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Soz for the hijack, quick question regarding shutting down F@H, how is the best way to do this, as i dont seem to have a problem just clicking the cross in the corner of the client (using Windows SMP). Though recently when closing them and reopening the programs, it comes back with an error and so has to restart, after deleting the WU.
 
schumi84 said:
Soz for the hijack, quick question regarding shutting down F@H, how is the best way to do this, as i dont seem to have a problem just clicking the cross in the corner of the client (using Windows SMP). Though recently when closing them and reopening the programs, it comes back with an error and so has to restart, after deleting the WU.
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With the client window selected, just press Ctrl-C. That will close it properly but give it a few minutes before you shut down afterwards to close the threads and save any data.
 
I'm giving the WinSMP clients another go.

Can someone tell me what is the point of running two WinSMP clients on a quad-core when one client runs at 100% across all 4 cores :confused:
 
2 clients use 100% across the cores also - did have just one running last week and was getting about 2k ppd or so, 2 win smp's gets 3k plus dependant on various overclocks etc
 
I'll try 2 then.

Especially since one client is taking almost 9 mins to complete a frame.
 
Cob said:
I'm giving the WinSMP clients another go.

Can someone tell me what is the point of running two WinSMP clients on a quad-core when one client runs at 100% across all 4 cores :confused:
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One WinSMD client appears to use 100% but can't be really as it only gives two thirds the PPD of two clients. The CPU temps go up with two clients as well.
 
Well that didn't last long. Two hours in and was averaging ~4000ppd.


Back to the olde linuxSMP I go.
 
well I have given up on SMP clients... given that one of my Quads has been recieving 3906 and 3907 all day from the new beta client thing and is running atm at around 10481.67 PPD :)

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Pneumonic said:
well I have given up on SMP clients... given that one of my Quads has been recieving 3906 and 3907 all day from the new beta client thing and is running atm at around 10481.67 PPD :)
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I'm not convinced about this tbh.

These WUs are reported by FahMon in the benchmarks as being 50 frames but if you look at the progress, each frame is 5,000 steps of 500,000 which would mean 100 frames. That would, effectively, halve the estimated PPD FahMon gives. I've switched one of my quads over and will be keeping an eye on it.
 
I don't think Fahmon handles Double Gromacs WUs properly. It give an unrealistic ETA up to 50% completion and then gives that odd date for the second 50%. I think you need to look at the actual time taken to work out a true PPD. I'm just off to have a look at some of my borgs to see if I can get some real data.
 
As I suspected.
It's back to WinSMP for me when these current WUs are complete.

Working it out the old fashioned way, these are giving me a total PPD of about 2000, whereas two WinSMP clients gives me over 3000.
 
yup been having a look, FahMon calculates PPD on them being 50 Frame Units are infact 100 Frame Units so that 10K is infact 5K PPD which is still more than I get using 2 WIN SMP
 
Pneumonic said:
yup been having a look, FahMon calculates PPD on them being 50 Frame Units are infact 100 Frame Units so that 10K is infact 5K PPD which is still more than I get using 2 WIN SMP
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Odd that, I'm the other way round - I get more running two WinSMP clients than running 4 of these :confused:
 
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