Useful Programs, Links, and More! (All The Info You Need To Fold!)

[Jason]

I just realized we didn't really have a good consolidated list of programs and links to F@H resources. If you want me to add something to the list or a link is broken, please post it in this thread!

Basic Info About F@H:
Folding@Home FAQ - Thanks Hack, This will answer most of your folding questions.
Stanford Folding@Home Webpage - The official site for getting the F@H client and other various resources.
Official F@H Forum - This is the Official Stanford F@H forum.
Tweak Guide By [Ch]amsalot - Good Info on setting up F@H optimially.
Setup 2 or more Instances of folding on 1 PC

Specific Technical Problems:
Freezing with AMD and SSE? - The official thread if you are experiencing your AMD system locking up with the -forcesse tag.
How to Fix "MISSING_WORK_FILES" Error - A good guide for fixing Missing Work Files.....Thanks to FemFolder & Sombodynew

Stats & Related:
EOC F@H Stats Page - The BEST source for your folding stats.
Liquid Ninjas Sig Stats - Displays image in your sig with your folding stats.
StatsMan - Another source for stats for F@H and other DC projects.
Stanford's Stats Pages - Realtime, but a little slow, and doesn't give historical information.
- F@H Benchmarking ORB

Folding Farms & Diskless Resources:
Overclockix, and the support forum for it. - Based on Knoppix but tailored for folding.
GAHnix - A small compact Linux distribution based on Trinux, for disk-less network booting nodes.
Building A Diskless Folding @ Home Farm - Article on setting up a diskless folding cluster.
Making ATX "Y" Cable - Power two boards w/one PSU.

Monitoring Utilities:
FAHStats - Folding@Home monitoring program
Electron Microscope - Excellent program to monitor progress of all your machines. Forum thread with more info
Electron Microscope EOCF Skins Designed by are very own Sticky
Fahmon - Another monitoring program

General Utilities:
How to install VMWare Server under Windows for SMP folding - Killerbeagle's Procedure
How to install Ubuntu(64 bit) and SMP client - cuog's Procedure
FireDaemon - A program that allows you to run virtually any program as a system service.
Tray-It - A utility which allows you to autostart F@H and minimize it to the system tray.
HideIt - another client hiding utility.
Folding as a service thanks to Hack99
CPUBurn - Another CPU Stress Utility
Graphical Signature Designer Program - Excellent program to add colors to your folding sig Forum thread with more info

[rds0811]

Good stuff, I plan on using that diskless info this summer.....

[daywalker03]

Me too...

[Jason]

Just updated the list with a couple links to CPU testing programs. The StressCPU is supposed to be really good and runs a few degrees hotter than if you were running a regular gromacs core. It was primairly designed to stress SSE on AMD CPUs, but I suppose you could run it just as well on Intel. They only have a windows version though.

[mare_]

broken link: http://ws9.jobnegotiator.com/html/flinks.html

[arkaine23]

jason- Under monitoring programs, you can add the karamba them by Jason Strutz that I tweaked.

http://overclockix.octeams.com/folding-karamba-0.5.tgz

You need either karamba or superkaramba installed in your Linux distro, and it only looks right running in KDE.

And if you guys ever get a team build of Overfoldix, you should link that too.

Soon enough a version of Overclockix will be finished which is pre-configured to run as an LTSP/NFS/DHCP server and will PXE-boot clients that will fold automatically. I'll post the link once I've verified that it works as billed. Basically boot the CD, cofnigure the client(s) with the command cfgfold, run the terminal server script, and then boot each client from the network, they will fold automatically- the 5 minute PXE folding farm.

Wu progress must be saved on the server in a persistent home if running from CD, figure on needing 32mb + 10mb of ram and hdd or usb pen space on the server per folding instance to be safe, if running from CD. HDD-installing cuts this requirement significantly, but you'll need a 2GB+ HDD drive to do it. I recommend a UPS for the server, but its not absolutely necessary.



Edit: done, just testing the LTSP scripts and adding SMP detection to the folding init script, then I'll update my site as soon as I can distribute it to my hosts.

Overclockix LTSP is now available. The definitive LTSP folding resource- simply the easiest and fastest way to get a PXE-boot farm going. I suggest you mention it along with the links for your guides. People without much linux knowledge are usually afraid to even try PXE, but with OCix LTSP, there is no reason to fear!!

[eneuman]

arkaine - you are a god

[trajik78]

looking like 2 of those links aren't working anymore. Also you can start the Windows console version as a service using the "-config" tag in version 5 of F@H. I didn't have to use any utility programs so a couple of those guides are kinda out of date...so shroomers "2 instance" guide is a bit out of date, and you don't need those apps to help run as service anymore.

Broken Links:
CPUBurn
Monster Farm's (stated above)

[HotRod]

Originally Posted by trajik78

looking like 2 of those links aren't working anymore. Also you can start the Windows console version as a service using the "-config" tag in version 5 of F@H. I didn't have to use any utility programs so a couple of those guides are kinda out of date...so shroomers "2 instance" guide is a bit out of date, and you don't need those apps to help run as service anymore.

Broken Links:
CPUBurn
Monster Farm's (stated above)

Yes.....use the -config flag to get back into setup.....

[[Ch]amsalot]

Originally Posted by Jason

I just realized we didn't really have a good consolidated list of programs and links to F@H resources. If you want me to add something to the list or a link is broken, please post it in this thread!

Hi Jason,

Hey! The Tweaker's Guide was actually written by me. While I appreciate that twiztdskatr posted it, I'd also appreciate a little credit. ;-)

My guide is long overdue for a refresh. On that note, I'd like to mention you, Team EOC and your phenomenal stats page, so consider this a formal request for permission to do so.

Thanks Jason,
[Ch]amsalot

[Jason]

Well, well, well... look who's back!

Sure, no problem I can edit that guide. If you plan on doing a major overhaul, just post it as a new thread and I can link to it instead.

[[Ch]amsalot]

Thanks Jason! Also, can I mention you & your Team EOC stats page?

[Jason]

Sure, why not...

[Meanie Man]

How about some linkage to Fahmon? I perfer it over EM.

http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/

Or did I miss it for some reason?

[PS2pcGAMER]

The link for FAHStats is outdated.

The new one is:

http://fahstats.sourceforge.net/

(no mt subfolder).

[HotRod]

Originally Posted by Meanie Man

How about some linkage to Fahmon? I perfer it over EM.

http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/

Or did I miss it for some reason?

Thanks....I added it.

Originally Posted by PS2pcGAMER

The link for FAHStats is outdated.

Also Fixed.....

[ItsTheSource]

this might be useful Fah Finstall

[Ominous]

Going through all these resources, and I figured I'd point out that there is somethig wrong with this sentence in the first post.

Electron Microscope EOCF Skins Designed by are very own Sticky

[chiefish]

Heh heh heh grammer Dont count

[samhdaniel]

A company called StayOnLine sells premade ATX power supply splitters for a very reasonable price. The build quality is very good and the service is also quite fast. Here's the link to their on-line catalog: http://www.stayonline.com/detail.aspx?ID=7898

When building my own folding farm, I found that only one of each pair of motherboards would start up correctly. By experimentation, I found out that the second motherboard of each pair would start if I pressed the power switch and then the reset switch for the second motherboard after the first motherboard was up and running. My farm uses Shuttle MV43N boards; YMMV.