F@H client end

[TAKTAK]

Are there any decent SMP clients at the mo?

I wanna get the 100% out of my cores...

you can still use the 5.92 client (need to redownload it)

but i'm having no problems with the MPICH client, although it must be taking longer to do anything as my 24hour avg has dropped significantly... either that or they've re-jigged the scoring...

[TAKTAK]

the mpich smp client kept failing for me, so I'm now using the deino smp client and it's running fine!

the MPICH client has started giving errors all the time now , so i'm stuck on GPU folding while i get it sorted...

[directhex]

MPICH is the de-facto implementation of MPI, Message Passing Interface, a method for writing parallel programs by having multiple independent processes passing small pieces of data to each other over some kind of message bus (usually a high-performance network). MS-MPI is microsoft's slow MPI stack (which was the cause of the 'if you see this twice' stuff in old betas), and DeINO is a better optimized byt still pretty experimental MPI for Windows

The problem with MPI apps is that if they're extremely parallel (i.e. if lots of messages are passed around and required for parallel operation), then if one process takes a long time for any reason, then the other processes can be sat there waiting for a required message. Unfortunately, paralle computation is pretty hard to predict, so sometimes these lobsided computations are inevitable

[TAKTAK]

hmm, just done a complete re-install, and it seems to be chugging along nicely again (even if i did have to type in the passkey 5 times *stupid up arrow*)

it seems to have been a bad WU.. but just deleting the work and core didn't sort it so...

edit: mebbe not... i'm just getting client died again now

edit: it's working again now that it's taken a different WU

[joshwa]

Fresh install of Windows, fresh install of f@h smp, crashed

"Folding@Home has run into a serious error running the core. and will shutdown."

[TAKTAK]

Fresh install of Windows, fresh install of f@h smp, crashed

"Folding@Home has run into a serious error running the core. and will shutdown."

yeah mine kept doing that, i keep a fresh install in a separate folder to just drop everything in when it goes wrong... cos it's been going wrong quite a lot...

[joshwa]

Fresh install of Windows, fresh install of f@h smp, crashed

"Folding@Home has run into a serious error running the core. and will shutdown."

I've installed the Deino client on this machine, and it's running to completion now but only using 80% of cpu (core2duo running deino smp).

I wish they would release some proper working SMP clients!! if bionc can do it then why can't folding@home?

[TAKTAK]

i tried fiddling for ages with the denio one to get it to use 100% and it just wouldn't take it

keep playing with the MPICH one... and keep an exact clean copy backed up so you can just drop it into the folder if it b0rks (thats what i do anyway... every time i hit client died or whatever errors.. i just drop it in and voila i'm off again)