Saturday 08/02/03
FAH Benchmark Top 100 list:
Since we now have a
reliable folding benchmarking tool for our high power super
computers I thought it would be a good idea to have a Top 100 list
of the fastest computers folding for OCAU.
Post your benchmark scores and machine details like this
Machine:
XP1800@1669Mhz (Palamino)
Benchmark: 5488
Machine:
Cel900@1063Mhz (Coppermine)
Benchmark: 3296
To do this you need the latest
Folding client 3.24 and the lastest version of
EMIII (v2.3.1). The benchmark information is stored in the
queue.dat info which you can access through the first options page
of EMIII.
I will collect the scores and put them on the Statsbar above broken
down into the Top 25 and Top 50 etc like the other stats. So
post your fastest benchmark or email them to me
here and who knows you could add another line to your forum sig
like this Fastest Folding@Home Benchmark Score
xxxx or even Folding@Home Benchmark
Score xxxx.
FAH Logstats v0.3 Released:
Thanks to Buzzard our local programming guru he has released a simple monitoring program that was aimed at users have Smoothwall boxes. You can grab a copy locally here as well as from Buzzard.
Both EMIII and KDfold are good programs for monitoring but I wanted something simpler and needed something that would easily monitor my Smoothwall/IpCop box ( to use EMIII you need to set up samba ) so I wrote my own monitoring program that only used FAH log file.
Below is an example of the configuration file:
code:
"XP2100+","E:\Folding@Home" "K6-III 450","\\The void\FOLDING@HOME" "Smoothwall","E:\Folding@Home Stats\Smoothwall" "Dual PPro 200 CPU1","\\DualPPro\\F@H\CPU1" "Dual PPro 200 CPU2","\\DualPPro\\F@H\CPU2"
The first part is
just the name of the computer. The second is the directory (without
a trailing \) of the F@H client. The config file (config.ini) and a
temporary log file (templog.txt) are saved in the same directory as
the program.
Setting up for linux
To use with Smoothwall/IpCop, you have to set up a FTP server on a
computer, and get the linux box to upload log file every 10minutes.
To upload the file I used ncftp and a cronjob.
code:
*/10 * * * * /home/ncftp/bin/ncftpput -u smoothwall -p fahstats 192.168.0.50 / /home/folding/FAHlog.txt > /dev/null &
The above is probably a very bad example
but it works for me
Download here:
http://www.holohost.com/~mdavey/Console Stats 0.3.zip
As always... Comments and suggestions are
appreciated ( Along with bug reports )
DG wins the race to 150K:
DG passed the 150k mark at 23:00 WST yesterday and won the race to 150k. He is going to keep the engine running at full RPM and try and get to the 20,000 Folding Club. Well done David.
