1000-1200 clients looking for work! :D

[Vich]

UD-Cancer or F@H or D2OL

 

[Engineer]

While my personal choice would be SETI (very flexible), I would just say glad to have you on the TeAm no matter what project you choose!

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: Engineer
While my personal choice would be SETI (very flexible), I would just say glad to have you on the TeAm no matter what project you choose!

awww engineer so sweet! :lips::heart:


_rich

 

[Shame]

1200 machines??? Split it up between D2OL, DPAD, SOB, F&H, and SETI!!!! H3ll, you could cure all the painful diseases, that kill the all aliens, with nasty genetic defects, who's hobbies are playing around with a proton accelerator. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Run SETI till it's over, it won't be much longer, or at least for a month to help us out. After that, switch over to some other project.

 

[Zbox]

actually there is a third party app to upload dpad results via http

the client is pretty rock solid, despite being in beta

 

[DanC]

A person could always divvy up say... 300 for this project, 300 for that one - etc. Could be a "fair" way to approach such power.

Or.. 1200 to DPAD.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: DanC
A person could always divvy up say... 300 for this project, 300 for that one - etc. Could be a "fair" way to approach such power.

Or.. 1200 to DPAD.

I think splitting it up evenly would be nice. I'd do half for DPAD and half for SETI, but the reason I think you should give SETI a little mroe is because with your rigs we could finish above S@NL's team one rank up.

 

[Coquito]

Whatever the case may be, we all would thank you for contributing many times over.

 

[DanC]

DPAD would graciously accept even ONE machine. We're just a tiny little blip on the radar -- and need all the help we can get.

But-- we have the best BEER :beer: and the best BABES (what???? no emoticon for BABES???) :Q

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Well, I'd have to admit that SETI would probably fit your requirements best, though I'd love to see F@H chosen instead (the F@H TeAm could really use some help to avoid being knocked down 6 more places from 24th in the near future). However, I have no idea how in the world it would be possible to do an automated service install with F@H. However, someone more knowledgeable than I can probably help you with that if you're interested.

actually , we're 26th now
and if the stats are right, we will be no 30 on this day next year
we need all the help for F@H
you know where my vote goes to then

 

[Mardeth]

You gotta be sh1tt1ng me!

 

[Shuxclams]

Here is the LAN Install that so many have used. Its very easy and can be scripted to start and stop when desired. Its a 100% Service oriented install and is controlled at the remote machine.












SHUX

 

[CyGoR]

Ouch, lot's of choices to make babbage

You could devide the projects in categories like medical science, mathematical-problem-solving projects etc

Lot's of different projects TA participates in need some help. My personal opinion is that Seti could use 'some'
help, but doesn't need all of your systems. The TeAm is in a safe place (for now) and even when you hear us
speak about catching the next team (S@NL) I personally don't think that's possible

Other projects, F@H and United Devices for example could use your help..
Unfortunatly the UD client isn't as great to install, but even 10 systems would be a nice addition to the team!

Good luck on deciding what project (or even if there is a project you'd like) will be running your herd..

 

[DanC]

I know... you could put one machine on every project -- and still have THREE left over! :Q

 

[babbage]

Splitting the herd is not really practical from a time management point of view.

I'm afraid it's an all or nothing issue, as puting multiple proxies etc on the firewall is a no no.

Currently seti is lookin interesting but I can see no way of deploying clients using setehide features (such as stop client when app runs) and use the flexinstaller.

The flexi installer provides no means to pass a list of clients, it browses the network, this is no good for me.

Every flexy install appears to require a connection to the internet, does not cache settings i.e proxy server to use etc when you restart the program and causes multiple dos boxes to pop up during install, these disappear soon afterwards.

The setqueue feature is excellent does the job nicely , pity you can't point it to another setiqueue instead of berkley? maybe you can just can't see the option.

Any comments on the above are welcome as I am open to suggestions on where I am misunderstanding the setup procedure.

LDAP

kinda grabs my fancy, I like the no download of wu idea. again automated deployment is poor and proxy services have me puzzled

but the FTP requirement kills it dead for me.




Basically guys I have a client in the form of DNETC that does all of my mandatory requirements.

What I am looking for is some knowledgable people familiar with other projects to show me if these manadatory requirements are achievable with other projects.

Failing that I will stick with the DNETC client and keep crunching OGR

Regards

Babbage

 

[babbage]

Splitting the herd is not really practical from a time management point of view.

I'm afraid it's an all or nothing issue, as puting multiple proxies etc on the firewall is a no no.

Currently seti is lookin interesting but I can see no way of deploying clients using setehide features (such as stop client when app runs) and use the flexinstaller.

The flexi installer provides no means to pass a list of clients, it browses the network, this is no good for me.

Every flexy install appears to require a connection to the internet, does not cache settings i.e proxy server to use etc when you restart the program and causes multiple dos boxes to pop up during install, these disappear soon afterwards.

The setqueue feature is excellent does the job nicely , pity you can't point it to another setiqueue instead of berkley? maybe you can just can't see the option.

Any comments on the above are welcome as I am open to suggestions on where I am misunderstanding the setup procedure.

LDAP

kinda grabs my fancy, I like the no download of wu idea. again automated deployment is poor and proxy services have me puzzled

but the FTP requirement kills it dead for me.




Basically guys I have a client in the form of DNETC that does all of my mandatory requirements.

What I am looking for is some knowledgable people familiar with other projects to show me if these manadatory requirements are achievable with other projects.

Failing that I will stick with the DNETC client and keep crunching OGR

Regards

Babbage

 

[Confused]

babbage,

I am in the process of writing a program which will automate the install of DPAD onto PCs on a network.

Do you wish it to browse the network, or do you wish to load in a list of computers to install on? If the latter, please PM/email me with a sample of the list format

I have feelings you could set up an FTP server on your own machine, and manually flush every x days That would be by far the easiest. If you wish me to get those functions working, again, let me know


The basics are there, it can browse a network, and copy files and install the service. Restarting the PCs will then trigger the service to start (due to the way Window handles services added manually ).


Garry

 

[Freewolf]

you can point a setiq to another q and there is a service install of seti hide

 

[yelo333]

did some googling, and came up with:

http://www.shroomery.org/files/fahsi/

never tried it though.

EDIT:sorry, this looks way too old. Use the one from the guy below me. Good luck!

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Well, I'd have to admit that SETI would probably fit your requirements best, though I'd love to see F@H chosen instead (the F@H TeAm could really use some help to avoid being knocked down 6 more places from 24th in the near future). However, I have no idea how in the world it would be possible to do an automated service install with F@H. However, someone more knowledgeable than I can probably help you with that if you're interested.

F@H really needs the help! There is an automated installer for the V4 of the F@H client. You can get it
here. However it needs to be run on the local machine. It's not setup to install remotely. The author of the program may be willing change that though. It wouldn't be a big deal to change the source code to do something like that.

So my vote is for F@H!

 

[babbage]

Thanks folks

its late Friday afternoon here so what I'm going to do is download the relevant tools and utilities for seti, f@h, sob and ldap.

PLay with them over the weekend, probably asking lots of dumb questions at the same time with a view to having a firm idea in my mind which if any is suitable.

Monday morning begin some test deployments to check usability and whatever scripts I devise myself.

During the week report on progress asking some more dumb questions

Thats about as fair as I can make this, I don't want to turn this into some sort of beauty contest but at the same time I have to allow some "gut feeling" element enter this.

Regards Babbage

PS apologies to shuxon? (sp) I downloaded the flexi installer not realising his/her link was to a different app. New cmd line app is much more suitable

 

[babbage]

Thanks folks

its late Friday afternoon here so what I'm going to do is download the relevant tools and utilities for seti, f@h, sob and ldap.

PLay with them over the weekend, probably asking lots of dumb questions at the same time with a view to having a firm idea in my mind which if any is suitable.

Monday morning begin some test deployments to check usability and whatever scripts I devise myself.

During the week report on progress asking some more dumb questions

Thats about as fair as I can make this, I don't want to turn this into some sort of beauty contest but at the same time I have to allow some "gut feeling" element enter this.

Regards Babbage

PS apologies to shuxon? (sp) I downloaded the flexi installer not realising his/her link was to a different app. New cmd line app is much more suitable

 

[MechxWarrior]

No DPAD

 

[IndyJaws]

Originally posted by: Smoke
babbage, I have asked someone to help you with this. He is not online at the moment.

I assume you're talking about me

Babbage, welcome to the TeAm! I'm jealous hearing about someone with a large fleet at their disposal. I ran a similar group a few years ago (not quite as many), so I might be of some assistance.

When I started, there weren't really any good programs/scripts for distributing SETI over a network. Thanks to the hard work of Shuxclams (hey Shux! ), a script was created that completely simplified the process. Not only in installing the clients over the network, but also remotely starting and stopping the clients manually. This was important for me, as some of the machines only crunched at night, leaving them fully available for "regular work" during the day.

The biggest advantage is that the client runs as a service, so there is no icon visible to the users. Not that you're trying to hide anything (or at least I hope not! ), but curious users will see a new icon and investigate, often accidentally shutting it down.

As I said, it's been a few years since I've done it, and I'm sure Shuxclams has made some improvements to his script (not that it needed it! ). He can probably elaborate on the usage, but feel free to ask me any questions you might have. PM me or post it here.

Again, welcome!

Indy