**Looking for a programmer**

[enhanced08]

I'm working on a project for Folding@Home and need to find a programmer willing to help me with it. I took C++ I/II in high school about 3 years ago and thats the only programming I know other than a bit of PHP and HTML. High school was also the last time I really did any C++ so there is no way I can do this.

Talking to some other people, I'm under the impression that Java would be the best way to do this program but because I dont have any experience in it or anything but C++ I could be wrong. Java will work with most all OS's which would mean that only 1 program needs written and kept updated which would be easier than 4 or so. Quite honestly I could careless what language its coded in as long as it works!

What is this program going to do you ask? Simple, (on paper anyway) it will be installed on each computer a user has running the Folding@Home program or on a single machine that has network access to all other machines. The program will gather specific system information such as CPU speed, CPU type, RAM, etc along with the current Work Unit and the average time per frame of the unit. All this info will then be uploaded to my online database for others to view.

To me, this seems pretty easy, collect and send data, repeat... but I'm no programmer. If anyone would like to help me or atleast point me to someone who would, I would greatly appreciate it! You would get full credit for creating the program and although I can't offer you any money maybe we can work out a deal somehow. I have about 5 systems here at home that fold for a total of about 8Ghz (3.8Ghz more as soon as I get a new board for my system) that I would setup to fold for your name for a month or two.

Thanks to anyone willing to step forward and help!

[alfie2]

java is good for client-server apps, however, it can not do hardware inquiries as you wanted, unless you use x86 assembly language. C/C++ is probably the better language for the sorta of thing you wanted to do, though it is not portable. it would depend on the OSes that are on the systems you mentioned. programs wirtten in a windows compiler would probably run in all favours of windows(I hope.), but not on OSes like Mac/Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD.

it just means you have to write different clients for different OSes, that all...not very difficult( you probably have to compile more or less same the code in different OSes). and only one server to gether the infos from all the clients.
I have to know you system/OSes in order to comment further.

BIG Oosp, I assume the systems are on a network of some kind?!.

[enhanced08]

Thanks for the info, this changes thingsa little. The 3 OSes that it would need to be ported to are windows Linux and Mac. As far as a network, I dont think you understand how this program will work by that question. The only network all the clients would be on would be the internet. I'm not planning on doing this just for my systems, I want anyone to be able to download and use this program on any internet connected and folding machine.

EDIT: What if CPUz was used? It can be run in ghost mode which spits out the system info to a text file. A simple Java script (or any kind of script for that matter) could be used to read the file and send the data. This would make the program much easier to write and updates would be done mostly by CPUz.

EDIT2: I found this: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0480.html With this, Java can ask the OS for the hardware details. This is what I was told anyway.

[alfie2]

both of your suggestions are only good for windows though.
yeah, I know windows put the system info in the REGISTRY; it pretty easy to get it out with the Windows' API "getsystemsinfo" in Visual C++ or Borland C++.
and
Linux put the infos in "/proc/cpu"...
Mac OSX uses Unix-like OS, so it should be in the same place...I guess.

The network part:
the neat part about a client-server setup is that you dont have to worry about what sorta of network you have, be it LAN, WAN, or INTERNET. you just need know the IP address and PORT # of the server and you are good to go; the client just open the link to the server and upload data then closes link, that it. The server is probably setup to run 24/7, so clients can upload data at any time. Codes for simple client-server apps can be all over the NET.

A good example is the P2P programs like "FSP, bittorrent or limewire".

[rdurham]

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