Folding on a quad core

Wilderbeast · 17 Jan 2009 at 00:27

I've just started folding@home again, and am having some speed issues. The gfx client seems to be working fine and running at a reasonable speed, but the cpu clients are taking forever to complete their first units.

I'm running 4 instances of the cpu client and locked them all to their own cpu.

They have been running for 16 hours each and still only at 37, 40, 40 and 41%

Does this sound right?

Q6600 @ 3.2 with 8gigs of ram running vista x64

Nick644622 · 17 Jan 2009 at 00:54

That is normal for an AMD but Intel are supposed to be much quicker. My AMD does 1% per 20 minutes roughly. I would expect better unless you have opted for large advanced units.

Wilderbeast · 17 Jan 2009 at 00:57

Each thread is using 120megs of ram, does that sound like large advanced units?

Nick644622 · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:15

Mine is using 8 (and I've 3Gb for it to use if it wanted it)

Wilderbeast · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:18

OK so must be large units then, just reconfigured them to use normal ones and joined the right team!

Nick644622 · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:22

You get much better points with the large units, you may be better off sticking with them. Maybe have 2 of each & see how it goes.

A.N.Other · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:27

I run 1 SMP client on my Q6600 along with the 8800GT. If you've got the gfx and 4 SMP clients, then you're just trying to do too much at once, really. Knock it down to 2 or 1 SMPs. Experiment to see what gives you the best points though.

Wilderbeast · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:36

A.N.Other said:
I run 1 SMP client on my Q6600 along with the 8800GT. If you've got the gfx and 4 SMP clients, then you're just trying to do too much at once, really. Knock it down to 2 or 1 SMPs. Experiment to see what gives you the best points though.

Wheres the smp client, the only one i found was the linux one.

A.N.Other · 17 Jan 2009 at 01:39

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

rich99million · 17 Jan 2009 at 16:07

Welcome to the team - working out what combination of clients is best for your particular situation is the hard bit, once that's done the fun starts

Wilderbeast · 18 Jan 2009 at 11:27

Looks like i got the smp version running on all 4 cores now with the gpu one as well.

Though the smp client has downloaded a monster for its first unit!

A.N.Other · 18 Jan 2009 at 11:49

Wilderbeast said:
Looks like i got the smp version running on all 4 cores now with the gpu one as well.

Though the smp client has downloaded a monster for its first unit!

They're a lot of points, but it gets through them about 100 times faster than the standard clients.

Glad you're up and running. Welcome to Team 10!

Wilderbeast · 18 Jan 2009 at 12:30

Cheers

Passed 407 Slackers in my first day and I didnt even have my stomping boots on!!