Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[warmon6]

I'm done my first million points!

Gratz! [:mohsentux:9]

 

[shovenose]

I'm done my first million points!

NICE! my points: 0 vs YOUR PINTS: 1,000,000

 

[warmon6]

hey does anyone, have any info on how the gtx 460 is going to performance in pdds,

i personally went a a radically change in the card i was going to gett, was thinking 480, then go way big with 470's in sli, then boom the 460 came out, and immediately changed my mind, going to pop 2 of those in save some cash, overclock the freaking hell out of them, and get better performance then a 480

well the first hard number i've found this morning. As a bonus this person also shows temps!

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=460294&mpage=1#463391

 

[warmon6]

Second source.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=15241&p=151553&hilit=Westmoreland#p151556

Seams like the pattern is starting to show it self. Looks like around 9.5K at stock setting.

Not bad in my option. Minor overclocking would put it in the same league as gtx 465.

 

[smithereen]

... YOUR PINTS: 1,000,000

I want a million pints...

 

[warmon6]

I want a million pints...

[:fisshy:7] [:fisshy:4] :lol:

 

[jonnyboyC]

nice good to see, i've have infact run into alittle snap, apparently the model of the gtx 460 i'm getting is in high demand right now, the gtx 460 EE 1gb, so i can only get ONE right now....so i'll have to wait for the sli glory, but till an extra 10k, maybe even like 11 or 12k when overclocked is welcome....

if only everyone could have a million pints haha

 

[warmon6]

nice good to see, i've have infact run into alittle snap, apparently the model of the gtx 460 i'm getting is in high demand right now, the gtx 460 EE 1gb, so i can only get ONE right now....so i'll have to wait for the sli glory, but till an extra 10k, maybe even like 11 or 12k when overclocked is welcome....

if only everyone could have a million pints haha

Well, just something i notice is that both users are using evga sc cards. I dont know how i missed that but it does show what these cards can already do. But good to here there another card coming to the toms folding team. 😀

If only i could give a date on a new build. 🙁

 

[shovenose]

uhoh. WINDOWS VALIDATION FAILED 🙁 damn

 

[warmon6]

Some more GTX 460 numbers. this time a review from overclock3d

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/nvidia_geforce_gtx_460_768mb_gddr5_review/4

 

[jonnyboyC]

good to see would be a nice boost to ppd, but i think i'm only going to be getting one 460 for the time being and it's getting here monday, but gotta save some cash for heading back to college, but on the bright side i can move my 275 to solely dedicated folder, so i can still churn out point when i want to game

 

[warmon6]

good to see would be a nice boost to ppd, but i think i'm only going to be getting one 460 for the time being and it's getting here monday, but gotta save some cash for heading back to college, but on the bright side i can move my 275 to solely dedicated folder, so i can still churn out point when i want to game

Thats a good way to view it. Having a folding and a gaming card. Multi tasking to the max. :lol:

Thought of that a few months back but the only way i could turn out good points is running a 9500 GT "PCI" card as the only other slot i have is an AGP. Although major reason why i haven't looked into it is due to the price of the pci version compared to the PCIe version.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030348%20600007316%20600007853%20600007579&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%209500%20GT

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%2050012166%20600030348%20600007316%20600007855%20600007579&IsNodeId=1&name=Sparkle

 

[jonnyboyC]

haha wow no joke, but yeah until i can find someone to sell my card to, it's just going to chill in the case, and do some folding,

 

[warmon6]

Well looks like after this WU gets done, I'll be running single core client for a while until the humidity lowers in my area. AC having a hard time keeping things comfortable with in the house. Greezz, one thing for sure, im not in ohio anymore.

 

[saint19]

Hi warmon6.

I have a problem with the GPU V3, currently I have 4 desktop with nVidia GeForce 310 i can install the GPU client and this start normally but here are the problems:

1- When I do click in the display button, the donor name and tame don't show anything.

Name: Core is not
Team: Running Now.

2- Every time that I do click on display, the progress start again but only in the graphic display not in the task bar icon.

What could be the problems?

 

[warmon6]

Hi warmon6.

I have a problem with the GPU V3, currently I have 4 desktop with nVidia GeForce 310 i can install the GPU client and this start normally but here are the problems:

1- When I do click in the display button, the donor name and tame don't show anything.

Name: Core is not
Team: Running Now.

2- Every time that I do click on display, the progress start again but only in the graphic display not in the task bar icon.

What could be the problems?

I think there just a bug in gpu 3 thats causing that and it hasn't been solved as i see that it well. There nothing we can do about that until there an update to gpu3. 🙁

At least we can fold without problem. go to the Folding@home logs to see what the gpu has done as thats how i've checked the status of the WU.

 

[warmon6]

haha wow no joke, but yeah until i can find someone to sell my card to, it's just going to chill in the case, and do some folding,

Hey jonny, Have you got the Gtx 460 yet?

If so, can you test and see if the GPU3 display thing works with you or you get the same thing as Saint and I do.

 

[jonnyboyC]

well i wouldn't know if it works or not i didn't even know the gpu3 had the normal gui setup, i've just been using the command line version so far, i used to have it with gpu2, how exactly would i get it back? lol

 

[jonnyboyC]

talking about the gtx 460 i got it 3 days ago, quite nice it's pulling 10.5k right now, but i decided to just leave my 275 out because it take too much room up in my case

 

[saint19]

Yeah, fold without problems I checked the log and has my username and team. 😉

 

[warmon6]

talking about the gtx 460 i got it 3 days ago, quite nice it's pulling 10.5k right now, but i decided to just leave my 275 out because it take too much room up in my case

Ah i see. To bad the 275 was talking to much room. As to get the Gui gpu3, they just added it to there High performance client page so you can get it there now.

Yeah, fold without problems I checked the log and has my username and team. 😉

Good to hear. Though it was acting just the same as mine. Although i have a question for you, Can your geforce 310 run core_15 Wu's ?

My geforce 310M cant seam to run them. I can run core_11 Wu with no problems but the core_15 i get instant errors on them. Still trying to figure it out but i starting to build a hunch that the core_15 may not like having only 16 cuda cores.

 

[saint19]

Ah i see. To bad the 275 was talking to much room. As to get the Gui gpu3, they just added it to there High performance client page so you can get it there now.



Good to hear. Though it was acting just the same as mine. Although i have a question for you, Can your geforce 310 run core_15 Wu's ?

My geforce 310M cant seam to run them. I can run core_11 Wu with no problems but the core_15 i get instant errors on them. Still trying to figure it out but i starting to build a hunch that the core_15 may not like having only 16 cuda cores.

I'm not running the 310M, I have 4 desktop and not a laptop but I start to folding with this rigs today so, let me check if this can go with the core_15 for now all of them are with core_11

 

[warmon6]

Well, for all those that are interested in Folding@home SMP2 client (that can run it) but doesn't have windows account password, It seams the guy stanford made a work around of that issue.

There now a drop-in binary for windows SMP2 6.29 client on there High performance client page.

This drop-in binary has the 6.30 client which doesn't require you to install the Mpich (this is what force users to have a windows password)

How to install:

Download the Normal 6.29 and install it as what the guide says of how to install it (although i wont bother changing the name of the folding@home-win32-x86 as it can get confusing for some but dont install the Mpich!). Next download the the drop-binary.

Now what you want to do is, delete the folding@home-win32-x86 from where you installed smp2 client at.

Next find the drop-in binary that you just downloaded and copy or move the folding@home-win32-x86 from there to were you installed the smp2 client.

They may look the same but they are different. So dont confuse your self between the 2.

Now go to command prompt and type in where you installed the smp2 client at. remember to type in (without the quotations ") "CD \" before telling command prompt your smp2 client is at.

Something like this , "CD \fah"

Now just type in folding@home-win32-x86 -smp - configonly

If you did everything correctly, you should see something like this.

Just make sure it says 6.30 and not 6.29.

Now if you see and error like this mixed in with whats above,

Unable to connect to 'Greyhound:8676',
sock error: generic socket failure, error stack:
MPIDU_Sock_post_connect(1228): unable to connect to Greyhound on port 8676, exhausted all endpoints (errno -1)
MPIDU_Sock_post_connect(1275): unable to connect to Greyhound on port 8676, No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (errno 10061)

Just ignore it. It just the client doesn't like see it self without Mpich sometimes.

Just configure it as needed (including you're user name and team numbers. I would hope your going to run this for team 40051 if you're reading it 😉 )

Just be sure to say "yes" to the "change advance options" and add the -smp flag to the "additional client parameters" area. it is importain. If you dont add it, you'll just be running an unnecessary complex to setup Uni-core processor client.

after all that. Just head back to the folder that smp2 is installed and click on the folding@home-win32-x86 icon and away you fold.



Why have Mpich still?

there are some Core_a1 and (i think) Core_a2 WU's out there that do require MPICH so if you get one of those, you'll be force to delete it if you didn't install Mpich.

Although the majority of WU's are A3 so there shouldn't be to much of an issue there.

Be sure to get a passkey to get bonus points for completing the SMP2 WU's early!!!!!!!!


Hope this helps anyone looking into folding@home SMP2 client!

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Ok, anyways with that out of the way....

After a week long break for my laptop, im comming back into folding scene. 😀

 

[warmon6]

Well looks like my guide was a complete waste time. :lol:

Smp2 6.30 client is offically open with a self download of the client instead of a drop-in binary. 😀



http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinSMPGuide SMP2 6.30 client install guide


This means that Core a1 and a2 WU's are officially retired and that also means you dont need to have windows password anymore as MPICH is gone! 😀 [:mousemonkey:3] [:mousemonkey:4]


For those of you with fast dual core cpu's or above and not running SMP2 (because of the windows password), i want all of you to run (if you can) run SMP2 now. We need to start making up some ground!

 

[warmon6]

Hello? did everyone die or is my sceen broken again. [:isamuelson:8] :lol: jk