A little help with the SMP client.

[Powderhound]

As you can see from my sig, I've recently got back into folding, currently by running the GPU client on my 4850 under Windows. I'm now trying to get the SMP client running on Ubuntu 64 bit, and am running into problems. I'm following this guide, but when I run the client, it gets as far as:

[17:52:02] *------------------------------*
[17:52:02] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[17:52:02] Version 1.74 (November 27, 2006)
[17:52:02]
[17:52:02] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:52:02] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[17:52:02] Created dyn
[17:52:02] - Files status OK
[17:52:03] - Expanded 4795482 -> 24810145 (decompressed 517.3 percent)
[17:52:03] - Starting from initial work packet
[17:52:03]
[17:52:03] Project: 2665 (Run 2, Clone 94, Gen 165)
[17:52:03]
[17:52:03] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:52:03] Entering M.D.
[17:52:20] percent)
[17:52:20] cket
[17:52:20]
[17:52:20] Project: 2665 (Run 2, Clone 94, Gen 165)
[17:52:20]
[17:52:20] Entering M.D.
[17:52:20] ne 94, Gen 165)
[17:52:20]
[17:52:20] Entering M.D.
NNODES=4, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=performance-desktop
NNODES=4, MYRANK=0, HOSTNAME=performance-desktop
NNODES=4, MYRANK=1, HOSTNAME=performance-desktop
NNODES=4, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=performance-desktop
NODEID=2 argc=15
NODEID=1 argc=15
NODEID=0 argc=15
NODEID=3 argc=15
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[17:52:27] Protein: HGG with glycosylations
[17:52:27] Writing local files
starting mdrun 'HGG with glycosylations'
250000 steps, 500.0 ps.

[17:52:27] Extra SSE boost OK.

Then nothing else happens. Does this mean it's running? I was expecting some sort of real time status indicator. Also, is there any way I can configure it to run in the background without having a terminal open permanently?

[Golden Dragoon]

Are you trying to run it in a VM under windows? if so can I suggest running the new windows SMP2 (6.29) client, it is much faster than before, and is basicly on par with linux on 2 of the 3 cores and just a little slower than the other core according to reports, but the linux advantage is lost with the overheads of running a VM.
I would have expected it to come up with something like this at the end of that log:

[13:23:12] *------------------------------*
[13:23:12] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[13:23:12] Version 1.74 (March 10, 2007)
[13:23:12]
[13:23:12] Preparing to commence simulation
[13:23:12] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[13:23:14] - Starting from initial work packet
[13:23:14]
[13:23:14] Project: 2653 (Run 30, Clone 68, Gen 144)
[13:23:14]
[13:23:14] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[13:23:14] Entering M.D.
[13:23:32] on if available.
[13:23:32] Entering M.D.
[13:23:39] Rejecting checkpoint
[13:23:40] Protein: Protein in POPC
[13:23:40] xtra SSE boost OK.
[13:23:40]
[13:23:41] Extra SSE boost OK.
[13:23:41] Writing local files
[13:23:41] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0 percent)

How long have you left it to see if it progresses further, and what is your cpu utilization?

[Powderhound]

I've got a dual boot and was setting it up in Ubuntu

I've also set it up in Vista, but for some reason only one instance of the foure FAH_core82.exe's is actually utilising the CPU; the other three stay stuck on 0% utilisation, even when I try setting their affinities to different cores. Any idea what's causing this?

EDIT: Ignore me. I'd forgotten to append -smp to the shortcut.

[Golden Dragoon]

That is easy done mate, I ran it for about a week like that before realizing, that and I was using a program that came with my mobo (I think) to display utilization, which only showed core 0 else I might have noticed sooner.