Folding@Home News 11th - 18th Feb 2011

dekez · 21 Feb 2011 at 16:21

BaBa said:
IF this is correct then with how well folding scales my quad G34 rig if upgraded to 64 cores could do 6.30 frames on 6900's for 370K+ ppd.

I think I need to learn a bit about opterons and keep a look out for MBs!!!

Frozennova · 21 Feb 2011 at 17:05

dekez said:
I think I need to learn a bit about opterons and keep a look out for MBs!!!

Lets just raid his house dekez.

dekez · 21 Feb 2011 at 17:45

frozennova said:
Lets just raid his house dekez.

Frozennova · 21 Feb 2011 at 17:56

I dont think derbyshire is that far from me either.

Rumor has it that the MSI 890FXA-GD65 will support AM3+ with a bios update

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27577034

BaBa · 21 Feb 2011 at 23:14

Ill be on the lookout then

Biffa · 22 Feb 2011 at 09:15

dekez said:
I think I need to learn a bit about opterons and keep a look out for MBs!!!

That and win the lottery

sWiZzLe · 24 Feb 2011 at 04:59

What does 'Stomps' mean?

Marine Iguana · 24 Feb 2011 at 05:10

When you overtake a fellow member of the team a polite way of saying pack your bags

dekez · 24 Feb 2011 at 13:06

New SMP binaries

Vijay Pande said:
The SMP clients version 6.34 binaries are now posted on the high-performance download page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
They can be dropped into a working FAH installation, but it's always safest to update between work units.
There are several small changes involved, but especially support for new SMP2 cores (A5) that will be released in the near future.

Frozennova · 24 Feb 2011 at 13:27

Oooooo core a5, I wonder what she'll bring us?

Biffa · 24 Feb 2011 at 16:27

This is mainly for people who run bigadv, but doesnt' hurt to update if you are running normal SMP WU's

kasson said:
Just a heads-up: we are planning to migrate bigadv from running on Core A3 to running on Core A5 very shortly. Core A5 utilizes the same codebase as A3, but pegged to specific version snapshots. We have 64-bit Linux, Win32, and 64-bit OS/X versions of the core in testing; the initial release will likely be Win32 & Linux.

The new core will require a client upgrade; A5 will require version 6.34 or later. The Linux and Win32 versions of the 6.34 client will be released to the public very shortly. If you are running bigadv work units, please upgrade your clients. That will ease the transition as we start turning Core A5 bigadv projects on and turning Core A3 bigadv projects off.

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Visit the download page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
to download the 6.34 clients

Thanks and happy folding!

And

kasson said:
We don't currently have 64-bit A3 Windows cores in release; 64-bit versions of windows run the 32-bit version. This may change in the future, but the initial release of A5 will use the same model.

The bigadv changeover will be relatively rapid; we highly encourage donors who wish to run bigadv to upgrade their clients to 6.34 or later within the first few days of public release. We do not normally perform rapid switchovers for public-release clients, but bigadv is more of a "power user" configuration. After the switchover, pre-6.34 clients set to bigadv will roll over to normal A3 work units (and thus won't be spinning their wheels idly). We also have a number of non-bigadv A3 projects ready for public release that cannot go public until bigadv migrates for technical reasons.

Biffa · 24 Feb 2011 at 16:40

For windows its this download http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.34-win32-SMP.exe

Rename it to [email protected] before stopping your client and dropping it in (or whatever you have your folding exe named)

I'm gung ho so am just going to stop, drop and start, but you might feel safer waiting till your WU finishes (stop client start with -oneunit, wait till finishes)

PhillyDee · 24 Feb 2011 at 16:41

How does this affect the GPU Tracker?

EDIT: Never mind!

http://fahtracker.forumotion.com/t219-352-stable-released

sWiZzLe · 24 Feb 2011 at 20:57

Marine Iguana said:
When you overtake a fellow member of the team a polite way of saying pack your bags

Ahh cheers, I see there are a lot of people on the team who haven't done anything for 6+ years :/

On this FAH GPU tracker, is there any way to limit cpu usage? I have the normal app going 24/7 but the GPU one with the SMP thing makes my cpu get rather warm!

Biffa · 24 Feb 2011 at 21:42

You would have to get down to the command line config to do that I believe.

Find where it keeps the folding executable then run it with the -configonly flag and in the advanced section you can set the cpu limit