Back folding but slightly confused

booyaka · 31 Aug 2008 at 21:45

After a break to get the system watercooled, a busted psu and other time constraints i am back!

Still with the Q6600 and 8800gt.

Q6600 now up an running @ 3.37ghz (more to come hopefully when i have time) and 8800gt overclocked as well.

Installed the cpu client and all appears ok there. New Win SMP client seems a bit strange. 6.22beta one i mean.

It only appears when both one single smp and one single gpu client are running that the cpu client is only fully stretching one core?? I thought they used to do 100% of 2 cores?? :confused:

Is there anything else i have missed whilst i've been non-folding (apart from still being hopefully 2nd to a million points before we all killed those pesky pirates!)

EDIT - defo something not right with the cpu client !

Mattus · 31 Aug 2008 at 22:19

Have you included the -smp flag? It's required for the 6.22 client to pull down SMP WUs. Without it you'll just get normal work units.

You're still 2nd, though Yeggstry and I are closing fast

Yeggstry · 31 Aug 2008 at 22:42

No, I'm not. I have 3 3340 WUs which are dragging me down. Let me speak for myself, I can see what WUs I have...

booyaka · 31 Aug 2008 at 23:24

Mattus said:
Have you included the -smp flag?

not sure - how u do that again??

[20:37:46] *------------------------------*
[20:37:46] Folding@Home PMD Core
[20:37:46] Version 1.03 (September 7, 2005)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Preparing to commence simulation
[20:37:46] - Looking at optimizations...
[20:37:46] - Created dyn
[20:37:46] - Files status OK
[20:37:46] - Expanded 93067 -> 599777 (decompressed 644.4 percent)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Project: 2170 (Run 10, Clone 593, Gen 5)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[20:37:46] Entering M.D.
[20:37:52] Protein: p2170_lambda_obc_300K
[20:37:52]
[20:37:52] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)

Senture · 31 Aug 2008 at 23:32

Right click on the shotycut and choose properties, then in the target line put a space then -smp after the quotation marks (path should like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\[email protected]" -smp)

booyaka · 31 Aug 2008 at 23:33

Senture said:
Right click on the shotycut and choose properties, then in the target line put a space then -smp after the quotation marks (path should like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\[email protected]" -smp)

cheers - think that is just what i did do - will see what happens

rich99million · 31 Aug 2008 at 23:58

Yeggstry said:
No, I'm not. I have 3 3340 WUs which are dragging me down. Let me speak for myself, I can see what WUs I have...

Tell me about it - had 2 out of 4 instances stuck with those all this week

On the plus side the one that just finished was replaced with a 1760 so there may be hope on the horizon for you

Mattus · 1 Sep 2008 at 00:30

booyaka, that log shows a standard non-SMP WU - check your shortcut and restart the client

Yeggstry said:
No, I'm not. Let me speak for myself, I can see what WUs I have...

I was talking about the last couple of weeks in general; you've made up 100k on him! And I've been playing Oblivion half the day so my output's not been too great either. So it was just a light-hearted comment... never mind, I won't speak out of line again :confused:

*gets his head down and folds on*

booyaka · 1 Sep 2008 at 10:48

hmm - well restarted client, deleted the old work folder but still not liking the WIn SMP.

It's EUE'd twice and then just suspended itself. Maybe something to do with the overclock but that was set yesterday and passed a 12 hour prime95 stable run just before i started folding again.

The gpu client is folding away quiet happy and nice to see my name no longer greyed out on the stats!!

rich99million · 1 Sep 2008 at 19:14

I didn't think much of the new SMP client under Vista64 - didn't try going back to the new release of the older client as I went to VMWare and Ubuntu instead (fair bit of hassle getting that working under Vista also though

)

Mattus · 1 Sep 2008 at 19:18

The GPU client is great - awesome PPD, and with very few exceptions it just works. VMWare is a pain... are you running version 2, or version 1 with driver signing disabled?

booyaka, post your SMP log again with the errors and I'll have a look.

booyaka · 1 Sep 2008 at 22:20

--- Opening Log file [August 31 20:35:37 UTC]

# Windows CPU Console Edition #################################################
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Folding@Home Client Version 6.22 SMP Beta2

http://folding.stanford.edu

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Launch directory: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino
Executable: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino\[email protected]

[20:35:37] Configuring Folding@Home...

The program will continue in non-service mode now, working in F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino.
The next time the computer is starts up, you should see work automatically
continue there. Note that when this service is running, you should not try
to manually run F@H from that directory at the same time.

[20:37:27] - Ask before connecting: No
[20:37:27] - User name: booyaka (Team 10)
[20:37:27] - User ID: 12D0A86B52470D11
[20:37:27] - Machine ID: 1
[20:37:27]
[20:37:27] Work directory not found. Creating...
[20:37:27] Could not open work queue, generating new queue...
[20:37:27] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[20:37:27] + Attempting to get work packet
[20:37:27] - Connecting to assignment server
[20:37:28] - Successful: assigned to (171.65.103.160).
[20:37:28] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[20:37:28] Loaded queue successfully.
[20:37:30] + Closed connections
[20:37:30]
[20:37:30] + Processing work unit
[20:37:30] Core required: FahCore_82.exe
[20:37:30] Core not found.
[20:37:30] - Core is not present or corrupted.
[20:37:30] - Attempting to download new core...
[20:37:30] + Downloading new core: FahCore_82.exe
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[20:37:35] Verifying core Core_82.fah...
[20:37:35] Signature is VALID
[20:37:35]
[20:37:35] Trying to unzip core FahCore_82.exe
[20:37:36] Decompressed FahCore_82.exe (1683456 bytes) successfully
[20:37:41] + Core successfully engaged
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] + Processing work unit
[20:37:46] Core required: FahCore_82.exe
[20:37:46] Core found.
[20:37:46] Working on queue slot 01 [August 31 20:37:46 UTC]
[20:37:46] + Working ...
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] *------------------------------*
[20:37:46] Folding@Home PMD Core
[20:37:46] Version 1.03 (September 7, 2005)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Preparing to commence simulation
[20:37:46] - Looking at optimizations...
[20:37:46] - Created dyn
[20:37:46] - Files status OK
[20:37:46] - Expanded 93067 -> 599777 (decompressed 644.4 percent)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Project: 2170 (Run 10, Clone 593, Gen 5)
[20:37:46]
[20:37:46] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[20:37:46] Entering M.D.
[20:37:52] Protein: p2170_lambda_obc_300K
[20:37:52]
[20:37:52] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.

--- Opening Log file [August 31 22:32:04 UTC]

# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
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Folding@Home Client Version 6.22 SMP Beta2

http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino
Executable: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino\[email protected]
Arguments: -smp

[22:32:04] - Ask before connecting: No
[22:32:04] - User name: booyaka (Team 10)
[22:32:04] - User ID: 12D0A86B52470D11
[22:32:04] - Machine ID: 1
[22:32:04]
[22:32:04] Loaded queue successfully.
[22:32:04]
[22:32:04] + Processing work unit
[22:32:04] Work type 82 not eligible for variable processors
[22:32:04] Core required: FahCore_82.exe
[22:32:04] Core found.
[22:32:04] Using generic mpiexec calls
[22:32:04] Working on queue slot 01 [August 31 22:32:04 UTC]
[22:32:04] + Working ...
[22:32:05]
[22:32:05] *------------------------------*
[22:32:05] Folding@Home PMD Core
[22:32:05] Version 1.03 (September 7, 2005)
[22:32:05]
[22:32:05] Preparing to commence simulation
[22:32:05] - Looking at optimizations...
[22:32:05] - Previous termina- Expanded 93067 -> 599777 (decompressed 644.4 percent)
[22:32:05]
[22:32:05] Project: 2170 (Run 10, Clone 593, Gen 5)
[22:32:05]
[22:32:05] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[22:32:05] Entering M.D.
[22:32:05] 0, Clone 593, Gen 5)
[22:32:05]
[22:32:05] Entering M.D.
[22:32:12] leted 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.

--- Opening Log file [August 31 22:41:59 UTC]

# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

Folding@Home Client Version 6.22 SMP Beta2

http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino
Executable: F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino\[email protected]
Arguments: -smp

[22:41:59] - Ask before connecting: No
[22:41:59] - User name: booyaka (Team 10)
[22:41:59] - User ID: 12D0A86B52470D11
[22:41:59] - Machine ID: 1
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] Loaded queue successfully.
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] + Processing work unit
[22:41:59] Work type 82 not eligible for variable processors
[22:41:59] Core required: FahCore_82.exe
[22:41:59] Core found.
[22:41:59] Using generic mpiexec calls
[22:41:59] Working on queue slot 01 [August 31 22:41:59 UTC]
[22:41:59] + Working ...
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] *------------------------------*
[22:41:59] Folding@Home PMD Core
[22:41:59] Version 1.03 (September 7, 2005)
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] Preparing to commence simulation
[22:41:59] - Looking at optimizations...
[22:41:59] - Previous termina- Expanded 93067 -> 599777 (decompressed 644.4 percent)
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] Project: 2170 (Run 10, Clone 593, Gen 5)
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[22:41:59] Entering M.D.
[22:41:59] Client no longer detected. Shutting down core
[22:41:59] onger detected. Shutting down core
[22:41:59]
[22:41:59] Folding@home Core Shutdown: CLIENT_DIED
[22:47:08] checkpoint files
[22:52:05] Writing local files
[22:52:05] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
[23:02:11] Writing checkpoint files
[23:11:50] Writing local files
[23:11:50] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2%)
[23:17:13] Writing checkpoint files
[23:31:25] Writing local files
[23:31:25] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3%)
[23:32:17] Writing checkpoint files
[23:47:17] Writing checkpoint files
[23:50:54] Writing local files
[23:50:54] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4%)
[00:02:17] Writing checkpoint files
[00:10:18] Writing local files
[00:10:18] Completed 25000 out of 500000 steps (5%)
[00:10:18] Going to send back what have done.
[00:10:18] logfile size: 15171
[00:10:18] - Writing 15691 bytes of core data to disk...
[00:10:18] Done: 15179 -> 2825 (compressed to 18.6 percent)
[00:10:18] ... Done.
[00:10:18]
[00:10:18] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END

Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.

Mattus · 1 Sep 2008 at 22:27

[22:41:59] Work type 82 not eligible for variable processors

That's getting confused because it's trying to run a non-SMP WU using the SMP software. Looks like the first time you ran the SMP client you ran it without -smp, so it downloaded a normal WU. Now you need to delete the work folder from F:\FAH6.22beta2-win32-SMP-deino and delete the queue.dat file, then start the client again.

rich99million · 2 Sep 2008 at 07:35

Mattus said:
The GPU client is great - awesome PPD, and with very few exceptions it just works. VMWare is a pain... are you running version 2, or version 1 with driver signing disabled?

Version 1 with driver signing disabled - works most of the time but can get itself in a muddle from time to time - think maybe I need to get the network settings sorted as from time to time I lose sight of one of the machines in FahMon

Yeggstry · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:29

Mattus said:
booyaka, that log shows a standard non-SMP WU - check your shortcut and restart the client

I was talking about the last couple of weeks in general; you've made up 100k on him! And I've been playing Oblivion half the day so my output's not been too great either. So it was just a light-hearted comment... never mind, I won't speak out of line again *gets his head down and folds on*

Sorry Mattus, I didn't mean to bite your head off. Was just frustrated at these WUs that really dragged my production down. I was matching you more or less, but from EOC you can see my production has taken a turn for the worse :/

Hopefully that will change today tho, dumped my 2nd 3340 WU and the third should be done today as well. I'm back on the 1920s so bring it on :cool:

Mattus · 3 Sep 2008 at 13:03

Yeggstry said:
Sorry Mattus, I didn't mean to bite your head off. Was just frustrated at these WUs that really dragged my production down. I was matching you more or less, but from EOC you can see my production has taken a turn for the worse :/

Hopefully that will change today tho, dumped my 2nd 3340 WU and the third should be done today as well. I'm back on the 1920s so bring it on

No worries

It's pretty frustrating when you put time/money into folding and get rewarded with crap WUs. I dread waking up to a pair of those 3340s

Here's to a September full of a2 cores!

booyaka · 3 Sep 2008 at 14:06

i've not even bothered firing up the SMP part any more.

8800gt is doing a grand job on it's own - propelling me towards the 1 million point mark