Free-DC Prime Search: How to get started

Forum: http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=148

Web site: http://fdcps.dynv6.net/

Project Stats : http://fdcps.dynv6.net/stats/index.php
Free-DC Stats : http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=fdcps

llrnet server : fdcps.dynv6.net/
Port : 7773

Server Ports Status : http://fdcps.dynv6.net/stats/index.php?content=port
Server Progress Reports : http://fdcps.dynv6.net/stats/index.p...drive_progress

Free-DC Prime Search Care package for Windows/Vista 32 and 64 bit systems.

Client Download: http://fdcps.dynv6.net/files/llrnet-freedc.zip

To reduce file size, there is only one llrnet.exe file - if you follow the directions, it will install a copy to each folder/core you need.

_Read_Me_1st.txt says

Free-DC Prime Search Setup files.

Assuming you have all the files extracted to one location,
you should see one directory for each client, for a max of 8 cores.

LLRNET1
LLRNET2
LLRNET3
LLRNET4
LLRNET5
LLRNET6
LLRNET7
LLRNET8

If you want to run with all 8 cores, don't delete any directories.

If you only want to run with 2 cores, then delete LLRNET3 through LLRNET8 first.
If you only want to run with 4 cores, then delete LLRNET5 through LLRNET8 first.

Once you have chosen how many cores you want to run it on by deleting the ones you don't,

You need to personalize your llr-clientconfig.txt in each directory and change
username = "IronBits" to your name ( otherwise I'll get credit for all your hard work! )
username = "YourName" and save it - do this for each core you are going to be running.

Once you have completed editing your name in each llr-clientconfig.txt for each core,
you are now you are ready to finish the setup.
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Run Install_LLRnet.bat (once)

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What each .bat file is and does for you:

Install_LLRnet.bat Will install llrnet.exe from LLRNET1 directory to each core you want to run.

32-bit Windows/Vista
Start_LLRnet_2_32bit.bat Start 2 cores with a 32bit Windows Operating System
Start_LLRnet_4_32bit.bat Start 4 cores with a 32bit Windows Operating System
Start_LLRnet_8_32bit.bat Start 8 cores with a 32bit Windows Operating System

64-bit Windows/Vista
Start_LLRnet_2_64bit.bat Start 2 cores with a 64bit Windows Operating System (sets AFFINITY)
Start_LLRnet_4_64bit.bat Start 4 cores with a 64bit Windows Operating System (sets AFFINITY)
Start_LLRnet_8_64bit.bat Start 8 cores with a 64bit Windows Operating System (sets AFFINITY)

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Check to see which Operating System you are using and how many cores you are going to run, and
double click on the correct bat file and away you go.
(you can remove the other Start_LLRnet_?_??bit.bat files to help clean it up if you like)

If you ever run into trouble and just want to start over, then run Clean_Up.bat
It will remove old left over data files from previous runs.

IronBits Free-DC.org 05-23-2009

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Edited by AMDave - 17-08-2011 - update with the new URLs

We probably need to make a client available for download. Maybe one that is pre-configured to connect our server. I would perfer one that has had all the server portion stripped out.

I'm thinking that somewhere I saw some scripts to help install and/or launch the client for multiple core machines?

There are quite a few scripts floating around, a lot of them written by IB. :Pokes:

http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=1820

We are good to go! Everyone just needs to create a new personal prover code when you find a prime. Be sure to credit llr, srsieve and our project.

How do we add Prover code L860 to show up along side the others I have listed to choose from?
I'll put together a care package for downloading so they only need to edit the username = line

below the listed proof programs is a box to list others. just type in "srsieve, 1820" without the quotes. 1820 is our projects database ID.

Go to your normal page for submission.
Look under your existing code/codes for the create a new proof code button.
Select LLR, it will turn blue.
In the box with none in it, remove none and add the following.
srsieve, 1820

You will see it turns the 1820 into FreeDCPrimeSearch.

Your code should credit
yourself Srsieve FreeDCPrimeSearch LLR

The new proof-code will be L863 and will credit the following:

• FreeDCPrimeSearch (#1820) : Free-DC's Prime Search (project)

This code will also automatically credit:

• LLR (#431) : Jean Penné's LLR (program)

Is that right?

See first post - test to make sure you can extract it to any drive/directory and use the scripts without any problems.

Code name (*): L860
Persons (*): 1 (counting humans only)
Projects (*): 1 (counting projects only)
Display (HTML): Burt, Srsieve, FreeDCPrimeSearch, LLR

Code name (*): L862
Persons (*): 1 (counting humans only)
Projects (*): 1 (counting projects only)
Display (HTML): Lody, Srsieve, FreeDCPrimeSearch, LLR

Code name (*): L863
Persons (*): 1 (counting humans only)
Projects (*): 1 (counting projects only)
Display (HTML): James, Srsieve, FreeDCPrimeSearch, LLR

IB your code is fine.
Or we all got it wrong :)

Think there might be a bit of a problem with the zip file.
WinZip says it is not in zip 2.0 format when extracting the files.

Try again. Forgot I'm using the latest version of WinZip that uses a new compression. :cry:

I downloaded, extracted, ran Install_LLRnet.bat, then ran the Start_LLRnet_8_64bit.bat and it took right off like it should.
I didn't have to edit the llr-clientconfig.txt file because it has my name in the username = line ;)

Good to go. :thumbs:

I found something very interesting this evening.
Under Vista 64bit, If llr-clientconfig.txt has
Once = 1
the client will keep on getting more work. :cry:

How did I find out about this?

I wrote a vbscript that will flip
--Once = 1 to
Once = 1
and vice versa :)

once = 1

Little o ?

Duh! That worked. :thumbs:

I wrote a vbscript that runs in Windows that will toggle that "once = 1" flag like so

once = 1 to --once = 1
and
--once = 1 to once = 1

It expects multi-core client setups with the following folder structure
Example:
C:\dcprojects\llrnet (can be anywhere) This is where the vbscript goes - I called it Toggle_Work.vbs
Inside that directory, it expects to see the following directory names, all starting with llrnet - for multi-core setups.
llrnet1
llrnet2
llrnet3
...
llrnet8

It will edit each llr-clientconfig.txt in each directory that starts with LLRNET (case not sensitive)

If you used some other directory name, change the code where it shows LLRNET to whatever you used
In the below code, look for: strFolder = objShell.CurrentDirectory & "\LLRNET" & count & "\"
or, rename your directories ;)

If you have more than 8 cores, say 16, look in the code for
For count = 1 to 8
and change it to
For count = 1 to 16

Give it a go and let me know what you think.

Because the forum 'code' tag screws stuff up, I'll place the vbscript code in php tags

FileName: Toggle_Work.vbs

PHP Code:

---

'Option Explicit
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Dim objShell, objFSO, objFile, FileName, count, strFolder, strLine, strNewText, strFlag
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
FileName     = "llr-clientconfig.txt"

pcengine = LCase(Mid(WScript.FullName, InstrRev(WScript.FullName,"\")+1))
If Not pcengine="cscript.exe" Then
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    WshShell.Run "CSCRIPT.EXE """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
    WScript.Quit(1)
End If

WScript.Echo vbCrLf

On Error Resume Next
For count = 1 to 8
    strFolder = objShell.CurrentDirectory & "\LLRNET" & count & "\"
    Set objFSO = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    If objFSO.FolderExists(strFolder) then
        Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFolder & FileName, ForReading)
        Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
            strLine = Trim(objFile.ReadLine)
            If InStr(1, strLine, "once", 1) Then
                If strFlag = "" Then
                    strLine = Replace(strLine, " ", "")
                    If Left(strLine, 2) = "--" Then
                        strLine = "once = 1"
                        strFlag = "once = 1"
                    Else
                        strLine = "--once = 1"
                        strFlag = "--once = 1"
                    End If
                Else
                    strLine = strFlag
                End If
            Else
            End If
            strNewText = strNewText & strLine & vbCrLf
        Loop
        objFile.Close
        If strNewText = "" Then 
            WScript.Echo "There is a problem with " & FileName & " aborting!"
            Exit For
        End If
        arrLines = Split(strNewText, vbCrLf)
        Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFolder & FileName, ForWriting)
        For i = 0 to UBound(arrLines) - 1
            objFile.WriteLine arrLines(i)
        Next
        objFile.Close
        WScript.Echo "llrnet" & count & " changed to " & strFlag
        strFolder = ""
        objFSO = ""
        objFile = ""
        strLine = ""
        strNewText = ""
        arrLines = ""
    Else
    End If
Next
WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "Sleeping for 5 seconds..." & vbCrLf
WScript.Sleep(5000) 


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Enjoy :cheers:

The download link is broken.

Fixed. perms again.

can I use llrnet which have gui window, just change server and port settings?

If you mean LLR then no you cant.

If you mean llrnet then yes, just right click on the tray icon to bring up the GUI.
You can start llrnet by browsing to the llrnet folder and double clicking llrnet.exe if you dont want to see any command windows.

Don't forget to edit the llr-clientconfig.txt first.

Note: Tray icon is really messed up in Windows 7, don't attempt to use it.

yeah, thanks. i'm pretty familiar with llrnet, just want to have a version with gui.

I suppose crunching core have the same version.

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