Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[saint19]

Moon to the Heart, Moon to the Heart....

We are here man...sorry a bad joke ....I need 1st buy a Fermi GPU.

 

[bholland2]

GPU 3 client is now in open beta!

http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news-0-232+gpu3-in-open-beta-geforce-gtx-4xx-finally-supported.php


If you got a GTX 470 or 480, You can use them for F@H now! 😀

Yah, were here.

I tried the GPU3 on my 8800 GTX and it didn't work. 🙁
Maybe the next version.

I'll start saving my pennies now for a 480.

 

[warmon6]

Yah, were here.

I tried the GPU3 on my 8800 GTX and it didn't work. 🙁
Maybe the next version.

I'll start saving my pennies now for a 480.

Well, Thats strange. It should work on the 8800 GTX.

Have you put the latest drivers on the gpu? I know a while back F@H mention to anyone with an Nvidia gpu to update there cuda to 2.2 or later to prep for the GPU3 client.

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/04/prepping-for-the-gpu3-rolling-new-client-and-nvidia-fah-gpu-clients-will-need-cuda-22-or-later.html

If the problem still persist then it maybe best to stay with GPU2 for now until it's WU's are more developed.

 

[saint19]

^+1 Usually whit the GPU3 u also need update the CUDA driver.

 

[bholland2]

Well, Thats strange. It should work on the 8800 GTX.

Have you put the latest drivers on the gpu? I know a while back F@H mention to anyone with an Nvidia gpu to update there cuda to 2.2 or later to prep for the GPU3 client.

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/04/prepping-for-the-gpu3-rolling-new-client-and-nvidia-fah-gpu-clients-will-need-cuda-22-or-later.html

If the problem still persist then it maybe best to stay with GPU2 for now.

Yah, drivers are 197.45. Nice little performance boost in Call of Duty: MW2.

Spent about 4 hours trying to get it to work after upgrading the drivers. Had the problem finding the cudart.dll file, finally got that fixed. The joys of beta installs.

I ended up with the error 63 problem. The folding forums said that it sometimes happened and they didn't know why. I should just go back to the GPU2 for now.

Looks like there isn't much, if any, points improvement with GPU3 on the 8800GTX though the science is improved. If it doesn't work then the science isn't better either...

Guess I'll be sticking with GPU2 till the next version.

 

[saint19]

Sorry, he post the same message in many threads. Thread deleted.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, he post the same message in many threads. Thread deleted.

Must be an auto type bot....

You would think toms would have security measures (like captcha) that prevent auto bots coming in so easly to the forums. Although, the dont have them.

 

[warmon6]

Must be an auto type bot....

You would think toms would have security measures (like captcha) that prevent auto bots coming in so easly to the forums. Although, the dont have them.

oops. dumb dumb me. forgot to switch back to this account after relooking the process of making an account on here. :lol:

 

[shovenose]

i reported it but it said someone else already did

 

[randomizer]

Must be an auto type bot....

You would think toms would have security measures (like captcha) that prevent auto bots coming in so easly to the forums. Although, the dont have them.

They aren't auto bots. They're mostly real people so I've been told.

Also, please don't quote them, it makes it harder to get rid of their crap.

 

[saint19]

^What do u think randomizer? I sent to him a PM about that SPAM messages but like I see he don't take care. Banned in the next spam message?

 

[randomizer]

After 79 posts of the same thing in one day? I got rid of him and all his messages straight away. Spammers receive no mercy, nor do they deserve it in the slightest.

 

[saint19]

OMG 79?, i only saw 30 in the report page.

 

[shovenose]

lol

 

[warmon6]

Also, please don't quote them, it makes it harder to get rid of their crap.

Sorry about that. Wont happen again.

 

[jonnyboyC]

hey talking about the gpu3 client, does anyone know if it would work with the new 257.xx beta drivers??

 

[jonnyboyC]

ohh another question, i was under the impress that cuda was updated when you upadated your video drivers, is there a separate, driver i need to install?

 

[Mousemonkey]

hey talking about the gpu3 client, does anyone know if it would work with the new 257.xx beta drivers??

I'm running the 257.15 drivers and GPU3 client on a 9500GT so I'd say yes, and it works better with the tuner card as now I can now watch telly and fold at the same time whereas with the older drivers and client the telly got choppy at times.

 

[jonnyboyC]

i just feel like l'm full of question over here in the folding at home thread lol

but another question, is there a program to possible the ppd generated by the gpu or gpu client

 

[bholland2]

i just feel like l'm full of question over here in the folding at home thread lol

but another question, is there a program to possible the ppd generated by the gpu or gpu client

Yah, there are several.
You can get slightly differing opinions about which is the best.

For just GPU2 monitoring I suggest FAHMon.
It accurately monitors regular cores and most SMP cores too.
It has trouble with the SMP2 A3 cores.

To include the SMP2 A3 cores I suggest HFM.NET.
Works and looks a lot like fahmon.

You can google for "Folding@home monitor" for others.
Something else might suite your needs better.

Let us know what you use and how it turns out.

 

[jonnyboyC]

Yah, there are several.
You can get slightly differing opinions about which is the best.

For just GPU2 monitoring I suggest FAHMon.
It accurately monitors regular cores and most SMP cores too.
It has trouble with the SMP2 A3 cores.

To include the SMP2 A3 cores I suggest HFM.NET.
Works and looks a lot like fahmon.

You can google for "Folding@home monitor" for others.
Something else might suite your needs better.

Let us know what you use and how it turns out.

I'm having a bit of trouble with both of them i can get my smp2 a3 client to appear on both of them, but they give me wildly different ppd values, one is 2000 and the other is 10000

as for the gpu client i can't get it to work on either that could be because i'm trying to the the gpu3 client to work,

 

[bholland2]

I'm having a bit of trouble with both of them i can get my smp2 a3 client to appear on both of them, but they give me wildly different ppd values, one is 2000 and the other is 10000

as for the gpu client i can't get it to work on either that could be because i'm trying to the the gpu3 client to work,

OK, sorry to hear you are having problems. Lets see what we can do to get things straightened out.

First of all, once you get a monitor installed it will have to run a few hours before it can predict the PPD that you will be getting with any project. Every time you download a new project it can't predict it till it runs for a while. It has to watch each project for a while before it can predict how long it takes to complete it. There is no "fixed" PPD value, each computer is different so the monitor has to "learn" your system. It only has to do this once for each different project, it then remembers. This works fine as long as your computer folds all the time. if you fold a while, then do other stuff the predicted PPD will be wrong no matter what monitor you use.

Fahmon will NOT give correct values for the SMP2 A3 client because its total value varies depending on how long it takes you to complete it and fahmon can't deal with that.

HFM.NET CAN predict the point value for SMP2 A3 projects. It is the only monitor I know of that can do this, though it is possible there are more since I last googled for one.

If you have SMP2 A3 clients then don't bother with fahmon, just use HFM.NET.

Are you sure you have found the working directory for your GPU3 client? Have you configured the monitor for the correct directory? I had some trouble with that the first time I set up a monitor.

 

[jonnyboyC]

Ok cool, actually i set it again for the directory, i thought it was and it's working now, and looks to be accurate i think, it's giving my gtx 275 like 6800ppd, which i think is believable, and the ppd adjusts slightly with changes in core clock, so i think that's settled out,

and it's got the cpu working still really high at 12000ppd i think, but i'll just leave it be and see what happens

but hey thanks again

 

[bholland2]

Ok cool, actually i set it again for the directory, i thought it was and it's working now, and looks to be accurate i think, it's giving my gtx 275 like 6800ppd, which i think is believable, and the ppd adjusts slightly with changes in core clock, so i think that's settled out,

and it's got the cpu working still really high at 12000ppd i think, but i'll just leave it be and see what happens

but hey thanks again

Sounds like you got it under control now.

Different projects will produce different PPD so your total will vary some.

Give it a couple of days to collect all the data it needs to do accurate predictions for all the projects you get. 😉

There are new projects introduced from time to time. A new one will kinda mess up your PPD prediction till it has run for a while.

It's really neat watching the updates and seeing how you are doing. I have mine set to update every 5 minutes.

 

[Computerrock1]

I just jumped in, running it on my main computer and will be setting it up to run 24/7 on my old Duron server within the next day or so, just need to set it up again.