Public Beta - FAHClient V7.4.X

PantherX · Jan 25, 2014

There is now a new Public Beta FAHClient V7.4.0 ready for testing:

jcoffland said:

This release adds a new and improved Web interface which is cleaner, hopefully more intuitive and displays your personal and team points. In addition, there are a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the last public v7.3.6 release.

Beta Downloads

Documentation
Installation and user guides can be found here:
FAHControl -> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) what controls the Slots.
FAHViewer -> It shows the protein being folded, if applicable.
Pictorial Installation Guide (Windows) -> A detailed pictorial guide on the V7 installation.
Installation Guide (Windows) -> A brief guide on Windows installation.
Installation Guide (Linux) -> A guide for Linux installation.
Installation Guide (OSX) -> A guide for OSX installation that is in progress.
Client Remote Interface -> Documentation for 3rd party developers.
Main Page -> Main page of the V7.

Getting Help
Aside from the documentation the best place to get help is in this forum. If you do have a problem post a message. There are many knowledgeable people ready and willing to help. Keep in mind, we greatly appreciate thorough reports delivered by patient people who can keep a cool head even when things go wrong.

Bugs/Tickets
Open Tickets Ordered by Milestone and Priority
Active Tickets by Change Time
Note: Some tickets may be closed because they are fixed in an upcoming internal release but are not yet fixed in the beta release.
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Change Logs:

FAHClient:

Code:

v7.4.0:

[LIST]
[*] Disabled stall detection by default.
[*] Added options stall-detection-enabled, stall-timeout & stall-percent.
[/LIST]
v7.3.13:

[LIST]
[*] Fix 'cpus' count.  Use user value if set.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1074"]#1074[/URL]
[*] Swapped user and team in bug report.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1076"]#1076[/URL]
[*] Hide overflow on slot tabs.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1061"]#1061[/URL]
[*] OSX: idle on login window or display sleep.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/944"]#944[/URL]
[*] Only autoconfigure Fermi or better NVidia GPUs in Linux.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1084"]#1084[/URL]
[*] Fixed error when all slots are removed.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1088"]#1088[/URL]
[*] Project links open in new window/tab.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1079"]#1079[/URL]
[*] Hide upper right close button on dialogs.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1078"]#1078[/URL]
[*] Wait at least 30 minutes & 5% before declaring WU stalled.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1059"]#1059[/URL]
[*] Added assign-gpu2.stanford.edu as backup GPU AS.
[/LIST]
v7.3.12:

[LIST]
[*] Don't open FAHViewer fullscreen from Web Client.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1067"]#1067[/URL]
[*] Attempt to fix stall detection.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1059"]#1059[/URL]
[*] Catch and suppress "Failed to wait on process ####:No child processes"
[*] Idle applies to each slot.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1060"]#1060[/URL]
[*] Attempt to fix long GPU name jumble.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1061"]#1061[/URL]
[*] Show yellow spinner for finishing in Web Control.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1065"]#1065[/URL]
[*] Updated default CPU counts.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1013"]#1013[/URL]
[*] Accept IE 11 masquerading as Mozilla 11.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1073"]#1073[/URL]
[*] Display full bug URL after report.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1071"]#1071[/URL]
[*] Fixed project description layout.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1068"]#1068[/URL]
[*] Various Web Control tweaks.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1062"]#1062[/URL], [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1063"]#1063[/URL], [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1064"]#1064[/URL], [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1070"]#1070[/URL]
[*] Fixed bug when converting a CPU slot to GPU slot while running.
[*] Autoconfigure GPU slot in 64-bit Linux.
[/LIST]
v7.3.11:

[LIST]
[*] Experimental installer improvements.
[*] Slots remember pause status through restart.
[*] New Web client design.
[*] Separated power/pause/on-idle.
[*] Points in Web client.
[*] Limit max-unit-errors and max-slot-errors to range (1, 20).  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1020"]#1020[/URL]
[*] Use SMP:N-1 by default if any GPU slots exists.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1013"]#1013[/URL]
[*] Don't try to cleanup if WU is still running.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1037"]#1037[/URL] [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1023"]#1023[/URL]
[*] Detect stalled WUs and dump.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1043"]#1043[/URL]
[*] Fixed QRB calculation.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1044"]#1044[/URL]
[*] Don't return failed WUs after their expiration.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1030"]#1030[/URL]
[*] Only compute bonus if passkey is set.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1040"]#1040[/URL]
[*] Fixed reset of slot boolean options.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/984"]#984[/URL]
[*] Only warn on invalid options during startup.
[*] Read Core 0x17 JSON visualization files.
[*] Autoconfigure CPU slot first.  Changes default order.
[*] Better recovery of Web Client on reloads.
[/LIST]
v7.3.10:

[LIST]
[*] Added 'gui-enable' option to allow disabling the GUI in Windows.
[*] Added 'web-enable' option to allow disabling the Web server.
[*] Added 'command-enable' option to allow disabling the command server.
[/LIST]
v7.3.9:

[LIST]
[*] Fixed command-address='' to disable command server.
[/LIST]
v7.3.8:

[LIST]
[*] Increased the default number of processing threads from 4 to 6.
[*] OSX: Moved apps to /Applications/Folding@home/.
[*] OSX: Renamed FAHClient.url to Web Control.url.
[*] OSX: Added uninstaller package.
[/LIST]
v7.3.7:

[LIST]
[*] Use timeout for initial ETA estimates so WU doesn't hang at 0%.
[*] Show progress to 1/1000ths place.
[*] Increase default max-slot-errors to 10.
[*] Reset slot error counts when power-level changes.
[*] Fixed cause pref update in Web Control. [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/986"]#986[/URL]
[/LIST]

FAHControl:

Code:

v7.3.12:

[LIST]
[*] Reordered toolbar.
[*] Move Viewer button to right of power bar.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/304"]#304[/URL]
[*] Changed FAHControl title bar to say Advanced Control.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/982"]#982[/URL]
[*] Right clicking on slot brings up correct slot menu.  Mentioned in [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1060"]#1060[/URL]
[*] Removed Configure->Advanced->Optimizations.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1069"]#1069[/URL]
[/LIST]
v7.3.11:

[LIST]
[*] Split power slider to power + fold/pause/finish.
[*] Added "on idle" & "always on" to slot menu.
[*] Removed Percent CPU usage, not currently support by any cores.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1056"]#1056[/URL]
[/LIST]
v7.3.7:

[LIST]
[*] Restored ctrl-a and ctrl-c functionality in log view. [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1002"]#1002[/URL]
[/LIST]

FAHViewer:

Code:

v7.3.13:

[LIST]
[*] ESC ends fullscreen mode.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1067"]#1067[/URL]
[*] Default screen size changed to 800x600.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1081"]#1081[/URL]
[/LIST]
v7.3.11:

[LIST]
[*] Automatically detect type of input files on command line.
[*] Read JSON files.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/980"]#980[/URL]
[/LIST]

FAHScreensaver:
No change.

Notes
This release has undergone extensive internal testing but there are often things we miss or are unable to test without your help. We hope to get this new software into a public release ASAP so everyone can benefit from the new improvements. This means that no new features will be added during beta testing. We will be happy to discuss adding new features to the upcoming v7.5.x client. The release process for the next client version will hopefully be much faster.

Joseph Coffland
Folding@home Developer
Cauldron Development LLC

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Happy Bug Hunting :nerd:

PantherX · Jan 25, 2014

A new release is made, FAHClient V7.4.2:
jcoffland said:
This release fixes the most significant bugs found testing v7.4.0.

Beta Downloads

Documentation
Installation and user guides can be found here:
FAHControl -> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) what controls the Slots.
FAHViewer -> It shows the protein being folded, if applicable.
Pictorial Installation Guide (Windows) -> A detailed pictorial guide on the V7 installation.
Installation Guide (Windows) -> A brief guide on Windows installation.
Installation Guide (Linux) -> A guide for Linux installation.
Installation Guide (OSX) -> A guide for OSX installation that is in progress.
Client Remote Interface -> Documentation for 3rd party developers.
Main Page -> Main page of the V7.

Getting Help
Aside from the documentation the best place to get help is in this forum. If you do have a problem post a message. There are many knowledgeable people ready and willing to help. Keep in mind, we greatly appreciate thorough reports delivered by patient people who can keep a cool head even when things go wrong.

Bugs/Tickets
Open Tickets Ordered by Milestone and Priority
Active Tickets by Change Time
Note: Some tickets may be closed because they are fixed in an upcoming internal release but are not yet fixed in the beta release.
Click to expand...

Change Logs:
FAHClient:
Code:
v7.4.1:

[LIST]
[*] Save config.xml on any changes.
[*] Fixed QRB calculation, again.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1044"]#1044[/URL]
[*] Report progress down to 0.01%.
[*] Correct for cores which report incorrect frame/step. [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/888"]#888[/URL]
[*] OSX: workaround for slow communication on 10.9 as service.  [URL="https://fah.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/ticket/1103"]#1103[/URL]
[*] Removed trigger-save command, no longer necessary.
[*] Only allow one visualization type per WU.
[*] Update GPUs.txt when gpu=true, log message on update.
[/LIST]
FAHControl:
Code:
v7.4.1:

[LIST]
[*] Removed trigger-save command, no longer necessary.
[/LIST]
FAHViewer:
No change

FAHScreensaver:
No change

Notes
This release addresses a number of related issues:

The client will now save config.xml when it detects any change but no more often than once per minute and at application exit. This fixes several problems with remembering state between restarts.

In v7.3.11, I attempted to fix QRB. In fact, I made things much worse. This has now been corrected and triple checked so hopefully the calculation is correct now.

With some help from Calxalot I finally figured out why TFP and PPD oscillate on some WUs. It turns out that most of the cores have a problem where they divide the current and total steps by 1,000 and round down before reporting it to FAHClient. HFM.net is not susceptible to this problem because the core prints the correct values to the log. This causes oscillations for any project who's total number of steps is not evenly divisible by 100,000. For example, if the total steps is 250,000 then at %1 the current step will be 2,500. But the core divides this by 1,000 and rounds down so the client sees 2. Note, that the cores only report once every 1%. When this happens the client sees the following progression of reports: 0/250, 2/250, 5/250, 7/250, 10/250... So it computes the current percent progress as: 0%, 0.8%, 2%, 2.8%, 4%... I've worked around this by adding code to the client which attempts to detect this situation and correct for it.

The failure to download at %99 was caused by the previous error. The client would see 98.8% and then at the end 100%.

The FAHClient will now attempt to update GPUs.txt every 5 minutes whenever GPUs.txt is more than 30 days old. It will also print to the log when it does update. It is still necessary to restart FAHClient in order to configure any new GPU slots. This should help with the problem in Linux where the network is not always available when FAHClient first starts.

Notes
If you find any significant bugs don't panic. We'll fix them and make a new release soon.

You might be wondering why there are no ChangeLog entries for v7.4.2. There were only minor changes and some things went wrong with the v7.4.1 release that were most easily fixed by a new release.

Our immediate goal is to go public with the v7.4.x release ASAP. v7.4.x has a number of improvements over the current public release so the criteria for going public is very simple. Once v7.4.x has no major bugs that are not already in v7.3.x we will go public. So concentrate on bugs and think about features for v7.5.x.

Thanks again for your help. Beta testing Folding@home is another great way to contribute to disease research.

Joseph Coffland
Folding@home Developer
Cauldron Development LLC
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iancook221188 · Apr 20, 2014

ive installed 4.4 HFM.net can't see the clients local or over the Lan any idea how to get it all working again

PantherX · Apr 20, 2014

iancook221188 said: ↑

ive installed 4.4 HFM.net can't see the clients local or over the Lan any idea how to get it all working again
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This issue is actually a bug in HFM.NET. The developer is aware of the bug and hopefully, a fix will be released in the near future (details). Unfortunately, if you really need HFM.NET, then you will have to use V7.3.6 and wait until HFM.NET is updated.

iancook221188 · Apr 21, 2014

look like it was pointing that way mite be a while then before it fixed

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