The new Hexus Teams - Setting up Folding at Home

[MSIC]

Originally Posted by MSIC

however "Windows SMP 5.92 beta client" expired on the 2nd November

Originally Posted by moogle

You want the High Performance Clients, which are beta.

Despite that they have expired?

[moogle]

Originally Posted by MSIC

Despite that they have expired?

You're looking at the wrong one, press Ctrl + F on the page and search for "Windows: V6 Beta SMP/CPU clients"

There'll be 2 clients 32 and 64 bit, those are the newer ones

[tiggerai]

Originally Posted by sawyen

So is my PS3 welcomed for the aim to hit 100?

If so, I'll revert to serve Hexus tonight..

As per the rest of hexus... everyone (thing/console) welcome... the more the merrier (definitely in this case!)

[moogle]

I'm guessing by that "Thanks" you found the right client eh MSIC?
It's console and takes a bit of setting up but once you're done it's easy peasy from there onwards.

[1stRaven]

I've just signed up to the forum and get the folding clients going. Using the smp one (only seems to use a single core) and the gpu one running at the same time so will be interesting to see how quickly they both complete their work loads.

[Webby]

SMP should be using 4 cores... you should have 4 instances of the core running. Check task manager you should have fahcorea1.exe (i think thats the right name) running 4 times if it is only using 1 core then it is not working correctly.

What system are you running? Oh and the GPU client will load a CPU core as well so it may be that the SMP client is not running at all and what you are seeing is the GPU client.

If you want ot run multiple clients at the same time you will need to add a few tags to the executables -l (local will make it store its files in its own space rather than a central location) and then you will need to in the configuration options set the machine ID for the different clients to different values for example 0 and 1.

[1stRaven]

It seems I have two processes running with the smp and gpu clients running - both hitting 50% - Fahcore_11.exe and Fahcore_82.exe. 82 is from the smp client and 11 is the cpu client. Both processors seem to be working fine and are completing work. The gpu client has done 3 work units already and the smp is up to 75%.

I guess I may be starting the process incorrectly as after seaching my computer for fah.exe and not finding it, I am just running the folding@home-win32-x86 application from the extracted file (extracted from the download fah6.22beta2-win32-smp-deino).

The smp client is currently completely 1% every 8 mintues so it is getting through the work load.

System is a e8400 processor, overclocked to 3.6ghz, 4 gb of pc8500 ram, HIS ATI 4870 graphics card.

[moogle]

Raven the GPU has more processing power than the CPU that's why it powers through that WU. There's nothing wrong with your setup the CPU one is always slow

[1stRaven]

hello!

From what I have read regarding the clients (which isn't a lot), the smp client also processes a lot bigger work units rather the gpu client. I'll see soon with the points increase when the smp client completes (should be about 3 this afternoon).

Anyway, almost at 2000 points already on the 4 wu's from the graphics core.

[moogle]

Originally Posted by 1stRaven

hello!

From what I have read regarding the clients (which isn't a lot), the smp client also processes a lot bigger work units rather the gpu client. I'll see soon with the points increase when the smp client completes (should be about 3 this afternoon).

Anyway, almost at 2000 points already on the 4 wu's from the graphics core.

Hi,

Argh I might have not seen that, I can't tell when the CPU one has finished as the FAH scores take so long to update. If there's any easier way to tell how many points you have gotten for whichever WU then let me know

[0iD]

Use something like FAHmon or FAHspy to monitor both clients. Gives points info on the workunit being processed, duration, est. completion time etc.

[1stRaven]

I was planning to just look at the increase in scores from about 4pm onwards. I'm just wondering if I can get some of the 50 servers that I look after involved with this. That should get the score climbing quite freely. Might test it on one and see how it holds up.

[1stRaven]

Btw, in the single core client, does the display viewer crash for everyone? I have it running on two servers and two desktops at work and it crashes on all 4 machines.

[Splash]

Unless things have changed the SMP client doesn't really play well on dual cores (it being optimised for quad cores) so you may find better performance running 2 instances of the regular client, dedicating a seperate core to each.

[1stRaven]

Thanks for the info. I can try that tonight. It is just about to finished its first wu on the smp on my home pc so I will close it there and try two of the reg clients. At the moment, it appears the the gpu client is using one core and the smp is using another from what I can tell in task manager.

[rastamanblues]

BUMP!

Ive fired up the PS3, which will be going for a while.

I was thinking whilst my server isnt doing anything theres a dual core Xeon in there crying out to fold!

Trouble is I cant seem to find a client download for Server 2k8?