Folding on PIII's?

t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
edited September 2004 in Folding@Home
We just received some PIII 733s to replace some of our older computers.
I know they are not great, but how well will they fold?

I have roughly 85 of them...

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    They fold very well. Get those gromacs chomping on them ASAP ...but don't pass me too quickly!!! LOL :fold:
    I have a two 1gig p3's and I fold endless gromacs on them.
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited September 2004
    How do you get specify gromacs? I can only seem to get tinkers lately... :scratch:
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    t1rhino wrote:
    We just received some PIII 733s to replace some of our older computers.
    I know they are not great, but how well will they fold?

    I have roughly 85 of them...

    you will burn the house down with 85 pIII 733's. I want that folding for me! :rarr:

    that was a figure of speech btw, you wont actually burn anything down
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    add the -advmethods flag will greatly increase your chances.
    Show me your client.cfg also and maybe we can make a difference there also.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    omg! There go ANY hopes of me catching up to you.... :rarr:

    85 P3s!!! That'll fold like a monster!
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    that's equivalent to about 21 p4 3.0's.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    csimon wrote:
    that's equivalent to about 21 p4 3.0's.
    *dies*
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited September 2004
    I have a PIII 633 folding for me now. On a big tinker (230 something points) it does roughly 300-350 PPW. (hehe the only problem there is it takes most of a week to complete a larger wu.) Only 270 PPW now on a 47 pnt gromacs.

    Congrats! 85 of them will blow away the competition!
    :smokin:
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited September 2004
    Console v5.02 as a service using instsrv.exe.

    Start-up flags: -local -service -forceasm -advmethods -verbosity 3

    [settings]
    username=t1rhino
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=no
    machineid=1

    [http]
    active=yes
    host=***.***.***.***
    port=8080
    usereg=no
    usepasswd=yes
    proxy_name=****************
    proxy_passwd=****************

    [core]
    priority=0

    [power]
    battery=no
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    so is this, like, a for sure thing?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    t1rhino wrote:
    Console v5.02 as a service using instsrv.exe.

    Start-up flags: -local -service -forceasm -advmethods -verbosity 3

    [settings]
    username=t1rhino
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=no
    machineid=1

    [http]
    active=yes
    host=***.***.***.***
    port=8080
    usereg=no
    usepasswd=yes
    proxy_name=****************
    proxy_passwd=****************

    [core]
    priority=0

    [power]
    battery=no

    try this configuration then your setup should look like this.
    If you have any questions about it let me know.
    This type=2 server has been spitting out gromacs with the -advmethods flag ever since the 5.02 client came out. Mine are all currently 242 points.


    [settings]
    username=csimon
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=yes
    machineid=1
    local=90

    [http]
    active=no
    host=localhost
    port=8080
    usereg=no

    [core]
    checkpoint=30
    ignoredeadlines=yes

    [clienttype]
    type=2
    nonet=yes
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2004
    Only add the "bigpackets=yes" to them if they have 512 MB of ram, t1. On a machine with 256 MB of ram, it will cause a noticable slowdown on everyday apps. Just a word of advice for you.:)
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited September 2004
    The majority of folding machines under my control are p3's until we get a shipment of 25 or so p4's this next month to replace our old win98 machines. I haven't installed folding on any win98 machines because they are so unstable by themselves that I don't want any stability issues whatsoever to be blamed on folding. The p3's do quite nicely and will hold their own.

    KF
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    so is this, like, a for sure thing?

    Yes. We are deploying them now in batches of 10.
    They won't be able to handle the bigunits, but I will try type=2.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    yay for the team! That's awesome, T1!

    :smokin:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2004
    That should add some awesome folding power for the team, t1!:thumbsup:
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    PIII 733s to replace some of our older computers
    We shudder to imagine what older means.:wtf: Handheld calculators?

    And I felt sorry for myself that in my former office one of the computers was an 850 Celeron. Hmm, I bet the 733 PIIIs are faster than that Celeron PoS.

    Congrats on the acquisition, though. You will be rockin' on the stats page. :thumbup
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Leo, I can tell you firsthand that those P3s are not bad folders at all, and they will smoke a celeron that is 200-300mhz faster than them.

    A p3 750 will outfold a celly 1000
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    A p3 750 will outfold a celly 1000


    As long as you aren't talking about Tualatin Celeron's, you are right. The Tually's are a whole different story though; just as good as any P3 in their speed range.
  • JChretienJChretien Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited September 2004
    im folding with a 500mhz P3.. and it takes so long..... sigh lol maybe i should get my PII-266 folding too....
  • tcithtcith Sydney, Australia Member
    edited September 2004
    This is how I came out of nowhere - I have 40 PIII 633's at my disposal - all are folding 24/7 and considering I fold 25k in 9 days :grr: they do pretty damn good

    so PIII's rock in my book - am going to do some tweaking as suggested above to see if I can churn some more WU's through them
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    have you gotten tinkers yet?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    Yeah with that many they will kick ass.
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited September 2004
    We got them to replace some old PII 300s, etc.
    I just wish they were all P4s.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    The P3s will out fold the P4s, unless you are talking about 3.2HTs.
    I fold on my notebook, a 750 P3. It has a big wu right now, 6hrs/frame.
    I wish that I had a PM notebook, they fold.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited September 2004
    edcentric wrote:
    The P3s will out fold the P4s, unless you are talking about 3.2HTs.
    I fold on my notebook, a 750 P3. It has a big wu right now, 6hrs/frame.
    I wish that I had a PM notebook, they fold.
    I have a 930 MHz P3 (not folding anymore) that could pull 400 points on a good week. Unless there's a huge performance jump between the coppermines and tualatins, I don't think that could be true in any way, at least beyond the low-end pentium 4s, because my 2.8 HT P4 makes ~250 in a day.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    Tualatins are the only really good P3 to be folding on compared to a P4 or Athlon. That is unless you 80+ P3s.;)
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited September 2004
    well 85 five of then are great, lol )
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited September 2004
    So far I have a couple of them folding. I will probably get another 15 folding on Monday.:)
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