FoldingObserver 1.3 review

You are donating CPU- cycles to Folding@Home - on more than one computer at the same time? FoldingObserver is right for you to keep track on the progress of your clients! FoldingObserver gives you a simple possibility to monitor your Folding@Home clients within your network.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 2000K Developer: Sebastian Sparrer Price: $0.00 Updated: 27 Mar 2006

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You are donating CPU- cycles to Folding@Home - on more than one computer at the same time? FoldingObserver is right for you to keep track on the progress of your clients!

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.

Here are some key features of "FoldingObserver":
Shows all details of your clients in a convinient, sortable overview
Highlights clients with high progress
Clients can be arranged in groups
Shows inactive clients with details
Shows the last and the average CPU usage
Shows the time per percent
Estimates the remaining time
The "Checkpoint"- function makes it easy to monitor a progress over a certain time, e.g. over night.

So, how does FoldingObserver work? FoldingObserver monitors the Folding@Home log- files regularly. From the informations out of these files, it is possible to process additional data. Afterwards, FoldingObserver transmits its collected data throughout your network to all connected computers. Each computer gets the same data, thus all computers stay up-to-date at any time. For you it is possible to check the progress of all clients on any computer. Folding@Home does not need to be running on all computers for this.

Your network consits of some PowerMacs, on wich Folding@Home and FoldingObserver is being executed. With your PowerBook you can monitor the progress of all PowerMac, without even being next to them.
FoldingObserver keeps all informations within a single (configurable) list. A doubleclick on one entry shows all available data.

What's New:
New: Progress can be displayed on the dock- icon.
New: Menuitem to rebuild the List.
New: Whole new Data- transmission protocoll and handling with lots of improvements.
New: Format for Time and Date- display is selectable.
New: Download - and due date can be displayed using the correct full year.
Change: Columns in main window are resizable.
Change: The statistics- window shows more details.
Change: Detail- window rearranged.
Bugfix: Fixed an error that occured upon changing the router hops- setting.
Bugfix: Dates and some signs were displayed incorrectly.
Bugfix: Fixed a bug that displayed all clients constantly as inactive.
Change: MBS-Plugins Version 4.3
A lot more changes and improvements ...