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100 WU

Great job Capreppy.....:cool: Thats a great start towards somebody's future, there!!! :)


 
Congratulations :)

Do it one step at a time toward a cure ;)

 
I remember when I hit 100 WUs. Think I had around 500 points at the same time too... the good ol' days of WUs only being worth 20-78 points.

Now hurry up and hit 10,000!

:D

 
I'm working to get additional boxen.

I've got a Farm question for those of you that have farms. I'm looking to set up additional headless boxen. I'll probably use a monitor when doing the initial set up just to make things easier, but once it is set up is where my question applies.

- Can I remove the video card? Will the system boot up without one?
- Can I use Remote Desktop to do all future maintenance on this headless boxen? Restart of boxen / Login to boxen after restart ?

 
capreppy said:
I'm working to get additional boxen.

I've got a Farm question for those of you that have farms. I'm looking to set up additional headless boxen. I'll probably use a monitor when doing the initial set up just to make things easier, but once it is set up is where my question applies.

- Can I remove the video card? Will the system boot up without one?
- Can I use Remote Desktop to do all future maintenance on this headless boxen? Restart of boxen / Login to boxen after restart ?

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1) yes (look at my naked boxen thread
2) depends on what os you run. If you install windows, sure. I try and keep my cost down, and Bill Gates does not need my folding money, so I run notfreds flash drive proggy. It has web based monitoring but no remote. I do find it to be much more stable.

 
Not having to use the video card once I've got the box up and running saves money over the long run. Much like only needing the CD Drive for initial setup.


I'll be using licenses from an MS Action Pack (10 licenses for Vista Business x32/x64) so Bill only $299. I'm getting the MS Action Pack actually to get MS Server 2003 R3 x64 (retail $699). So for $299, I get the MS Server 2003 R3 x64 and all of the Vista Licenses (plus a bunch of other stuff). This will keep my costs WAY DOWN. Plus I have all of the windows functionality that I need.
- Shared Folders (for FAHmon)
- Remote Desktop (for restarts/maintenance)

 
Grats keep it up! Awesome contribution!

 
capreppy said:
Not having to use the video card once I've got the box up and running saves money over the long run. Much like only needing the CD Drive for initial setup.


I'll be using licenses from an MS Action Pack (10 licenses for Vista Business x32/x64) so Bill only $299. I'm getting the MS Action Pack actually to get MS Server 2003 R3 x64 (retail $699). So for $299, I get the MS Server 2003 R3 x64 and all of the Vista Licenses (plus a bunch of other stuff). This will keep my costs WAY DOWN. Plus I have all of the windows functionality that I need.
- Shared Folders (for FAHmon)
- Remote Desktop (for restarts/maintenance)

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I'm not going to say anything about the MS purchase but you can setup shared folders and VNC with Linux as well. All my folding boxen are Linux based. It does take a little more work to get the shares and VNC stuff up and running but it works fine. I'm just putting this info out there for others if they are deciding between buying Windows licenses for boxen or running Linux or something similar.

Shared folders and VNC stuff is easy enough in Windows. I don't now about the built in remote desktop for Windows as I've never used it but TightVNC works very well. You have to setup the VNC server on the boxen you want to monitor and then install the VNC client on the machine you will be doing the monitoring from. It's worked very well for me in the past, it's fast and it uses practically no resources. Just tossing another idea out there instead of using the built in Remote Desktop.

I don't know exactly about the video card. I always run my machines with video cards, even if they are just old PCI video cards I have laying around. I do this mainly because I occasionally hook up a monitor to the system for something or another and I'd rather not dig around and install a video card in the machine to do it. This just saves me hassle especially when there is something wrong with the boxen.

 
Thanks for the Linux info. I'm a total Linux noob and would love to use Linux, but right now don't have time to learn how to use it. I'm hoping I can find the time this summer to learn it and I'll use one of my future boxen to do so. I'm especially thankful for the TightVNC info. I'll definitely include that in my research later.

Does anyone know if there is a complete noob's step by step guide for installing Linux?
Which flavor of linux is recommended?
I know VMWare has a VMWare Server for Linux. Anyone using it to use multiple instances of the SMP Client? Is there a PPD advantage in Linux when using multiple VMWare instances (like in WinDoze)?

 
I use notfreds diskless CD to boot them, remove the CD, and let them fold. You can check them by typing in their remote address in your browser. The screen that comes up allows you to check to see if the F@H client is hanging, where it's at folding wise, even kill the processes and remotely restart ;)
 
Hmmmm. Obviously I need to get to know notfreds diskless :)

 
capreppy said:
Not having to use the video card once I've got the box up and running saves money over the long run. Much like only needing the CD Drive for initial setup.


I'll be using licenses from an MS Action Pack (10 licenses for Vista Business x32/x64) so Bill only $299. I'm getting the MS Action Pack actually to get MS Server 2003 R3 x64 (retail $699). So for $299, I get the MS Server 2003 R3 x64 and all of the Vista Licenses (plus a bunch of other stuff). This will keep my costs WAY DOWN. Plus I have all of the windows functionality that I need.
- Shared Folders (for FAHmon)
- Remote Desktop (for restarts/maintenance)

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ya, me too. It works really well for my business.
 
capreppy said:
Thanks for the Linux info. I'm a total Linux noob and would love to use Linux, but right now don't have time to learn how to use it. I'm hoping I can find the time this summer to learn it and I'll use one of my future boxen to do so. I'm especially thankful for the TightVNC info. I'll definitely include that in my research later.

Does anyone know if there is a complete noob's step by step guide for installing Linux?
Which flavor of linux is recommended?
I know VMWare has a VMWare Server for Linux. Anyone using it to use multiple instances of the SMP Client? Is there a PPD advantage in Linux when using multiple VMWare instances (like in WinDoze)?

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Believe it or not, many of the modern distros are rather easy to install. A lot of people like Ubuntu but my preference is openSUSE. Neither of them is difficult to install but I do suggest having another running computer handy to do a little googling here and there if you are unsure about something. I did this when I was first starting out with Linux a bit over a year ago. I already had the knowledge I needed to get it installed but some terminology is different between Linux and MS OSes and I just wanted to doublecheck to make sure what I was doing was what I thought I was doing. I started with Fedora Core 6, then messed with Ubuntu a little and ended up settling on openSUSE for my main system. I've also messed around with some other distros a little bit but haven't really gotten into them. What distro you end up going with is mostly personal preference.

I have VMWare server running on two of my Linux quad boxen with two Linux VMs running on both. I do get a PPD boost but it's mostly due to the clients on the VMWare instances reporting to Stanford that each client is a dual core instead of a quad core. Because of this they mostly get the 2605 and 2653 work units which give the best PPD. My main system is a quad with two instances running "natively" which produces less PPD than the other two quads. The two "folding only" quads are running 3.51Ghz and 3.6Ghz and my main system quad is running 3.6Ghz.

 
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