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    Folding on vms

    i'm wondering...

    Is there any advantage of folding in VMs, so you could run a number of clients on one PC?

    So, if you ran 4 VMs on one PC, you could in theory run 5 clients at once. On a DC or QC, would that give more, the same, or less, then 5 sequencial WUs on the same base hardware.

    I might try it when I find an XP cd.

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    Re: Folding on vms

    I had an Ubuntu VM machine running on my E6850 before I managed to get 2 clients running together happily on the same install - there was a slight drop in production, but not massive.

    That said, if it works you might as well just run multiple clients.

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    Re: Folding on vms

    there'll be an overall reduction in throughput compared to running a single instance or multiple instances without using VMs

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    Re: Folding on vms

    I'm just trying it now. I wonder if the hardware virtualisation on the processors adds anything. The VM XP installation seems to have very little hit on the x64 Vista machine at the moment (which is running the GPU client). I'm using MS Virtual PC 2007 x64 incidentally.

    I had such a hard time trying to get muliple instances on vista, or even getting the SMP client to work (BSOD on my main machine) that I started considering other ways of doing this.

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    Re: Folding on vms

    fait play kungpo....

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    Re: Folding on vms

    gotta try innit

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    Re: Folding on vms

    Hehe - may I strongly recommend that you use VMWare Server rather than MS Virtual Server? The hypervisor is more efficient and as such will reduce the performance hit you'll see.

    But now you're out-producing me, so stop it.

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    Re: Folding on vms

    I'm only trying to do my best !!

    It turns out the load on the PC is too much with two VMs running anyway. But one runs just fine. But that perhaps makes it pointless.

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    Re: Folding on vms

    lol, I was kidding mate - get your folding shoes on! I'll have another couple of boxes folding soon enough...

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