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That is encouraging 🙂 One other question is there any scheduling built in the client or is there a third party tool. It isn't necessary (I can work it out myself if need be, but it's easier if someone else has already done it). Some of the users get their panties in a wad if there is something running on their machine when they are there so for them I would like to schedule it to run only at night.

I can do it myself, however getting this done has to be done on my time and I already put in crazy hours at work so I anything I can do to make it easier and take less time on configuration is a okay with me.
 
No there isn't a built in way to schedule it .
You can install it as a service using the newest version and set it up as a scheduled task but that seems to be the only way.
 
That shouldn't be too big a problem with the packager machine I should be able to set it up the way I want and package it for deployment. Does it assign each machine that runs it an individual number or id or does it only matter that it have the account information?
 
If you set it up on each machine it gives each node a different number. If you set up machines as servers then all machines running off of that server has the same node number.
 
Sounds like setting up some machines as servers would be the way to go. Does that mean that those machines pool and hand out work similar to SetiQ?
 
I got this reply on bandwidth
"How much data is transferred?
This does vary. The minimum downloaded is about 5Kbytes, but when a new protein target is required a further 50Kbytes will be transferred. These quantities are small compared to most other Distributing Computing projects are will normally be transferred in much less than 1 minute."

Keith (The man in charge) will be online in four hours or so and he may have more info then.
 
Cool, that is good info. I will email them this week and get some more details on the mass installer.
 
Originally posted by: Freewolf
Speaking only for myself I personally have nothin but respect for the other DC teams and Mocking or taunting them is the last thing I would do. <...> Every team in dc deserves respect for the time , effort , and money they put into the projects they run.
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Agreed! 🙂


 
Dang nab it! :|

I was about to go to bed when I decided to take one more look at the DC forum. There I find a PM from my partner and this thread.

Now I'm wide awake and all excited. 🙂

There is definitely a disturbance in the force! 😛 😀
 
RAY! RAY!

Gosh Darn It! Wake UP!

They are talking about us again.
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Sorry, I was taking my mid-morning nap.....or was it my mid-afternoon nap? 😕

I don't know about the aged part. Don't forget about Smoke and Ray 😛
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Hey, wait a minute, are you calling me aged? :Q

/me whacks Freewolf upside the head with his cane....😛

😉😉
😀


Back when we were in a race with BBR, we all had fun with some friendly taunts/competition. IIRC, there were a few misunderstandings though.

The best taunting/friendly jabs were within the TeAm, during individual races and some of the mini-team races we had. Those were fun days. Everyone knew it was all in fun, and in jest. And we made sure to check at times to make sure no one was taking it personal.

Now here's one for the truly OLD teammates, if any still remember:

Oh the fun I had racing KingHam back in the RC5-64 days. 😀
 
Originally posted by: Insidious

PS: phaxmohdem, I know you don't mean any harm.... You're fine by me. Just remember how varied senses of humor can be and..... give us a 😀

We'll give you a :beer:
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Well said Sid!

phaxmohdem, parhaps I did not quite understand the words "mocking" "taunting" correctly. To me those words have a very negative connotation and do not (IMHO) conway the sense of fun or joke.
I understand that your plan was to make a thread of friendly and fun "ribbing" (hm, is that the right word?) where everybody knows what is going on and takes it the "right way". That is a good idea. But doing it in a good way may be hard since it is so easy to misunderstand and - if a person is so minded - to become offended. Especially if the reader is not a nativ enlish or american speaking individual. No offence intendend.
 
Ray, that was back when we IRC'd all the time, too. And played UT2000 against each other all the time. And back before your cane had any scratches on it from hitting people over the head. And DanC still had trout.
 
Originally posted by: JonB
Ray, that was back when we IRC'd all the time, too. And played UT2000 against each other all the time. And back before your cane had any scratches on it from hitting people over the head. And DanC still had LIVE trout.
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Fixed 😛
 
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Originally posted by: JonB
Ray, that was back when we IRC'd all the time, too. And played UT2000 against each other all the time. And back before your cane had any scratches on it from hitting people over the head. And DanC still had LIVE trout.
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Fixed 😛
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Good times those were for sure! 😀

it's gotta be said......


ahhh, the good old days! 😀

 
Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Originally posted by: JonB
Ray, that was back when we IRC'd all the time, too. And played UT2000 against each other all the time. And back before your cane had any scratches on it from hitting people over the head. And DanC still had LIVE trout.
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Fixed 😛
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Good times those were for sure! 😀

it's gotta be said......


ahhh, the good old days! 😀
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Today will be one of those on down the line! So warm up the pacemaker and dance a little jig............

Sid was here (wearing nothing but fig :shocked: )

 
Originally posted by: Crazee
I wonder if there is a way to calculate what a typical machine would use in a week or some other time period. If I had something like that and could calculate it out over the number of machines to get a ballpark. I don't need anything exact, just an average would be good.

Is there anything in the client or an add on that would capture stats in a log like setiwatch?

Also does it favor Intel or AMD procs? Is there benefit from hyperthreading? I used to run FaD back when hardly anyone else was, but I imagine it has changed some since then.
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From a bandwidth standpoint ... here's the nuts and bolts.

Over the course of a Job, a machine will access the queue server to write a results file of 1K-4K (usually about 1.8k). Jobs may run from seconds to weeks but most often they run for 12 hours to a few days. Every time FaD is started/stopped the executables, libraries, query, and results files must be read. Essentially, for every job that is completed, the results file is uploaded and a new job is downloaded. One may select the interval over which FaD will attempt to contact the Find-a-Drug servers to upload/download. This is selectable from on-demand (when each job completes the results are uploaded and one job is downloaded.) up to and including 1 week (in which case a lot of jobs get uploaded and a lot of jobs get downloaded in a sizeable batch)

My suspicion would be that it would be most effective from a network perspective to have at least one FaD QUEUE Server for each local network segment/vlan and potentially, one Queue Server for each 100 computers or so.

I have run a queue server with as many as 100 clients and the total network utilization for Find-a-Drug (THINK.exe, FaDSetup.exe, and SERVER.exe) is almost always much less than .1%. I have seen network traffic go higher when there is a network problem communicating with the FaD project servers ... then I see large amounts of re-transmits ... no different from every other network application when the network goes south with physical error that doesn't quite take the network down - like a bad cable or bad drop or bad switch --- but then again, those things never happen on a production network 😉
 
This will not be a "popular" post.

We like to kick about the DPC a bit, and with good reason. We've had a number of "scraps."

But... what is the one overriding truth that will permeate this analysis?

We get our arses handed to us... every dasm time.

Am I a DPC lover? Yes and no.

I am a TEAM lover... and the DPC do it better than anyone I've ever seen in my professional career, bar none.

Sorry folks. I am Die-hard Anandtech.... and I always will be. But in a discussion of TEAMS... the DPC are the epitome of the word.

Am I just some jerk flaunting my love for another team? Nope. I'm a rather "decorated" professional in the business of "teams" in the Deming sense... and I'm calling our lazy-a$$ American butts on the carpet for being soundly trounced by a vastly smaller, and wildly successful lot of guys that understand the meaning of the word "TEAM."

That said...

I'm NOT denigrating the efforts of the many stalwart, and hugely successful Anandtech members. That's not at ALL my point. Mine is this: As a student of the word "TEAM" (in the Deming sense) the Dutch have grasped the concept, and have kicked our ever-loving-butts with it)

Just like the Japanese have done in the industrial sense.

It's only some food for thought.

These gentlemen stepped up to the plate when it counted. They gave their money, their support, and their best wishes to our most "sacred" cow... David McOwen.

They will ALWAYS be a cut above.

My purpose is not to lower TeAm Anandtech, nor is it to raise the DPC above where they should rightfully be. My purpose is to cause my teammates to STOP and THINK a little bit about how different THEY are from us.... and why.

No "Uber und Unter"... just some food for thought.

Always and forever AnandTech.

DanC


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edit:

Thanks for not freaking out and lambasting me. It was meant in the most respectful manner toward both teams.

There's no denying the Dutch rock. We could do worse than emulating their fantastic performances.... over, and over again.

On the bright side - they truly are a great bunch of guys. I still feel badly for all the rank crap I said about them. They've proven worthy opponents, and gentlemen.

I now return you to your "bashing." Thanks for understanding. 🙂
 
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