So I found out that core 78 is specially made for AMD SSE. I tried deleting all the other cores except for this one, but F@H still downloads the 7a core. How can I force F@H to use a specific core? This should help crank through the WU faster right?
When F@H grabs a protein, it has to use a specific CORE. You cannot force a particular core without deleting the protein and hope for another that DOES use the Core78... But that really flies in the face of "research Project". I would just stick with the "No Deadline" work units and hope for the best.
Unless you have several systems and want to jockey the proteins around manually to maximize them to the CPU type... that's been done before and still brings us closer to cures... Deleting proteins just to get the best fit is really not a ethical thing...
So what does machine ID mean? I read about when 2 computers have the same user id# that they both work on the same unit, and whichever one finished first gets credit. The slow once just gets discarded. I set up the msi installer, so if I were to install it with machine id=1 on 5 computers, would they all be working on the same thing and only 1 gets credit?
Machine Id is referring to the core of the CPU. If you have a Intel Pentium 4 chip with HT you would create 2 folders with the F@H program load the .exe for folder 1 set it up and select Machine ID #1 than go into your 2nd folder and do the same thing but select machine ID #2...
In my case my rig is a dual Xeon with HT so I have 4 folders with machine id's 1 thru 4
Wow, so how come it doesn't set affinity to the correct core for me? I have machine id 1 and 2. Yet the cores both have affinity set to both cores unless I manually set them in task manager.
It's not a problem with them not using 100% cpu. It has to do with the threads. The program launches with affinity on both cores. If you go to task manager and look at affinity, the core is set to core0 and core1. I manally make each F@H core to their own thread. Does setting to seperate cores help at all?
This is my config:
[settings]
machineid=2
username=skankinred
team=93
bigpackets=yes
What do you think of the seti@home project? The program's much more advanced, you can set it to as many processors(threads) as you have handy and the statistics website seems much more involved.
SETI may or may not come up with anything. We all know that Cancer, Parkinson's, etc, are real and need as much research applied to a solution as we can muster.
You can run FAH on any number of processors, and can run two instances on a single-CPU rig with HT. There are plenty of flashy stats available at sites like this.
Seti is OK... I look at our F@H project as something that is good for all of humanity. Unless the little green men have a cure for cancer, I'll feel better letting F@H run on all my systems.
Seti was around before F@H and they have gone to great efforts to make the Seti application look and feel better.
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Unless you have several systems and want to jockey the proteins around manually to maximize them to the CPU type... that's been done before and still brings us closer to cures... Deleting proteins just to get the best fit is really not a ethical thing...
In my case my rig is a dual Xeon with HT so I have 4 folders with machine id's 1 thru 4
Just use your username instead of mine
This is my config:
[settings]
machineid=2
username=skankinred
team=93
bigpackets=yes
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active=no
usereg=no
[core]
cpuusage=100
checkpoint=10
[power]
battery=yes
[clienttype]
type=2
You can run FAH on any number of processors, and can run two instances on a single-CPU rig with HT. There are plenty of flashy stats available at sites like this.
Seti was around before F@H and they have gone to great efforts to make the Seti application look and feel better.