Folding@home, F@h Part Deux

I know, according to Kakaostats.com I have 284 days to recruit new machines.

But so do I!

And I'm making the ghost image that is being rolled out to the entire district next year.... hehehe

Billy3

Hey, does anyone here know if F@h will run on a Beowulf cluster?

From doing some Google searching it looks like Beowulf is a type of linux? If so I think the linux version of F@H will work on any linux computer.


[quote name='http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-highperformance']The PS3 is a powerful system for scientific calculation. Its Cell processor has the potential to be very powerful. In many ways, the Cell (and therefore the PS3) sits in between GPU's and multi-core CPU's. It is more flexible than GPU's, but less flexible than CPU's in the calculations it can perform. Consequently, it is more powerful than CPU's, but less powerful than GPU's. In the balance between flexibility and speed, the Cell makes a natural middle path. Other benefits are the uniformity of PS3's (all have the same processor, GPU, RAM, etc) and the ability to stream data quickly to the GPU, allowing for real time visualization.[/quote]
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Edited by yano, 03 March 2008 - 11:56 PM.

umm....

does anyone else happen to get with the screensaver to a point where it just stacks the molecule things on top of each other? I'm just wondering....

It wont. Just run a copy of the client on each machine.

Billy3

Vaerli you computer might not be fast enough to update the screensaver, or it just might be a lag. Not sure what Billy was referring to, though?

Dont know which post youre talking about...

For one, I am responsible for making cloned windows installations for the school district (Nordonia High School, http://nordoniaschools.org), and might add a system service to the image..... hehe4

For two, I was saying that FAH will not run on a beowulf cluster. Sure, it will run, but it will run on one machine at a time. If madman6510 wants to use the full potential of FAH, let me remind him that FAH itself is a giant "beowulf" cluster (Ok, not really, but you get the point). Just run a copy of the client on each machine.

umm....

does anyone else happen to get with the screensaver to a point where it just stacks the molecule things on top of each other? I'm just wondering....

Like the windows Pipes screensaver? No. It takes way too long to calculate where an atom goes for that to be useful. Remember that most of these workunits are a maximum of 100 atoms or so, and it takes most machines 20 minutes PER FRAME on average, so there would really be nothing to see in a screensaver. Thats why it only displays a snapshot of the most recently created frame.

Billy3

Edit:fixed url

Edited by Billy O'Neal, 04 March 2008 - 08:53 PM.

Cool, becareful though about adding the service to the installation. If it's anything like what my school uses (my HS used Norton Ghost I believe) it'll rewrite any new data with the data on the image during every reboot. So you might have 10+ machines all working on the same WU indefinitely. lol

No, they are ghosted once a year ;)

Although.. you do have a point. The school machines have DeepFreeze on.. that could be a problem. I dont suppose I could set up a lan share with the folding data.

I was just kidding though. While I make the image, I dont have the athority to say what actually goes on it, and I dont know how much the adminstrators check my work.

Most of them have no idea what they're doing anyway.

The schools machines have 256MB of ram. The adminstration's default image uses ~350MB at boot (Lots of pagefile). Mine uses ~120. Probably 'cause I turn off visual themes, remote registry, wireless zero configuration, etc.

Anyway, thanks for reminding me that putting FAH on the school machines is a bad idea, unless I could somehow thaw some part of the machine.

Edit: Oh, and it would be ~650 machines

Billy3

Edited by Billy O'Neal, 04 March 2008 - 09:36 PM.

Oh my goodness. only 256MB of RAM? lol Instead of spending money on the nice website, spend it on upgrading the computers! lol

btw: It was deepfreeze that the computers had on them at my school, but they initially used North Ghost to set up the computers.

Really? Small world.

Well, the machines are 4 years old now. Gateway E2300's.

Billy3

Whoa power was out for a little bit (11:00pm to about 12:30am). Looks like I just pop some points out.

Billy, looks like the high-week points have swung my way this week.

Yeah, a whole bunch of my machines are down right now. The internet is down at work

Billy3

Ouch. Weather related? Probably all the snow we're getting.