Have I got this right?

[kmote]

I've set up a couple of machines to do some folding; a uniprocessor client and an SMP client. The machines have a different userID but they both have machineID 1. I think that it is a combination of the userID and machineID that uniquely identifies a client. If thats right then I should be alright because the machines have different userIDs.
If thats not right then would altering the settings (and presumably restarting the client) remove the progress made on the WU?

 

[patonb]

Hmmmmmmm, Good question, i don't know about user and machine id...

Changing the user/team won't remove the wu stuff, it'll just not get credited right.

 

[ricanflow]

machine id applies to the same machine, not different ones.

You can run up to 16 clients on each machine, each with a separate machine id.

But machine id 1 on machine a has nothing to do with machine id 1 on machine b.

And if you use a different username on each machine, well you wont be making much progress. I have one username, and all my clients fold under it.

 

[kmote]

Well I have the same username on both "kmote" but the userID is different.

EDIT: should have said, I am running the linux client on both and the userID I am seeing is in the logfile

 

[patonb]

Okay, are they in vmwares? Cause then they'd be 2 different machines.

 

[kmote]

Okay, are they in vmwares? Cause then they'd be 2 different machines.

This surprises me, but no, they are on physically seperate machines.

 

[patonb]

Really?

There's vmware iso's out that are just linux livecds. Linux smp is supose to crunch faster.

 

[kmote]

Anyway, it does't appear to be working. The processes are running, entries are being appended to the log (and they dont look like they are saying anything negative) but the SMP machine has completed it's first wu (I think) but my name is not appearing anywhere in any statistics. Is there some way I can verify it is working?

 

[ricanflow]

It takes a while to update.

The logfile shows all the info:

[22:59:16] Completed 97%
[23:01:29] Completed 98%
[23:03:41] Completed 99%
[23:05:55] Completed 100%
[23:05:56] Successful run
[23:05:56] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000
[23:06:05] Reserved 112008 bytes for xtc file; Cosm status=0
[23:06:05] Allocated 112008 bytes for xtc file
[23:06:05] - Reading up to 112008 from "work/wudata_05.xtc": Read 112008
[23:06:05] Read 112008 bytes from xtc file; available packet space=786318456
[23:06:05] xtc file hash check passed.
[23:06:05] Reserved 33528 33528 786318456 bytes for arc file=<work/wudata_05.trr> Cosm status=0
[23:06:05] Allocated 33528 bytes for arc file
[23:06:05] - Reading up to 33528 from "work/wudata_05.trr": Read 33528
[23:06:05] Read 33528 bytes from arc file; available packet space=786284928
[23:06:05] trr file hash check passed.
[23:06:05] Allocated 560 bytes for edr file
[23:06:05] Read bedfile
[23:06:05] edr file hash check passed.
[23:06:05] Allocated 30993 bytes for logfile
[23:06:05] Read logfile
[23:06:05] GuardedRun: success in DynamicWrapper
[23:06:05] GuardedRun: done
[23:06:05] Run: GuardedRun completed.
[23:06:06] - Writing 177601 bytes of core data to disk...
[23:06:06] Done: 177089 -> 154724 (compressed to 87.3 percent)
[23:06:06]   ... Done.
[23:06:06] - Shutting down core 
[23:06:06] 
[23:06:06] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[23:06:09] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[23:06:09] Sending work to server
[23:06:09] Project: 5749 (Run 11, Clone 22, Gen 13)


[23:06:09] + Attempting to send results [December 8 23:06:09 UTC]
[23:06:15] + Results successfully sent
[23:06:15] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[23:06:15] + Number of Units Completed: 577

Thats what a properly finished and uploaded work unit looks like. You simply have to wait from there.

 

[kmote]

OK what happened is it tried to send it but could not, then 1.5 hours later I look at the log, see the last entry still says Connecting to http//whatever and so I crash it out thinking that when it starts back up it will know what to do. It starts back up and gets another wu and it looks like all my progress has been erased (or at least no evidence of anything happenning) or whatever good news though is it looks like it tried to do routine posting of data and that has done the trick! I now have 1920 points! Yay