Yes, it's too bad that they don't have an installer that automates the process more. Luckily, it's not that difficult.
The short version: close your FAH if it's not running all the cores. You should probably restart to make sure all of the services are stopped. Run the install.bat in the FAH folder. Run the FAH executable with the -smp flag. This is necessary because the SMP and regular client are no longer separate programs.
The long version: there are two helper programs that facilitate SMP on Windows. MPICH works on 32 and 64-bit Windows, and DEINO runs only on 32-bit Windows (but is more stable). I use DEINO on my Vista laptop.
I'd like to use more than half my processor to help you. Unfortunately, you've made the setup so long and rigorous I need to set aside an hour just to understand it. Please Google 'usability'. In the meantime, I'm going to try Garg's "short" version and see if that works.
Gargoyle, I have no "install.bat" in my F@H folder. Does that mean I need the console version? I was really looking forward to using a non-shitty client.
Post a new thread if you have problems. I'll be here.
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BlackHawkBible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1Icrontian
edited November 2008
I ran it but got a file IO error.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited November 2008
Although I'm already about tapped out for hardware - everything's already employed, I did find about another 1000PPD in production last night! I reworked overclocks on the 8800GT's and 9800GT's shader clocks. This was a supplementary session to previous overclocking sessions. What I did this time was to reset GPU cores and GDDR to factory stock on each card, concentrating on boosting shader clock frequencies only. End result is that GPU temperatures are not increased but production is up.
Next step will be the addition of another G92-based 8800GT or 9800GT. I have one motherboard remaining with an empty PCI-e video card slot.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
Great job on getting people back "in the saddle" and helping us nubs out who have been out of the folding scene for a couple of years.
cheers
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited November 2008
Nice going Leo!
My ego is already too large. Take it easy, OK?
The Team is still potent, but it's been sitting still, figuratively speaking. The events of the last few days show a turnaround. Let's make this exciting, again, OK? Let's get cranking and watch Team 93 rise again.
You don't have to be a Folding@Home expert with multiple rigs and several years of experience to help others. I appreciate the group effort I'm seeing. Let's keep it up.
Even if you are a newbie to Folding, if you know more about Folding than someone else, you are in a position to help that person.
Let's also not forget the most important reason for Folding - building up the science that will lead to mitigation of or even cures of tissue degenerative diseases.
The Team is still potent, but it's been sitting still, figuratively speaking. The events of the last few days show a turnaround. Let's make this exciting, again, OK? Let's get cranking and watch Team 93 rise again.
You don't have to be a Folding@Home expert with multiple rigs and several years of experience to help others. I appreciate the group effort I'm seeing. Let's keep it up.
Even if you are a newbie to Folding, if you know more about Folding than someone else, you are in a position to help that person.
Let's also not forget the most important reason for Folding - building up the science that will lead mitigation of or even cures of tissue degenerative diseases.
Well said.
And so as to not increase your ego too much...you suck! :p
Fatcat, are you good with the fans now? If not, I think you can use RivaTuner to set your fan speed.
I haven't installed the different video drivers yet. I'll get around to it when I do a format or really bored one day.
HATE VIDEO DRIVERS. or actually, hate the process of uninstall, clean out the registry, find anything with "ati" in the file name, delete and then reboot.
I can't speak to ATI drivers, but the current Nvidia drivers are close to flawless. They are also very easy to install and uninstall.
Not dissing the NVIDIA drivers, just saying that he's installing ATi to ATi. Not ATi to NVIDIA or NVIDIA to ATi, which is where the biggest headaches lie when re-installing. I had to do it when I got my the error message that GPU2 did not support my card for folding and everything went smooth.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
I am already really liking what is happening. We are back over 1600 on our ppd average and today at noon we are on track for a 260,000 day. Good job team way to get started.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited November 2008
Ah, great news!
Kick it into gear, guys.
- engage that hardware that's drawing power but not doing anything
- make your next upgrades with Folding@Home in mind
- get previous Team 93 members active again
- get new members on the team
- challenge each other to Folding duels!
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Funny because when I installed the client on my C2D iMac at work it automatically just started running on both cores
The short version: close your FAH if it's not running all the cores. You should probably restart to make sure all of the services are stopped. Run the install.bat in the FAH folder. Run the FAH executable with the -smp flag. This is necessary because the SMP and regular client are no longer separate programs.
The long version: there are two helper programs that facilitate SMP on Windows. MPICH works on 32 and 64-bit Windows, and DEINO runs only on 32-bit Windows (but is more stable). I use DEINO on my Vista laptop.
Official guide for MPICH (run FAH with -smp flag)
Official guide for DEINO (run FAH with -smp -deino flag)
I'd like to use more than half my processor to help you. Unfortunately, you've made the setup so long and rigorous I need to set aside an hour just to understand it. Please Google 'usability'. In the meantime, I'm going to try Garg's "short" version and see if that works.
Love and hate,
Keebler
I'm with Keebs, this shouldn't be ****ing rocket science.
Im guesstimating tonight is going to take me at least an hour to figure out wtf is going on and get GPU client using my 9800GT and SMP on my C2D.
Here's a very good GPU client installation and configuration guide. Here's a good WinSMP guide.
Post a new thread if you have problems. I'll be here.
Next step will be the addition of another G92-based 8800GT or 9800GT. I have one motherboard remaining with an empty PCI-e video card slot.
Great job on getting people back "in the saddle" and helping us nubs out who have been out of the folding scene for a couple of years.
cheers
The Team is still potent, but it's been sitting still, figuratively speaking. The events of the last few days show a turnaround. Let's make this exciting, again, OK? Let's get cranking and watch Team 93 rise again.
You don't have to be a Folding@Home expert with multiple rigs and several years of experience to help others. I appreciate the group effort I'm seeing. Let's keep it up.
Even if you are a newbie to Folding, if you know more about Folding than someone else, you are in a position to help that person.
Let's also not forget the most important reason for Folding - building up the science that will lead to mitigation of or even cures of tissue degenerative diseases.
Well said.
And so as to not increase your ego too much...you suck!
I haven't installed the different video drivers yet. I'll get around to it when I do a format or really bored one day.
HATE VIDEO DRIVERS. or actually, hate the process of uninstall, clean out the registry, find anything with "ati" in the file name, delete and then reboot.
Not dissing the NVIDIA drivers, just saying that he's installing ATi to ATi. Not ATi to NVIDIA or NVIDIA to ATi, which is where the biggest headaches lie when re-installing. I had to do it when I got my the error message that GPU2 did not support my card for folding and everything went smooth.
Kick it into gear, guys.
- engage that hardware that's drawing power but not doing anything
- make your next upgrades with Folding@Home in mind
- get previous Team 93 members active again
- get new members on the team
- challenge each other to Folding duels!
All the power to him! Keebler, the bowling pin! (I'm thinking of that distinctive sound when a bowling ball smacks into a pin.
2,000,000 is one very big number.