Team AO????

OK guys I have a proposal to make. I think it'd be a cool idea to start a AO distributed computing team. I was thinking of doing distributed.net. for 3 reasons:
1. They work on cracking encryption algorythms, which helps test the practical strength of various encryption schemes.
2. They donate money to one of several charities of the winner's choosing, usually these are opensource organizations.
3. Their client is available for many common platforms.

If y'all want to do it let me know. If I get enough feedback I'd be happy to set it up and help you get started....
Cheers

:D

I would, But I run SETI 24/7 with my ub3r 3.2Ghz

I'm still kinda a security newbie,but I'd do whatever I could to help if something like this came about.

To clarify for the benefit of the mystified:
Distributed computing is a technique used to make large computing jobs more managable by breaking up the task at hand and processing it on numerous machines. There are many volunteer projects out there, like dnet, which can be joined on the 'net. This typically envolves downloading a client program which run in the background and utilizes unused processor cycles to work on the problem, connecting to the 'net as needed to exchange info with the projects servers. Many of these projects allow the formation of teams to make it more interesting, as well as like in the case of dnet, give those involved a better chance of "being with a winner."

Please, if this sounds good to you, post!

Well, they just finished the RC5-64 challenge and that's the only one that really has any purpose. I am on CyberArmy's team for dist.net and UD.com (United Devices) and I contribute 30 PIIIs worth of cycles.. just for those who don't know, that's a darn lot so with a little thought I might transfer some of my cycles to AO. :)

Well I wanna know who already registered a team name of "antionline". Looks like there's no work done under it. Perhaps we can even do another project instead....let me check some other stuff out.....

Well I would be interested (been doing SETI for years), but I'm already in a group. Plus, like Jehnny, I'm in a CA brigade, except I'm in Ready Response......otherwise I'd be all for it......

I have been supporting both Seti and dnet for a long time. But I decided to change to something imo far more important and started with Folding at Home instead.

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Source: Folding@Home

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously acheived. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

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If someone started a AO group here would I be more then happy to give of my computer power since its for a good cause :).

~micael

intersting bit of info:

The SETI program was the largest distributed computing network ever to be created.

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As of October 1, SETI@Home had nearly 4 million individual client CPUs involved in its distributed computation and had over 1.1 million CPU-years worth of data processing donated to the cause since its inception on May 17, 1999. Indeed, The Guinness Book of World Records certifies that by July 2001 SETI@Home had performed 890 billion billion floating-point operations—a record-breaking number that has only increased in the 15 months since it was established.

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Stanford has two more dc systems now. 1, like micael said, is the folding. the other is the genome project. both sound pretty interesting.

for those who have never heard of it, check out http://cseserv.engr.scu.edu/studentw...ue/default.htm
its pretty basic stuff, so it should be easy to understand.

i, for one, would be honored to lend some cycles.

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Originally posted by doktorf00bar
Well I wanna know who already registered a team name of "antionline". Looks like there's no work done under it. Perhaps we can even do another project instead....let me check some other stuff out.....

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XY set up AntiOnline's SETI-account about a year ago already, I think.

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Originally posted here by Negative


XYboi set up AntiOnline's SETI-account about a year ago already, I think.

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I joined them a view min. ago.

Would be nice to see more members there!

I'm thinking about doing the cancer distributed project....

Folding@Home

I have created a team for AntiOnline at Folding@Home.

To join is quite simple:

1. Download the client.
2. Install and create a user. And then set teamnumber: "11416" in the client.

Those who joins will first show up in the teamlist when they have submitted the first results.

And unfortunately can't I donate my previous results to Team AntiOnline.

~micael

Ok just joined micael! [first day i use it]

I just joined....decided to devote my idle CPU time to it ;)

Ahhhh yes I had almost forgotten about folding@home. Good job micael excellent project!

I'm not so sure mine is working properly...it appears as though there is no progress...does the 'WU progress' actually go up as it is 'working'? It has been running at idle with 100% CPU usage for about 2 hours now and 0 WU progress.....

nm...I just finally got 1 WU progress after about 6 hours of processing....I guess the blocks are just enormous and you don't see any real progress for a while.....

I joined about an hour ago.Interesting stuff if you actually read the site.I also read the FAQ,and it says that it takes a 400 MHz computer about 24 hours to complete a work unit,so that might explain why it's taking so long for cF_nM.That's not totally accurate,because on this comp. I have a 266 MHz MMX,and it's averaging about 1% per every 45 minutes.Maybe someone could Email JP and see if he'll put this up at the top of the site so more people will notice it and possibly join.I'm sure there's at least a few people in here with some pretty large networks that could contribute to it.

Im happy to see that people have joined a good cause even when its aint security related.
I had hoped as a creator of team Antionline at Folding@Home be the first who submitted a result, oh I was wrong the first result was submitted by thirdeg . Guess I have to buy faster computer(s).

Well done :).

~micael

I'm too stingy with my cpu cycles

woohoo for team AO

maybe we can persuade Debs, GG & Jan to be the cheerleaders???

v_Ln

I have started up 5 computers to donate their cycles for Folding@home. I am waiting for the Solaris version and will put that on when it comes out. I am looking around the office for other computers that can work on it.

Nice !

So far do I have three computers running but it's the thought which counts its not a competition, atleast not for me :)

Together we are strong

Would all people in the world "donate" their free cycles would it probably be the worlds biggest super computer.

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Originally posted here by Louie
I have started up 5 computers to donate their cycles for Folding@home. I am waiting for the Solaris version and will put that on when it comes out. I am looking around the office for other computers that can work on it.

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I dont know when they will release any other clients, but the faq is last updated October 2, 2002.

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Source: Folding FAQ
Why no IRIX/Solaris/etc version?

We've been deluged by requests for other versions. We promise, we'll get them up and posted soon as we can, most likely in a couple of weeks. Right now, we're looking for good programmers to help with the ports to SGI, Solaris, etc. In general, the Cosm libraries should be easy to port and thus (with some help), we should be able to whip out these versions.

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~micael

Now if they'd just hurry up and get the nifty screensaver thingie ported to linux......

I notice my linux box hasn't processed **** yet..

This concerns me..

I also need to check two other boxes because I haven't seen any results from them.

It disturbs me.

heh. i'm getting mucho results from my one box, but i noticed i'm not on the AO Team page.
I have the number right, because i can get to the team page from the link in the log. i dont know. maybe i'll show up there eventually.

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Originally posted here by qwerty_smith
heh. i'm getting mucho results from my one box, but i noticed i'm not on the AO Team page.
I have the number right, because i can get to the team page from the link in the log. i dont know. maybe i'll show up there eventually.

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If you are talking about Folding@home then..

If you search for yourself as user.. What does the stats tell then ? If you dont show up then you dont have submitted any results yet.. And if you show up as user then the stat page will tell what team you belong to (if any).

~micael

I've been doing SETI since it was setup, and since I don't use my computer most of the time I have a lot of bandwith to volunteer. An AO network would probably be more useful than SETI, too.

I too have joined. So far I have 3 of my computers on it. A P4 1.9ghz, a dua p2 400mhz and a p1 200mhz. I have 4 more here that I'm going to put it on too.

The P4 is picking up results like crazy! That is some pretty cool ****. :)

I have **** loads of boxes at work and in storage. If I can get it approved I will load it on any box I have at work. We have all brand new p4 1.7ghz boxes there and they are only using them for the internet and word processing/email etc. Waste of PC if you ask me.

I've e mailed all my family and relatives and they will probably join too.

I'll see what else I can come up with.

One question... if I put them all on with the same username, will they all work on the same piece, or will each one get its own?

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One question... if I put them all on with the same username, will they all work on the same piece, or will each one get its own?

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They work independent from each other. I have now three computers running with the same username, two of them are now working on project 182 and one of them on project 137. But they are working on different assignments in the projects.

I hope this was what you wanted to know :).

~micael

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Originally posted here by Louie
I notice my linux box hasn't processed **** yet..

This concerns me..

I also need to check two other boxes because I haven't seen any results from them.

It disturbs me.

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Louie go to conf. than advanced than select core priority slightly higher.
That works for me.[the first option didn t work for me] now at 56%

Don t know about linux

Question for anyone participating in this project.

I have 4 boxes hooked up and I'm using the same user id and team 11416 (AO).

I know for a fact that my fastest box (1.9ghz) has completed 4 sucessful WUs but it still says only 1 completed under the Finished WUs: status.

Why would it not be updating the status? I didn't see anything in the FAQ about it.

Another thing... the other machines all have sucessfully completed WUs too, but they are not reporting on the team stats. I know I have the user id set and the team number is correct.

I was thinking about uninstalling it and reinstalling it, but wouldn't I loose my current work? I guess since its not reporting back it doesn't really matter anyway, does it?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

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Ok, I just looked further at the logs and saw that on all the different machines, I have completed 7 total WUs and I don't see any errors in the logs. It only reports 2 on the site and the status that is on the program itself.

I can provide logs if you'd like.

Thanks,

A few questions for you Phishphreek.

1. What OS's do you run ?
2. What clients do you use ?
3. Are you behind a proxy or a firewall ?

Its possible to run Folding@home and Genome@home with the same client.. I have set my client to take works only from Folding@home since they seems to be more stable.

If the logs tells that you succesfully have submitted the result it's probably something wrong with their stat-page.. They have had problem earlier with the stat page(especially for Genome users). But they have everything logged and all results will show up since nothing is lost :).

~micael

Love the idea....how can I help?

1. What OS's do you run ?
2. What clients do you use ?
3. Are you behind a proxy or a firewall ?

1. I have a 1.9ghz machine running WinXP pro.
I have a dual p2 400mhz running Win2k.
I have a p2 300mhz running redhat 7.3

2. I am using the folding@home client that you provided a link for. I am using the gui version for my Win boxes and the console version for my Linux Box.

3. I have a firewall on all of my machines. I have given access to the program in question.
I am also using a dsl/cable router/switch. I block all the ports coming in unless the communication is initiated/established from one of the programs on my boxes.

I will disable the firewalls temporarily to see if that is the problem, but I don't think it is because the first results got out. I am at school right now, so I can't see if it has updated yet. I'll check when I get home tonight.

Thanks for your help. :)

Ok, everyone- Go join the AO team at folding@home now!!!!!
http://folding.stanford.edu/

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Originally posted here by phishphreek80
I will disable the firewalls temporarily to see if that is the problem, but I don't think it is because the first results got out. I am at school right now, so I can't see if it has updated yet. I'll check when I get home tonight.

Thanks for your help. :) [/B]

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I cant find the solution for your problem and for the moment am I involved in other projects wish takes a lots of my time, but since these projects pay my bills I cant complain :).

You can try to search or add a question to Folding-community.org.

~micael

[ p.s. we have now 18 processors working for us and 60 wu's registered ].

I've been running the same block for about a week now and have my pc on almost 24/7 :( I'm running a K-6 550...anyways, last night I ran it all night long, and when I come back, folding wasn't open. So I started running it again, but I noticed that it was on a different block. Now I wouldn't have thought much of it, but when I left it about 8 hours ago, it was only on frame 56. So I looked at the log, and it looks as if something happened after fram 57 was finished because there are a bunch of strange ASCII characters after frame 57 :(

Im sorry cF_nM I cant find anything related but I will remember that I heard something earlier but I cant tell what.. You may want to search the forums for an answer or try the solution below?

For those having problem can I advice to use the console client of Folding@home. For those having slow computers can I advice to run Genome@home (G@H) instead of Folding@home (F@H) this cause G@H dont have any timelimits and the results will still count and show up in the stats.

I found a good program (maybe not the best but it works for me) to measure the speed of the core and process of F@H and/or G@H. The program can be found at Electron Microscope. To install the "new" GUI follow these simple steps.

1. Download the F@H "No-nonsense text-only console ".
2. Put the executable in the same folder as your graphics client ("\program files\folding@home\"?)
2.1 If you experience problem uninstall the old client first and then run the "No-nonsense text-only console".
3. Download the EMII (G@H) or EMIII (F@H) GUI. (if u use f@h client to run g@h works then use EMIII).
4. Unpack the archive to a place you want to run it from.
5. Run the application and make sure to config it properly (se the help page for details).

Make sure to dissable the old gui client's autostart, and add it to the new gui client instead (EMxxx).

Now when running the Electron Microscope you will be able to see more details then earlier and that may help you track down bugs or even show you if you should choose G@H instead of F@H.

Hope this help someone to fold even more :)

Attached a screenshot from the EMIII

~micael

Just showing some stats in a hope to get new people interested in supporting Folding@home and team AntiOnline, se attachment, Team Ranking :).

~micael