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Perhaps. Would be better to keep this team in view to the community instead of pages back in the cpu forum.
 


Meh. I could only wish random projects from F@H. :lol:

Scene it take 1 day and 6 hours on normal "small" SMP WU (the 481 to 484 point WUs), i cant be random on a daily basis. Only weekly. :lol:
 
I'm still folding along on a single core, even with the smp client I can't use more than 1 core. I've tried installing the MPICH on 2 different systems both running Vista Business 64bit, 1 system has a Phenom 9850 and the other an Athlon II 630. Client runs fine on either system, but only uses 25% of my processor. If anyone has any possible ways to fix this I'd like to hear them.
 


Well, the normal common mistake i've seen between setting up smp client between here and F@H forum is when the person forget to add the "-smp" flag to either:

when you're going into the client configuration
folding@home-win32-x86 -configonly -smp
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or

when you hit the "Additional client parameters []" while configuring, you need to also add
-smp
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to this. Without both of these, you're just doing single core WU's.

Which sounds like the case to me as i've also encounter this before but notice my mistake.
 


Glad to be of help. :)

Also with SMP, get a passkey if you like higher points.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-passkey

What it will do is once you reach the tenth WU every WU afterwards, you will get QRB (quick return bonus) which will increase the the amount of points you earn. The faster you return them, the higher the bonus.

Which for you should including bonus (if your folding 24/7) should earn about 4K ppd (for the athlon II x4's anyways).



Also just as a hint, if you ever want to reduce the amount of cores F@H can use, you can always limit it to 3 or 2 cores via -smp 3 or -smp 2 flag.
 
Just installed F@H SMP and am only using about 13% of my CPU. Any reason it is this low?

i7 930 MT @ 3.8ghz.

Is it better to use the 5870 GPU for this? I read that ATI isn't great for this project.

Im not looking for stats, just want to help.
 


I would have to say it sounds like the same reason as above. It's a common and easy mistake to forget to add one of the -smp flags.

As for the gpu, we just say use both! the more resources F@H has, the better.

Hope this helps and welcome to the team :hello:
 


Well in theory, my laptop thats doing smp sucks but im still folding. 😉 Although this laptop has quite a lot of time on it's hands the only reason why it's running like it is. Although cant wait to get done moving (which finally have a date of moving which is the middle of next week) and build a new computer soon after that. Hope to add a gtx 470 to the F@H fleet. 12k ppd 😱 ......



Oh btw. speaking of computer that suck for F@H, I was just experimenting with SMP2 on a 2.8GHz HT Pentium 4 last night and surprisingly if i ever was going to make it active folder (100% 24/7 folder), it could complete smp2 WU within the preferred dead line.

I was looking around if a HT p4 could make the deadlines but all i could find was that HT p4 on origainal SMP and not SMP2. SMP it couldn't (due to SMP worked differently than SMP2) from what i read so i tried see if SMP2 would and sure enough it could.

although it would take 2 1/2 days to complete a WU compared to my laptop 1 day and 6 hours with the same 6014 WU's and the PPD from it would only be about 400 to 500 (with bonus points) due to the it being slower.

Surprising results as i thought P4's didn't have enough power to run smp (but then again on most things i like trying things that are said it cant be done to see if it's true or not 😀 .....)
 
I had to reinstall windows awhile back and I've finally decided to get into folding again, but I get annoyed at installing these clients every time :pfff: .

For some reason when I install the GPU client it states that I have cudart.dll missing, just wondering how I could fix this?
For the SMP2 CPU version of it I use the -smp flag for windows, are there enough multi-core WU out there for everyone or do they only use 12% of an i7 anyway, though, it does look like multiple threads are being used by it.
 


For the GPU, i cant really say whats wrong as i do use it. (only gpu i have is geforce 6200 so you can get where this is going.) Maybe PM mousemonkey as i know he does use the gpu client and may know what's going on.

As for SMP WU's, yeah there should be enough. Certinaly if you told the client get advance WU's.

Although no smp2 WU i know of uses 12% of a cpu unless you told the client smp 1. Sounds like to me that you're running single core WUs.

Did you install the MPI?
 


Ok when you when to config. When you add

Folding@home-win32-x86 -configonly
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did you add -smp to that or when you reached

Additional client parameters []?
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You also added -smp to this?

Without both, it will only run single core clients.

Sorry if seem to im doing the oblivious but im just making sure all the normal step/mistakes are taken care of. you may also want to uninstall/delete the stuff and start off with a clean slate if it's still not working.


As for changing -smp, You need this flag to do smp WU's. only differences between the "-smp" flags are that you can set a number after it to say how many threads/cores you want F@H to use.

Like if you want 1 thread available on the core i7 for doing other stuff (which is actually recommended scene you're also running a GPU) you would type "-smp 7"

You can only set the number as high as the number of threads/cores you have to a low as 2 (well i think you can run on 1 but then whats the point running smp)

 
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