I have F@H running on 2 dual core xeon 5110 machines, and the are publishing workstations, and mostly they run photoshop. and I cant notice any performance hit, and if there is a minute on, it is fine with me, I have them running close to 24 hours a day now. it is nice. I'm getting a nice jump in ppd. I just hope that my yearbook adviser buys more before the year is up, so that I can put it on them too. then I will have a farm away from home too.
I would put it on the macs, but they wouldnt do much (imac g3's) and there is only the graphical client, they would choke with it running; hell, they already do choke running ie.:eek3:
I think there were a couple others I excluded from the GPO... a weather station machine, and some other science machine...? Maybe a robotics controller box? Basically, stuff I don't want to mess with, and wouldn't give me any WU's anyway...
I just sent an email to our IT admin, since we have a new one, maybe I can convince him to do it since the last one was less willing. I think I have a decent chance. I stole part of technocrats letter, and added to it
I was thinking about how our machines sometimes sit for hours without doing anything. They're using electricity and not serving any purpose. Obviously it's impractical/unenforceable to start the machines every time we want to use them, and shut them down when we're done.
What about using those unused machines to find cures for diseases? I have been participating in the folding@home project, sponsored by Stanford University, for quite a length of time. I've had the program running in the background of my desktops for about 4 months now, I can't even tell it's there. But when I go look up my stats, I can see it's making a difference.
This is the link to Stanford website that is up and about the project, you may find more information there, and of course, if you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them, or the wonderful people at Short-Media would too; which is an on-line technology community that I belong to and the team that I fold for. I have also added a link to another site that may give you more information. http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://joinfolding.com/
If you believe that this is a endeavor that you believe that the school might wish to pursue, then I have a friend that is the IT director of three Christian schools, and he has devised a method to push out Folding@Home via active directory. It will push it out to just a set of machines, to the domain, or to the entire directory; which will be seamless and painless. I see it as a way to use our blessings to fulfill our responsibility to others, in a way that isn't disruptive to our people using the machines. I will be awaiting your correspondence.
should have been 'an', and I think that I went a little comma crazy at some parts. but this isnt a paper paper, so im not gonna proof read it 10 time to catch every mistake and refine it.
I guess the college English class is paying off after all. though my grandma (retired English teacher/major) says that I can write really well, though I don't think its that good.
I have offered to a few local schools to come and work for free over a weekend to:
organize their Active Directory into correct OU's and write up their scripts (printer, desktop shortcut, mapped drives). With this setup, they would just need to add new machines/users to the correct OU, and the right people get access to the right stuff.
All I'm asking in return is that they run folding@home on their machines. :-)
I'll post a new count when the third campus gets its power back. I gotta catch up!
(also note that about 5 of these files have 2 instances of FAH inside... those are my HTing servers... So the total number of cores folding are about 169.
On the unfortunate side, some of these machines aren't on 24/7. The number of machines that are only on for a few hours at a time (mostly science labs) are probably about 45...with an additional 30 laptops that are installed, but usually on battery, so no folding...
SO... end total ends up being an install base of 169, but a useful folding farm of about 95 machines. Until the third campus comes online, that is. Then it should be an install base of about 275 cores, with a useful folding farm of maybe 195 or so...?
I'm finding out that the previous admin didn't clean out old computer names from Active Directory when he was here. That is killing my former estimate of about 400 machines total, which sucks. I literally now have 1200 old computer names now sitting in an 'Orphans' OU, and Active Directory is pretty much cleaned up. What a slob/PITA/idiot/etc...
(oh, and why keep the old computer names active? because he didn't know how to use ghost, and some of the old computer accounts in AD share SID's with new machines in the production environment. Kill the old account, and the new machine has issues...)
It turns out that my 2nd campus wasn't able to access the server at the main campus where I was sharing the FAH install script. Apparently I've been running at 1/3 capacity.
I'll be at both my remote campuses tomorrow for scheduled visits...I'd better get them folding, I'm getting too far behind!
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I would put it on the macs, but they wouldnt do much (imac g3's) and there is only the graphical client, they would choke with it running; hell, they already do choke running ie.:eek3:
I think there were a couple others I excluded from the GPO... a weather station machine, and some other science machine...? Maybe a robotics controller box? Basically, stuff I don't want to mess with, and wouldn't give me any WU's anyway...
depressing, but at least I'm hanging on by a fingernail
~FA
Thanks, the only mistake that I caught was:
If you believe that this is a endeavor.
should have been 'an', and I think that I went a little comma crazy at some parts. but this isnt a paper paper, so im not gonna proof read it 10 time to catch every mistake and refine it.
I guess the college English class is paying off after all. though my grandma (retired English teacher/major) says that I can write really well, though I don't think its that good.
I have offered to a few local schools to come and work for free over a weekend to:
organize their Active Directory into correct OU's and write up their scripts (printer, desktop shortcut, mapped drives). With this setup, they would just need to add new machines/users to the correct OU, and the right people get access to the right stuff.
All I'm asking in return is that they run folding@home on their machines. :-)
I think your new Nick name will be the MR. T of Folding for team 93....
:-) Better get it shipped express...I'm back in business!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&srt=3&t=93
My 3rd campus is getting their electric back tomorrow at noon...
EDIT: I do have a ways to catch up though...
I pity tha foo who don't fold them protein!
I mean you are having 97 computers folding in your name (
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=the_technocrat
Some folding ppl with only 3 cores, are making almost 500 ppd.
Yesterday when I was looking you had 67 computers, so I suppose we are going to see some seriously increase of the ppd ......
Is your folding park "burning-for-the-crows", and you are looking for help :sweflag:
Please let us know
EDIT: and I've only got 2/3 of the machines running today...
Go fold them proteins!!!
Really need that third campus up.
On the bright side, I'm seeing WU's come in from my second campus, so that rollout is going well.
...and at my primary campus, we've been back up for about 20 hours, so a few WU's are coming in from there also.
In any case, I'm getting 0wnd!! (But at least my line (blue) is turning the right way... :sad2: )
...and remember how I said that machines 'report in' when they get installed with FAH, by putting a text file in a network share?
Guess how many files are in that share today?
164.
Well lets see how your 164 compair to our combined 135 and growing list
I have also added The Throw Down chart
I'll post a new count when the third campus gets its power back. I gotta catch up!
(also note that about 5 of these files have 2 instances of FAH inside... those are my HTing servers... So the total number of cores folding are about 169.
On the unfortunate side, some of these machines aren't on 24/7. The number of machines that are only on for a few hours at a time (mostly science labs) are probably about 45...with an additional 30 laptops that are installed, but usually on battery, so no folding...
SO... end total ends up being an install base of 169, but a useful folding farm of about 95 machines. Until the third campus comes online, that is. Then it should be an install base of about 275 cores, with a useful folding farm of maybe 195 or so...?
I'm finding out that the previous admin didn't clean out old computer names from Active Directory when he was here. That is killing my former estimate of about 400 machines total, which sucks. I literally now have 1200 old computer names now sitting in an 'Orphans' OU, and Active Directory is pretty much cleaned up. What a slob/PITA/idiot/etc...
(oh, and why keep the old computer names active? because he didn't know how to use ghost, and some of the old computer accounts in AD share SID's with new machines in the production environment. Kill the old account, and the new machine has issues...)
ooh, 3D! yeah, that daily production chart is pretty painful. I'm on the rebound, though!
(my chart is running total points since the throwdown started, btw)
or lack of leaps, in my case...for now...
So far today (12 hours) I'm trailing you guys by 1600 points, at 2/3 production...
All I have to do is stay within firing range for another day or so...
unless you guys have any tricks up yer sleeves....
rut roh!
It turns out that my 2nd campus wasn't able to access the server at the main campus where I was sharing the FAH install script. Apparently I've been running at 1/3 capacity.
I'll be at both my remote campuses tomorrow for scheduled visits...I'd better get them folding, I'm getting too far behind!
~FA