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What to do after SETI Classic?

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A plug for seventeen or bust, stable client, easy stats, nice project, great teammates.

I think it was one of the best projects I have run as well.

Mike
 
I installed the FaD client on my home PC to test it out and discovered a simple registry entry to make it run as a service (and hidden if the "Show system tray icon" checkbox is cleared). That will work nicely when running it at the office. I've entered the team number 198 in the control panel and am about 65% through a Cancer job so far. Do I have to actually submit a result before my name will show up in the team stats or do I just need to wait for the stats server to update itself?
 
I'm not sure about when you show up in the stats but I do know that you have to enter team#2039

Is there another team anandtech?
 
I thought I saw 198 for the team number earlier. Of course, I could be entirely wrong. This link seems to indicate the team number is 33. Anybody know for sure? 🙂

I got the program to run as a service by saving this info to a text file and then importing it to the registry: (I found it on the FaD forums. It assumes the program is installed in the default location.)




Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ThinkService]
"Type"=dword:00000010
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"="C:\Program Files\find-a-drug\loader.exe"
"DisplayName"="FAD Project Service"
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ThinkService\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,a0,00,00,00,ac,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,02,00,70,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,12,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,1c,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,\
20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,\
00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,00,00,1c,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,\
00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,\
00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ThinkService\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_THINKSERVICE\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001





 
The team number for Anandtech in Find a drug is 2039
I believe 198 is the team number for folding at home
 
Just so you don't get frustrated:
The percent done that the client reports doesn't mean much. I've had a job get to 90% done (with zero hits) in an hour and then take a day to finish (ending with like 100 hits). I see one finished in 27 minutes with no hits.

I do hope you consider joining TAS (a great group of TeAmmates, btw) with a machine or two as we have lost some members to projects that we have helped, I guess they found the perfect project that they were looking for, and we are happy for them 🙂 , but now we aren't making as big of an impact on the projects that we do visit 🙁

😀
 
I thought I'd post an update here rather than bother making a new thread.

The power is still out at the remote site so I didn't make the trip this weekend like I had planned. I may go down there some evening this week if I feel like it. Or maybe on Saturday.

I'm at almost exactly 48 hours from when I installed FaD on my wife's computer (XP 2000+) and my temporary PC (P3 866 that will be replaced with a Barton 2500 on Tuesday), and so far I have uploaded a total of 8501 points with both computers 1/4 to 1/2 way through new jobs. The XP 2000+ is averaging a rating of 159 at 585 MFlops/s and the P3 is getting a rating of 64 at 236 MFlops/s. Do those numbers sound about right?

I have noticed that they seem to be finishing jobs consistently at about the same time although the value of points is significantly higher on the XP... Does the client automatically pick the size of the jobs based on the CPU or is this just a random coincidence? If so, that's pretty cool. 🙂

I have also installed the FaD client on my father-in-law's new P4-M 1.6Ghz laptop. I had not previously installed any DC client on that computer because he relies on battery power while travelling and I didn't want to have anything draining the batteries. When I read on the FaD site that a recent update turns the client off while the system is on battery, I figured it was time to put that little beauty (I have laptop envy 😉) to work. Speed Stepping on the laptop does slow the system down a bit when the CPU heats up, but it seems to be getting about a 120-130 rating in the two hours it has been running. He doesn't usually have it on more than a few hours per day so I'll have to see what happens when it gets around to uploading the results of its first job.
 
Hey folks,

I have a question.
Doesn't Boinc allow you to run multiple projects? Why not do seti and FAD or F@H or whatever you want?

Just another burr in the saddle of what to do!😀:laugh:
 
You can very easily run multiple BOINC-projects, but most DC-clients expects to be the only client running so can be difficult to run together on the same computer. Depending on the clients, they will share 50/50, or one will completely dominate so takes 99% of the time. Of course, if you've got dual-cpu or HT, it's no problem to run one project on each cpu. 😉
 
I have FaD on my notebook. The client is "cruder" than S@H and F@H but it's IMO a more worthwhile pursuit. 🙂

I'm also doing both S@H and F@H on my P4 HT. I'm a long-time S@H cruncher. Old habits die hard I suppose.

Still, there's this increasingly nagging feeling that I should devote all 3 processors to FaD, like I did S@H these past few years. Choices, choices... :frown: 😛

 
Those FaD ratings sound right. My PIII 800 laptop had a rating of slightly above 60, while my XP 3000+ (non-OC) has a rating of around 210.
And yes, I think the client does automatically download an appropriate project based on the CPU rating (if you enable the CPU info setting) when it's running low on cached jobs.
 
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