Folding@Home

mrweasel · Posted: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:59 Post Subject:

you bastard! I was closing in on you faster than a fat kid on a twinkie....GRRRRR!

Now to get my server up and running.

mrweasel · Posted: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:05:36 Post Subject:

loading up the USB thing on a test box now Bat

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:15:57 Post Subject:

Just fyi,
It appears Stanford has released a new beta smp core or something and the notfred usb/cd will stop working after it completes it's current work unit. notfred (don't know his real name) has said that he will try to get an update out with the new name/location of the core so things start working again.

In the mean time, you might want to keep an eye on your folding machines that are using the notfred usb/cd and just shut them down when they stop folding. At least until the update comes out. if your system was setup and running without being shutdown, it may continue to run at least until the old core expires, this could be another month or more. If however you are like me and shut your system down to change ram and turn it back on, it will not find the core to download because it is looking in the old location.

Stanford has managed to create a huge distributed network in spite of itself. You would think they could at least give notfred and others that develop helper applications a 24-36hr notice that they were changing things.

In the spirit of competition, my 3rd. q6600 folding node (not counting my main rig) should be delivered by fedex today Grin

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:07:17 Post Subject:

mine won't even load. says the path to Linux6 can't be found Mad

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:13:17 Post Subject:

Thanks. I'll keep an eye on it. the NotEd version is at 24% on the current unit, so I should know tomorrow.

I stopped using SMP versions on my Windows machines because they were so unreliable and had to be reinstalled so often. Multiple single core versions don't produce as well IMO, but at least I can set it and forget it (thanks Ron Popeil).

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:13:21 Post Subject:

yep, that's the problem. notfred set the system up to get online and download the core after a restart or when firing up for the first time. It appears this address is hard coded into the system and isn't user changeable. The problem is that Stanford either changed the url location or core name so it can't find it.

There is a brief discussion of the problem at the bottom of this forum page, where notfred mentions that he will try to get an update out tonight.
http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=56317&start=60

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:38:00 Post Subject:

notfred has updated his folding cd/usb image. get it while it's hot.
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/

mrweasel · Posted: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:54:35 Post Subject:

anybody else getting "disk image corrupt"?

-trying CD version