Hawk
17 Apr 2005, 3:16am
What is Electron Microscope?
Written by Larry Perry @ em-dc.com
Electron Microscope, EM for short, is a program used to track Stanford’s distributed computing program client called Folding at Home, FAH. It will monitor up to 50 clients and give you the details about each client’s progress as the FAH client runs. EM will also show you what each change in the protein looks like as the process continues. Normally there are 100 Frames per work unit, but sometimes you will see work units with anywhere from 10 frames to 200. To date I have not seen a work unit smaller than 10 or larger than 200 frames. Frame rates vary according to CPU speed. In the FAH world the AMD processor is King of the Hill. I’ve seen an AMD Duron out perform a P4 so if you want the most bang for the money, get AMD processors for the FAH project. Frame rates are variable. They can take from less than a minute each to over an hour per frame. The FAH 3 client uses different "cores" (the heart of the client program and does the actual work). Currently there are 3 different core programs. They are "FahCore_65.exe" the Tinker core, "FahCore_78.exe" the Gromacs core, and the "FahCore_c9.exe" the Genome core. The Tinker and Gromacs cores do folding, and the Genome core can design proteins. EM can monitor all of these cores.
You can download the program from http://www.em-dc.com/ (http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude1/emsite/index.html)
Here's a picture of what it looks like setup; I have 3 pc's configured here.
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/3184/electronmicroscope5vw.jpg
Written by Larry Perry @ em-dc.com
Electron Microscope, EM for short, is a program used to track Stanford’s distributed computing program client called Folding at Home, FAH. It will monitor up to 50 clients and give you the details about each client’s progress as the FAH client runs. EM will also show you what each change in the protein looks like as the process continues. Normally there are 100 Frames per work unit, but sometimes you will see work units with anywhere from 10 frames to 200. To date I have not seen a work unit smaller than 10 or larger than 200 frames. Frame rates vary according to CPU speed. In the FAH world the AMD processor is King of the Hill. I’ve seen an AMD Duron out perform a P4 so if you want the most bang for the money, get AMD processors for the FAH project. Frame rates are variable. They can take from less than a minute each to over an hour per frame. The FAH 3 client uses different "cores" (the heart of the client program and does the actual work). Currently there are 3 different core programs. They are "FahCore_65.exe" the Tinker core, "FahCore_78.exe" the Gromacs core, and the "FahCore_c9.exe" the Genome core. The Tinker and Gromacs cores do folding, and the Genome core can design proteins. EM can monitor all of these cores.
You can download the program from http://www.em-dc.com/ (http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude1/emsite/index.html)
Here's a picture of what it looks like setup; I have 3 pc's configured here.
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/3184/electronmicroscope5vw.jpg