More POWER, more POWER... :D

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited April 2004 in Folding@Home
As of about three hours ago, amongst other things, my micro-folding farm became (stably):

Box 1:

IC7-Max3, 2.8E Prescott, DDR400 Dual Channel (512 MB, LLC2PT Corsair), a much abused and maligned GF4 4800 SE video card (which it turns out LIKES the Nvidia driver pack 5672), one 80 GB WD, one 40 GB WD, for Hds, one console client as service and one graphical client. Both are doing p568_BBA5_N WUs, both will finish within 3 hours. XP Pro. (This was the Barton box.)

Box 2:

IC7-Max3, 2.8 Northwood, non-HT, OC'd to 3.4, Corsair VS RAM at 200 MHz ram clock, GF2 MX 400 video card, one 60 GB WD, one 80 GB WD. Linux SuSE 9.0 updated to latest update packages that apply to SuSE 9.0. It is doing a p936_fkfe2_all and is about 2\3 through it, guessing 2 hours and 9 minutes left for that one to complete.

We will see what my dailies do now.... and weeklies, over the next couple weeks, as I need to reload some software still on the Ex-Barton and now-Prescott box. LOTS of legally licensed software.... :|

John D.-- who will give this last WU handin pointage before second WU turned in by the new box for a tracking reference point for Marc and myself and other who might find it interesting.... 27643.2 points as of 15:13:37 PDT on April 23, 2004.

Comments

  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited April 2004
    What ya doing John?? Really putting the pressure on my poor old wife, lol. :wink::nudge:

    By the sound of it you seem to like the IC7 Max3's. Hope they are what they are cracked up to be as Sally and i bought one on friday for her main computer.

    On the strengh of those being a good mobo, we also bought some better ram, getting ready for having a go at o/c'ing. Got some Papst fans on order too, try and make it a bit quieter as well as a few Aerocool HT-101's for better cooling.

    Noticed you got your 2.8 running @3.2. Going ok?. Sounds like a nice set-up, pushing out those WU's. :thumbsup:

    Jon A.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    That is a stock non-HT Northwood that is nominally timed at 3.2 GHz. BUT, EMIII's benchmarker says it is at 3512 MHz--- The Prescott is stock clocked for now, will OC that box after the HS compound settles and cures (Ceramique, about 200 hours run time for that to happen right). One thing that helps with SSE and SSE2 WUs is the game accellerator on the IC7-Max3. Actually, the game accellerator is on on both boxes, but I cannot get EMIII to run on the Prescott box, so might grab it again and see what just the benchmarker says for that box.

    In your thread about the new box you have, I stuck in some tips on processor affinity setting, etc.

    John D.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I have been trying this morning to figure out where 130 points went. This might also help you if you have a graphical client AND a console client running on one box, so read on if you have a multiCPU box or an HT-CPU'd box and are wondering what is happening to points that are seemingly vaporizing between here and folding.

    Especially if you manage to do what I did... Let the console steal the Graphical's config by running the console once with just the -config switch and not the -configonly swithc and not like this:

    It should be called with the

    -local -configonly switches on first run.

    I ran the console with the -config switch. In the last day, the graphical has racked up 130 points for the DEFAULT team. Console happily stole the graphical's config file. Graphical rebuilt it, but team ID was null. Fixed as of now, and I know of no way to get the points transferred to team 93.

    Points for day so far are NOT including one whole pipe of the Prescott's output. I am happy this did not happen for a long time.... Only about 22 hours.... :(

    So, if you want to know what the Prescott box itself has done in 22 hours, try 260 points-- subtotal for the two HT pipes not counting the partial work it is the middle of. The Northwood has done some work too, will figure that pointage out later and let you know-- If I had not fubarred the graphical, my cumulative pointage would now be:
    27903.2 + 130.0 = 28033.2 for Team 93 (right off the Stanford stats server). :(:(

    Folks running multiple clients and not getting expected results on Team 93 might check thier user page at Folding.... And check the configs of their clients for missing or reset things like Team ID....

    The -local switch is CRUCIAL for one box running multiple clients. EVEN when you config the client, whether or not it is graphical or console. For a one-box-one client system it is not crucial and not even needed at all.

    John D.-- who should have checked this at 12:30 am today when he went to bed.... :URK: But, think I know wassup now.... :);)
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited April 2004
    Just checked the other post. Thanks for the input John. I'm not too good with the folding setups, but Sally seems to have it all sussed. Got 3 P4's running in HT mode, all with 1x console and 1x by Gui. Once Sally finishes setting up her upgraded puter, we'll have another one to set up in HT. That will give her a constant 10 WU's folding at the time. Me, i have still got the old Athlon 850 plodding away in my name, lol.

    Got onto ebay the other day and have 1 x 128M stick coming over. Don't know if it will make any difference, but it wont hurt, especially as it is running XP Home. Got a little 5.25 fan set up coming and a funny looking fan that exhausts out through one of the psi ports. Pulled it apart the other night, could not believe the dust. All nice and shiny now, lol.

    When Sally finishes setting up her puter, i'll get her to check your post as she is "The Brains" when it comes to puting. Hopefully she may find something she did not know before.

    Thanks again John

    Jon A.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    If it can help, that is what it is there for. :D

    Hope it helps you, as I am more oriented towards pumping Team 93's output than JUST competing individually. Also, the Barton was running slower than snot in Windows compared to the way the Prescott runs while folding.

    John D.-- posting from the Prescott box....
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Prescott rocks for folding! One console for pipe for best results on my box, but it is a production box with alot of overhead. Were it a dedicated box, I would be folding two consoles per pipe on Linux.

    After about 45 folding time hours folding with it, weekly-computed daily average is now over 200 points. But, note that I turned in almost 280 on first day and lost track of 130 (went to Team Default) although that is fixed now. The previous average was about 140 some points from a week when the Prescott was not online at all and the Barton was still folding, plus-minus 30 from day to day. Those of you who want to see the jump in action and how it affects stats, please look at links below:

    http://www.foldingatwork.com/team.jsp?teamID=93&username=jdii1215

    this link is UTC\GMT\Zulu based, it shows 281 and 283 for two previous UTC based days, and 220 for today based on UTC time. UTC day is abit over 2\3 over now. Note, logs are in UTC time, closest to log time will be Folding@Work basis for calcs.

    http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=21664

    Calculating on a Central Daylight Time (US time zone) basis, I had 306 yesterday and the day before I lost 130 points to TEAM DEFAULT and still racked up 151-- Prescott was being built and starting folding that day. CDT (US) is at GMT -5 during Daylight savings time. By that time zone calc basis I have 130 points so far today and stats day still has 15 hours to go from the 9:00 AM stats update on EOC2.

    I was discussing with mmonnin the effects I expected to have by replacing the Barton with a Prescott E series (Extreme Edition) and better RAM and a board that was known good for P4's. He thought I might get a 1.5 times pump with the switch. I expect more like a 2.2-2.5 overall pump average after a couple weeks to let stats settle (still need to load apps back on and scavange some remaining backup data from various saved places)and for me to see how I can HT-pipe tune things-- if I can tune things more, might run a second console on one pipe. This is my business box.

    John D.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    You will be seeing more of a bump in production now because of the points change. Everyone is seeing more ppd than usual. Leo was getting 400+ from his HT P4 with 2 clients.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    You will be seeing more of a bump in production now because of the points change. Everyone is seeing more ppd than usual. Leo was getting 400+ from his HT P4 with 2 clients.

    Marc, I have been getting plain old Gromacs for about 90% of the time in both boxes-- and that has held true for the upgrade time til now also. NO Tinkers. So, as and when I get Tinkers or double gromacs more, my points will rise more, but for now all this pointage is pure Gromacs except for two double-gromacs in two days.

    I have more WU\DAY now as well as more PPD.

    Date..........PPD.....WU\DAY
    04.25.04....287.........7 (partial day so far, 12:01 AM to 6 PM CDT)
    04.24.04....306.........6 (2 WU lost to Default team also, 130 points not shown)
    04.23.04....151.........3 (day of box changeover, Prescott folded 1\4 day max)
    04.22.04....237.........5

    Stats from EOC, updated to the last turnin. Right now the Prescott is working two 568_BBA5_N's simultaneously, at about 4:30 (minutes:seconds) per frame for each of the two running consoles, and is about 1\2 done with both (not included in dailies yet). The Northwood is working a p730_gsgs_sd_h20 at 2:35 (minute:seconds) per frame and is about 1\3 done with that one.

    Yes, we will get pointage per WU pumps for some WUs, but I have not been much at all impacted by those so far.

    John D.-- pointage total per folding is 28236.2 right now.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Leo was getting 400+ from his HT P4 with 2 clients.
    Gotta love those Double Gromacs on a hyperthreaded machine, with the new Stanford point allocations. :thumbsup:
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Note the speed he has it OC'd to (3.5 GHz). My Prescott box is not even OC'd yet, it is at 2.8 GHz (and it is used a LOT).... And will not be until the Ceramique cures in. Temp in room hit 85 F today, the CPU is at 66 C and case at 30 C. CPU is stable. Default throttle-back for that CPU is 75 C, cutout due to OH defaults at 85 C for this particular CPU. Oh, one little thing in addition, the CPU is only pulling 1.32-1.33 volts.... Otes has been running in high 40's C. HS compund needs to cure in before I OC, sorry.

    But, as an indicator of impact of just over two days of folding with 130 points not even in calcs, predict for Aug 1 total is close to 50K-- up from 40-41K avg before that. It will take a minimum of a week to ten days more for the stats to stabilize and get a real predict. Then we shall see.

    But some more Double Gromacs would be nice.... :D

    John D.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    Ouch, thats why you shouldnt have gotten a Prechott. It runs hotter than a normal P4. That alone is worth the price.

    And Gromacs are getting more points too, not just tinkers.
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