I have access to a top of the line Mac dual G5 server, alongside a lab of 12 new emacs and another lab of aroud 15 three year old imacs, was just wondering if this would give this DC thing much of a boost. Also was wondering, if I set all these up to help out, would it be best to first make a cluster all controlled by the server...then just run folding program on the server, or actually go around to each mac and install it on them. Thanks for the info.
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Well I administer the server and labs, so I guess I have permission 
....and about the F@H. I was doing some reading last night and I came across the F@H thing, then also the United Devices program. Which would be better to go with. Are they both one in the same? I would like to stay a part of the [H] team, so does that limit me to using only UD?
....and about the F@H. I was doing some reading last night and I came across the F@H thing, then also the United Devices program. Which would be better to go with. Are they both one in the same? I would like to stay a part of the [H] team, so does that limit me to using only UD?Dark Ember
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They are not the same project. We have teams for both F@H and UD, but most people are doign F@H (thats the project we had been in first in for a long time).
Its completely up to you which project you choose to work on. More information can be found at www.hardfolding.com
Its completely up to you which project you choose to work on. More information can be found at www.hardfolding.com
As far as I know, UD doesn't have a Mac client, so that leaves folding. My recommendation would be to go with folding anyway, but since you don't have a choice, I can just say welcome to the folding team! For the number of computers you're talking about, it wouldn't be too bad to go to each one and set up the client with your username and team 33, so I'd just do it that way instead of trying to come up with a way to have them all run off of the server. Macs fold pretty well, so you should be able to help the cause quite a bit with your lab!
Thanks for all the replies from everyone. Now that I have it established what I'm going to try and do, I need a little side-topic help. Can anyone help me out with automatically starting an application (F@H) when a mac boots up. (OS 10.3.4) Thanks a lot.
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Not sure about the mac client, but for windows it automatically starts itself at startup.
download and run the installer from the stanford site. it has an option to run automatically. IF this is not what you want (or you don't have another way to keep users from mucking with it) then you need to use a WONDERFUL little program called finstall. you can run a search and you should find a thread with it / link. great proggie for mac and *nix installs. can do network rollouts if I remember correctly as well.
post if you need any help at all.
welcome to the team! that is quite a good start you have there for output.
sharp
post if you need any help at all.
welcome to the team! that is quite a good start you have there for output.
sharp
Thanks to everyone for all the help and information. I'm off work untill the week after next, so I will have to wait until then to be able to try out the F@H. If anyone has any more helpful tips about running this F@H on macs without anyone being able mess the stuff up, all tips will be appreciated. But as I said, I can't try anything for over a week. Thanks again.