Bigadv Core A5 Coming Soon Including Linux; Client Upgrade Req'd [6.34 Binaries Up ]

[Dead Things]

lowfat - do you have it setup to login automatically? Or do you have to type in your login and/or password on every reboot?

[Dead Things]

Actually, apparently the @reboot string will run without the need to login, which is something I never knew before. Cool! So I guess it doesn't matter if you have a password or not.

So the easiest way to do it would be this:

crontab -e

Then select your editor. I tend to use nano personally. Under the reference line add this line:

@reboot [PATHTO]/fah6

As an example, on my machine that string would look like this:

@reboot ~/Folding@home/fah6

That should launch it once automatically at reboot.

^x to save, Y to write and Enter to exit. Then try rebooting to see if it works.

[lowfat]

Being using Ubuntu for a while now. Honestly I don't see any improvement over Windows for folding. If in the rare occasion I get a P6901 WU, I get about 117k when it finishes. Which turns out to be around 125k ppd. This is w/ the CPUs @ 3.65GHz. Pretty much exactly what I was getting w/ Windows 7.

[theAnimal]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Being using Ubuntu for a while now. Honestly I don't see any improvement over Windows for folding. If in the rare occasion I get a P6901 WU, I get about 117k when it finishes. Which turns out to be around 125k ppd. This is w/ the CPUs @ 3.65GHz. Pretty much exactly what I was getting w/ Windows 7.

I'm getting at least 1 minute less per frame. Are you using BFS & The Kraken?

[lowfat]

Yes I was. I am going to try out the V7 client and see if there is any improvement. I will install The Kraken 0.4 for it once I downloads both Fah cores, as I have no idea where copy them manually.

[lowfat]

Anyone using the client 7 beta in linux? Trying to install The Kraken 0.4 but having some issues. Anyone tell what I am doing wrong?

PHP Code:

brendon@Fortress:/var/lib/fahclient$ thekraken -i
thekraken: The Kraken 0.4 (compiled Sun May  1 20:44:23 MDT 2011 by brendon@Fortress)
thekraken: Processor affinity wrapper for Folding@Home
thekraken: The Kraken comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; licensed under GPLv2
thekraken: performing installation to .
thekraken: descend into /var/lib/fahclient/configs and all other subdirectories [Y/n]? y
thekraken: /var/lib/fahclient/cores/www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/AMD64/Core_a3.fah/FahCore_a3: problems occurred during installation, no installation performed (code 2)
thekraken: /var/lib/fahclient/cores/www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/AMD64/Core_a5.fah/FahCore_a5: problems occurred during installation, no installation performed (code 2)
thekraken: finished installation, 0 out of 2 files processed 


[lowfat]

I couldn't figure out how to get The Kraken to work w/ the client 7 betas so I went back to 6.34. Now I have a considerably improvement, nearly 15k higher than before. All I did was reinstall the folding@home client and upgrade to The Kraken 0.4. WIN.

[lowfat]

Reinstall Ubuntu. This time, Ubuntu 11. I am doing the BFS stuff and have got the point:

PHP Code:

sudo update-grub 


My outcome is slightly different though, is this because I am using Ubuntu 11? Is there anything I need to change?

PHP Code:

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic-ck
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic-ck
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done 


EDIT: I just rebooted for the first time and now it is a completely different interface, AHHHHHHH I don't know how to use this thing now!

[Xeven]

Relax. Just logout, then choose "Classic" interface and login again :P And yeah, I loathe Natty as well

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by Xeven

Relax. Just logout, then choose "Classic" interface and login again :P And yeah, I loathe Natty as well

Ya I figured it after a bit of googling. Forgot to partition as EXT3 so I needed to reinstall anyways.