Pick a project for my new cruncher...

[SoulAssassin]

Here's the deal, got a new p4 2.8 sitting under my desk for my aunt. Once this leaves my house on Saturday morning, I won't see it again. She's in upstate NY and behind a firewall (don't feel like walking her through opening a port). I'm 100% exclusive SETI right now but with the pending end of the project it's not worth a couple months, or however long, and then sitting idle.

Here's my requirements:

- Not SETI, it's a great project but I'm approaching 50K and all the reasons above.
- Has to run more or less invisble, showing 100% processor is fine but I don't want a taskmgr icon or anything in the startbar
- Has to start on boot of an XP box, none of that in the all users startup folder crap. I want 100% crunching time, install as service is great.
- Ability to cache at least a couple days worth of workunits/data/whatever
- Project needs to be around for a while. Anything w an expected end date sometime reasonably soon is out.
- Needs to be stable w 0 maintenance requirements.
- Easy install. I hacked together a nice install as service script for seti, I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel on this one. Show me an OOTB experience.
- Something that will benefit the TeAm. Anything we're in a close race on will be given special consideration.

Sell me, if the project doesn't meet one of the requirements pls mention it, I don't want to be suprised later. There's a few things that are dealbreaks but I'm flexible.

 

[MDE]

Folding@Home my friend. We're very close to actually gaining ground and I already wrote up a setup guide here. Even after an OT recruiting thread and a front page plead, we still are losing ground.

 

[Soggysocks]

I have two of those. And after Seti Classic ends, I'm going to run Lifemapper on them.

They will kick Axx. And there is a cli version, cache' able. That might be a good DC project...and she may like the research done.

Just a suggestion.. 😀



Edit: I have two other machines running......And If Dpad runs good on dial-up I'll be running that too!!!!!!

 

[amdxborg]

Two option from me, DPAD and Lifemapper.

DPAD:
Has a service installer.
No downloads, uploads automatically when the results file reaches 100kb or when a inet connection is available, on a p4 2.8 almost 100kb a day, or manaul send it whenever.
Uses FTP to transfer results.

Lifemapper:
Has a service installer.
Can cache uo to 200 wu. a P4 2.8 does about 1wu/15min with the cli.
Uses http port 80 to transfer wu.

Both are great, but since we're now nr.1 in DPAD, I'd go with Lifemapper, we need a lot of support for this GREAT project! Both will be around for a very long time to come and both run very stable! 😉

 

[Actaeon]

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I am also looking for another project to join as well. I was apart of SETI, I then moved on to SoB, we then hit #1, then I moved on to Dpad after DanC's call for help, we now hit #1, and now I'm looking to help another project.

I current have an AthlonXP 2500 @ 3200+, and a P3 900 ready to switch projects. I would perfer something that Athlons/Bartons are good at. I'd like one that either autodownloads the WUs, or no downloads at all (like dpad), I would also like to be able to cache my processed WU's and dump when I want to. User friendly and stable is a must. Of course, a site with some daily stats as well! The better the cause... the better!

 

[SoulAssassin]

Folding@Home always interested me, Lifemapper looks pretty interesting but doesn't look like many people are running it (which I guess is both a reason to run it and not to).

Hmm...not sold yet...

 

[Actaeon]

I'm running lifemapper at the moment, and I'm not impressed.

I have PM Johan about it, and hopefully he'll give me some advice.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Little confused about Lifemapper, machine is HT so I setup two dir's and a script tied to an executable in each dir. Seems like both executables are running the workunits from the first directory, is that normal?

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Little confused about Lifemapper, machine is HT so I setup two dir's and a script tied to an executable in each dir. Seems like both executables are running the workunits from the first directory, is that normal?

If you are interested (or haven't used it) try this dual-threading service installer.

-Por

EDIT: Woops. LifeMapper doesn't use those folders. 😛 Sorry.

 

[ProviaFan]

Folding@Home is what I would recommend (we really need help), but unfortunately it can't cache work units, needs a broadband connection, and must get out on port 8080 as well as 80 (but doesn't need any open incoming ports). I'd still recommend it installed as a service, if possible.

 

[yelo333]

I would say lifemapper. I've never tried the service install, but, under linux, it runs very nicely in the background, and consumes very little ram(like 1 mb for me). there is also a cache for workunits, so, I don't think you will run out(looks like you could cache ~2 days wort h of work). I can also vouch for the fact that it uploads from a NAT'd computer behind a router. I also think we are going to be seeing some competition in this project later on...

 

[SoulAssassin]

Got lifemapper running w the service install above (thanks porbleemo!) and it looks like it's working right. They did two services instead of a single service that calls a script that runs two exe's. Will probably do Folding on the next machine that comes my way.


Anyone have avg #'s for a HT 2.8? Looks like I did about 50 in the past 11-12 hours.

 

[amdxborg]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Got lifemapper running w the service install above (thanks porbleemo!) and it looks like it's working right. They did two services instead of a single service that calls a script that runs two exe's. Will probably do Folding on the next machine that comes my way.


Anyone have avg #'s for a HT 2.8? Looks like I did about 50 in the past 11-12 hours.

The reason I made the service installer that way, is because on the Lifemapper site or somewhere I read that you had to create two seperate folders, each running on it's own. So if you can do a script...plz do...!

Posted by Stormgiant

Ok, i made this small test to see the beneficts of HT, over P4 "normal".

Contenders :
- P4C 2.4@3180
- P4B 2.6@3400 ( bad cooler, ought to run at 3600 with new one )

I left yesterday night both of them running LF, with 2 instances on the C and 1 on the B.
Arrived about 1 hour ago, and had :
- 125 wu done on the C
- 94 wu done on the B

Thus, it gives 3,93 wu and 2,76 wu for every 100Mhz, respectively.

Here show the power of HT

Plz check this Lifemapper thread for more info! 😉