GPU Folding ? Help !!!

Moonpie2 · 4 Sep 2007 at 09:37

Hi Dudes.

After only just realising that I have an ATI gfx card I was wondering if I can be folding on both my CPU cores and the GFX card at the same time ?

And is there any detailed help to enable me to do this ?
I had a look on Stanford's page and it seems to be a little out of date !!

Any help would be great for the greater glory of Team 10

Cheers

Moonpie2 · 4 Sep 2007 at 10:21

Ohh right.
Probably not worth it then.
I just got an x1650 and thought it might be nice to have it chugging away in the background

Although... would it be worth it ??
One of my cores can do a WU in about 26 hours.

Moonpie2 · 4 Sep 2007 at 10:44

I got an E2140 @ 3.ghz

Probably best to throw the GPU idea out of the window then

Moonpie2 · 4 Sep 2007 at 11:19

Just using text console.

Moonpie2 · 5 Sep 2007 at 17:14

I hear people around these parts having touble running an SMP client on Vista though

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 09:17

Anywhere I can look into this WinSMP thing then as there's not too much about it on the sticky

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 16:54

Fank you !!!
I'll check it out.

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 17:23

Hmmm....
Problems ??

When I run the install.bat
I get this...

And I didn't get the...
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
..at the end.

I went through with the setup anyway and it SAID it was running but my cores showed no activity and FAHMON couldn't see anything when I pointed it at the right directory

Help !!!

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 18:18

HAHAHA !!!
Sorted !!

It seems right clicking and "Running as administrator" doesn't always have the same effect as turning UAC off. Something to remember there.

Right, now what should I do with other folding ?
Let both cores finish doing what they're doing and then delete them both or should I keep one core and run WinSMP on the other ?

BTW is WinSMP compatible with Fahmon ?
It doesn't seem to be detecting the WUs yet !?!?

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 18:53

Yeah I got Fahmon to detect it

Well I stopped my 2 normal folding cores and just started WinSMP and both cores are running at 50% now.

Seems I may be able to keep one of them running in addition to WinSMP !!

Moonpie2 · 6 Sep 2007 at 19:39

Something's not right....

My cores have both been chuntering away on 50% each for just over 2 hours and...

Launch directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01
Service: C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\fah.exe
Arguments: -svcstart

Launched as a service.
Entered C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01 to do work.

[17:23:52] - Ask before connecting: No
[17:23:52] - User name: Moonpie2 (Team 10)
[17:23:52] - User ID: EDD40AB69A211A1
[17:23:52] - Machine ID: 4
[17:23:52]
[17:23:53] Loaded queue successfully.
[17:23:53]
[17:23:53] + Processing work unit
[17:23:53] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[17:23:53] Core found.
[17:23:53] Working on Unit 01 [September 6 17:23:53]
[17:23:53] + Working ...

Fahmon still says 0%.

Surely not right ?

Moonpie2 · 7 Sep 2007 at 08:16

I think I know what's up.
In the folder there is fah.exe and something like fah_coreA1.exe

I need to right click the latter (as I've already done the former) and make sure it always runs with admin privilages.

But I'm at work now so I can't