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Fastest Smallest Linux Distro for dedicated folding

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charpman

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Title pretty much says it. That's what I'm looking for.

Finally ordered my parts for 2 dedicated C2D folders. May or may not put them in cases, depends on space.

What I need is something small and fast (I assume smaller = faster), no GUI needed, I can ssh in to work on them after install.

I've thought about Ubuntu server or regular Ubuntu set to run level 3...or Gentoo..

So...thoughts? Ideas? Experince?
 
Gentoo is for pros and Ubuntu... well let´s just say for non pros, so tell me what kinda of user are u?
 
leSLIe said:
Gentoo is for pros and Ubuntu... well let´s just say for non pros, so tell me what kinda of user are u?
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In between. I took my first big steps in the past few months. I was all Vista, XP, 2k server and 2k3 server but when I got into FaH and saw the difference Linux made....

I tried three distros in VMware at first. Had SUSE 10, Ubuntu 6 and Fedora Core6 all at the same time. Now I have Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 7 on a few machines natively.

I've worked in linux from a programmers standpoint off and on over the past decade but haven't done alot in terms of configuring non-gui systems from the ground up.

I have an IPCOP box that I built and keep running. I have installed Solaris on an old Proliant 5000 (quad core Ppro) and Oracle - that was a pain compared to windows :)

I'm not afraid to learn. :)

Clearly something like Ubuntu set to run level 3 seems like the easiest route. But if based on others experinces I can squeeze more juice from the system running a smaller distro, I'm up for the challenge of figuring it out. :)
 
Ubuntu 7.04 Server version will be what you want to get. No GUI and only command line, enough for your needs. Just install the distro then when it's done, do a wget to download finstall then run ./finstall smp without forgetting to install the ia32-libs as well.

 
Send a PM to mage, maybe he can update Foldix for SMP. As it is now, it will run two separate clients on a C2D.




 
DF454 said:
Send a PM to mage, maybe he can update Foldix for SMP. As it is now, it will run two separate clients on a C2D.




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I'm not sure he have time to do this with his studies... However, I'm willing to take a look and see if there is a way to build a small 64 bits distro for folding.

EDIT : Did some googling and I can confirm Foldix isn't 64 bits. If you want a 64 bits distro NOW, it's best to get a server distro, install FAH and learn how to disable useless services. For the future, I think it would be awesome if we can build a 64 bits distro for folding. I first need to learn how to build a custom distro...

 
charpman said:
Title pretty much says it. That's what I'm looking for.

Finally ordered my parts for 2 dedicated C2D folders. May or may not put them in cases, depends on space.

What I need is something small and fast (I assume smaller = faster), no GUI needed, I can ssh in to work on them after install.

I've thought about Ubuntu server or regular Ubuntu set to run level 3...or Gentoo..

So...thoughts? Ideas? Experince?
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I use DSL (Damn Small Linux) on my old laptop, runs great, based off Debian. I think it is packaged with kernel 2.4 so you are going to have to recompile the kernel to 2.6 to work on SMP.

Zack
 
acruxksa said:
Not sure if this is the "fastest or the smallest", not really even sure it works, but if it does it may be the easiest. I personally haven't tried it, but it might be worth a shot.

http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/
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Awesome, finally found the 64-bits SMP distro... I'm gonna burn and test. The link of interest is : http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/cd64.html



EDIT : Burned to a DVD (no blank CD-R on hand :() and booted my T7200 laptop. It detected everything right, downloaded the core and the WU then started folding without any single keystroke. It even picked the right name and team (that you entered before downloading the ISO, which is neat). The only negative point is the risk of lose the work if there is a power outage as it doesn't save at all, only in ramdisk.
 
^ wow thats excellent news. I've used this for about a year now on a usb drive for my single cores before they went GPU folders.... now finally an smp version :)
 
Xilikon said:
Awesome, finally found the 64-bits SMP distro... I'm gonna burn and test. The link of interest is : http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/cd64.html



EDIT : Burned to a DVD (no blank CD-R on hand :() and booted my T7200 laptop. It detected everything right, downloaded the core and the WU then started folding without any single keystroke. It even picked the right name and team (that you entered before downloading the ISO, which is neat). The only negative point is the risk of lose the work if there is a power outage as it doesn't save at all, only in ramdisk.
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that's very cool. A good find. Alas, my power here is like 3rd world. I blow a small fortune in UPS batteries every year keeping things running. Makes no sense to me, I guess its the penalty for living in the fastest growing county in Ohio.

It does say if I have a TFTP server running it will do autobackups... I may look into that.
 
acruxksa said:
Not sure if this is the "fastest or the smallest", not really even sure it works, but if it does it may be the easiest. I personally haven't tried it, but it might be worth a shot.

http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/
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diskless folding is cool. I was actually going to do that with the 15+ pc's I can build out of the parts piles I have. But given the age of them I'm probalby going to do it with BOINC for that stuff if I bother at all.
 
charpman said:
that's very cool. A good find. Alas, my power here is like 3rd world. I blow a small fortune in UPS batteries every year keeping things running. Makes no sense to me, I guess its the penalty for living in the fastest growing county in Ohio.

It does say if I have a TFTP server running it will do autobackups... I may look into that.
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Yes, I have a linux box running firewall so I can look if I can setup a TFTP server. If yes, then it's a awesome thing. Even the other diskless standard client is nice for the single-core boxes.

Where I live, power is very very robust, thanks to hydroelectricity :D I get a outage maybe less than one time per year.
 
Xilikon said:
Yes, I have a linux box running firewall so I can look if I can setup a TFTP server. If yes, then it's a awesome thing. Even the other diskless standard client is nice for the single-core boxes.

Where I live, power is very very robust, thanks to hydroelectricity :D I get a outage maybe less than one time per year.
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Where I live power is very very ro... well just the bust part thanks to storms, trees, squirrels (I have lost power 3 times in the past 2 months due to squirrels..stupid little tree rats) and the general lack of anyone in the community givinf a damn. Nothiing quite like having an entire block dark and having 6 guys standing around their utility trucks smoking cigarettes, kicking the dead squirrel, and staring blankly up at the transformer like they expect it to jump off the pole, turn into a porsche, and race itself off to the hardware store to get replacement parts (yes I am stoked about the new transformers movie) while simultaneously mining their noses and asses for a vestige of brain power.....

On the up side my homeowners insurance agent seems to be working overtime with all the claims I make from the power blowing things ona regular basis :)
 
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