Windows SMP Beta goes Open

[rich99million]

Looks like a p26120 to me - mine finished with only 29% time before deadline instead of the ~51% most of mine get, I've switched back to the GPU + CPU clients again as any downtime or gametime on this machine would push me over the edge (nothing to do with the terrible PPD of that WU, honest )

edit: lol yep I was right (and slow) - here's what mine got me:

Project : 2610
Core : Gromacs SMP
Frames : 100
Credit : 1523


-- X2-SMP(Win32) --

Min. Time / Frame : 39mn 17s - 558.28 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 40mn 41s - 539.07 ppd

[email protected] btw - these WUs are very cache dependant apparently

 

[mikeymike]

Another anti AMD WU then?

 

[MGP]

My PC seems to love these windoze SMP WUs. According to EOC my PPD has jumped from a meagre 500 to over 1600 per day

And I'm not even pushing the clocking really E6600 at only 2.9 GHz I suppose some would call that slacking

 

[rich99million]

Another anti AMD WU then?

C2Ds seem to be suffering with them too but not as badly - we're told that the benchmark machine is a quad-core mac and it performs similarly on them as it does on other SMP WUs

 

[BillytheImpaler]

edit: lol yep I was right (and slow) - here's what mine got me:

I get much worse than that on those. On my Xeon rig I get 280 PPD with that WU!

I've been sneakernetting those WUs onto my laptop whenever I get them. The laptop manages 800ish PPD.

 

[Stelly]

Hey all

When I'm trying to upload a Wu its saying that it can't connect to server... but it downloads them fine... any ideas why??

Got status code 403 from server??

Stelly

 

[uncle_fungus]

Hey all

When I'm trying to upload a Wu its saying that it can't connect to server... but it downloads them fine... any ideas why??

Got status code 403 from server??

Stelly

403 is the forbidden status code.

What address is you client trying to connect back to, and can you open it in a web-browser?

 

[Stelly]

403 is the forbidden status code.

What address is you client trying to connect back to, and can you open it in a web-browser?

171.65.103.100:8080

I think its the port its going through even though I have told the client to run through port 80 which is open port 8080 is blocked my the firewall here... is this a bug??

Stelly

 

[Stelly]

Ok question... can I take the WU home and upload it through my client there??

Stelly

 

[dan7827]

I'm back folding again and how things have progressed....I like this client much more than the one I used last time I was folding, more points too

One question though, is there anyway to get it working where it will download the next WU? It will just stop/freeze after the unit is complete so I now start it with the -oneunit argument.

Cheers.

 

[rich99million]

Welcome back

It's normal for the client to stop for a few minutes between WUs - some people have said theirs' wait even longer though that's possibly due to the servers being overworked with so many people switching to the SMP clients.

If it's longer than about 4mins then you're probably best keeping the -oneunit flag for now, the client is still very new so these things are being worked on in priority order.

 

[dan7827]

Thanks, glad to be back!

From looking at the log it had downloaded the new WU but was displaying 'Entering M.D.' for 9hrs while I was away with no instances of the FahCore_a1.exe running. After closing and starting the client it's all good now, i'll have to watch out for when the next one ends

 

[VeNT]

Thanks, glad to be back!

From looking at the log it had downloaded the new WU but was displaying 'Entering M.D.' for 9hrs while I was away with no instances of the FahCore_a1.exe running. After closing and starting the client it's all good now, i'll have to watch out for when the next one ends

its a beta, I'd love to have it installed on all my clients dual core systems but tbh its not stable enough
I have to reboot my PCs more often to get these SMP clients running properly after downloading a WU than ever before!

 

[joeyjojo]

Rubbish wus Gone from 2000 to 1400 ppd running a p3025 and p2610.

 

[2bullish]

its a beta, I'd love to have it installed on all my clients dual core systems but tbh its not stable enough
I have to reboot my PCs more often to get these SMP clients running properly after downloading a WU than ever before!

Agreed, I only have it running on 2 machines and ones a laptop, both had errors over the last couple of days so lost production as I wasnt around. The only way to get them back was to reboot and reinstall. I relise its beta thats why its only on these 2 machines but still its a pain.

 

[shadowscotland]

Project 2610: 1523 points, deadline 4 days - 37min a step - 2.5days
Project 2651: 1760 points, deadline 4 days - 22min a step - 1.5days

Got my first one of these - More points less time \0/

 

[Mattus]

One question though, is there anyway to get it working where it will download the next WU? It will just stop/freeze after the unit is complete so I now start it with the -oneunit argument.

Mine does it as well. Only way I've found besides restarting the client is to kill mpiexec.exe. (NB: don't try this before a WU has been sent!)

 

[xgeek]

Been running the SMP client all week and it's done 7 x p2610s without issue.

I started it with this batch file I found posted in another thread on here (Can't remember who posted it but a big thanks to them)

@echo off
echo Starting FAH for the first time
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
:restart
echo.
echo Restarting FAH
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home Windows SMP Client V1.01\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
goto restart

 

[lay-z-boy]

The client on my main rig froze.....

Its been running for about 20 hours like this, what a waste......

 

[shadowscotland]

Been running the SMP client all week and it's done 7 x p2610s without issue.

I started it with this batch file I found posted in another thread on here (Can't remember who posted it but a big thanks to them)

It was uncle F - and I've just started using this too - I get checkpoints now never did before, thought it was disabled?