Hopefully you'll notice them in the team stats soon, although I'm not running 24/7 yet. Still tweaking.....
I installed and configured the SMP client this evening and it's currently running through its first data set. With all four CPU cores @ 100% utilisation the system is still perfectly usable and CPU temp has only risen 7C above idle level. I'll run the GPU client alongside it overnight and look at the logs in the morning to see how they play together... may have to back off the "CPU Usage" slightly on the SMP client to avoid throttling the GPU one.
Already thinking about resurrecting my old Athlon X2 purely as a folding rig. We might get a few weeks work out of my 8800GT GPU before it finally croaks (and I can contact BFG about a warranty replacement!)
I think the latest ATI client uses DirectCompute but that little 8800 was a cracking video transcoder using CUDA routines in MediaCoder.
It's a blast-from-the-past.... CLI config etc but a cinch to install thanks to the clear guide available on the F@H site. Be aware though that it uses "big" WUs as the default and mine is currently churning through 500k steps!
It's bogus - notice how the points didn't increase much?
Each run with the SMP client aborted with an EUE and took the core with it, which also messed up the GPU client. So I installed the uniprocessor CPU client hoping that would be more reliable. Guess what....? Every run (on a single CPU core) also threw up EUEs but some sort of data was returned each time. I think that's what has inflated the WU count.
p.s. found the ideal folding rig last night. Check this bad boy out!
Wow.... I bet that rig would put us in the top ten in no time!Ah, must be UK-specific or sommit. It's a Cray CX1-iWS with:
Windows 7 Workstation: 2.26 GHz Low Power Intel Xeon L5520 Processors
Windows HPC Server 2008 Cluster: 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon L5520 Processors
Yup, that's right.... 24 cores of Xeon goodness! Yours for only $55k!
Lol, oh man.. You're already at 400 work units?
Nope, now 1100+....
In addition to the GPU client I had three standard systray clients running overnight, two on the GROMACS core (one using >10MB work assignments and one not) and another on the ProtoMol core (using -advmethods). One of the GROMACS projects involved very unstable models and most were EUE'd within a few seconds of the simulation starting. Not very productive points-wise but hopefully will assist the boffins with their work.
Our team moved up 10 positions in the last 7 days. Let's break into the top 1,000!
The 8800GT is a no-goer I'm afraid. It isn't able to run any projects for more than a few minutes before the client shuts down with "NANs detected" errors. Furmark and OCCT's DirectX stabilty test don't show any artifacts or failures and F@H doesn't stress it anything like those two, and it's even behaving from a cold boot, which is a bit annoying as I need it to be consistently failing to RMA it. Plus it would have added another few thousand points to the team.
Nope, I think there's simply a minor problem that only becomes major when folding. Maybe failing VRAM, maybe shaders on the way out, maybe it just hates me.... I'll maybe leave it on the bench rig running Furmark overnight and see if I can kill it.
I'll maybe leave it on the bench rig running Furmark overnight and see if I can kill it.
Some bad news: the a3 core crashed ("program has stopped working" msg from Win7) just after I woke up this morning and I lost a 2500pt wu - checkpoint didn't work for some reason.
update: woohoo, I think it's finally died!
We should push hard to break into the top 1,000!
On the bright side, our team is moving up quite nicely.
Oooh, lol.
That's cool! A GTX260 would be awesome. That card is great at folding.
