So, you think you can fold eh?

[MaddAussie]

Rofl!

[madman045]

Im hoping to add three dual quad xeon servers to the list in the next few weeks, will the SMP client work ok with 8 cores?

[Zak33]

Im hoping to add three dual quad xeon servers to the list in the next few weeks, will the SMP client work ok with 8 cores?

yes...I know it does I once knew a man with a twin quad

[Lee H]

Is it worth pointing out that you guys have 3x more active folders?

Get back in your box you... or it's no Lan love from rasher for you at the next lannage

[olobley]

Im hoping to add three dual quad xeon servers to the list in the next few weeks, will the SMP client work ok with 8 cores?

The SMP client runs four threads, so on an 8 way box, you need to run two instances of the client to get the most out of the server.

Install the SMP client as per usual, and make sure that you've done the install bit so that it registers the SMPD.exe

With that done, make a copy of the \program files (x86)\folding at home smp client v1.01 or whatever it is
Run fah -config in the default install, and put your settings in as per usual (nb, it's worth doing the advanced settings and allowing units >5mb and scientific cores as the new Xeons seem to love them and you get points++ for completing them).
In the copy of the default install directory, run fah -config again configure away as normal, except change the last option on there (machine ID) to something other than 1 (otherwise it'll either fail, or both sets will work on the same data).
With that done, you should be able to churn through 2 WU's at the same time.

If you're doing a large deployment, I can give you a hand building a GPO/SMS package to push the client across an OU (which is how I do it )

NB, if you're stresstesting, leave desired CPU usage at 100%. If however it's a production server that does other things, leave it at 95%. I find this a good balance between maintaining server response time and maximising its folding ability.

[Platinum]

Apparently thats what it should look like

[fat jez]

Apparently thats what it should look like

Ouch, 15 minutes per frame, that's bad. I'm getting just over 8 minutes per frame, 3000 points per day on my main rig and about 800 on my laptop.

Come back when you have a real rig, Platinum.

Cheers,
Stephen

[joshwa]

Whats more worrying is the lack of anti virus software!

I get around 15 min per % on my quad core running at around 3ghz. I guess that's a 8 core 3ghz xeon server? very nice

What speed are you running at jez?

[fat jez]

What speed are you running at jez?

Q6600@3.42GHz. SMP client on Vista X64.

Cheers,
Stephen

[olobley]

Ouch, 15 minutes per frame, that's bad. I'm getting just over 8 minutes per frame, 3000 points per day on my main rig and about 800 on my laptop.

Might be 15 mins/frame, but it's doing two frames in that time...->7.5mins/frame overall

Whats more worrying is the lack of anti virus software!

I get around 15 min per % on my quad core running at around 3ghz. I guess that's a 8 core 3ghz xeon server? very nice

When it goes into production, it'll be a DB server, and I just can't afford the hit on the disk IO that that will create.
Additionally, the server is on a non-internet accessible network and the firewall/switch ACLs should prevent most viral threats if somehow an end-users machine were to get infected.

[Bobster]

Funny...
Yesterday it was saying 6.8 days till you overtake us. Now it's saying 6.9...doesn't look like you're closing to me

thats because i joined

[schmunk]

thats because i joined

No no no, that's why it now says 5.8 days and 21 places...

[Splash]

We're at 666, the number of the beast.

That's 22 below www.GameOn.co.uk at 644...


tick tock, tick tock

[TiG]

I've just kicked in 20+ cores to the Hexus attempts

TiG

[Lowe]

I've just kicked in 20+ cores to the Hexus attempts

TiG

Nice one - I might have some competition at the top now

[kungpo]

Christ we are rocking....3.9 days now.....