[RC5-72] Team XPC How To For RC5-72

[Mntsnow]

Download the software (http://www.distributed.net/clients.html) for your system.

Configure the software with your email address (will want to do this the first time you start the client it will auto start the config process it's pretty self explainatory).

Visit your RC5 stats page 24 hours on DNET after your software starts crunching away at keys and has DUMPED some blocks.

It will be accessible at http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=8 and do a search for your username and then when you have your own statistics page, scroll to the bottom and click on the "I cannot remember my password" link. this will cause it to send you your password so you can configure your own page and Join a team!

Check your email. You should have received a message from distributed.net. Your user ID# and password should be contained in that message.

Now to join the XtremePcCentral Team you need to go search for XtremePcCentral and at the bottom of the team's page it will have a link saying "I want to Join this Team" or something like that Click it. It will open a new window and follow the instructions :)
or to make it very easy you can use this link to join our team Warning..Only use this link if you want to join Team XtremePcCentral http://stats.distributed.net/participant/pjointeam.php?team=28724


Here is a quick explaination of what the Official DNET stats page shows you.

#1 Your position in the team ranking
#2 Your name
#3 Your position in the overall project ranking (the green shows how many spots you moved up:) or down:( in the last 24 hours)
#4 When you started with the project
#5 The last date you where active (dumped blocks)
#6 The amount of blocks you submitted in the prior 24 hours
#7 The % of that days total blocks for the team you personally contibuted
#8 The Total number of blocks you have contributed to the team
#9 The % of the total blocks overall you have contributed to the team.

To check the team stats go to http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=8&team=28724
and then you can click on the Overall or yesterday links to see the break down by members
Hope that helps

[Mntsnow]

For those that dont want to fight with setting up the client Just download the zipped version (using the url from above) and unzip it to the folder and location of your choice.

Next create a file called " dnetc.ini " and put the following info inside of it. (use Notepad and when done just change the txt file extenstion to that of "ini"
*NOTE* Make sure you add in the "misc" section to all clients as that setting is the one that will force RC5 to be the project it works on by default


[parameters]
id=mntsnow@xtremepccentral.com

[misc]
project-priority=RC5-72,OGR=0

[triggers]
restart-on-config-file-change=yes
pause-on-no-mains-power=no

[display]
progress-indicator=auto-sense

[rc5-72]
fetch-workunit-threshold=0



*just change the email addy to that of yours unless you want to crack under my name ;) and let me get all the glory lol

The above would be a simple setup. the client is very configurable. If you need more specific help just start a thread with your questions and I and others will try and help best we can

[Mntsnow]

BTW
It is VERY Dually Friendly. you only have to install the client once and requires NO special configuration settings and it is multi-threaded by default so it will use both procs automatically

btw if you want to run it as a service....Just create a shortcut of the dnet.exe and edit the properties of the shortcut to be

C:\DNET\dnetc.exe -install

This is the "target" line just add the " -install " and save it and just double click the shortcut. That will cause it to be installed as a service on your NT, 2k, XP boxes so it can run even without you have to log in to the box (note: of course the path might be different to the exe file as you might install it to a different directory than I did)

Of course when you dont want it to run as a service just change the -install to a -uninstall save and double click the shortcut and it will remove the client as a service

[madfish]

hmmmm your tempting me to sign up my dualie. it's doing 17 or bust right now with the smp client, which sucks as It's only using 50% of each procs. lots of cycles going to waste.

[Mortis]

Well, I think I have it running on a machine :D - atleast I see a cow in the startbar. Now, lets see if I can join the Team ;) .

The interface is a bit different than what I am used to... but it looks pretty cool.

[NDC]

Somehow I already joined the team. Perhaps it had something to do with XPC addy?

[Mntsnow]

If you had clicked on the link I have above that automatically joined you to the team :)

[Mntsnow]

I have dispatched an email to Nugget about why the Team Stats are not showing but our personal stats are.

[MDS]

Mntsnow I have sent in some yesterday and today and still haven't recieved an email with my username password to join the team or log-on to see the stats link you posted. :(

[Mntsnow]

Did you find your self listed in the Dnet stats?

What email address did you submitt blocks under?

[Mortis]

I am still waiting... Its been a little more than 24hrs since I signed up. So, I should be crunching for the Team by Morning :D .

[Mntsnow]

15-Jan-2003 19:28 CST (Wednesday) ::
Nerf & co. are running some big, hairy query on postgres on blower, which is
swamping one of the drive arrays. This is slowing stats processing down a huge
amount, so I'm going to turn the statsrun off until whatever they're running is
done. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This was posted by Jim Nash aka Decibel of Dnet. so just keep crunching and they will get things updated soon :).

Still havent heard back from Virus yet about if he is going to run a stats/proxy server for RC5-72

[MDS]

still no email :( and I have sent close to 100 completes in.

[Mntsnow]

They are fixing a couple of issues from what Cwizard has told me. Hopefully they will have it corrected shortly.... Atleast from past experence I can say atleast Dnet will fix it!

[Mortis]

I'm Finally In!

[codybear]

Snowman

the change is complete, my old blocks will not transfer but the new ones are now yours..lets kick some butt again just like old times..maybe the lady would like to once more help out??

[madfish]

can the client just work on RC5-72 alone instead of with OGR? if so how are the changes made?

[Mntsnow]

Follow my instructions at the first of thread about how to make it work on RC5 only

[MDS]

cool codybear :)

[Mntsnow]

http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=8&team=28724

WhooHooo We are on the prowl!

Glad to have you aboard Codybear!

[MDS]

I'm on the team now as siegrist@cableone :) and just added a second cow :)

[noresull]

Ok, is the new file you directed us to make supposed to replace a file? If so, the only .ini file I have is dnetc.ini, not dnet.ini.

Is this ok, or should I rename it to dnetc.ini?

[Mntsnow]

Thanks for catching that Noresull. Yes it should be dnetc.ini Just replace the contents of that file

I have updated that posting too :)

[noresull]

Thanks mntsnow, I changed it and now all is well! :)

[Mntsnow]

Sweet MDS and Noresull. I see that Fosin has joined up as well :)

Looks like we have the makings of a fun team :)

[Mortis]

I still dont see me on the Team :( .

[Biff]

Ok, i got it cooking on both boxes. It has been going for maybe 12hrs, when would it send in the packets? or more to the point when would i get an email with my acc & password? in a day or two?
Dave

[Mntsnow]

Mortis. Double check your account to make sure you are still listed as being on Team XtremePcCentral If you are then shoot me an Email and I will contact Nugget and ask that he check into your account.

Biff the easiest way to do this is do a forced update by choosing "fetch/flush" from the file menu of the client. Then wait the required time tell after stats have been updated since you dumped blocks....Then find yourself and click the "I forgot my password" and it will email it to you....(the passwords are auto generated by dnet..You dont set it up..)

[Biff]

That's why I come here mntsnow...ur so patient..lol
This place is the best
Biff

[noresull]

Ok, well, I just had to send a second request for my password. I still have yet to receive it though.

[madfish]

I signed up last night with ya all and I'm waiting to see if it added me to the team tonight.
I only got nine blocks done, my box was off when I came home, dam power outage. again. I guess I'll need to put another box on, the 700 celly most likly. I'm leaving the dualie on seti tho.

Mike, heheh all I ended up doing was copy/pasted what you said to make for the ini into the one already there and let it save it. works great! thanks

[codybear]

gee we only have something like 2 thousand years of computing right now to crack this....Its good to be part of a team again

Aids was and is a good cause but the client keeps stopping and has to be reinstalled and I'm kinda partial to that little cow

[noresull]

Nevermind. I just found out what was wrong. DNET had my ID as noresull@hotmail.com.com I changed it to the proper one, but now I need to wait for it to update

[Mntsnow]

Yep thats one nice thing about the RC5 client is that it's pretty dang stable :)

[madfish]

hehe and very adictive too. I just brought the old P-II 450 out of retirement from the basement duty of collecting spiders :D just needs a nic and she'll be cracking RC5-72! working on a AMD K6-2/350 right now. I'll start on the 300A cellys in the morn, I hear ya can crank them up to 450 stable.
guess I'll be comandering the kitchen counter again :D

[Mntsnow]

LOL Mad :) Alot of the ole' celly 300A's would clock quite well! :) Good luck with it

[Mortis]

Finally on the Team :D .

[codybear]

lookin GOOD Snowman

should hit 1000 daily now :)

[noresull]

Now I'm on the team! :)

[RK]

That link on the first page is very deceptive snow. I had clicked it looking for your stats to see what you are up to and it joined me to your team without asking or even a page saying I had joined. You may want to put a warning on it cause some from other teams visiting your board may accidently do what I did.

Not that you arn't a great group and all LOL But I would rather have had the points go to my team :)

[Mntsnow]

It did that because you must have had your DNET info saved as a cookie....because if your not "logged in" to your account at DNET it will ask for your username and password to allow you to join :)

but I have added a warning....I should have just kept my mouth shut and you would have been crunching for XPC for months :D

[RK]

LOL I had sent DNET a WTF mail about why I wasn't showing on the team stats LOL. I would have figured it out sooner or later. :) BTW I have a link for you to click on if your cookies are set :D

[Mntsnow]

Sorry I dont cause I remember that from back in the RC5-64 days I had once joined Team Anandtech or HardOCP...for a day

but where's the link? hehe :D

[surrealchereal]

Originally posted by Mortis
I'm Finally In!

So what did you do put your email in there and hit search?


I can crunch a block in about 27 mins on my average system Surreal. Mntsnow... I have yet to get a block done on this computer.. (1.2 tbird)

[Jan 22 21:51:52 UTC] Automatic processor detection found 1 processor.
[Jan 22 21:51:52 UTC] RC5-72: Loaded CA:426ABE81:00000000:1*2^32 (58.20% done)
[Jan 22 21:51:52 UTC] RC5-72: 24 packets (24.00 stats units) remain in buff-in.r72
Projected ideal time to completion: 0.06:47:12.00
[Jan 22 21:51:52 UTC] RC5-72: 0 packets are in buff-out.r72
[Jan 22 21:51:52 UTC] 1 cruncher has been started.
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%...R
[Jan 22 21:53:36 UTC] RC5-72: Benchmark for core #5 (DG 2-pipe)
0.00:00:17.47 [4,225,329 keys/sec]
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%...R.60%.. ..so I thought I'd just poke it
[Jan 23 00:50:36 UTC] Input buffers are full (or projects are closed).
No fetch required.
[Jan 23 00:50:36 UTC] Output buffers are empty. No flush required.
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%...R.60%.. ..

[Mntsnow]

What other DC projects do you have running on that box? If you check your tasks list what is running on your box and what is consuming your cpu time? ICQ me if needed :)

[robin801]

ok. i downloaded the program.

but i don't have a clue as to how to do the change to the ini file or where to look.

[robin801]

ok. i did like you said. in 24 hours i will see what happens.

[Mntsnow]

Cool robin :)

[robin801]

how can i tell if i dumped any blocks?

i haven't gotten anything in my email yet.

[Mntsnow]

what email address you using robin?

Edit...Nevermind...Your there :)

btw your stats at DNET are at
http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=8&id=411698 and I have clicked on the "send me my password" at the Dnet site for you as you will need that information for the step above to join the XtremePcCentral Team.

[Mntsnow]

EDIT....I just told my server to send you your password for the XPC stats too :)

[surrealchereal]

Originally posted by Mntsnow
What other DC projects do you have running on that box? If you check your tasks list what is running on your box and what is consuming your cpu time? ICQ me if needed :)
Projected ideal time to completion: 0.06:46:48.00
[Jan 23 11:15:46 UTC] RC5-72: 0 packets are in buff-out.r72
[Jan 23 11:15:46 UTC] 1 cruncher has been started.
.....10%.....20%.....30%.....40%.....50%...


Nothing and this have been going all day.. I shut down UD :(

[surrealchereal]

I put it on Fingers PIII (I think it's a gig) he's crunching at a rate of 3,213,229 node/sec (with UD running) I'm on my 1.4 Tbird at a rate of 26,180 node/sec with out UD running.
What should I do?

I also tried changing the core and change the default priority in task manager to normal...

Perhaps if someone would post what I should set my client up to.. I can see if there is something horribly wrong??

[Mntsnow]

I'll check to see what core my old 1.2 gig T-bird is using. and post it if no-one else can asnwer that before I get home from work

Maybe you got a corrupted download of the client? Delete the one you have and start over...

[surrealchereal]

I will, because I just checked and my XP2k is cranking our 12 mm per sec,









Your old 1.2??? :p

[Mortis]

Yea... something is up there Surreal... I just Benched my XP1600 and it is getting 4,246,108 keys/sec. I dont have any suggestions, though, sorry. I only dl'd the client and set it to run RC-5 72 only at MntSnow's suggestion by tweaking the dnetc.ini file. Dumb question- but you did do that, right?

EDIT: *NOTE* Make sure you add in the "misc" section to all clients as that setting is the one that will force RC5 to be the project it works on by default.

[misc]
project-priority=RC5-72,OGR=0
Do you have that line in your dnetc.ini file?

[surrealchereal]

Yep I did.
I just deleted everything I could find. Hmmm wonder if I should go through the registry too?
I then de fragged.
I'm going to reinstall.
If I don't come back I shouldn't have gone registry poking! :p :D

[robin801]

to add another system all i need to do is the exact same thing that i did for the one that i am running.

is this correct?

[Mntsnow]

That is correct. :)

[n7vxj]

:) Alright Mntsnow, just downloaded, and installed the client.I got the funny cow at the bottom of my screen!! lol Is there a way to set this thing up to dump on my command? I really don't feel comfortable leaving this thing running while I'm at work, and dumping without my being here, now that I'm on cable. Oh yea Mike, I changed the the e-mail address in the ini file to mine!!!! lol

[surrealchereal]

Welcome to the team!! :D


Dan, have you got a good firewall? If not it should be on the top of your list. :)


(Hey Mntsnow.... take a look at my post in the edit box... ck my font size.. )

Thanks Surreal...I'm looking into that -Mntsnow

[Mntsnow]

Dan to manually dump the work just right click on the cow and choose "Update Buffers (Fetch & Flush)" This sends the work completed and downloads the fresh work that you will want to work on while offline

[n7vxj]

:) Surreal, I run Zone Alarm Pro.Thanks Mike, See if Ican do any better crunching on this one!!! lol

[n7vxj]

:confused: O.K. Mike, I just did the search on the site for my username, and came up empty handed.What do I need to do next?

[Mntsnow]

Your listed on the proxy.....After tomorrow night you will show up at Dnet and we will get you officially added to the XtremePcCentral team at that point!

Welcome aboard too Dan!

[jad1097]

Mike could you ad the link to the proxy to your first post in this thread so people don't have to dig through a couple pages to find it.

[Mntsnow]

Sure and I will add it here too :)

Deleted link as proxy server is no more as I no longer have a DSL line on which I can run server services

[jad1097]

:)

[n7vxj]

:) O.K. Guys, and Gals, found my username on dnet, and Officially signed on to the team!!!! :bunny:

[Roadkill]

Congrats and welcome!

[Stroker]

I GOT A COW!!!!..... :cow:
I guess it's time to wait a bit.
I'll be a team member tomorrow hopefully :worry: :D

[Stroker]

Ok, I've joined the team yesterday(at least it said I did) but I don't see my name on the team list yet. Any idea why??

[LordKwiKSilva00]

i am still having problems finding myself in the stats for anything on the dnet server...cant join until i find my login info, as i need to get a password...will try again, but something is up with it...i have done almost 40 blocks and demped em to the server, but still nothing...and i have been crunching nonstop for 4 days straight, if not more...still no stats in the server for my info...i am using my email addy at my ISP. *Deleted Email addy* is the exact one i am using...if anyone finds it, gimme a PM and let me know how u did it, so i can join

[Mntsnow]

are you sure it's running? post what you have listed in your Dnetc.INI file here. I show no record of you ever connecting to the xpc stats/proxy server

[Stroker]

After looking at the .ini file I see what the problem is, here I'll show you:

[parameters]
id=XXXXXXXXXXXX

[misc]
project-priority=RC5-72,OGR=0

[triggers]
restart-on-config-file-change=yes
pause-on-no-mains-power=no

[display]
progress-indicator=auto-sense

[rc5-72]
fetch-workunit-threshold=0

I had to add the following:

[networking]
nofallback=false
autofindkeyserver=yes
keyserver=

Makes me curious tho, I copied and pasted from your 2nd post Snow, I'm not sure what happened.
I'm sure it's related to operator error tho.:D


*edited to remove email address so bots cant pick it up and to show the correct keyserver info* -Mntsnow

[Mntsnow]

hehe It happens Stroker :) but atleast your on the proxy server too now days!

[Stroker]

Glad to be making my little contribution MIke:)

[madfish]

Hmmm EZkill, I don't come to this thread much as I'm shut down till cooler weather as far as DCing goes.

BUT....

Welcome aboard to the team :D

{ better late then never :) }

[Stroker]

Thx for the welcome Shark, if you don't hurry up & get back in it I'll catch up & kick your butt at this too :rolleyes: :D

[Stan]

I have installed the client... and as you can see, the crunching has begun!

http://www.stany.net/temp/cpu-rc-5.jpg

[Roadkill]

Welcome to the team, Stan!

[Mntsnow]

Welcome Stan!

[n7vxj]

Welcome Stan!! Good to see a new face on the team!!!:D

[RampageIII]

I'd like to try this for a bit, if it's alright with you. :)


BTW, what is that interface that's shown in Stan's post. All I have is the little cow. Which is fine as long as it's crunching!

OK, I get it now. That's XP task manager. I have 98. Oh, well.

[Mntsnow]

bump for some recruiting as our production has gone down (me included) but wanted to remind everyone that RC5 is still active while not as "chatty" but all are welcome to join in and join the frey or even better join all of the DC teams we have including Seti!

[madfish]

{"bump for some recruiting"}

:D

I'm slowly crunching RC5-72

[Carl D]

hmm

im running the rc5 cruncher as of 10 minutes ago....



;)

[Mntsnow]

RC5 Proxy Stats server has now be disabled and shutdown.

[madfish]

Geee no one even mentioned my 1,999 wu christmas eve effort

[Roadkill]

But we sure noticed it! Almost fell outa my chair!

[Mntsnow]

Sorry guys but the Proxy stats server is history. It just became to much work to keep it going for as little it was being used.

If you want to keep doing RC5 on the machines you are doing it on please continue to do so and allow it to dump directly to Dnet as that is what I am doing.

[diveram]

So does that mean the team is dismembered?

[Mntsnow]

No...Just that I will not be running the proxy server...... I am still running RC5 on two boxes and they are dumping directly to Dnet

[diveram]

I see, we can still get team state off of dnet. But for some reason I cant see myself on the team.. Any idea on that one?

[Mntsnow]

Have you ever officially joined the team at DNET? Click on the http://stats.distributed.net/participant/pjointeam.php?team=28724 and when it asks for your username and password use the one that DNET gave you....If you dont have it find your personal stats at Dnet and click on the "forgot password" link and Dnet will email you your info.....Then go back to the Join XPC link and jump thru the hoops and 24 hours later you AND your past blocks will be joined to the team :)

[Mntsnow]

What email addy are you submitting blocks under bud?

[diveram]

All set, I guess I never joined officially joined. I just joined for real now! Thanks as always!

[Roadkill]

Proxy Stats Server will be sorely missed by me, I checked it regularly to monitor my daily progress. Do I need to go into my client and change an address? If so, to what?

[Mntsnow]

Nope you dont have to change a thing as it will Auto default back to DNET when my proxy server doesnt answer OR you can update your .ini file to that like I list on the first post of this thread


Btw Your showing up officially on the team Brian!

[SoopaStar]

damn, that answers my questions from my other post. That sucks, I checked it a few times a day. :(

Paul

[Mntsnow]

Well I will try and get it to work on the new server but you will have to give me a couple of days to get it figured out...

[Mntsnow]

Mntsnow RC5 Server is gone..... DSL line is now gone...

[Roadkill]

I changed my ini file to read
keyserver=www.mntsnow.com, but my blocks are not showing up. It's been 13 hours since I changed it, and have made 2 or 3 dumps since then. What did I do wrong?

I also tried XX.XXX.XXX.165, and still nothing.

[Mntsnow]

Roadkill Post the "network" section of your .ini file here so I can see it. Also was your client restarted after those changes were made? The client needs to be restarted so it can pickup and use the new settings

[diveram]

The total blocks are not in sync with the xpc stat page. Is that cuz your still working on it or???

[Roadkill]

Machine # 1 (I got these settings from Diveram)

[networking]
nofallback=false
autofindkeyserver=yes
keyserver=

After reading your post I hit restart and did a flush and fetch, and it posted on the stats page.

[madfish]

So.. is there an XPC stats server back up or not.. I'm confused.. and if there is, what would I put for the send to addy?

[Mntsnow]

DSL Line now gone so no more Proxy Server

[madfish]

Thanks Sir. I'll put a box back on.

[Mntsnow]

Sorry Folks. DSL line is now gone....Thus no more RC5 Proxy server.

If you choose to continue to crunch RC5 please set your client to flush and fetch workunits directly from Dnet.

Basically all you have to do do is remove the "Keyserver" line from the dnetc.ini file in the networking section.

Thanks

I have got thru this thread and removed links to the dead proxy server