[scottmc]

Anybody tried out the Distributed Folding client for BeOS that was released last week? I need to reinstall my BeOS partition as it's currently hosed. Chinasuar reported that it was one of the faster clients he's used, but that's the only report I've heard on it so far.
Link to it can be found on http://www.teambeos.com

-scottmc

[scottmc]

The most recent release of this client now gives the option to use upto 150Meg of Ram which in turn lets you double, that's right double the speed at which this puppy spits out work units! Use the -rt command line option in your foldit.bat script file. See their readme file for more details.
TeamBeOS got Dister and JPaul back on the team and have crusied up into the top 35!!
Screenshot running in BeOS:
http://www.teambeos.com/df/

-Scottmc

[Tom_Artosorse]

Hey, I just installed the Distributed Folding Client and joined Team BeOS. I can't stop watching the pretty patterns whizzing round in the Terminal - it's rather cool and doesn't bother with a bunch of crap. C'mon Team BeOS! Take us to the top ...

;o)

[scottmc]

Welcome to the team! We can always use a few more crunchers. I'm really surprised there's not more BeOS users on the DF team. When I started TeamBeOS.com the most common question was WHEN will "folding@home be ported?" They said that if it was they'd join right up. Well the F@H people keep putting off the BeOS port for one reason or another and then I saw this DF project. So I emailed them and a few weeks later we get a BeOS cliet!
But in the weeks since the team has only picked up one or two members per week. Maybe it'll pick up soon. Our Eccp109 team has 50+ members on it now. Maybe it's because they offer a $1000 prise? I agree the DF client is more fun to watch, all the little ASCII art going on drawing the proteuin being folded.

Oh be careful with the 150meg ram option and Mozilla, its kicked me into KDL a few times, not sure if it the exact cause but i think it's the most likely cause.

Add these three lines to your UserBootscript, where the cd command points to where you installed Distributed Folding:

cd /boot/home/distribfold
rm foldtrajlite.lock
Terminal -t "Distributed Folding" foldit

This will start up DF automatically on boot up.

-scottmc

[scottmc]

This team is really moving up the last few days.
http://statsman.org/distfoldingstats/html/301.html
At the current rate we should move from the current 43rd place all the way up to 37th by the first week of October 2002. Way to go!


-scottmc

[Guest]

Now in 34th and moving up nicely. Seems a few of the people who were on the Eccp109 project are migrating over to this one. We've got close to 40 people on the team with over half of them active in the past week!
Keep up the good work.

-Scottmc

[Guest]

Scottmc, I know you are always putting up things to do with the extra cpu time. I have had my beos machine down while working on a new dual box.
Seems if you have BeOS ya gotta have a dually. Hey, Beos worked great in 10 minutes. Just taking me another week to get NT to work.

Anyway, thanks for all the info and I will get that new box working on one of your suggestions soon as I can.

-jefro

[scottmc]

I'd like to someday build a dual proc machine but so far haven't.

That high flying object was Team BeOS getting ready to pass Project Blue Book! We should have no trouble moving into the top 30 in the next few weeks and into the top 20 overall within the next 6 months, and that's with no new crunchers! If we were to pick up more people and/or faster PCs who knows?



-Scottmc

[Guest]

For those interested in numbers Dyyryath of Free DC team has built a new stats page for Distributed Folding with teams and individual statistics http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/distributed-folding/render-users.pl?order=TeamRank&shading=YES&team=301&entries=50&color=YES[/url]

[Beyond]

27 Team ARP
28 HardOCP
29 Team BeOS
30 Belgium
31 UK
32 Canada
33 Project Blue Book