ChessBrain Action

[Dyyryath]

For those of you who haven't been <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4731">paying attention</a> lately, we've been in a pretty good race with another DC team called US-Distributed over the last couple of weeks in a project called <a href="http://www.chessbrain.net">ChessBrain</a>. While the project's goals are modest (some might even say trivial) compared to some of the other projects out there, it's still a good project to run. Why? Because you can do it without giving up on those other projects that you might consider 'more worthy'. It runs <b>quite</b> well with Distributed Folding, and I have it on good authority that it runs well with several others, too.<br><br>Of course, the best reason to run it is because it's fun! We're in a tight race with the upstarts over at US-Distributed (who, BTW seem to be a really friendly group of people <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon14.gif>), and we're just now beginning to outrun them on a daily basis. To make sure that we can easily keep an eye on them (and enjoy the beatdown they have coming), I've just added <a href="http://stats.zerothelement.com">hourly stats support</a> for ChessBrain to my Arachnid system. It's a good time to participate!<br><br>For more information on this project, check out our <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=46">ChessBrain forums</a>. If you're looking for something to do in addition to your regular project (or as a primary project), this might be the one for you!

[FoBoT]

:beep:

we've got them spanked if they are at full throttle :spank:

:drums:

[PY 222]

Alright, I am in.

Lets go full throttle folks.

[cygnussphere]

Originally posted by PY 222
Alright, I am in.

Lets go full throttle folks.

:thumbs:

:notworthy

:tempted:

:evil:

:cheers:

[PY 222]

Btw, just a quick question. How long does it take to return a workunit and get into the stats page?

[Scoofy12]

yeah, ive installed, and it appears to be running (got cbpn.exe and cbspnw.exe with the right amount of ram), but not using any cpu, even without DF running. do i need to do anything besides fill in the username and team?

[FoBoT]

the server sends out work at somewhat random times and sporadically , so you'll have to wait a few hours or even as much as a half day before you'll get work and see it do something

this is why this is a "add-on" project and not something you run by itself. it will never use more than a few percent of your cpu cycles over the course of a day, so always run it with your other favorite DC project

there is a graph on the front of the chessbrain site that will give you an idea if the server if currently passing out work

http://chessbrain.net/images/sn-peers-graph.png

you can see that dip, that is when nothing was being sent out/done, it looks like it has just gotten started on a new game or whatever it does

[cygnussphere]

Doh.. Fobot beat me too the answer


Originally posted by PY 222
Btw, just a quick question. How long does it take to return a workunit and get into the stats page?

You can use one of the peernode monitors (http://www.chessbrain.net/downloads-contributed.html) to check client activity and Dyy's stats (http://www.chessbrainstats.com/) are near real time. So.. If the server (http://www.chessbrain.net/images/sn-peers-graph.png) is sending out jobs you should be seeing stats with in a couple of hours. All other stats are once a day.

:tempted:

:evil:

:cheers:

[PY 222]

Woohoo... I am already in the stats but I don't know why I am not with team Free-DC?

Someone help! :notworthy

[PCZ]

Check your cbspn.conf file


# CBSPN Server
# configuration file
#

# Set UserID (you may use an email address or your name.
# For example:
# uid=Joe Smith
# uid=joe_smith@temple.com
uid=PCZ

# Set DC team name
teamname=FREE-DC

[PY 222]

PCZ, thanks for the info.

I am in the Team already.

Lets get going. :thumbs: