Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 22nd November 2007

One linux SMP client only uses something like 65% of a quad in native linux (and only something like 93% of two cores in VMWare for some reason).

Two clients use ~80%, three use ~90% and it takes the fourth client to max out the Q6600.
 
I've been firing and forgetting winsmp running as a service for months, never gives me a moments bother. I'm quite comfortable with 3K per machine.

There is only one that might be able to be used to experiment with Linux and VMWare thats the one thats currently on 3.0Ghz but will be on 3.6Ghz next week when I get some new parts for it. Thats Bigjobbie my dedicated cruncher.

Of the other two Q6600's one is already maxed out running 3 VMWare virtual machines and I'm not about to push it harder than its already working. i.e. I'm ok with running Folding on the host but theres not enough memory to run multiple clients in the VM's

The third one is my desktop at home, which is Vista64 and again isn't a dedicated cruncher so I'm not blowing the memory away on VMWare on that box.

The other machines are again not dedicated crunchers. So yes the one machine I have that is a dedicated cruncher I will try (when I have a chance) to Linux and VMware and multi smp its socks off but not right this minute :)
 
I'm the same. I run VMWare on the Linux boxen (they run 32-bit Linux for reasons I won't go into - hope there's a native SMP 32-bit client soon), but save for a Mac, none of my boxen are dedicated crunchers. Save for a massive disk hit for several minutes on startup, they're pretty much 'fire and forget' so that's fine. The closest I've got to a dedicated Windows box is the media PC (which just happens to have a quad in it - only because its the most recent build). Might look at VMWare there but only if it doesn't impact it's other duties.
 
The only problem for me with winSMP is the borg gets restarted quite often when I'm not there. Last time I looked I think you needed to run a batch file to start the process(es).

Its running the standard client at the moments. Tis all good. :)
 
I think you can use the batch files in your startup folder. Might be worth the experiment. Although I know you don't have much control over the borg so no guarantee it will be on long enough for an SMP WU to finish on time.

Biffa, should you wish to try the Linux clients either VM or Natively the guide is available as usual :D Link in sig.
 
?? I don't use a batch file and can't remember the last time I had a lost WU, in fact I've even had a bluescreen on the Vista box and it just started where it left off when it rebooted.

Sirius as I said I will on the dedicated cruncher when I get it all back together after the transplant. :)
 
Sounds like the WinSMP client has got much better these days. So the batch files may no longer be required. I will add a note to the Windows page on my site saying the Windows client is much better.

Let me know how your Linux install goes when you get around to it. Any feedback on my guide would be great too :)
 
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