Kendan
01-14-02, 08:16 PM
I found this on the yahoo list. It might be important to those installing on multiple machines.
Hi, Michael from the Pande group again.
Reminder/warning:
If you are setting up F@H on multiple machines by downloading once and
copying it over onto other machines, do not copy the client.cfg file
to the other machines as is. You should delete the userid=xxxxxxxxx
line first. This will make sure F@H recognizes the new computer as a
seperate computer.
The consequence of not doing this is that F@H will think that they are
all the same processor - when one requests a WU, the server will think
that it hasn't returned the old WU back yet, and will reassign the old
WU to do again. Each computer will get credit for all the work it
eventually returns even if it is duplicated, so no stats are lost -
but it does mean that all the computers will just be doing the same
WU, so the extra effort is wasted.
If you have done this, just delete the userid=xxxxx line in each
client,cfg file. The next time a connection is made to report a WU,
F@H will just assign a new CPU ID. Again, this will not affect your
user-id, or statistics- it just means that the F@H server recognizes
it as a new computer, run by the same user, and more useful scientific
work is done.
Yes, this will be put in the FAQ soon . . . I'll be updating the FAQ
tomorrow, although it might take a while to get all the new
questions/answers posted.
Cheers,
Michael
Hi, Michael from the Pande group again.
Reminder/warning:
If you are setting up F@H on multiple machines by downloading once and
copying it over onto other machines, do not copy the client.cfg file
to the other machines as is. You should delete the userid=xxxxxxxxx
line first. This will make sure F@H recognizes the new computer as a
seperate computer.
The consequence of not doing this is that F@H will think that they are
all the same processor - when one requests a WU, the server will think
that it hasn't returned the old WU back yet, and will reassign the old
WU to do again. Each computer will get credit for all the work it
eventually returns even if it is duplicated, so no stats are lost -
but it does mean that all the computers will just be doing the same
WU, so the extra effort is wasted.
If you have done this, just delete the userid=xxxxx line in each
client,cfg file. The next time a connection is made to report a WU,
F@H will just assign a new CPU ID. Again, this will not affect your
user-id, or statistics- it just means that the F@H server recognizes
it as a new computer, run by the same user, and more useful scientific
work is done.
Yes, this will be put in the FAQ soon . . . I'll be updating the FAQ
tomorrow, although it might take a while to get all the new
questions/answers posted.
Cheers,
Michael