Fold-server 1.0

Hello, guys,
You may remember the thread from a few days ago stating that I was dead or some such. Well, fear not.

I am far from dead, and have released fold-server 1.0, for real this time. If you've been waiting for your chance to start using fold-server, now is the time. All the parts work "out of the box", rather than the "install and then fix this/that/other" procedure in 0.9. There are new options for the web interface, including (working!) resolv.conf editor for your DNS configuration and an easy username and team changer for FAH.

The clients now autoconfigure to get themselves the right type of packets, so if you've got a couple junkers among the jewels you won't have to run the whole farm on timeless anymore.

The time is now. Documentation is up (but somewhat out of date, email me if you run into trouble). Crashsector is also working on documentation for normal people to understand. I'll add a link to this post once he completes it.

Enjoy 1.0!
unhappy_mage

as soon as I get my hands on a new boxen, or one of these crappers finishes one, I'll test it out. !!

New docs should be done tonight, new site some time this weekend

For the public record, fold-server = . (And apparently by his own admission mage = dumb).

Is this KodiakStar proof? I'm not touching it is it's not that simple.

Will the boxen actually fold under this release? Ouch... hehe

Originally Posted by marty9876

Is this KodiakStar proof? I'm not touching it is it's not that simple.

Will the boxen actually fold under this release? Ouch... hehe

Your brutal!

Originally Posted by Crashsector

(And apparently by his own admission mage = dumb).

QFT

Originally Posted by marty9876

Is this KodiakStar proof? I'm not touching it is it's not that simple.

I sure hope so... I'll have to ask him how he's making out, his internet's back up now.

Originally Posted by marty9876

Is this KodiakStar proof? I'm not touching it is it's not that simple.

Ahahaha that was great. Actually laughed out loud.

its kinda funny... mage went to go help kodiakstar set up foldserver, and even HE couldn't make it work there... and he built the thing.

i guess kodiakstar is a really bad influence... must be all those diseases he's spreading

Originally Posted by rogue_jedi

i guess kodiakstar is a really bad influence... must be all those diseases he's spreading

Eeewwww!

mage,

do you still require the computer to have 2 NIC cards in this release?

Originally Posted by rogue_jedi

its kinda funny... mage went to go help kodiakstar set up foldserver, and even HE couldn't make it work there... and he built the thing.

i guess kodiakstar is a really bad influence... must be all those diseases he's spreading

Really.... Yea I've been there, can't get your own thing/product to work.

Originally Posted by magnusvir

mage,

do you still require the computer to have 2 NIC cards in this release?

That's the nature of having a proxy, not due to the release. So yes.

Actually, that's in the works for 1.1. It should make a few things easier, but some things will get more tricky. The main problem with that is that it requires you to have your whole local network set up through fold-server, and that entails a lot of new webconfig plugins I need to write.

What about XML output so users can make custom parsers to work with the data? That would be

I'd have to read up more on xml to do that, but it is a cool idea. Add a few lines in a simple format, and add a new machine.

What is the exact purpose of this?

From my forthcoming docs:

Fold-Server is a self-contained Linux distribution based on Damn Small Linux (DSL) 0.93. It provides both server and client environments for a network-booted cluster of computers to be used in Stanford University’s Folding@Home project. Fold-Server was developed as a way to enable the processor and memory resources of client computers to be used without any impact on the permanent aspects of the hardware (hard disks). Fold-Server acts as a gateway between your existing network and a sub-network of clients, distributing cores and work units as needed. This streamlines the “farming” technique and also provides opportunities to improve monitoring and statistical reporting.

It is basically a server to allow you to run F@H on machines without the need for hard drives (or CD-ROMS or floppies) on the clients.

Originally Posted by Crashsector

That's the nature of having a proxy, not due to the release. So yes.

nature of proxy? not with linux.
Granted I don't run this, I do run linux, one nic can have multiple interfaces.

example:

ifconfig eth0 up (this being local ip)
ifconfig eth0:1 up (this being internet ip)

iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -F FORWARD
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0:1 -o eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0:1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0:1 -j MASQUERADE

I haven't tested this, but it should work.

can you monitor the 'nodes' with em3 from a windows based machine?

Originally Posted by vxspiritxv

I haven't tested this, but it should work.

Hey, mage and yourself are going to get along great...