Best Folding setup for 8 cores

[primesuspect]

I have a new toy. 2x Xeon E5450s (2ghz) = 8 cores

Windows 2003 64bit

What is the best folding setup for this beast? It will be folding 24/7 for team 93.

[mertesn]

Four instances of the SMP client. Be sure to use the Folding Affinity Changer too!

[mas0n]

:eek: Nice!

[Qeldroma]

I have a new toy. 2x Xeon E5450s (2ghz) = 8 cores

Windows 2003 64bit

What is the best folding setup for this beast? It will be folding 24/7 for team 93.

I thought the E5450s (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117141) were 3.0GHz?

Regardless- SUHWEET!

[primesuspect]

Oopsie.. Transposed a 0 and a 5.

E5405 -2ghz, 6mb cache x2

[mmonnin]

I dont know if the Afinity Changer works with that many cores. /shrug. I havent checked for a newer version but it could now. Try what mersesn said.

[Leonardo]

Woohoo! This should be fun for you to play with and fun for us to watch.

[pragtastic]

Woohoo! This should be fun for you to play with and fun for us to watch.

^ Mistakenly copied from a random moment of IRC.

[FreeC8675]

That should kick out some serious PPD! Good luck getting everything up and running!

[primesuspect]

First fail:

I can't get the deinos MPI or whatever it is to work right, i have a feeling that it's because this is locked down Win2003 Server.

There's something, security-wise, that is bitching this up.

More research needed.

[Qeldroma]

Do you have .NET 2.0 installed?

Here's the easy version. (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP#ntoc3)

[primesuspect]

Yes, I have .net 2 and 3 and all relevant and latest service packs

[Qeldroma]

This is a pretty unusual situation and if it gets much more involved and people here don't know, I'd try to work with the Folding Community Forum. You may be reinventing the thread, but there seems to be people there who have worked this configuration and the loss of the previous forum seems to have wiped a lot of that information (?). You should at least get good references there.

As far as securities, I think that if you are working under a different account than that of the client installation you might have to run install.bat again under the account you wish to run. ? Otherwise, I'm not sure here without more insight. Hopefully this helps.

[Ultra Nexus]

I´d go for the VM setup.... I managed to get a competitor´s (http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/296587-vmware-1-0-4-ubuntu-guide.html) folding distro that runs exceptionally good. I can help you out or config it myselff if you grant me remote desktop access to this box.

PM me if you´d like.

UNex.-

[primesuspect]

I can't really do the VM thing. This is a production domain controller in a production environment. For simplicity and stability's sake I'm pretty close to the decision that I'll just run four instances or even eight instances of standard FAH console.

[Qeldroma]

This is a production domain controller in a production environment. For simplicity and stability's sake I'm pretty close to the decision that I'll just run four instances or even eight instances of standard FAH console.

In which case I have to concur. SMP in this configuration may simply be too maintenance intensive to bother with in a revenue service stream system. Lotsa reasons to keep it as simple as possible- especially if you're doing this for a 3rd party.

[Ultra Nexus]

I can't really do the VM thing. This is a production domain controller in a production environment. For simplicity and stability's sake I'm pretty close to the decision that I'll just run four instances or even eight instances of standard FAH console.

I understand. But the idea of using virtual machines is actually to isolate them from the host, making it more maintenance user friendly. The VMs can be directly administered remotely with a VNC client too.

Also, the SMP client in Linux is more efficient not only in PPD production, but it also consumes less CPU cycles (90-95%) which also relates to a lower power consumption and overall temperature of the entire system.

Anyway, if you change your mind, I will gladly assist, you or anyone who´d like to experiment with this.