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FoldingObserver - 1.7

monitor folding@home status & progress over your network

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All Time:	(5.0)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.7
Release Date:	2008-11-11
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	485
Downloads (all versions):	3,378

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Product Description:

FoldingObserver gives you a simple possibility to monitor your Folding@Home clients within your network. You can keep track of lots of details of your clients.

Features include:

Shows all details of your clients in a convinient, sortable overview
Highlights clients with high progress
Add clients to groups
Shows inactive clients with details
The "Checkpoint"- function makes it easy to monitor a progress over a certain time, e.g. over night.
measures the time needed to process one percent and estimates the remaining time until completion of the protein.

What's new in this version:

New: Shortcut "S" for "Set Checkpoint"
New: Statistical calculations for Progress per hour will be saved
Change: CPU-Usage will be calculated more acurately. FoldingObserver uses the "ps" command to measure the CPU usage of Folding@Home.
Bugfix: Better handling of mising clients during application start
< Bugfix: Fixed an error that could occur during manually adding clients
Bugfix: Changed the way FOBS calculated the year of the due date

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Folding@Home

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Fun & Useful! - Version: 1.6, 12/7/2007 08:35PM PST

jwdawso_1

I've been using FoldingObserver for years, and use it to monitor folding running on my house full of Macs. The latest version works great! It's easy to add clients, and to see the status on all clients in a network. The "View Options" allows seeing as much of the status as possible, and each option can be sorted on. I like sorting on "Progress" or on "Time Remaining". Since you can view the team and user id, it's easy to make sure that each client is configured correctly.

There is one bug - if a client is past due, it grays out the client plus does not compute/show time remaining or CPU utilization. However, the small bug is that the folding data doesn't include the year the unit is due by, so when it's due next year, FoldingObserver thinks it's past due. I'm sure this will be fixed soon (though it's really the folding client's fault!).