Back in the Fold!

SiriusB · 27 Nov 2008 at 01:59

Waaaah I'm back!

I just installed the Windows SMP DEINO client. No idea what makes Deino and MPICH different, all I know is the MPICH client refused to work.

Only running the one client, I seem to remember Windows SMP didn't like running multiple clients - I could be wrong though as I am a little rusty at this. Either way I am not expecting stellar PPD. Should keep me ticking over to 1m until I work out the best combo.

As I said in the news thread I am thinking of a new machine so a Linux foldy box is on the cards in the near [ish] future.

A.N.Other · 27 Nov 2008 at 09:40

What are you running it on? A quad will run two SMP clients ...

shadowscotland · 27 Nov 2008 at 09:42

Good to have you back full time SB - VMware/ubuntu is still a valid option (especially with over 2mb of ram) especially as winSMP have been flakey of late

SiriusB · 27 Nov 2008 at 15:25

Yeah I just noticed. First WU in like a year and it bails on me at 25%!

VMWare is an option I know, but its a hassle. Will see how it goes with WinSMP.

Senture · 27 Nov 2008 at 15:33

SiriusB said:
First WU in like a year and it bails on me at 25%!

Welcome back to the fun \o/

verbal · 27 Nov 2008 at 15:45

SiriusB said:
Will see how it goes with WinSMP.

I gave up after two WUs.......... Good luck

SiriusB · 27 Nov 2008 at 16:06

Eww second WU didn't even make it to 2%. And now my client has got itself screwed up because it wont restart.

You expect things to get better after a year, not take a running jump into the nearest dog turd.

I'd prefer to go back to Linux folding, but I still use Windows a lot lately so it will be a pain to switch. Hmmmmm. Can I be arsed installing VMWare then installing Linux? Answer is... not right now lol.

WoZZeR · 28 Nov 2008 at 20:30

Hello dude, good to see another returnee.

If reliability and not ppd is important, try 2 (or 4 for a quad) console clients, I managed 5,000 points a week with no bad WU's. Not brilliant compared to the GFX chaps on here but a contribution all the same.

theheyes · 28 Nov 2008 at 20:42

Oh God SB I came to within 5 places of you on the leaderboard and you decide to return!!

A.N.Other · 28 Nov 2008 at 21:04

My winSMPs are perfectly stable. I haven't dropped a WU is ages now (touches wood, as I've blatently just jinxed it).

sculptor · 28 Nov 2008 at 21:34

Welcome back Sirius.

Ithought of trying the SMP client on my graphics workstation but decided to use the GPU client instead along with a couple of standard clients. Saves messing about when I need to work on it, just stop the GPU client. Only need to stop the standard clients if I need to render out images.
Its turning out around 5300 ppd which is around the same as the Linux SMP client did on the same system, everything stable with no eues so Im happy, might be worth a go.

sculptor.

Snapshot · 30 Nov 2008 at 09:17

theheyes said:
Oh God SB I came to within 5 places of you on the leaderboard and you decide to return!!

Serves you right for slacking for so long.

Snapshot · 30 Nov 2008 at 09:21

SiriusB said:
Can I be arsed installing VMWare then installing Linux? Answer is... not right now lol.

VMWare's easy enought to install then use a couple of Diskless FAH clients - just configure on-line, download the ISO and burn to CD. I suspect VMWare might even handle the ISO.