Genome as a service and Avatars

[unicronix]

I have been away for a while but now I am back with more crunching power.

Two questions:

1) where to find info on running genome as a service, or more specifically, when using Firedaemon to set it up, do I pick the filter.exe or genome.exe? I can't remember.

2) my custon avatar from the old board does not seem to be here. I do not have a copy of it anymore. Is it gone forever?


thanks in advance. I is good to be back.

[Stilgar]

Nice to see your nym around again. I can't help you with the fire deamon but you can find your old avatar at http://www.excalibur-corp.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/register.cgi

[wbierman]

What OS are you using? Run the Service Run As wizard in Win2K. Takes about 20 seconds to set up.

[Martyn]

This is C&P from the old a.c.h.o website...

The easiest way to run Genome@home as a service in Windows NT or Windows 2000 is to use firedaemon, a free utility which automates much of the service creation. In order to get firedaemon, hop on over to http://www.firedaemon.com and download the program.

Because of the nature of firedaemon, it is fairly simple to set up, but at the same time, very powerful. Download the program, and after installation, load up the UI. Type in a descriptive name for the service (we will use "gah" in this example) If you want to, type in a description (we will use "Genome@home client service") To have the program start up upon reboot, or when a user is not logged in, change the startup type from "Manual" to "Automatic", which is the only other choice .

To start the service automatically when you are done with firedaemon, check the "start immediatly" checkbox. It is also recommended that you select the "Auto restart" option as well. Select the application working directory. To do this, click on the question mark to the right of the text box, and navigate to the program. Most likely this is in "C:\Program Files\Genome@home"

Next up is the application executable. Navigate to the directory as in the step above, by clicking on the question mark to the right of the text box. Once you have reached the directory, click on "ghclient". This is the working executable of Genome@home. In the Application options dialog box, you can define switches etc.

Once you have completed all of the above, it is necessary to set the applications priority. Genome@home is very CPU intensive, and it is not recommended that users run it at any priority above "Idle" as the computer becomes very sluggish and unresponsive. To change this, click on the down arrow. Choose the "Idle (runs only when system is idle)" option. once you have done this, choose the CPU0 option, as this will assign Genome@home to your processor. For those with multi-processor boxes: Choose CPU0 as well. When this is done, and if you want to run another instance, repeat all of the steps above (substituting the service name "gah" with "gah2" or something of the like - it is also recommended that you change the service description to be representative of the instance number), and then choose CPU1 for the second instance, and so on. Keep in mind that each Genome@home instance uses ~15MB RAM while running, eating up RAM quickly.

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I've just set this up myself and it works a dream. I set the nonet switch, because the box is sneakernetted, and i'm just using Electron Microscope to monitor the client. I am not controlling the client with EM, just set it to start minimised in the tray. Works great, apart from EM, there is no visible sign that the client is running.