Folding@home News 18th - 25th Feb 2011

If your running windows its easy to setup with the gpu tracker see the folding setup guide for details:)

Edit:Dekez beat me to it:D
 
Just seen a post by Tear on the folding forum of his 4p opteron system running bigadv 6901 on linux, frame times 6min 40seconds (350k ppd):eek:

Thats with slighty slower processors than mine and he has bested me by 2mins and 18 sec a frame, break out the linux distros:D
 
Biffa said:
Name: OcUk
Team: 10

Should work with teh 5770 but don't expect great performance.
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Really ? thats random, id of thought the 5770's would have wiped the floor being GPU's :eek: im running the program now, seems its just stuck on downloading FAH clients from stanford?

EDIT: Fails :(

this is the error report:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'frmClientDownload'.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
at FAH_GPU_Tracker_V2.frmClientDownload.SwitchTo()
at FAH_GPU_Tracker_V2.frmClientDownload.StartClientDownloads()
at FAH_GPU_Tracker_V2.frmClientDownload.GetDownloadLocations_RunWorkerCompleted(Object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnRunWorkerCompleted(RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.AsyncOperationCompleted(Object arg)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4952 (win7RTMGDR.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
FAH GPU Tracker V2
Assembly Version: 3.5.2.0
Win32 Version: 3.5.2.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Ben/Desktop/FAH%20GPU%20Tracker%20V2/FAH%20GPU%20Tracker%20V2.exe
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Management
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
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BaBa said:
Just seen a post by Tear on the folding forum of his 4p opteron system running bigadv 6901 on linux, frame times 6min 40seconds (350k ppd):eek:

Thats with slighty slower processors than mine and he has bested me by 2mins and 18 sec a frame, break out the linux distros:D
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Yeah saw that, they have really tweaked the bigadv stuff for heavy iron this time around, however it does seem that the windows code is not as optimised as the Linux code this time round. Will be interesting to see if there are any changes in future versions.

I could switch Gemini over to Linux I guess, its only a VMWare box and that runs on Linux fine. I've certainly noticed a drop in performance since switching to 6.34 and the A5 wu's
 
Combat squirrel said:
Really ? thats random, id of thought the 5770's would have wiped the floor being GPU's :eek: im running the program now, seems its just stuck on downloading FAH clients from stanford?

EDIT: Fails :(

this is the error report:
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I think you'll need to disable Crossfire to get folding to work but it's really not worth it on ATI GPUs at present. Stanford keep promising a new ATI client but they're heavily sponsored by Nvidia.....
 
I've been dreading the day I have to learn linux, but I always knew it would come. :(

Currently I'm running WHS which is 32bit, so I assume even if I ran a vm with linux folding it wouldn't be able to take advantage of 64bit.

So I think the sensible (if somewhat PITA) option would be to set up the machine running linux. Most of the things that I would want to do - PS3 media server, sabnzb+, file sharing etc work fine on linux.

Don't know how well it mixes with the windows machines on my network for backups or how remote access works but I would assume it could handle those sort of things, it's pretty basic stuff.

Bonus is I can get another 4 gig of ram and house all of my virtual machines for learning on the server, instead of what I do now of having them spread over a few machines.

Anyone know if it is possible to build and test the linux machine as a virtual machine then create an image for the machine and move it to the actual machine? I know nothing about linux, I had a play with ubuntu before is this still the easiest for beginners?
 
I would buy another hard drive mate, put it in and install linux on that. Then you can just boot back to winders if you need to.
 
Im selling some networking gear on MM if any of you guys are interested.
An 8 port and a 5 port ethernet switch.
I have 2 4 port KVM switchs to sell although only one on the MM at the mo.
sculptor:)
 
I should have a few 40GB IDE ones, would need to check they are OK if they are you can have them for the postage cost.
sculptor:)
 
Just thought I have a couple of WD Raptors 35GB models early ones, they are noisy they hiss and clunck but just seem to keep going, again Id only want postage cost for them.
sculptor:)
 
sculptor said:
Just thought I have a couple of WD Raptors 35GB models early ones, they are noisy they hiss and clunck but just seem to keep going, again Id only want postage cost for them.
sculptor:)
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They would be great thank you :) sending you a trust email now...
 
No all good here with bigadv.

1. Did you upgrade the client to 6.34?
2. Have you had any failed WU's lately?
 
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