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

I shall join the folding team later this evening on my i7 :) pc is on 24/7 anyway, and 14 of those hours sitting idle.
 
Right how do I set this up properly, followed the guide and have 2 consoles running but they dont seem to be doing anything. Installed FAHMon and I've downloaded 2 work units worth 905 points each.

Do I have 4 consoles running to utilise the i7?

I am running a i7 920 running at 3.3ghz. 6ghz of 2000mhz ddr3 ram, GTX 275.

The guide I followed was in the stickies.
 
I'll let JonJ explain the 50K Linux CPU folding :)

But the GTX 275 will churn out a few few points in itself! If you're going to be running Linux a VM on windows then:-

1)Download the appropriate 186.18 driver from Nvidia, as this release seems the most stable in regards to fluctuating clocks speeds.

2)Install a GPU client from Stanford. I prefer the 'tray' client as it has a pause option for GPU folding which is quite useful for me anyway.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/[email protected]

3)When installing just put in a top level directory, such as C:/FAH. Then when running it for the first time just fill in the details:-

Username:- shaz'
Team:- 10
big units
etc etc

4)Download FAHMon

http://fahmon.net/

Then Download current project on the first run, and then create a client, just point it at the directory you installed it to. (it may appear:- (Vista) To point it to the GPU folder, SEARCH for APPDATA. In AppData locate the folder that says ROAMING. In Roaming find Folding@home-gpu folder. Right click on folder and copy location into the Fahmon.)
 
Hey shaz. What operating system is the machine running? if its windows, gpu (graphics card) folding will be easy and cpu hard. If its linux, cpu folding will be easy and gpu hard.

If it's windows, then you can either run the windows smp client, set up much the same way as the graphics cards. Or for superior points you can run a system in a couplde of virtual machines, one 4 thread smp per machine. Happy is the guy to ask about that though, I've not tried it for a while now. There seems to be some stability issues involved with virtual box and windows which means the i7-only units are pretty much out of reach if using windows, as it sucks to have it crash and lose 3 days worth of folding.

If running linux then cpu folding is very straightforward, the big units approach is covered on the last page. It amounts to running ./fah6 -smp 8 for a couple of days, then running ./fah6 -smp 8 -bigadv from that point onwards. Graphics card folding on linux is quite involved, I'll leave that one until I know which OS you're working with.

I'll watch for a reply, not everyone is awake at this time.
Welcome to team 10 :)
 
Right i have ubuntu running in virtualbox and now to wait for it to start doing its thing takes a while but i hasn't crashed but i need more ram :o only got 3 gig still waiting for the Dominator GT's to be available but I'll just see how it goes today. Linux seems to have gotten easier or i have learnt a bit since i last used it :)

Edit: I definitely need some more ram :( but i know i can run it when i do :)
 
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VMPlayer Supports 4 cores

Normally when we use VMware, we end up running two instances if we have a quad or upto four instances with an i7. With VMware player 3.0 beta, you can utilize upto 4 cores in one virtual machine. It makes it easier than having to run two VM's, less memory utilization and if I want, you can fold on 3 cores leaving one open for a gpu.

Here is the link to VMware player.

Some things that you need to do. I use bal3wolfs VM + ubuntu guide. But it should be the same for any.

After installing the new vm player just make one change and it's ready to go. I assume that you already know how to use VMware.

First locate the virtual machine and edit it with notepad.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i296/mikecdm/step1.jpg

Then change the cpu to 4.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i296/mikecdm/Step2.jpg

Now fire up VMware player and see all the points.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i296/mikecdm/results.jpg

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I guess my single rig is a useful addition to the efforts of OcUK in f@h.

Looks like I have jumped right into second place on PPD.

:D
 
Thank You.

I'm onlly running 3 CPU clients & 3 GPU clients (via win7) but FahMon is estimating a 28.9k PPD average. Plus about 1k PPD from the PS3.

I'm not too serious about running this project for any great deal of time (sorry) so I won't install any optimised stuff i.e. Linux etc

But I shall run the clients until I get in the top 50 - 100 in our team (then I'm afraid it's back to seti).

Every little helps.
 
Any CPU/GPU time is always appreciated, hopefully you will catch the folding bug in the mean time :D
 
Bob, what CPU clients are you running as you only need to run one windows SMP client as it'll use all four cores.
 
Currently running three SMP clients (was 4).

Running just one didn't max out the cpu, so I upped it to 4.

However, as each one finishes I am disabling them........to get it down to 2.

But the cpu isn't really adding that much. Max I can get is about 1.8k ppd.

I am happy with what I am getting now and it has taken very little time and effort setting up.

As I know I won't be sticking with it I don't want to waste time setting up anything to fancy.
 
Are you running them in -SMP mode? as it should max out the CPU. What are the processes coming up to task manager to called?

Edit:- Just read the bottom half of your post :)
 
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And mine is purely CPU driven as well!

In the not too distant future, I should be able to get these doing the large WUs, which should help the team's ppd somewhat =D
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.walls if you don't mind me asking, how many CPUs have you got running?
 
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