folding with the console

[howard]

i'd like to run my folding on the console but i'm completely ignorant of running it on there. can you run me through a little step by step of how? do any of you also know some kinda of tutorial site i can go to to learn more about the console? thanks for your help

 

[Rower_CPU]

Have you looked here?

http://folding.stanford.edu/OSX/OSX.html#console

 

[howard]

excuse my ignorance...how do i "cd into the desktop directory"....? i'm unfamiliar with console commands...

 

[mc68k]

howard:

i can send you a script that will set up console folding 4 u.

if you want a step-by-step you can AIM me XPC7400 and I'll be glad to help.

 

[howard]

i don't use aim, actually i am not a big fan of instant messaging...you can email me though at howardface@hotmail.com

i did figure out how to cd to the desktop...and i learned to type pwd to find out whats in it..and the os x-3.24 program was in there but when i typed that in it didn't do anything!! so i don't know whats up...

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by mc68k
howard:

i can send you a script that will set up console folding 4 u.

if you want a step-by-step you can AIM me XPC7400 and I'll be glad to help.

this nerd does it all....

pm him

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by howard
i don't use aim, actually i am not a big fan of instant messaging...you can email me though at howardface@hotmail.com

i did figure out how to cd to the desktop...and i learned to type pwd to find out whats in it..and the os x-3.24 program was in there but when i typed that in it didn't do anything!! so i don't know whats up...

The instructions are right there in the link I gave you:

2) Open up a Terminal window and cd into the Desktop directory. To ensure you can execute the application, type
chmod +x OSX-3.24

3) Now, type
./OSX-3.24
to run the program.

4) You will be asked a series of questions to set up the configuration. The first of these will be what User name you would like to use--this is so that you can track your work on the statistics web page.

5) The application will download the scientific core (may take a few minu tes) and then get to work. If you would like to hide the terminal, just choose Hide Terminal from the Terminal menu.

 

[howard]

duh i'm retarded...i was typing "osx-3.24" instead of "./osx-3.24" like i said i don't know much about using the terminal, but would like to learn

thanks for your help

 

[howard]

one more quick question...i noticed in the console demo they have on the folding site i shows number of frames and number of frames completed...mine doesn't show that...heres what it looks like:

[19:26:21] - Ask before connecting: No
[19:26:21] - User name: howard (Team 3446)
[19:26:21] - User ID = 5E274D8D23750A30
[19:26:21] - Machine ID: 1
[19:26:21]
[19:26:21] Loaded queue successfully.
[19:26:21] + Benchmarking ...
[19:26:25]
[19:26:25] + Processing work unit
[19:26:25] Core required: FahCore_65.exe
[19:26:25] Core found.
[19:26:25] Working on Unit 07 [January 24 19:26:25]
[19:26:25] + Working ...
[19:26:25] Folding@Home Client Core Version 2.47 (June 14, 2002)
[19:26:25]
[19:26:25] Proj: work/wudata_07
[19:26:25] nsteps: 1000000 dt: 2.000000 dt_dump: 100.000000 temperature: 340.000000
[19:26:25] xyzfile:
[19:26:25] " 343 P190_1fsvunf340
[19:26:25] 1 CH3 -18.270054 23.364026 6.017604 7 ..."
[19:26:25] keyfile:
[19:26:25] "NOVERSION
[19:26:25] ARCHIVE
[19:26:25]
[19:26:25] printout 1000
[19:26:25] writeout 1000
[19:26:25]
[19:26:25] integrate ..."
[19:26:25]
[19:26:25] Hashes matched on file work/wudata_07.dyn

sorry to keep bugging about this, i'm just very curious

 

[mc68k]

Originally posted by howard
one more quick question...i noticed in the console demo they have on the folding site i shows number of frames and number of frames completed...

you might be able to coax more info out of it with a verbosity switch like this:

./OSX-3.24 -verbosity [b]#[/b]

where # is a number from 0 to 9 i believe. (make sure to kill the folding processes first, otherwise you'll have N instances running at 100/N% idle processor)

if that doesn't work, you can always find the info in this directory:

/Users/username/Library/Folding@home/work

There should be one or more files in there named logfile_0X.txt, where X is an arbitrary number. open this file with simple text and scroll to the bottom.

To find how many frames are in a given protein, go here and look up the protein number.

 

[howard]

hey, thanks everyone for your help. i've been enjoying folding with the terminal, i also think its a big faster on my ibook 700mhz. also just thought i'd ask, are there servers really bogged down today? i just finished a wu this morning and it wouldn't turn in...then i looked on there site at some stats and for today theres a huge peak in like every team. i hope i get credit for that wu!!!!

thanks again

 

[janey]

Originally posted by howard
hey, thanks everyone for your help. i've been enjoying folding with the terminal, i also think its a big faster on my ibook 700mhz. also just thought i'd ask, are there servers really bogged down today? i just finished a wu this morning and it wouldn't turn in...then i looked on there site at some stats and for today theres a huge peak in like every team. i hope i get credit for that wu!!!!

thanks again

I think the huge peak was due to the worm, not you

Just kidding...

 

[mc68k]

Originally posted by übergeek
I think the huge peak was due to the worm, not you

the Stanford servers go down all the time. it could be attributable to the worm, but it goes down at least twice a week.

 

[janey]

ahh well. all servers go down eventually.