New ATI core (v1.22) released

Biffa · 22 Dec 2008 at 01:00

Looks nice and stable with around a 500ppd increase on Vista 64 here.

Bit higher CPU useage but not too bad so far.

As usual to force a download stop FAH, delete FahCore_11.exe (or rename it to FahCore_11.118) then start FAH again and it will download the new core.

Snapshot · 22 Dec 2008 at 07:08

Thanks for the update. Will see if this makes the 4670 and 3850 usable later this morning.

Paradiso · 22 Dec 2008 at 16:41

Was thinking of starting this, does it support both cores on a 4870x2 card?

Biffa · 22 Dec 2008 at 18:32

Apparently although I haven't tested it myself. Check the folding forum for more info.

Snapshot · 22 Dec 2008 at 21:58

Updated the drivers on the PC with the 3850 to 8.12, forced a download of a new core and still got core_11. :confused:

Hope to try with a 4670 tomorrow. Got caught up doing an upgrade for a friend which stole that KVM slot today.

theheyes · 23 Dec 2008 at 01:14

Has anyone noticed the project has far exceeded 4 petaflops? I hadn't checked it for a while and was surprised at the jump.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

shadowscotland · 23 Dec 2008 at 09:21

Nice link - you'll also notice that Nvidia cards have now out produced the ps3

Delboy · 23 Dec 2008 at 10:03

Snapshot said:
Updated the drivers on the PC with the 3850 to 8.12, forced a download of a new core and still got core_11.
Hope to try with a 4670 tomorrow. Got caught up doing an upgrade for a friend which stole that KVM slot today.

Same here, deleting the _11 and got another one. How can you tell if the new version has downloaded?

EDIT: Ignore, seen the version number in FAHLog

Delboy · 23 Dec 2008 at 10:07

Not impressed....

Now i'm getting this error message! Gone from 3800PPD to 0!

Code:

[10:05:39] *------------------------------*
[10:05:39] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[10:05:39] Version 1.22 (Mon Dec 8 12:57:56 PST 2008)
[10:05:39] 
[10:05:39] Compiler  : Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 80x86 
[10:05:39] Build host: amoeba
[10:05:39] Board Type: AMD
[10:05:39] Core      : 
[10:05:39] Preparing to commence simulation
[10:05:39] - Looking at optimizations...
[10:05:39] - Created dyn
[10:05:39] - Files status OK
[10:05:39] - Expanded 68533 -> 357580 (decompressed 521.7 percent)
[10:05:39] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=68533 data_size=357580, decompressed_data_size=357580 diff=0
[10:05:39] - Digital signature verified
[10:05:39] 
[10:05:39] Project: 5744 (Run 2, Clone 81, Gen 16)
[10:05:39] 
[10:05:39] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[10:05:39] Entering M.D.
[10:05:49] CoreStatus = FFFFFFF6 (-10)
[10:05:49] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0xfffffff6
[10:05:49] This is a sign of more serious problems, shutting down.

Biffa · 23 Dec 2008 at 10:08

Yap the filename is the same but the version in the log is different.

Not having a problem here. Running sweet as a nut

Snapshot · 24 Dec 2008 at 06:18

Not made any difference to the 4670 - still only giving around 1750PPD.

MGP · 26 Dec 2008 at 12:29

Nice, looks like I could be getting 750-1000ppd extra (if I run 24 hours a day) off the ATI 4870 GPU with the updated drivers, GPU folding client and core :cool: