Trying to fold on 4 cores

Substance

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Hi guys, I have been folding for custom pc for a while and didn't know there was an ocuk folding team, as I much prefer ocuk I would like to offer my services to you :)

I already have my PS3 folding away nicely and I have a single client running on my pc,

Now I tried following the guide, and I have 4 clients running in processes all with different machine IDs but I am still only using 25% of my cpu,

Any ideas where I went wrong?

Thanks
 
Welcome to OcUK :)

How many copies of [email protected] do you have running in your task manager? And how many copies of FahCore_xx.exe?

How have you set the clients up - are they running as services, or in command prompt windows?

Also, is it possible for you to monitor your PC on a day-to-day basis? If so, you might want to consider running the SMP client instead. It's a bit more work but will give you lots more points.
 
Welcome to the team! :D

You'd definitely be better off with the SMP client, but what GPU do you have on the system, if it's a decent one, you could thrash out tons of points with that as well...:eek:
 
Right, after a few hours of fiddling with virtual machines and trying to use linux I have decided to install the windows SMP client, it is now running as a service and is using 100% of my cpu :)

But I want more :p How effective would a 320mb 8800gts be at number crunching? worth it or not?
 
Cool.

So, now I have 4 cores running the SMP client 24 hours a day getting me 1800 PPD, The GPU client running 24 hours a day (except when gaming) getting me 3700 PPD and a PS3 that is running all the time I am not sleeping (the low hum annoys me)

So you should see me climbing the tables soon :)
 
I thought a Quad would get more than 1800PPD. Sometime next week, I'll also be joining team 10 with a Q6600 and a 8800GTX :)
 
The windows SMP client is very inefficient with its use of the cores. The linux client is much, much better, and with the right work unit and minimal use of a quad at 3.3 Ghz gets close to 6000ppd. You can run two windows SMP clients at the same time to net more points, although this is not recommended by stanford as their priority is to get WUs back as fast as possible.

Using linux virtual machines is the best way to maximise ppd and get around the low points on a windows box - all the benefits of lovely linux work units, a more advanced and efficient core, but of course you have to run VMs, which is a bit of a drawback.

EDIT: Where are my manners, welcome to the team Substance (and Happy of course) - you need to drag as many people from customPC with you as possible!
 
Yep - until the a2 core is released on Windows, Linux virtual machines are the way forward for PPD. Multiple WinSMPs is even more of a pain than VMs - when you close one client, the others have a fit and abort the WU!

VMs aren't so bad if your machine runs 24/7. It's when you have to turn it off that they can become a nuisance.
 
Mattus said:
VMs aren't so bad if your machine runs 24/7. It's when you have to turn it off that they can become a nuisance.
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If only there was some way to avoid the need for sleep! But your 100% right - if you dont turn the machine *** then they are great. Very stable - i have had two errors the whole time on the VMs, whereas the windows client was a little flakey (although granted this was a few months ago now).
 
I normally put my machine into sleep mode at night, but running VMs seems to conflict with sleep mode - if I sleep whilst the VMs are running, Windows won't wake up and I have to reboot. So I tend to suspend the VMs and then put the machine to sleep. Works OK as long as I remember to start the VMs up again!
 
Happy said:
I thought a Quad would get more than 1800PPD. Sometime next week, I'll also be joining team 10 with a Q6600 and a 8800GTX :)
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Using the windows SMP client on a 2.8ghz q6600 is getting me 1800PPD,

I tried using linux through a vm but I couldn't grasp it in the short amount of time I had free today, When I get a bit of time I will try and get it sorted
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
Using the windows SMP client on a 2.8ghz q6600 is getting me 1800PPD,
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That's the truly crap 2665 WU. Get a 2653 and that'll jump to over 2500. That's still way under what a Q6600 can manage (over 4500 with Linux clients) but, as others have said, the WinSMP client is lagging behind the others at the moment.
 
There are a few running projects on the GPU client right now, but only 3 point values for the different projects. Figures from an overclocked 9800GX2: 353 point WU (6099PPD), 384 (5266PPD) and 511 (3940PPD). As you can see, the higher scoring WU's almost chop the PPD output in half.
 
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