers from the same temperamental behaviour ;-) I am working right now on an "Of...
by theMASS
Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:02 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

None of my quads are clocked that high, and now with warm weather approaching, it's not going to even be a consideration. :( At 3.5ghz I found that it took roughly 35 hours to complete every 4 work units. That meant that there was over 50% of the usual 3 day 'preferred deadline' left. Thus the tigh...
by theMASS
Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:22 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

I have heard some good things about this board and the -DS4 version in general. I have been looking at the G-EX38-DS4 for my next quad core over the -EP35-DS4 only because it boasts the 1600 FSB and DDR 1200 native, opposed to overclocking. But regaurdless, both are killer boards. Rod If you're con...
by theMASS
Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:53 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

Well... I'm finding that my results are very WU dependent with the 2xSMP setup. If the WUs are both 26XX series the PPD gain is ~30% vs. 1 SMP with a 30XX series WU and a ~20% gain vs. 1 SMP with a 26XX WU. With 2 30XX WUs the gain vs 1 SMP with a 30XX WU is ~15% and ~11% vs. 1 SMP with a 26XX WU. 1...
by theMASS
Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

I'm running the 2 SMP client set up on a Q6600 @ 3.3GHz 2GB RAM and I got 2 2653 WUs. Strange since it's the first time I've received a 26XX WU with the 2 SMP set up in over a week. Early results are showing ~4500PPD vs. ~3600PPD for 1 SMP with a 2653. I'll let it run a few days and see what happens...
by theMASS
Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:40 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

on my box that had 2gb of ram, it ran just fine with 2x SMP going. it went from about 3kppd at 3ghz (1x SMP) to almost 4400ppd at times at the same speed. it really helped out the points. but i noticed that on my boxes with only 1gb of ram i would randomly get Long 1-4 errors and the client would c...
by theMASS
Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:03 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New release of diskless folding suite
Replies: 175
Views: 42647

Re: New release of diskless folding suite

theMass , any results on the 2/smp vs 4/smp in the system with more then 1 GB ...?? notfred, the new /fixed hang check is awesome. Not a single hang since release date. Thanks I keep putting it off... but I'll add the second stick tonight. Almost did it last night but I had to burn 30 DVDs of a sch...
by theMASS
Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:35 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

I do have a new request and will make it properly @ SF but I'll also mention it here... CPU temp? That's actually pretty tricky as there is still no standard way of reading temp. The most standard is probably ACPI Thermal Zone, but I'm running a Q6600 on a P5K-VM and it doesn't support it. I could ...
by theMASS
Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:42 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

I have come up with a question. Might just me to tired to find it right now. I have been using the USB. Decide to set up disk less. My server is an XP machine, which will be folding GPU when new client arrives. Got everything set up, without to much problem. Then the last machine (the USB one), an ...
by theMASS
Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:31 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking. I'm not sure that Windows networking works that way. I could just not start nmbd and only run smbd, but then I think you might have to specify the IP to connect to them. I'm also rather concerned if this is a ...
by theMASS
Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:22 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

Disabling samba would prevent him from 'being able to monitor the boxes from [his] workstation" so I don't think he wants that, but rather the option to just not having them publicly listed and browse-to-able by anyone on the network. Well they can be monitored without samba via IP just checki...
by theMASS
Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:47 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: New diskless folding suite released

rsculthorp wrote:
I was also wondering if there is a command I can add to the isolinux.cfg that will turn off the netbios Samba broadcasting? I like being able to monitor the boxes from my workstation, but I am not fond of the "diskless" domain showing up in my network neighborhood.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:
Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.


Do you want the ability to disable SAMBA... or just not have the boxes listed publicly?
by theMASS
Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:41 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: New diskless folding suite released
Replies: 370
Views: 99340

Re: Any way to blank the screen?

I'd like to fold on a laptop using a USB drive, but I'm a bit concerned about image persistence from the screen being on and not changing for days at a time. (In theory, LCDs don't suffer from burn-in, but there have been reports of ghosting I've come across). I can't turn the screen off independen...
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