The Cows are laughing .

[Freewolf]

TeAM Anandtech will lose one of our three first place rankings in less than a week if we don't help then out!
The D2OL team will lose it's place on top of the D2OL ranking to the Dutch Power Cows who has moved an huge amount of power to this project in less than a week without our help now
The DPC are even coming to our forum now and bragging about their upcoming ascent to the top ranking !


Here is a quote from one of their members PurpleBear


"Hey, wake up guys. It's very quiet here, i hope that not all of you fell a sleep.
In case you are not aware, with this speed, we'll take over the first place in a couple days.
You still have time to tidy the palce up for us.
We expected some reaction from you for a couple days now, but none came.

DPC member "


The rest is up to us.

 

[Hyperfocal]

The Cows are also picking up in F@H. We were set to pass them in about 6 months, but they are rapidly widening the gap.

 

[GLeeM]

Over the last three days they have also increased their 24 hour average in Folding@Home from 23,328 to 24,086 to 24,913. We went from overtaking them in 79 days to 1819 days.

Is there a project they are pulling comps from to work on these two?

Edit: Oops Hyperfocal beat me, can't believe it took me that long to type these three sentences!?!

 

[MournSanity]

I am not going to run DPAD anymore, as the stats fiasco has really pissed me off. The stats just aren't reliable. So here I am. I'll join whatever project TA needs. Should I go with F@H or D2OL?

 

[MournSanity]

I'm downloading D2Ol now. How do I register for Team Anandtech?

 

[Freewolf]

After you install the program you will register with your email address then it will ask you if you want to join a team and you just have to pick Anandtech from the list.

 

[MournSanity]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
After you install the program you will register with your email address then it will ask you if you want to join a team and you just have to pick Anandtech from the list.

Ok I did all of that and joined TA, but the program doesn't seem like it's working. It just says"

Initializing...(this might take a few minutes)


It's been like 20 minutes...


EDIT: Wait NM. I restarted it and its working now :beer:

 

[Freewolf]

Cool
welcome to the team

 

[MedicBob]

Welcome HyperSonic... guys(gals) we need all the help we can get. D2OL is what I crunch for, but crunch for anything you want, just join TA.

 

[Bassyhead]

still crunching away with d2ol for TA here....

 

[OverVolt]

i've been pushing 2000pnts/week for F@H i can get more.... i'm hoping to push 4,000/week by the summer.

 

[Overkiller]

i was doing f@h heavily (close to 2K pts/week) but i've run into some problems with my rigs lately. For some reason getting 2 clients running on my 3.2 p4c is a b*tch like no other. and using the service installer just stops working on a few machines

:*(

but back on topic. joining any team in TA is good. we need new blood! and more importantly more machines!

 

[ken008]

The DPC gained power on other projects when ECCP2 ended. They were 2nd on ECCP2. We need a lot of help to keep up with them. They are not into SETI much, they go with the smaller projects. We had some new members and we were keeping up but it petered out. We need you guys back. An XP 2400 will do 100 WU per day (dedicated) we need about 60 of them. Large dumps are possible in this project you can cache up to 2000 WU. An inspirational post from Mastertech would be helpfull. We need to rally the troops. The D2OL team is under heavy attack.

 

[networkman]

Let 'em laugh - the meat tastes so much better than depressed cows do.

 

[CyGoR]

I tried F@H on my Apple notebook, but it seems it's taking over 11 days to complete just ONE wu!! D2OL can take much more advantage of my Apple, so D2OL it is!

And this shout for help just earned you 10hrs/day for D2OL on my A64 machine

 

[Shame]

The CowTippers have 30+ machines crunching away at D2OL and are completely tapped out. TA need some help over here, bad...

 

[MechEng]

I'll see if I can get a machine onto it for a while...

Edit:
Which download should I choose ? Any special settings that are nice to know ?

Anything else... ?

 

[gistech1978]

Originally posted by: GLeeM
Is there a project they are pulling comps from to work on these two?

probably DF would be my guess, they were stampeding through the ranks there. but with the problems DF has been having, i wouldnt be suprised if they shifted resources away, as alot of teams have.

 

[Mandrill]

They also seem to have turned away from Dpad.

 

[Freewolf]

Download the one with java vm and increase your cache size as the default size is only 50 workunits and if the server goes down you will run out of work in a day or less.

 

[MechEng]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
Download the one with java vm and increase your cache size as the default size is only 50 workunits and if the server goes down you will run out of work in a day or less.

Thanks...

Does it run as a CLI or.... ??? Would just like to know before I start downloading it via my modem...
I would really prefer it to be a CLI.

 

[Freewolf]

After you install it there will be a readme file in the install folder with info on how to run it as a client. I haven't ran it that way myself but it can be done. You can also run it as a service with fire dameon.

 

[MechEng]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
After you install it there will be a readme file in the install folder with info on how to run it as a client. I haven't ran it that way myself but it can be done. You can also run it as a service with fire dameon.

This means I have to install it. I can't just copy some files to a folder, and run it from there?

 

[Freewolf]

I believe so but as I said the java vm version is the only way i have ran it but here is what it said in the readme folder about running it as client.

"
Command line interface (CLI)
----------------------------

This is a controller for users that wish to run and interact with the
Agent Node via the Command Line. It is also the only choice for users
that do not have an environment that allows graphical windows.

When running the command line controller, the following commands
are available:

Command Line Interface Commands:
(Note: Commands are case in-sensitive)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Exit - Exits the Node. Quick key 'q'.
State - Displays the Current State of the Node. Quick key <ENTER>.
ToggleAgent - Toggles the Agent GUI.
Launches it if it is not running,
or Closes it if it is displayed.
Quick key 'ta'.
ToggleEngine - Toggles the Task Engine.
Stops it if it is running,
or Starts it if it is stopped.
Quick key 'te'.
ToggleOnline - Toggles the Online State.
Sets it to Online if it is Offline,
or Sets it to Offline if it is Online.
Quick key 'to'.
TalkToServer - Forces a Communication Handshake with the server.
Quick key 'tts'.
FlushTasks - Flushes all Tasks.
All Task Assignments and
Task Data Files are deleted.
Note: The Task Engine must be stopped and
the node must not be communicating with
the server for this action to succeed.
Quick key 'ft'.
List - Displays all Properties, their current values,
and information on their possible vaules.
Quick key 'l'.
Set - Sets a Property. This command must be followed
with a valid property key
and it's desired value in the form: key=value
Example: 'Set QueueSize=50'
Note: Property keys and values ARE case sensitive.
Version - Displays the Descriptive Version of the Node. Quick key 'v'.
? - Displays this Message.


All Command line commands are case insensitive. However, when setting
a Property value, the names and values of the Property must be specified
with correct case.

Note: The command line interface requires a terminal/console from which to
receive user input. As such, it can not be run as a background
process (on Unix running with an '&amp;'). To run in such a mode,
you must select to use the File Based Controller described below.

Note: The binary executable on Windows machines (D2OL.exe) does not have an
attached console by default. In order to access the command line, you
must edit the D2OL.lax file and change both the lax.stdin.redirect and
the lax.stdout.redirect properties to equal "console" (i.e.
lax.stdin.redirect=console and lax.stdout.redirect=console).
This will display a console window in which the Command Line Controller
will run (for more information, see below section on the Launcher
Subsystem).

You must still supply the input parameter 'controller:cli'.

Lastly, there is a known issue on Windows running the Command Line
Controller where what the user types is not echoed to the screen.
In other words, while you will still be able to access all the Command
Line functionality, you will not be able to see what you type until
after pressing the <Enter> key. "


i gotta go to work now but I will check back later.

 

[MechEng]

hmmm... Think I will just try the regular installer.....

Do you happen to know if I can install it to a USB-key, and then run it from different PC's, or does it write data to the registry or something like that?