Some Wus' quicker than others?

[JamesM]

I'm running two clients on the system in my sig and at the moment one Wu is expected to finish in 45mins, the other in 17 hours. Is this normal? Or has my overclock broken Folding@home?

 

[shadowscotland]

Is this normal?

Yes - Generally with standard wu's the more points it's worth the longer its takes.
Their bonus points for new clients (SMP, GPU) or if WU used lots of ram.
Also some wu (ambers) like amd's more that Intels and other (DGromacs) like intel's more

What WU's are they - screenshot of Fahmon would be helpfull if the comments above didn't help

If your OC was unstable you wouldn't get anywhere near 100% completion on a wu

 

[JamesM]

Will take a screenshot of both WUs running to show you what I mean.

They did start around the same time though

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/Jam0rpics/wu_quick.gif
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/Jam0rpics/wu_slow.gif

 

[shadowscotland]

Actually 17h differance between the finish eta's two wu is totally normal.

 

[JamesM]

thats ok then

Do WUs respond better to CPU power or memory bandwidth? Just interested really

 

[shadowscotland]

speed all the way.
Some of the larger WU's (SMP stuff used upto 500mb of ram) bandwidth is also a factor.

15 points! thats on small wu but at 1minute a step it will be finnished in under 2hours

The other one is more normal at 10min's a step (it's worth 164pts btw)

For more into on wu's see the fahinfo site (very helpfull) but remenber the results are points per Ghz
so for a 3.0 oc you time by 3 to give ppd.

Linky (type number in on left had side - and then click 'show Intel details' for more data if avaliable)

68.85*3=206ppd for this wu on your allendale core

 

[JamesM]

more points for the team, every WU counts

Used to crunch for SETI but ain't done it for a while, then came across this forum a few days ago and thought i'd get back into the swing of things

Already i'm looking at Quads lol

Just finished that WU, got another 15 point one

 

[shadowscotland]

If you get the bug you might want you look at using the windows SMP client

should give upto 5x more points but need at least 2gb of ram to minimise disruption when in use.

Just let us know if your intrested and I'll find the FAQ

 

[JamesM]

I've got 2GB

If you could find the link that would be great, will have a read through

 

[shadowscotland]

page 8 of SB's guide - worth reading all of it as you be able to follow much of the threads here with that background knownlage.

Maybe even tempt you into the world of Linux if your a points junky

 

[theheyes]

15 point WUs? I've never come across anything that crunches that fast except the GPU2 WUs. Are they new or something?

Project 4416

These projects aim to study the folding free energy landscapes of RNA hairpin-loop motifs in explicit solvent via the Simulated Tempering and Serial Replica Exchange Sampling Methods. They are part of a large scale effort to understand the folding of RNA hairpin-loops with systematic sequence variations. Each RNA molecule studied contains 8 nucleotides.

 

[JamesM]

Well i've got another 2 now, had about 5 in total today

 

[Snapshot]

15 point WUs? I've never come across anything that crunches that fast except the GPU2 WUs. Are they new or something?

I moaned about them exactly two months ago. I've now crunched over 80 of the assorted 44xx series for, really, not many points....

 

[JamesM]

Right i've installed SMP but wondered if anybody had some advice.

Basically the program works and runs fine however i'm getting VERY confused with all the .bat files lol

Could someone do a very simple, this is what you need in the start.bat file and the hide.bat file

Basically I want to click the shortcut, it to load the SMP client and then to hide the window.

The location of the SMP folder is C:\Folding@home SMP\fah.exe