Thinking of upgrading a cruncher. Best @ 3930k priceline ?

[Markfw]

OK, I am as confused as you can get, none of the screenshots equal anything I saw. But after installing virtualbox and trying to create a "vitual box" here is where I stand:

So far how am I doing ? Should be 16 gig memory and 100 gig hard disk space allocated ?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Have you tried pressing the Start button?

 

[blckgrffn]

Make sure you have the right flavor of Linux selected for the OS type. I would also download the Linux ISO file you intend to use (I roll Ubuntu, but the UI got a little screwy lately for Fedora or CentOS might be a better bet). Get that loaded into the DVD drive, hit start and away you go!

Also, how many threads have you put in there? That should be found under settings.

100GB and 16GB of ram is going to be plenty Which means that it fits right in with the theme of the build

 

[DooKey]

That looks good Mark. You didn't need to give the VM 16gb, but it's fine. Now hit start and select the i7-avx flavor when the menu pops up. Once the vm is booted just type in ./fah6 -configonly, and then setup your passkey, team number, other stuff. Once that is finished type ./fah6 -smp and let it roll. If you want -bigadv then ./fah6 -smp -bigadv.

 

[Markfw]

That looks good Mark. You didn't need to give the VM 16gb, but it's fine. Now hit start and select the i7-avx flavor when the menu pops up. Once the vm is booted just type in ./fah6 -configonly, and then setup your passkey, team number, other stuff. Once that is finished type ./fah6 -smp and let it roll. If you want -bigadv then ./fah6 -smp -bigadv.

OK, I pressed the start button. It wanted a bootable cd. So I downloaded the 64 bit ubuntu iso, and burned the disk. When I put it in, I got a menu, so it looked like the correct disk, but the virtual machine said "no bootable cd found, so I have to kill everything. Ca you give me a link to the correct 64 bit bootable image I should be using ?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Follow these instructions.

 

[Markfw]

Follow these instructions.

Thats what I am working on/under, but they don't say where to get the bootable disk that it asks for when you start the virtual box. Like the instructions are missing that part.

 

[blckgrffn]

This is the most common issue my students have, I believe. Not only do you have to load the .iso file for the dvd drive, you have make sure it is "connected" to the VM.

I have no freaking idea why you would have to burn a CD during this process at all? I wouldn't use optical media, just connect the virtual DVD-ROM drive to iso, connect the DVD-ROM drive, boot. Enjoy.

Honestly, that whole process looks complicated. I would just install a base, normal Linux OS and then throw the beta 7 client on there and not mess with all that other stuff. I have done that maybe 20 times so far without any issue what so ever. Virtual Box is going to do an "easy install" of the OS for you with any luck, where you specify all the parameters first then it just takes off...

 

[Markfw]

This is the most common issue my students have, I believe. Not only do you have to load the .iso file for the dvd drive, you have make sure it is "connected" to the VM.

I have no freaking idea why you would have to burn a CD during this process at all? I wouldn't use optical media, just connect the virtual DVD-ROM drive to iso, connect the DVD-ROM drive, boot. Enjoy.

Honestly, that whole process looks complicated. I would just install a base, normal Linux OS and then throw the beta 7 client on there and not mess with all that other stuff. I have done that maybe 20 times so far without any issue what so ever. Virtual Box is going to do an "easy install" of the OS for you with any luck, where you specify all the parameters first then it just takes off...

OK< so I still have to have a linux 2.6 iso. Do I just google that ? or is there a recommended iso image ?

 

[DooKey]

Mark, did you go here: http://linuxforge.net/docs/crunching/fah-virtualbox.php and download the virtual machine image?

When creating the vm be sure you point it at the image above. If you don't do that you didn't do it right.

 

[Markfw]

dang, yes, how do I get the machine to use that image to boot ? sorry to be so dense, but this just is not intuative to me.

 

[Markfw]

OK< I had the setup wrong. Now I am all the way up to the passkey, but I can't find out how to paste in the vitualbox session. >ctrl>v does not work.

Help !! so close !

EDIT: I just manually entered it (what a pain), but now how do I get HFM.net to see the log file ?

Its doing a bigadv percent every 17 minutes. Any idea on the ppd on that ?

 

[blckgrffn]

OK< I had the setup wrong. Now I am all the way up to the passkey, but I can't find out how to paste in the vitualbox session. >ctrl>v does not work.

Help !! so close !

EDIT: I just manually entered it (what a pain), but now how do I get HFM.net to see the log file ?

Its doing a bigadv percent every 17 minutes. Any idea on the ppd on that ?

What project?

http://linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php

Nice

If it is a 6900, that is ~70k ppd!

 

[Markfw]

What project?

http://linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php

Nice

If it is a 6900, that is ~70k ppd!

So how do I get HFM to.net to see the log file, and calc it for me ?

yes its a 6901,8,16,115, and 70k is a lot better than 30k which is what it was doing an smp under winxp.

 

[blckgrffn]

So how do I get HFM to.net to see the log file, and calc it for me ?

yes its a 6901,8,16,115, and 70k is a lot better than 30k which is what it was doing an smp under winxp.

I'm no expert on that

The good thing is that once you have this VM built you can just copy it to other machines, I believe.

6901 is more like 84k ppd!

 

[Markfw]

I'm no expert on that

The good thing is that once you have this VM built you can just copy it to other machines, I believe.

6901 is more like 84k ppd!

Your calculator link says 80k ppd

 

[blckgrffn]

Your calculator link says 80k ppd

I just plugged in 17:00... a few seconds makes all the difference!

*and still!*

 

[Markfw]

First, thanks to all who helped (or tried to help an idiot, me) to get this working !!!!!

Now if somebody could just get me help on linking HFM.net to the log file.....

 

[Ken g6]

Linking to the logfile looks fairly easy.

First, where you would type "./fah6" to start F@H, instead type "ifconfig". This should produce a bunch of text, but somewhere in there you should see 'inet addr:192.168.0.200', or something like that. Alternatively, the HFM.net site says to type 'info'.

Now take that address, and tell HFM.net to look in "\\[that address]\fah". You should also be able to see this path in Windows Explorer.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

OK< I had the setup wrong. Now I am all the way up to the passkey, but I can't find out how to paste in the vitualbox session. >ctrl>v does not work.

Help !! so close !

EDIT: I just manually entered it (what a pain), but now how do I get HFM.net to see the log file ?

Its doing a bigadv percent every 17 minutes. Any idea on the ppd on that ?

It has instructions. When the VM first finishes loading, you get to a CLI with a few Tuxes and some text. Somewhere in that text are the settings you need to get HFM to recognize your VM as a folding system.

 

[Markfw]

well, I did this a little unscientifically. since it was in the middle of a unit, and I didn't want to risk it, I checked the IP of every computer in my house, then started pinging every unknown IP starting at 2, and at 12, I found one, and tried it, and BAM, now I have my whole farm:

 

[blckgrffn]

So when are "fixing" the rest of your crunchers?

You might double your CPU ppd, probably not that 2600K though, it's ppd looks good.

Forget I said that, I was seeing 38k, not 4k... That's horrible.

 

[Markfw]

Fixing ? noting wrong with them, confused....

 

[Markfw]

Fixing ? nothing wrong with them, confused...

 

[GLeeM]

On a four core, eight with HT, can Linux in a VM on Windows make better PPD than the Windows client? By how much?