VMware Linux bigadv

Biffa · 25 Apr 2011 at 08:13

No it only supports maximum 8 cores in a VM

loudbob · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:21

Forgive my ignorance, but....

What then is the best option for a single 6 core (12 thread) processor and then multi cpu setups - like your dual Xeon and Baba's monster rig?

Speed · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:33

I'd assume a dedicated Linux partition. Then add a Windows one if you plan on doing other things with the box.

Biffa · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:00

Ok so I run my i970 (12 thread) on windows but then its also running 3 GTX470's

For the dual jobbie, I run also on windows, been hexperimenting (sic) with Linux but as its dual purpose need Linux to be able to do the same things Windows is doing at the moment. (VMware Server 2.0) and when I tried with Ubuntu I just couldn't get the VM's to fire up.

I guess I am maybe 25-30K down on potential PPD for running windows rather than Linux on the SR-2, I am going to try again soon if I get a chance.

For the 970, I dunno, running wine/linux with that setup is probably just too much faff for me to bother with to get the extra (maybe) points.

If I get the opportunity that one is going multi cpu bigadv and I'm going to get rid of the gpu's but I don't know when I will get the chance to do that.

The only thing I run VMware bigadv is my 2600K which is pulling 50K on a 6901 at the moment

more than the i7 970 is pulling (but then thats also draggin three fermi clients along with it)

Hope this helps.

loudbob · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:15

It helps a great deal......

I have the Asus RE3 board - which will (eventually) be pushing four fermi cards along with an i7 6 core cpu. It's not a cost effective solution - it's a personal project (kind of thing).

loudbob · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:20

Looks like I'm gonna have to drop bigadv from my 860 rig - whilst I fine tune the voltages.

I upped the baseclock (lowered multiplyier) to give me same 4GHz overclock (mem @ 2000MHz) - but having a few stability teething problems - temps around 78/80c (on air).

Good news is my 930 rig is rock solid @ 4.2GHz and temps around 62/70c.

Biffa · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:35

loudbob said:
It helps a great deal......

I have the Asus RE3 board - which will (eventually) be pushing four fermi cards along with an i7 6 core cpu. It's not a cost effective solution - it's a personal project (kind of thing).

Yeah I've got 4 in mine, but only 3 are working, one died. Using an Asus P6T7WS

Make sure you plug every available power connector into the motherboard that there is, and don't use a board that doesn't have any extra power connector (I know the RE3 has two extras)

loudbob · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:52

Biffa said:
Yeah I've got 4 in mine, but only 3 are working, one died. Using an Asus P6T7WS

Make sure you plug every available power connector into the motherboard that there is, and don't use a board that doesn't have any extra power connector (I know the RE3 has two extras)

Yeah, I got all connectors covered - powered by the Silverstone Strider 1500w PSU (it's a beast).

Biffa · 25 Apr 2011 at 23:36

Yup thats what I have on weebeastie. Been stable as for over a year.

Scon · 19 Jun 2011 at 17:15

Quick question,

As i am a part time folder and like to turn F@H off when gaming, what is the best way to shut down the client and then reboot once i am done gaming?

Just do "shutdown -h now"

Then start it back up when needed?

Does this still save the WU every 15 mins like the windows client?

Thanks

Biffa · 20 Jun 2011 at 00:45

If you are part time then I probably wouldnt bother running bigadv but thats just me.
I would go into the web interface and shut it down there.

Scon · 20 Jun 2011 at 08:49

Biffa said:
If you are part time then I probably wouldnt bother running bigadv but thats just me.
I would go into the web interface and shut it down there.

Does shutting it down that way mean it will start back up where i left off?

Without bigadv i get about 28k ppd, with i get around 38k ppd, probably more with the new vm linux client.

This is on 4.7ghz, it can get to 4.9 with 1.38 just not sure if the volts are ok for 24/7 use.

Biffa · 22 Jun 2011 at 11:28

It all depends how long you shut it down for.

If you are calculating that PPD on last frame, last three frames, or even all frames, its not really going to match up with the actual PPD.

Sure those will let you see how fast your machine "could" pump out PPD but it won't show what you are actually going to get.

Best to use "Effective Rate" which takes into account when the WU was downloaded as well.

The danger is if you don't return the bigadv wu within the 4 days allotted you will not get what you think you are going to get

Plus they take a long time to process the WU compared to a normal SMP unit.

But if you think you can return them within 1 or 2 days then you should be fine