Tried to run F@H at school today... it didn't work. Why?

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited January 2004 in Folding@Home
I tried to run F@H on one of the computers in the lab, just while I was using it, because I was curious to see how fast it would be.

So, I downloaded the 4.0 console, and set it up with the following flags:
-advmethods, -forceasm, -forcesse, -verbosity 9, -local, and it wouldn't run. It executed fine, but it couldn't download any WUs. I let it try like 25 times. Could the school have a firewall set up to block whatever port F@H uses, or are Stanford's servers acting up or what?

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2004
    I imagine that the school is probably firewalled. If you have a USB pendrive, you could sneakernet the work though.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Yeah. That's what I was going to do. I was just hoping to not have to. Doesn't F@H use a standard port that other things like IE use?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2004
    They use both port 8080 and also port 80.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited January 2004
    If you do sneakernet it, then you might as well load that puppy up with 4-8 WUs so that you don't have to bring a new WU to it every day or two.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    I wasn't planning on putting it on and running it permanently, I just wanted to see how it ran. If it runs well, I'll try to contact the IT department about installing it.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    contact it neways... lol...folding power is folding power
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Well yeah, but we're only talking about 1.6GHz P4s here... not exactly speed demons. ;) There are at least 50 of them in one lab, though, along with at least 100 ~733MHz P3s...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    :eek: GET THEM FOLDING!
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    UVJVS_Lab is 1.6 P4s. About 11-12 running right now producing 4k a week.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Is there any way to set them up without having to enter the user name, machine id, team number, etc. on all of the machines?

    Also, how do you set the machine ID when you're talking about 100s of machines?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    set it up on one and copy the config, core, and fah exe files. That will have all the settings on it.

    Machine ID is always 1.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    any way to install it as a service w/o using firedaemon?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    Yeah check out the Everything about FAH sticky. There are several other ways.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    Well yeah, but we're only talking about 1.6GHz P4s here... not exactly speed demons. ;) There are at least 50 of them in one lab, though, along with at least 100 ~733MHz P3s...
    lol ...that's enough folding power to make even me nervous!!! :fold:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Well in that case... I'll be talking to them ASAP about getting them folding under team 93, user name "Geeky1" :D
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    you're looking at approximately 150ghz of folding power as opposed to my approximate 65ghz. Also, I did the sneakernet folding venture for quite a few months before the wireless got installed!!!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Eh. I couldn't handle "administering" a sneakernet of 100+ comps. I'm too laaaazy. :D

    Besides, the sys admins wouldn't appreciate me doing it without their knowledge, I don't think. So, I'll try bugging them about it.
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