1760 pt Foldy WU?

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So what sort of WU is this, and what kit do you need to run it on.

I was hoping to catch DreederOcUK, but with dumpage like that from just one cruncher, every couple of days I throw in the towel.
 
Thats a 2605 work unit, its from the the SMP stable. And I love them, on my Macpro they take about 22hour each to complete giving 1920PPD, on my iMac they take 33hours which is still pretty reasonable and weights in at 1280PPD
 
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Thats a 2605 work unit, its from the the SMP stable. And I love them, on my Macpro they take about 22hour each to complete giving 1920PPD, on my iMac they take 33hours which is still pretty reasonable and weights in at 1280PPD
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That's some flippin crazy PPD - makes the GPU scoring just look lame (and the standard CPU points an insult) :o

Seeing how excited some members of the Pande group are getting it's truly revolutionising their work though - progress being made at such accelerated rates due to it :)
 
Ive been looking on the Folding community forum at the SMP clients page for any info on using the SMP client on an A64 X2/Opteron box running Linux 64 and cant find anything.
Whist I know that it should be possible to do, I dont know if anyone has tried it, and is an A64 X2/Opteron fast enough to produce the results within Stanfords time limit.
 
Certainly seems fine from the logs in this thread

http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic16875.html

The X2-3800 at stock in the first post would take over a day to complete so would miss the preferred deadline for that project (so the project would be issued to someone else aswell) however it would be complete in plenty of time for the main deadline and would still get points.

Of course if it was clocked like every X2 should be it shouldn't have any problem at all meeting the preferred deadline.

Quite a lot of the discussion on the SMP client and units is inside the beta testers section of the forums, definately worth signing up as a beta tester in this thread http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic3045.html
 
Thanks Rich, will certainly check it out
I currently have 3 X2s, 2 clocked at 2.6GHz 1 at 2.5GHz so they would be within Stanfords preffered time limit.
Ill have to ask "BTI" which version of Linux 64 would be the easiest to set up and work with.
 
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Ill have to ask "BTI" which version of Linux 64 would be the easiest to set up and work with.
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Ubuntu. :)

If it's a crunching-only setup I'd say go for the server version. If you want to use it as a desktop go for the desktop version. I'll poke around for you and see if there are any installation tools that work with the SMP client. :)

Edit: Mind you, the server version does not install a GUI at installation. If you feel you NEED a GUI then the desktop version is for you.

Edit2: A-ha! :D The finstall script I love so dearly now supports the SMP client. This will make it a snap to use the server/non-GUI version for lower CPU overhead. The finstall script makes setting up FAH on Linux so it runs at boot a 2 minute job. :)

If you'd like me to hold your hand through the installation and set-up procedure I'd be glad to help.
 
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Thanks Billy,
Ill try the desktop version as it may usefull to me.
If it works well for me Ive a few boxes I could use it on instead of XP.

Ill give it a whirl myself, if I do get stuck, If you dont mind, you can run through it with me. (Not to sure about the holding hands bit) :D
 
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Good man, nice to see youre on the ball. :cool:

My download is sticking at 5%, so Ill leave it untill about 3.00am and try again.
I like to stop my FAH clients whist downloading, so Ive got a PC doing nothing at the mo, arrggghhh.
 
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