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    Lets give this a try ...

    Well I used to be big on the whole SETI malarky but never got into folding. Have been doing a full rebuild of our office and stuff so thought I might give this a try I have shoved it on a couple of boxes for now to see how it works and get used to it but will add the rest of my machines if it seems to be happy

    Currently running, a 1700MP & 1GB RAM, 2700XP & 512MB RAM, 2400XP & 1GB RAM and a 2Ghz CoreDuo & 2GB RAM.

    Trying out a few different clients, got the graphical one on all the AMD machines, and the mac SMB (is that the name of it) one with Increase for monitoring (its running OS X).

    If all goes well I have a 3.2Ghz Quad Xeon MacPro, dual 1Ghz P3 machine (and a few other random ones I haven't bothered commandeering yet) ready and waiting togo - just don't want to put them on my crucial machines just yet, heh.

    A few questions ...

    With SETI (BOINC) you had a way of logging in with user options etc. ... I take it doesn't work like that - you just sort of stick in the same name in each client?

    As far as network controllable/monitorable clients go - is there anything I can use?

    Installing as a service/hiding from end users, any good control software for that?

    Is there any good third party client most people use? Whats the best way to maximise the usage of my machines?

    Hopefully be crunching at full capacity soon

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    Re: Lets give this a try ...

    Can only really speak for the Mac side of things - the SMP client is pretty much transparent in that the controls for it are in System Preferences but you've probably noticed that. Once it's installed and running you pretty much leave it to it and that's it.

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    Re: Lets give this a try ...

    Thanks for joining!

    On single core machines I just use the standard client which leaves a little red cog in the system tray. On my quad I leave the command client running in a window. Never really thought about trying to hide it.

    I know what you mean about SETI - the way they track each PC individually is very nice indeed - I've not seen anything like that for folding... but perhaps there's something out there?

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    Re: Lets give this a try ...

    FahMon is a useful monitoring tool http://fahmon.net/

    All you have to do is make sure the data directory is shared on each machine and then point FahMon at it.
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    Re: Lets give this a try ...

    Cheers @ Salazaar - Will give that a bash sometime!

    The SMP client says its only for multicore computers ... What do I do with my multi-processor computers, will they run it as well?

    Also - the SMP WUs seem to give a massively higher number of points than the normal graphical client WUs ... why? And whats to stop you running it on a single core machine?

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