[ Folding ] We only need 13,000ppd more to start catching ABXzone

8800gt is an excelent folding card - remember to overclock the shadders - core and memory leave as stock
and there is a lot of crunching power only a few days away from swapping back to folding
 
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Know idea how effective it is but the new PS3 Slim 250Gb is now sat next to my PC.

PC - SETI
PS3 - Folding

Every little helps.

Daft question I know, but....

Can someone suggest a web page for folding stats?
(Forget that question, just visited the F@H site....d'oh)
 
As mentioned, when the Seti gauntlet is over I'll be back to around 8K PPD. Shame I can't stretch its legs, as it's good for 18K PPD :(

Edit:- Although I will have a Q9540 by next week, which should be good for 3.4/6Ghz and is more efficient clock for clock over the Q6600 and it has SSE 4.1 :D
 
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A tentative return here. Various temperature and stability problems remain, but with luck I'll have the linux smp running some of the time, and the windows gpu the rest of the time. Only at stock, but it's a start.
 
Cheers Happy, good to be back.

Going to be hit and miss for a bit, there seems to be a conflict between folding and the bios I've put on the 8800gt, and the linux smp client is using 50% of the core and won't run a second instance. Thinking about how to solve this at present.

edit: gpu is sort of behaving itself. It's running, but hitting 1400 ppd on a 353 point unit. Could have sworn is used to do better than this. No luck yet with loading the processor more, it's ticking over at 5.5k or so presently.

edit:Seems my processor isn't that up for running fah on more than four threads. Is this a known issue? It's now running two copies of the smp client without complaining, while it's not holding steady on 100% load it's doing a lot better than 50%.

edit2: gpu client much unchanged, smp one seems to have dropped to 2300 from 5500. Inclined to think virtualbox is interfering with it. Processor usage is now up to 100% from 50, ppd remain at 5.5k where they were before I set up another client in virtualbox. This makes no sense to me, since the cpu load is twice as high surely ppd should be up at least slightly?
 
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Your 8800GT is underperforming there by a lot :(. How many cores is your GPU client allowed to use? What priority is it as well running at?

For the CPU how many isnatnces are you monitoring, since your running two clients, in FAH (etc) your should have CPU1 CPU2 and GPU.
 
GPU client is running through wine, so has all the reliability associated with that. I don't think it's being starved of cpu time, since it was running at the same ppd while under 50% cpu usage as under 100%. It also has about the same ppd under windows. Strange, will think about that one.

Currently running the smp client across 8 threads, it's using about half of them. Also running the smp client across four threads in a virtual machine. The combination puts the processor at 100% load. However it's not looking very stable, the virtual machine appears to have crashed overnight, while it didn't die completely it lost track of its ethernet connection and threatened to lose the processing done. Seems to have found it again now. This is odd. I'll see how its doing in 6 hours or so.

I think I need to change the native smp to only use four threads. Something strange is happening with the graphics card. I'll open a new thread if the issues aren't easily solved. Cheers Happy

(7600ppd est, 1400 gpu / 3400 virtual / 2800 smp)
 
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Are didn't know you were using wine for the GPU.

However if your using Linx then have a read of this :D

Mattus said:
Has anyone seen this?

Basically, they're massive WUs (25,000 points each!) and there's also a bonus for completing them as quickly as possible. For example, the deadline is 6 days, and if you complete them in 3, you get a 100% bonus - so that's 50,000 points for one WU.

Downside is that they're so massive that only systems with 8 cores can complete them on time. 8 physical cores is preferred, but a fast Core i7 has proven to be enough if it's on all the time. Oh, and they're Linux/Mac only, though whether they'll run under VirtualBox remains to be seen.

So, anyone have a rig that's up to this? I know there are lots of overclocked i7s on this forum, and if we could get a dozen of them doing this, we could double our PPD.

(edit: should perhaps also mention that the memory requirements are pretty crazy. Minimum 0.5Gb per core, so 4Gb total. That's dedication.)
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That's hilarious. Thank you Happy. 6gb of ram, just about enough clearance to run one instance of that. Motivation to overclock the system, I shall give that a go :)

Going to get out of this thread I think, starting to be far offtopic. Will make one myself once I've got a bit further
 
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It's been running fine for a couple of days now. The nvidia drivers for ubuntu include cuda now, so the process is a lot easier than it used to be. I'm using version 180 from the repositories, but I 'think' 173 works too.

I'm using wine 1.1.30. Again I'm pretty certain older versions work fine, wine isn't doing anything particularly intelligent here. Based around the work here, though I've not bothered automating it, am omitting '-n 19' and '-gpu0' flags. Guide is written for ubuntu 9.04.

Limitations I ran into before are that the 8800gt cannot fold in the same machine as the 280gtx. It seems mixing cores makes it all go terribly wrong, G92 will not play nicely with G200. I think this can be evaded through virtualbox, but you'll be braver than I to give it a go. Give me a shout if it misbehaves.
 
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