Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[elkein]

It sounds like you are refering to the display for the GPU client... which doesn't work quite right. Refer to the logs for progress info.
To use all of your resources you'll need three clients, an advanced console client and two newer GPU clients. One client per GPU core, one advanced CPU client can keep many x86 cores busy., I muddled through my install over a few days after work to get it optimized for my setup( also running twin cards and cpu. )

Supposedly a whole new client is in the near works, which will consolidate all cores and clients, a proper display that could toggle what you are working on would be sweet too. The bottom line is the new client will hopefully make heavy duty folding user friendly.

 

[beanoslim]

help please new to folding
gpu folding is running in at like 1140 after like 10 min
but i cant tell if the cpu (smp or something like that) isn't doing anything just says completed 0 out of 2000000 steps
i have dual gtx 480s and a Intel 980x (@4ghz) i would like to put to use... ( nothing but Intel burn test as ever pushed my CPU pasted 50%)

Get your smp client working properly and stable before running your gou's.

Follow the instructions from the Stanford pages http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Guide#ntoc5

Dual GPU setup gave me a headache, you need a monitor attached to both cards, print out the instructions and follow them to the letter making sure to remove the old work log as explained in the instructions.

The smp client will show 0 out of 2000000 to begin with until it completes a frame.

Download and install HFM.net also, this will help to monitor progress and points.

 

[beanoslim]

Well.. all seems good @4ghz and the card OC'd to 850mhz, must have been my 4.2ghz OC.

Still losing 4k ppd running them together so gonna have a little switch around.

Team points last 24hrs 615000+ WTF Team.

 

[ensignlee]

How do you change the location where files are saved for folding@home? And by files, I mean the folding files that our comps are working on.

I have a SSD and want to change the location of any files that folding@home is temporarily working on to my HDD in order to not shorten my SSD's life. I don't seem to be able to find this option in the configuration anywhere.

So, to sum up, two questions:

1) How do I change the location where files that my comp is working on are saved?
2) Am I being crazy worrying about folding@home shortening the life of my SSD this way?

 

[beanoslim]

I don't know about ssd lifespans but when installing the fah clients you can specify where the programs go.

i.e if your ssd is drive c: and your hdd is drive d: extract the files into a folder on drive d:

The work files will then be saved in the same folders and thats where you point HFM to to monitor.

If you have already installed everything onto ssd then I think you can just move it with copy and paste but you may need to re-run your smp setup from the new destination and change your gpu shortcut start folder.

 

[ensignlee]

I don't know about ssd lifespans but when installing the fah clients you can specify where the programs go.

i.e if your ssd is drive c: and your hdd is drive d: extract the files into a folder on drive d:

The work files will then be saved in the same folders and thats where you point HFM to to monitor.

If you have already installed everything onto ssd then I think you can just move it with copy and paste but you may need to re-run your smp setup from the new destination and change your gpu shortcut start folder.

Yeah, that's thought would happen, but at no point did it ask where I wanted to install the program. It just kinda did. I'm running that SMP version so that it can handle multiple cores, if that helps.

Maybe if I uninstall and then reinstall it tonight whenI get home.

 

[beanoslim]

Well you don't really install it you just extract the files to the designated folder.

 

[ensignlee]

Interesting. I didn't extract anything the first time I thought. It just brought me through some installation wizard which didn't let me choose where I wanted to install it, just told me that it went to c:/program files/...etc

 

[lilcinw]

Are you sure you d/led the smp client from the high performance clients page? It would have come as a zip file. You should have had to do a configonly run through the command prompt to get it set up properly. I looked at your stats and it shows 2 WUs submitted last night but no credit given.
I know when I d/led the ATI client it came as an installer and the basic x86 client does too. They both have a GUI setup option but I don't believe the smp client does.

 

[elkein]

Reporting in, and bowing out early, my GPU 1 card had a corrupted display when I came to use my computer for a stock trade today... Not acceptable. A ten minute downtime to cool and cold reboot seems to have straightened it out. I still executed my stock trade albeit 12 minutes later than intended. My main point is I have been doing this one month and my GPU is laying eggs, It's certainly not going to make another year. The card is a 9800GTX+. When I get a 570gtx or so later, perhaps these old cards can fold for the rest of their shortened lives. When current work units are done the gpu clients are being stopped and the SMP client will be hamstrung to maybe 50%, I that doesn't make big deadlines oka then it too will be stopped. Sorry for bowing out a a couple months early. Not planning any major platform changes this year, perhaps on the tock next January.

 

[shovenose]

I made a very easy guide to installing FOLDING@HOME:
http://psurepair.freeforums.org/easy-folding-home-installation-tutorial-w-images-t164.html

 

[warmon6]

I made a very easy guide to installing FOLDING@HOME:
http://psurepair.freeforums.org/easy-folding-home-installation-tutorial-w-images-t164.html

Very good guide for starting out F@H. Single core client is a good way to go if your wanting to understand what F@H is. [:wolfen18:9]

EDIT: Although for the check point number, most machines cant run the sinlge core client that fast so if it takes 40 mins to do 1%, i think the default of 15 mins will be just fine. 😉 just my option.


Thinking of guides...... maybe i should also make one for running smp2 on 32 Bit linux (or 64bit linux users that cant get the pesky native smp2 client running on there OS)... Hmmm...... [:grahamlv:3]


Although if i do make one, it wouldn't be till the weekend when i do it. (may add voice to see if that helps better with doing stuff. :lol

 

[shovenose]

i made that guide before i learned it will ofld faster if you checkpoint less frequentyl oh well

 

[warmon6]

i made that guide before i learned it will ofld faster if you checkpoint less frequentyl oh well

Hm.... never notice that issue before. I just know it not nessasary to do so unless you got a really really really fast cpu.

 

[shovenose]

i always assumed 3mins would be better if the pc crashes. but since i have some of mine running reliably 24/7, i guess it doesnt matter how often it checkpoints, and since it has to stop folding for a second just too offload the data to the hdd, then it will fold faster if it checkpoints less often, and also the hdd has to do less work...

howver, for most people who have unreliable/often turned off computers, 3minutes is still a better idea than 30.
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tl;dr: if you fold 24/7, put the checkpoint time to 30mins. if you dont, set it lower or all the way to 3mins...

 

[elel]

Reporting in, and bowing out early, my GPU 1 card had a corrupted display when I came to use my computer for a stock trade today... Not acceptable. A ten minute downtime to cool and cold reboot seems to have straightened it out. I still executed my stock trade albeit 12 minutes later than intended. My main point is I have been doing this one month and my GPU is laying eggs, It's certainly not going to make another year. The card is a 9800GTX+. When I get a 570gtx or so later, perhaps these old cards can fold for the rest of their shortened lives. When current work units are done the gpu clients are being stopped and the SMP client will be hamstrung to maybe 50%, I that doesn't make big deadlines oka then it too will be stopped. Sorry for bowing out a a couple months early. Not planning any major platform changes this year, perhaps on the tock next January.

Sorry to hear that 🙁

 

[AK419]

Thinking of guides...... maybe i should also make one for running smp2 on 32 Bit linux (or 64bit linux users that cant get the pesky native smp2 client running on there OS)

I think it may be the other way around. The linux client can only run SMP on the 64 bit version. The 32 bit is limited to uniprocessor.

With regard to the checkpoints, I actually run all my GPU2 client on a RAM disk. (And yes, I will lose the run if the power get cut. The UPS give me only a few minutes of run time so it is usually not enough time to save everything.) What I find is that it make very little differences to the PPD, but it does help with disk access, especially if you have two GPUs both try to write to the disk every minute.

 

[saaiello]

Whats up all. I just recently got into folding I recently started folding on two of my systems one is an older E8400 system OC@ 3.8 and the other is a Q8200 OC @ 3.1 I use SMP on both the dual and quad but I limit the dual core to 50% since it is being used as a video file server for the whole house. I also have a 9800 GT I was gonna throw in to the mix too but it gets way to hot being that its a single slot card I was thinking about getting an aftermarket cooler for it but I have been lazy.

The reason I am posting is that I was wondering if there is anything special going on this month with folding@home I saw two post ago about them bailing out early I was wondering what that was about.

 

[beanoslim]

This is a cool cooler for the 9800

 

[c911darkwolf]

I'll add my Quad core and Server comp to the list when i get home!

 

[beanoslim]

Cool, nice to have you both onboard. [:bohleyk:1]

 

[warmon6]

Welcome SAAIELLO & c911darkwolf to the team 😀

 

[warmon6]

Whats up all. I just recently got into folding I recently started folding on two of my systems one is an older E8400 system OC@ 3.8 and the other is a Q8200 OC @ 3.1 I use SMP on both the dual and quad but I limit the dual core to 50% since it is being used as a video file server for the whole house. I also have a 9800 GT I was gonna throw in to the mix too but it gets way to hot being that its a single slot card I was thinking about getting an aftermarket cooler for it but I have been lazy.

The reason I am posting is that I was wondering if there is anything special going on this month with folding@home I saw two post ago about them bailing out early I was wondering what that was about.

Im not sure what your trying to ask about 2 post ago from your post but anything special going on with F@H, Well sometime this quarter of this year, there going to be launching a new client (v7) to condense all these separate clients into one GUI client. Then there also a new core launching with this client that will allow ATI/AMD gpu to work better and get more PPD.

Now I thought it would launch last month but that didn't happen. So im hoping that it will launch this month. Although the ETA they've givein is 1Q 2011.....


Beyond that, all is quiet. too quiet...... dead quiet........ Wait, am i dead? :lol:

 

[elkein]

This is a cool cooler for the 9800
[url]http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/public/2TprI9zRMFlzXFc9hIQr7dWFMNf4O8BCQaYk2ap-8j55FkVmdDSqRWxmAvCw9TSOHPXflu0wi50tU-M7MJFQJXBPSP86KvW7MbzUC0Q2aWyaMgrKFKvRT-ohAUedz4y0PaQrzJq7HLPwBVro8eb_MG7EtlpApnY[/url]

Nice, that looks like it could be used to for lifting a hover-craft

 

[doubled]

DD, whats your hardware setup at present?

2 X E5645 Xeons, ASUS mobos and OCZ memory. One has a 260GTX and the other a 470GTX, plus one more 470GTX that gets uesd part time when people aren't on the machine.

One Xeon is at 3.4 and the other at 3.5. Have not OCd the GPUs at all.