Running winSMP? Lookee here ...

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In the thread on expected ppd for a Q6600, gurusan posted a link ...

http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.php?showtopic=1149

... to a small app that increases the efficiency of winSMP crunching. This automatically manages the clients (runs as a service) and swaps their processing between cores to maximise ppd. There's a bit more about it (in slightly stilted English) on the site.

Anyway, having installed this, according to FahMon, I've gained about an extra 500-600 ppd with 2 x winSMP clients running on my stock Q6600 (~2600 to ~3150). For the glory of Team 10, I just thought I'd post this to get everyone crunching to their maximum potential. It might be a useful addition to the SMP install guide too.

As you were!
 
Thats a vast improvement - 20%!? Does this bring it up to Linux efficiency?

Hopefully they can collaborate with Stanford and get this in a client update.
 
Had this running for a few days now. I think it's made my Win SMP folding client unstable.

I've had a couple of complete lock ups of the folding client until I spotted it and restarted it a few hours later. Alternatively the PC has crashed and restarted (OK the computer did always do that from time to time, but it's more frequent now). The newest fault: the WU appeared to hang for three hours and had a wonderful message that folding would treat it as an Early Unit End (so it downloaded the same WU again).

I'm on a WIn XP, E6600 @ 3Ghz, which is only 37 deg C, so nothing there that suggests something is pushed to a silly limit.
 
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Ive started running this also. The first time I installed the program, it didn't want to start after a reboot, so this caused me big problems trying to start it manually, trying to uninstall it and then reinstalling the program. I think i even had to do a regedit to remove it.

But I now have it running and giving me an extra 1500ppd. I was surprised to see that I would gain so many more points by running an extra client with this program.

I prefer running 2 winsmp clients as the computer is more responsive compared to a sluggish system running Linux in Vmware.

Hopefully as theheyes said, they can combine this program with future releases of the clients.
 
not had a problem with this at work - but still can't run the WinSMP at home so VMware is my only option (lag's and all)

Edit: we really need to re-evaluate the best clients on duel and quad cores as with the current batch of good standard WU and the FAH SMP Affinity Changer they are all getting much closer.

Happy to run my e6600 at stock/3.0/3.2 with standard and VMware/Ubuntu server
I'll even add a fan and get 3.4 & 3.6 values if i must ;)
 
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rincinDub said:
But I now have it running and giving me an extra 1500ppd. I was surprised to see that I would gain so many more points by running an extra client with this program.

I prefer running 2 winsmp clients as the computer is more responsive compared to a sluggish system running Linux in Vmware.
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I agree with both those statements. I'm much happier keeping VMWare for the emulations I have to do rather than have it clogging the PC with Ubuntu. Two WinSMP clients and the affinity changer may not drag every last PPD out of my PC but it's close enough.
 
Yep. I'm more than happy with running my 2 x winSMPs in comparison with having to play with Linux vmware clients. As it is, photoshop can take a massive amount of my RAM as it is, so I don't really want to be assigning it to vmware.
 
A.N.Other said:
Yep. I'm more than happy with running my 2 x winSMPs in comparison with having to play with Linux vmware clients. As it is, photoshop can take a massive amount of my RAM as it is, so I don't really want to be assigning it to vmware.
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same here - i know ZERO about linux/vmware etc so not going to change from 2 x win smp for potentially another 200 ppd or so.
 
shadowscotland said:
not had a problem with this at work - but still can't run the WinSMP at home so VMware is my only option (lag's and all)

Edit: we really need to re-evaluate the best clients on duel and quad cores as with the current batch of good standard WU and the FAH SMP Affinity Changer they are all getting much closer.

Happy to run my e6600 at stock/3.0/3.2 with standard and VMware/Ubuntu server
I'll even add a fan and get 3.4 & 3.6 values if i must ;)
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Cob already posted his findings for 2xWinSMP versus 2x2xLinuxSMP under VMWare - think it was in a news thread



/me goes to looky see

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Ok different thread but I found it :p

Cob said:
Yip. Four linuxSMP clients get about 25% more ppd.

I was getting ~5000ppd with the 4 linuxSMP clients, and ~4100ppd with a pair of winSMP clients and the the affinity changer.
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I can post some WinSMP/Standard Client data for my [email protected] since that's dedicated at the moment so should give un-skewed results:

Project : 2653
Core : SMP Gromacs
-- X2-3800 WinSMP --
Avg. Time / Frame : 26mn 55s - 941.57 ppd

Project : 2418
Core : Gromacs
-- X2-3800 StdCli-1 --
Avg. Time / Frame : 31mn 27s - 228.93 ppd (x2 = 457.86 ppd)


Hopefully I'll have some nice DGromacs to add tomorrow :)
 
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Finally pulled my finger out and setup my Quad properly: added a second WinSMP client and added the Affinity Changer. The Quad PPD has gone from 3.1K to 4.5K. :)

ms9cw
 
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