Core MD5 sums

[Uncle_Fungus]

I've just started yet another article as a reference giving the MD5
Sums of all known cores.

http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Core_MD5_Sums

I can fill in some of the Linux cores when I get home this evening,
we'll need a Mac Person to help us with their cores though.

I reckon a section at the top need to be added to tell people how to
get the hashes, and how to work out what core version they've got.
(mostly applies to Windows people, since no md5 tool is distributed
with any version).

I'm not sure to which section this article would belong. It's
definately not a "How To", and I hardly think its a frequently asked
question. Maybe we need a new section called "reference" or something.
Some of the articles currently in the FAQ might be better placed in a
reference section too.

Anyway, the lab beckons...

[Bas Couwenberg]

I running past all my Linux machines and add whatever I have.

Maybe usefull to you or others, if you want a nice list of the info
you need on all the cores in the folding directory, run the following
command:
for f in FahCore_*; do echo && echo $f && md5sum $f && ./$f; done

Which give a nice list as so:

FahCore_65.exe
b7b92c2cafeb2d080f85723b486e3a49 FahCore_65.exe
Folding@Home Client Core Version 2.53
Built June 29, 2004

FahCore_78.exe
140afc16f2393d044f1e5b3daa4b2a23 FahCore_78.exe
Folding@Home Gromacs Core Version 1.90
Built March 8, 2006

FahCore_79.exe
a4bcaefef41feecc2c8522be2cf40870 FahCore_79.exe
Folding@Home Double Gromacs Core Version 1.72
Built February 4, 2005

FahCore_7a.exe
f381bce945b47f55d353518be71bcd35 FahCore_7a.exe
Folding@Home GB Gromacs Core Version 1.86
Built August 28, 2005

FahCore_82.exe
bb6762b68c82ecf3c9bd42fa1ab8ac01 FahCore_82.exe
Folding@Home PMD Core Version 1.03
Built September 7, 2005

FahCore_a0.exe
065fdc86dbcde184720eed1faa24c71a FahCore_a0.exe
Folding@Home Gromacs 3.3 Core Version 1.71
Built February 3, 2006

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[Andrew Schofield]

Do you reckon the Build Date would be useful too?

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/23/06, Andrew Schofield <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you reckon the Build Date would be useful too?

I think the version is enough, but if you run the FahCore binary to
get the version, it also displays the second line with the build date.

[nver...@club-internet.fr]

>I'm not sure to which section this article would belong. It's
>definately not a "How To", and I hardly think its a frequently asked
>question. Maybe we need a new section called "reference" or something.
>Some of the articles currently in the FAQ might be better placed in a
>reference section too.

We can also use categories to organize the articles.
For the moment, there's only a short list of categories:
http://fahwiki.net/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=14

Nico

[Andrew Schofield]

Allright, that's another difference between the Windows and Linux cores. The windows versions don't do anything if you just run the executable. You have to trick them into thinking they have a WU to work on.

FahCore_xx.exe -suffix 01

This tells the core to work on queue unit 1 (but doesn't tell it where it is etc.) which causes the core to create a logfile01.txt which contains the initial core ouput, i.e. the version, date and a MISSING_WORK_FILES error ;)

I'll add this to the article.

On 5/23/06, Bas Couwenberg <linux...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Bas Couwenberg]

BTW, the fist post in the Links is now restricted:
Sorry, but only users granted special access can read topics in this forum.

I removed the link, it should be returned if the topics gets moved in
public view again.

[ivos...@gmail.com]

Note: The MacOSX does not have all the cores, only 65, 78 and 79.

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/23/06, Uncle_Fungus <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If only we could get a few more people doing what were doing. (sigh)

I opened a topic on the Team MacOS X forum asking for help with the
OSX cores md5sums and the wiki in general. I think people like
plutronics, susato etc might be willing to help out.

I also asked on my own teams forum, but only specificly for the QMD
core md5sum for Linux. I have little hope for help from the Dutch
Power Cows who don't seem to have much community feeling. Although I
did get a whole lot of folding directories to help me analyse a
problem with qd, which Ivo made me aware of (and haven't been able to
solve yet).

On 5/23/06, ivos...@gmail.com <ivos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note: The MacOSX does not have all the cores, only 65, 78 and 79.

Good to know. I've removed the other cores from the OSX list.

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/23/06, Bas Couwenberg <linux...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/23/06, Uncle_Fungus <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If only we could get a few more people doing what were doing. (sigh)
>
> I opened a topic on the Team MacOS X forum asking for help with the
> OSX cores md5sums and the wiki in general. I think people like
> plutronics, susato etc might be willing to help out.

For the record: the topic on the MacOS X forum is at:
http://teammacosx.homeunix.com/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=17;t=2418;st=0

[Andrew Schofield]

Good job, I'm sure those guys will be willing to help, if we poke them a bit;)

[Andrew Schofield]

Bruce has just suggested to me that we should include filesizes in the
tables too.

I've done this for the Windows Cores (well the ones I have access to at
the moment) and modified the windows script to accompany it.

Can someone else do the same thing for the linux script? I'm not sure
how you can simply get the filesize :)

Andrew

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/23/06, Andrew Schofield <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone else do the same thing for the linux script? I'm not sure
> how you can simply get the filesize :)

Done.

You can get the filesize of a file or disk usage of a whole directory
tree with `du`, or ofcourse with `ls -l`.

Bas

[Andrew Schofield]

Doh, should have known that, especially since I used `dir` for the window script. ;)

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/23/06, Bas Couwenberg <linux...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I also asked on my own teams forum, but only specificly for the QMD
> core md5sum for Linux.

The Project Representative for F@H within my team has a QMD core for
me, so we can add its MD5 Sum in the wiki.

In the mean time I tried to build my own core following:
http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Downloading_FAH_Core_files_manually

Because I'm lazy I wrote a small Perl script to convert the .fah to
.exe.bz for me: fah-core-convert.pl

I've verified that the binaries produced by this script, after being
unpacked with bunzip2 are identical to the ones that were created by
the FAH client (if the versions match ofcourse).

I'm thinking about uploading the script to the wiki, but I'm not sure
the CC 2.0 license allows for GPL'ed content to be uploaded. Otherwise
I'll put it in my fah-tools package, which I still need to release to
the world, and link to that.

Since IANAL I'll play it safe and keep the script off the wiki for
now, but have attached it for your all.

Bas