Overview
This release adds a new and improved Web interface which is cleaner, hopefully more intuitive and displays your personal and team points.
FAHViewer can now display proteins from FahCore_17 (JSON Data).
In addition, there are a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the last public v7.3.6 release.
Documentation
Installation and user guides can be found here:
Pictorial Installation Guide (Windows) -> A detailed pictorial guide of the V7 installation.
Pictorial Installation Guide (Linux) -> A detailed pictorial guide of the V7 installation.
Pictorial Installation Guide (OSX) -> A detailed pictorial guide of the V7 installation.
FAHControl -> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) that controls the Slots.
FAHViewer -> It shows the protein being folded, if applicable.
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.
Change Logs:
FAHClient:
FAHControl:v7.4.4:v7.4.3:
- Fixed failure to update GPUs.txt file. #1115
- Don't delete slots on initialization error. #1117
- Always allow 127.0.0.1 (localhost) to connect to FAHClient. #1120
- Tweaks to Web control. #1116
- Don't display points for Anonymous or team 0.
v7.4.1:
- Allow saving cuda-index=0 and opencl-index=0. #1106
- Fixed Failed to remove directory './work/00'. #1058
- Fixed GPU Names Are Too Long. #1061
- Removed links to Advanced Control and 3D Viewer. #1110
- Changed Web Control menu too look more like NaCl client.
- Updated year. #1090
- ATI -> AMD. #1091
- Change debian default 'anonymous' -> 'Anonymous'. #1113
- Improved GPUs.txt download.
- Added 'paused', restored function of 'pause-on-start'. #1100
- Resolve all AS IP addresses and try each one. #1094
v7.4.0:
- Save config.xml on any changes.
- Fixed QRB calculation, again. #1044
- Report progress down to 0.01%.
- Correct for cores which report incorrect frame/step. #888
- OSX: workaround for slow communication on 10.9 as service. #1103
- Removed trigger-save command, no longer necessary.
- Only allow one visualization type per WU.
- Update GPUs.txt when gpu=true, log message on update.
v7.3.13:
- Disabled stall detection by default.
- Added options stall-detection-enabled, stall-timeout & stall-percent.
v7.3.12:
- Fix 'cpus' count. Use user value if set. #1074
- Swapped user and team in bug report. #1076
- Hide overflow on slot tabs. #1061
- OSX: idle on login window or display sleep. #944
- Only autoconfigure Fermi or better NVidia GPUs in Linux. #1084
- Fixed error when all slots are removed. #1088
- Project links open in new window/tab. #1079
- Hide upper right close button on dialogs. #1078
- Wait at least 30 minutes & 5% before declaring WU stalled. #1059
- Added assign-gpu2.stanford.edu as backup GPU AS.
v7.3.11:
- Don't open FAHViewer fullscreen from Web Client. #1067
- Attempt to fix stall detection. #1059
- Catch and suppress "Failed to wait on process ####:No child processes"
- Idle applies to each slot. #1060
- Attempt to fix long GPU name jumble. #1061
- Show yellow spinner for finishing in Web Control. #1065
- Updated default CPU counts. #1013
- Accept IE 11 masquerading as Mozilla 11. #1073
- Display full bug URL after report. #1071
- Fixed project description layout. #1068
- Various Web Control tweaks. #1062, #1063, #1064, #1070
- Fixed bug when converting a CPU slot to GPU slot while running.
- Autoconfigure GPU slot in 64-bit Linux.
v7.3.10:
- 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). #1020
- Use SMP:N-1 by default if any GPU slots exists. #1013
- Don't try to cleanup if WU is still running. #1037 #1023
- Detect stalled WUs and dump. #1043
- Fixed QRB calculation. #1044
- Don't return failed WUs after their expiration. #1030
- Only compute bonus if passkey is set. #1040
- Fixed reset of slot boolean options. #984
- 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.
v7.3.9:
- 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.
v7.3.8:
- Fixed command-address='' to disable command server.
v7.3.7:
- 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.
- 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. #986
v7.4.1:v7.3.12:
- Removed trigger-save command, no longer necessary.
v7.3.11:
- Reordered toolbar.
- Move Viewer button to right of power bar. #304
- Changed FAHControl title bar to say Advanced Control. #982
- Right clicking on slot brings up correct slot menu. Mentioned in #1060
- Removed Configure->Advanced->Optimizations. #1069
v7.3.7:
- 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. #1056
- Restored ctrl-a and ctrl-c functionality in log view. #1002
FAHScreensaver:
No change.
FAHViewer:
Joseph Coffland
Folding@home Developer
Cauldron Development LLC
