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What's running in your F@H Farm?

I just installed XP on the old computer for kicks, and folding is running a couple hundred times faster than it did. Still doesn't hold a candle to OSX, but I was plesantly suprised.
 
MrMacman said:
Time to reinstall eh? :D
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How difficult would it to be to make an install CD/Script that I can just put in the G5s and go? I also have to bury it pretty deep in the harddrive.

I also have about 30 eMacs in the lab with the G5s, if someone can provide a way to stash this stuff on there, I would try to hook them up. Anybody?
 
Kingsnapped said:
How difficult would it to be to make an install CD/Script that I can just put in the G5s and go? I also have to bury it pretty deep in the harddrive.

I also have about 30 eMacs in the lab with the G5s, if someone can provide a way to stash this stuff on there, I would try to hook them up. Anybody?
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i use a .fah folder in the home dir. ~/.fah/fah1 and a ~/.fah/fah2 if it's a dually. i ftp the fah4 binary to the folder and:

Code: 
mkdir -p ~/.fah/fah1 (and/or ~/.fah/fah2)
cd ~/.fah/fah1 (or ~/.fah/fah2)
./fah4 -configonly -local

then set the crontab as in m68k's scripts.

Code: 
@reboot cd ~/.fah/fah1; ./fah4 -local -forceasm > /dev/null
@reboot cd ~/.fah/fah2; ./fah4 -local -forceasm > /dev/null


or if the machines work all day and the user don't need to notice it...

Code: 
0 19 * * 1-5 cd ~/.fah/fah37; ./fah4 -local -forceasm > /dev/null
0 19 * * 1-5 cd ~/.fah/fah38; ./fah4 -local -forceasm > /dev/null
0 8 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/killall -q fah4

it's not that hard! i'd done it for almost 60 procs. it takes a moment a processor.

i've written a bunch of adhoc crontabs, aliases, symbolic links of stats to localhost webservers, and cgi scripts to monitor everything.
 
I'm Currently folding with My:

Quick Silver '01 GigaDesigns Dual G4 @ 1.33GHz
Digital Audio GigaDesigns Dual G4 @ 1.33GHz
Gigabit Ethernet OEM Dual G4 @ 450MHz
Sawtooth GigaDesigns G4 @ 1.26GHz
Blue & White Sonnet G4 @ 500 MHz
Blue & White OWC G4 @ 450 MHz
Pismo DayStar G4 @ 550 MHz
iMac FP G4 @ 700 MHz ( the Wife's 'Puter )

All Folding 24/7 for Team ... a... err... 0opps ... Wrong Forum :D
Larry ( Team 1971 )
 
MrMacman said:
*cough*
*cough*

What?


Whats this 'banner' you speak of? :eek:
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Don't no, maybe we should open a new forum called "Vote on a banner design 2". Don't think Mr. Anderson will appreciate it, but I 'm in a crazy mood now... so maybe... (let's see how fast Mr. Anderson shuts it down...) :D
 
Dreadnought said:
Don't no, maybe we should open a new forum called "Vote on a banner design 2". Don't think Mr. Anderson will appreciate it, but I 'm in a crazy mood now... so maybe... (let's see how fast Mr. Anderson shuts it down...) :D
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I think it would be best not to tempt fate. Mr. Anderson made it very clear on the last thread, that he was upset by our continued questions. I tried to soothe him, but that's when he locked the thread. We need to learn patience.
 
wdlove said:
I think it would be best not to tempt fate. Mr. Anderson made it very clear on the last thread, that he was upset by our continued questions. I tried to soothe him, but that's when he locked the thread. We need to learn patience.
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Yeah, you are probably right, else I get banned! A three hour workout in the gym does wonders for crazy moods, now I 'm back to normal (well almost! :D )
 
I'll chime in a little late on this thread...

I'm running folding on an iMac 800...wouldn't exactly call it a "folding farm", but its better then nothing. :p
 
Might as well chime in. For some strange reason I didn't think to register with F@H using my MacRumors username. I'm using 'mikeandbev' over there, but shhh! Don't tell anyone. ;)

At home
G4 733 Quicksilver
G3 600 iBook
Athlon 1800+ (FreeBSD)
Celeron 800 (WinXP)
Athlon 700 (WinXP)

At work
Two G4 1.25 PowerBooks
Dual G5 2.0 Power Mac (both processors)
P3 1 GHz laptop (Win2k)
Two P4 2.8 (Linux, just added today)

Everything's 24/7 except the iBook which is known to be put to sleep at times. Actually it came back from logic board repair yesterday, and the fan doesn't seem to like running full time anymore. I may just let it finish the work unit that was interrupted by the repair and then relieve it from duty. It wasn't producing much anyway, between the speed and being asleep part of the time.
 
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