Gkrellfah2 - F@H plugin for gkrellm[d].. / News: Recent posts

gkrellfah2 has been rewritten into three difference sub-modules. GFHCMC/GFHCMD the client server version for monitoring remote and local machine. GFHCM a stand alone version to monitor a single user desktopm.

The gkrellfah2 package now includes a gtk2 only client with full monitoring function. GFHCM does not require gkrellm to be installed, and is purely a gtk2 apps which runs in GNOME, or KDE, and some other desktops.

gfah has been enhanced to allow command execution and fahlimit control from the client plugin to the server pluging. This allows the client to selectively start/stop and limit the Folding@Home executable on the server machine. Plus all plugins sport the new ControlPanel user interface.

First time users may have experienced a segfault preceded by the message "gfahStats: gfah_get_urls...". This was caused by my failure to protect against the first use of this plugin where nothing is valid. I have corrected this issue with V1.1.0-1. Please let me know if you discover any other problems. I will endeavour to fix them immediately.

Skoona,

Gkrellfah2 has included the functionality of FahLimit to control the cpu time used of F@H Linux clients. _Plus, A Control Panel with several management function has been deployed to facility using all the features in GkrellFah2.

Skoona,

gfahStats is a standalone program which displays individual and team score for Folding@home participants. It will be incorporated into the GKrellFah2 package at a later time. But for now you can use it to see the number of work units you have completed and your world ranking.

I found a bug deep in the code that parsed the F@H executable name. This code wiped out the name if it did not find a '.exe' on the end. This would cause gfah2 to not reconize the executable as active and maybe even attempt to start the execable again and again if the auto_start/auto_restart options are turned on.

Release 1.0.7 contains this fix.

Skoona

Gkrellfah2 the Folding@home monitor plugin has been released as a RPM to ease the installation and management of this popular program. Release 1.0.6 is the first RPM available.

Skoona

Bold and italic highlighting via pango markup tags like <b>...</b> and now supported via the configuration panel "display format string". Simply wrap each param in a beginning tag and end it with a ending tag. This change removes internal hqardcoded markups allowing you to select when and where you want these highlights.

The GKrellm Folding@home monitor plugin package adds a seperate logviewer program to view completed work unit logfiles the package creates.

Additonally, Folding@home client metric named "Performance Fraction" has been added to the logfile and tooltip for your usage.

This is the most complete and tested version of the gkrellfah2 client produced thus far. It has been completely retooled to better report and track the progress of Folding@Home clients on your local or remote machines; using the features of Gkrellm.

Skoona,

Major rewrite of the gkrellfah2 package to contain both client/server and standalone functions is now complete. Look at the subpackage "GKRELLFAHCS" for all three plugins. Folding@Home monitoring and control at its finest.!!!

Skoona

When the gkrellfahCs package is installed on your machine and you attempt to start gkrellm normally. Gkrellm attempt to load the gkrellfah2C.so plugin - which complains that it was not started in Gkrellm Client Mode ( -s server_name ). The plugin then causes gkrellm to segfault off.

This problem has been repaired in version 1.3-1 released today, and older version have been hidden from view.... read more

Significant updates to the central logfile viewer were added in this release. With the expectation that you would run gkrellmd and this gkrellfahCS plugin on multiple machine, the plugin has been updated to collect info on completed work units and forward them to a single central file. Now that file can be viewed from a popup window or the configuration panels. This release is stable and unless problems are reported - not likely to change soon.... read more

The package gkrellfah2CS was added today. It contains a complete client/server (gkrellmd) rewrite of the base gkrellfah2 package; which is a multiple Folding@home monitor plugin . Although its release number is 0.1.0-alpha, its fairly stable and contains both a server plugin for gkrellmd, and a client plugin for gkrellm.

Features include auto_start FAH, re-start FAH if it fails, monitor up to eight execution directories per PC, and of course multiple clients per every server plugin. ... read more

This release resolves the problem of monitoring F@H clients that are owned by other (or background) users; it can now monitor and configured F@H client. Further changes have been made to support incremental upgrades - ie. FAH500-Linux.exe, FAH502-Linux.exe, ....

Please continue to use release 0-9.7-3 if you haven't upgraded to Folding@home client version 5.00. All F@H Clients versions 4 and below are supported with THAT release. The QUEUE.DAT file makes a big change with V5 clients, so V4 & V5 are no longer compatible.

The new Folding@home linux console client program "FAH500-Linux.exe", is supported with release 0-9.7-4 of GkrellFah2 available today. This release should only be used by users that HAVE ALREADY installed version 5 of the F@H client. The F@H client transforms the queue.dat file in such a way that earlier clients will not be able to use the queue.dat file every again. So once you move to V5 you can't go back. GkrellFah2 will match this progression forward with clients - dropping new feature/function support for older clients (<5). Please send an email to skoona@users.sourceforge.net if you have any issues with this release, or post a msg in this help forum.

* Fixed an initial startup bug, when paths are not configured. This first execution after installation needs the correct path to FAH clients working directory in order to monitor it proplerly. Before it was segfault'ing on the very first install, and until a valid directory (that has FAH4Client... installed). I know test for this condition and display an appropriate message.

Release 0.9.7 has it all. Monitoring of up to eight FAH clients at once, estimated time to completion based on CPU utilization and due date of workunit. User information, like team number, workunits completed, current workunit, cpu utilization, workunit current points and estimated point rates per min/hour, auto download of Stanford Current Scheduled workunit point table, dialup support to get/work/send workunits around the needs of dialup users, auto start/stop/restart of workunits, and many more features.

gkrellfah2-0.9.6-5 will be released today, with all reported bugs fixed(like start/stop mouse button without-start_on_startup), and a couple of new features. The code name (i.e. TINKER, GROMACS, etc) is available via panel options, and the StanFord Points table is automatically downloaded and parsed to ensure the POINTS display choices have the most recent info possible.

Added the number of points the current workunit is worth to the tooltips mouseover window, and to the userinfo tab in the configuration panel. Verified ETA calcs to be correct for any machine config - i.e. SMP or UNI. Tested with GkrellM2 V2.2.2.

James,

gkrellfah2 release 0-9.6 has been rewritten to support the monitoring of up to eight Folding@Home clients from one module. Overall, this release should serve as an excellent plugin example, and deliver on it functional promise.