Just three days after releasing 0.5.2 I’m repenting and reverting a bit with a 0.5.2.1 patch. This removes the renaming prompt at the main installer. Based on a bit more testing and user feedback I realize adding that feature at that point was not the best idea. In the future, installing as normal and then running the -r, –rename function will handle updating the user information.
This is a minor update, but is recommended for new installations. If you’ve already installed folding using this script updating won’t really give you anything you don’t have.
Downloads available here:
You can also pull the latest development branch from bzr via:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~christer.edwards/folding/main
Enjoy
As usual, please send feedback in the form of bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/folding
This has been very helpful, thanks.
Do you plan to add support for the SMP client?
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP#ntoc29
@Eric – It should actually already support the v6beta SMP version. If it isn’t using that on your hardware when it should please submit a bug to Launchpad
I used your installer in my testing of Folding@home on Amazon EC2. Here’s a post summarizing some results:
http://groups.google.com/group/foldingathome/msg/19fad3a252b70fcd
I’m new enough to the folding software that I don’t know how to tell for sure if SMP is being used. The logs did seem to be different when I installed SMP according to these instructions:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP#ntoc29
Here are some (live) log files from an EC2 large instance with 2 dual-core CPUs using your installer.
http://ec2folding-large.azeelo.com/folding/CPU1-FAHlog.txt
http://ec2folding-large.azeelo.com/folding/CPU2-FAHlog.txt
These files will disappear when that instance is taken down (which at the rate of $.40/hour will probably be tomorrow).
Let me know if you’d like ssh access to a large EC2 instance to debug the software (if there is a problem).
Folding 0.5.2.1 is in use in the following Amazon EC2 AMI:
http://ec2folding.notlong.com
Simply starting an instance of this AMI will kick off the installation and folding process.
Turns out it’s really too expensive to run Folding@home on EC2, but it was a fun experiment and your installer made it easy to test.
—
Eric Hammond
http://www.anvilon.com
i just installed it to hardy tribe1
no errors
i ‘ll report more tomorrow
This is great – makes it super easy to get folding up and running under Linux. I read in a previous post that it is currently configured to use your username/team as default and that a future release will provide the option to supply your own. I’m curious if there is a way to manually change this after the install?
thanks