More Production Coming!!!

[Enisada]

Sorry guys I have been on a long absence. I am back now and rolled in 30Ghz+ for Team 93. Should be pulling away from the 350points/day quite soon....

Good to be back!!

[profdlp]

Wow! That sounds awesome. :D

Welcome back! :thumbsup: :fold:

[Leonardo]

Enisada, welcome back!

Please tell me some of the 30GHz is dual core! Please! Are you aware that SMP Windows is now available? The points produced by SMP are simply dazzling!

[Enisada]

Really...hmm I may have to do some looking into this SMP madness you speak of.

[dragonV8]

Welcome back Enisada.:thumbsup:

[Kwitko]

That's sweet, dude.

[QCH]

Welcome back and what an entrance!!!! :wow:

[Lincoln]

Ensiada! Wow! Awesome to have you back! :D How've you been doing?

[Shorty]

Very nice. Watch out folks the Enisada steamroller is heading your way :cool:

[DogSoldier]

http://www.planetfortress.com/tfa/stuff/cheerleader_left.gifYay!!!! Go Teem!!!http://www.planetfortress.com/tfa/stuff/cheerleader_right.gif

[mmonnin]

:wow:

[Enisada]

Well I certainly have been busy...no it is time to get busy folding!!!

[a2jfreak]

More points for SMP than for 2 separate processes?

I have one dual-core rig (Opteron 165 @ 2.5) running two separate instances. Would I be better off running 1 SMP?

Also, I have both FAH's throttled to 80% to free up some CPU time for the GPU client I have running. Would be better (points-wise) to run the SMP version of FAH than two separate instances? Should I not GPU fold with SMP or would I just throttle SMP to 80% and continue with GPU folding also?

Are you aware that SMP Windows is now available? The points produced by SMP are simply dazzling!

[mirage]

More points for SMP than for 2 separate processes?

I have one dual-core rig (Opteron 165 @ 2.5) running two separate instances. Would I be better off running 1 SMP?

Also, I have both FAH's throttled to 80% to free up some CPU time for the GPU client I have running. Would be better (points-wise) to run the SMP version of FAH than two separate instances? Should I not GPU fold with SMP or would I just throttle SMP to 80% and continue with GPU folding also?

You should definitely be running the SMP client. SMP client's production is at least 2-3 times higher than two separate processes running. And you don't need to throttle FAH, it runs at lowest priority meaning that it will interfere with your desktop programs very little. You should not even feel it.

I was planning to test GPU and SMP clients together. My initial experience is that GPU client takes close to half of dual-core CPU computational power. But my evaluation is not final yet. It would be nice to hear from you on this.

Good luck :)

[a2jfreak]

The GPU client will consume 100% of one CPU Core if I let it. I only have a 256MB X1600. I think if I had a 512MB X1950XT that would free up some CPU resources as little system RAM would be used and therefore almost everything could be done on the video card. I throttle the FAH-CPU processes to 80% because they starve the FAH-GPU client (normally under 5% if FAH-CPU is given 100% CPU). This way I see 40%/40%/20% which is fine with me.

[Leonardo]

Would be better (points-wise) to run the SMP version of FAH than two separate instances?Yes. I'm running four computers, all overclocked (100% stable) to 4.0GHz, with SMP. The same machines previously each ran two instances each of F@H. My production, measured in points, has more than doubled.

[a2jfreak]

Looks like I will need to give SMP a try.

[the_technocrat]

Sorry guys I have been on a long absence. I am back now and rolled in 30Ghz+ for Team 93. Should be pulling away from the 350points/day quite soon....

Good to be back!!

Congrats!

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=21592

[QCH]

THAT is a Big jump... welcome back... welcome back, indeed!!! :thumbsup:

[Enisada]

Well I hit 10,406 ppd today!!! Horray!!!

[Leonardo]

I see you found SMP! It's fun, ain't it!

[Enisada]

Actually I don't have a single SMP client running yet....I hope to soon though.

[profdlp]

Well I hit 10,406 ppd today!!! Hooray!!!

:eek2: :hair: :eek3: :wow: :respect:

[Qeldroma]

10K? Hehe-

Then you are in for a treat if a bundle of those are multi-cores that can do SMP :thumbsup:

[DogSoldier]

Aight, I'm a big n00b. I downloaded the smp client, I downloaded and installed .net (Hated that btw) and ran the install.bat... now what? It's asking me for an account and passord.

[Leonardo]

The account in which WinSMP runs in MUST have a user name AND login set. There is no getting around it. If you don't want to log in manually when Windows boots:

Go to Run, enter "control userpasswords", and set the account to log on automatically at start. The account in which WinSMP runs must have administrator privileges. I'm also reading that the account under which it is installed must be the administrator account. Sorry, but there are no workarounds on this. Once the points start rolling in though, you won't remember the pain!

[mmonnin]

Bah I never knew that...I am gonna have to set that up in advance...kinda retarded if you ask me.

[Leonardo]

kinda retarded if you ask meIt's a pain. According to the Pande team, .Net framework was the only way they could find the means to get SMP Folding to run in Windows. They consider the accomplishment of actually having WinSMP working to be somewhat of a miracle. The points for SMP are lavish; Stanford considers that justified as apparently the scientifically usable data being returned is voluminous.

[mmonnin]

I guess....not sure what .Net has to do with it...if it works, o well.

Now that they have a client that isnt completely linear, IE it can split the work between different CPUs/cores, I wonder if it could be used in a beuwulf cluster of sorts. The entire problem with it before was that FAH did one calculation and then used that calcuation for the next....now that it can be split up.....hmmmm....me ponders.

[Leonardo]

LOL. Well said. WinSMP was the first time I ever had any use whatsoever for .net Framework. I found it so ironic when I went through the SMP Windows instructions - 'hey, I actually finally found a use for .net!.'

[mmonnin]

I've had to install it for Microsoft Visual Studeo 6, .Net and 2003. With the 2 recent XP installs on the lappy and desktop its the first time since high school I have not had it on a computer.

[SPIKE09]

the password is needed for MPI.exe which is open source ,so any smart ass that can rejig it to not need a password would be appreciated.

[a2jfreak]

Yes. Very much appreciated.

c'mon, smarty-pants people get to work!

the password is needed for MPI.exe which is open source ,so any smart ass that can rejig it to not need a password would be appreciated.

[Krazeyivan]

The windows client is great - all I have folding at the moment is 1 PC and a PS3 and I'm in the top 20 producers, hopefully I can get my Opty back in the mix, just waiting on the new ATI DirectX 10 card.

[the_technocrat]

The windows client is great - all I have folding at the moment is 1 PC and a PS3 and I'm in the top 20 producers, hopefully I can get my Opty back in the mix, just waiting on the new ATI DirectX 10 card.


you guys are starting to make me nervous! :D This newfangled technology....why back in my day we just had a lot of 1Ghz machines!

Seriously though, good job. SMP/PS3 is looking fantastic.

[mmonnin]

Your 30GHz won't get me before I take one....just so I can stay in my 22nd Team Spot.

[DogSoldier]

OK, I don't want to hijack this log BUT! SMP doesn't seem to be working for me. I made a password for my XP account. I installed the SMP client. I ran the install.bat. I ran fah.exe and filled out (correctly I hope) the text prompts. Now it's running, but the FAHlog doesn't show anything. It's been running since last night and all the log shows is:

Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01
Service: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\fah.exe
Arguments: -svcstart

Launched as a service.
Entered C:\Program Files\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01 to do work.

[15:11:30] - Ask before connecting: No
[15:11:30] - Use IE connection settings: Yes
[15:11:30] - User name: DogSoldier (Team 93)
[15:11:30] - User ID: 60A984446CADB530
[15:11:30] - Machine ID: 1
[15:11:30]
[15:11:30] Loaded queue successfully.
[15:11:30]
[15:11:30] + Processing work unit
[15:11:30] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[15:11:30] Core found.
[15:11:30] Working on Unit 01 [May 8 15:11:30]
[15:11:30] + Working ...

And that's it.... nothing else, nadda, zilch...

I'll search around and see if there's a solution. I'll also take a look at the Folding@home forums.

[SPIKE09]

It is a booger to install as a service mate, not supported yet better to use the vanilla console and use trayit to minimize it.

[a2jfreak]

I don't think it works as a service. I leave the console window open.

[DogSoldier]

Oh, ok... I uninstalled then reinstalled it and typed "no" to service. Let's see how this goes...

[Leonardo]

The account in which SMP is installed must have admin privileges.

[edcentric]

and remember, any change in network status and you will need to restart.
The SMP is a bit touchy, but I making 2k/day off of a C2D and an AX2.

[DogSoldier]

SMP is simply phenomenal... It went through a 1523 point Gromac in under 20 hours. Before getting this Core2, I had 3 machines, 2 Intel and an AMD but SMP is gonna seriously increase my production. By about a factor of 10.

Thanks to everyone for the help in getting it set up!

[Leonardo]

Yup, it's impressive! I'm glad you went to the effort.

[primesuspect]

Well it's true - Enisada is on my threat list now.....

not saying that's a bad thing :D You're really burning them up right now! :eek2:

[Enisada]

:D

[Ultra Nexus]

Hey Enisada!

Can you please list what hardware are you using to output your current PPD and configurations?

Thanks!