im getting ~2150 PPD on the Q6600 so far, does that mesh with what you guys have heard/seen?

prospero, how much more do you think i'd get running a linux vm?




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1/23/2008 10:21:28 AM

My new experiments in gorilla folding are currently underway.

Does anyone know how many ppd a E6600 will generate?

1/23/2008 10:54:43 AM

bout 1600 iirc

1/23/2008 10:56:52 AM

^you are correct sir

synapse, what stepping is your Q6600?


[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 11:37:17 AM

Quote :

"im getting ~2150 PPD on the Q6600 so far, does that mesh with what you guys have heard/seen? prospero, how much more do you think i'd get running a linux vm?"

currently running on vista, with DDR2-667 RAM if that makes much of a difference (will be DDR-800 soon)

1/23/2008 11:38:58 AM

yea, n/m

read this for the Q6600 results on VM
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=ca3ca4c3b965073b0b83d5982555e097&t=539281

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 11:43 AM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 11:41:56 AM

i think he has a $1000 $1200 processor though, one of the 45nm ones or something

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115034

1/23/2008 11:42:55 AM

try runninng TWO vmware's of 64-bit linux using the smp

Quote :

"For quad users, running two Linux VMs with each running its own instance of the SMP client can result in higher PPD then running a single SMP client on a quad system in your native OS. Also, folding in Linux (even in a VM) can result in higher PPD then folding in native Windows due to the nature of the OSes."

should be able to hit 4,000 PPD stock, near 5,000 PPD OC'd

i'm going to add a AMD X2 4000+ tonight, and try to add a E8400 (within the week)

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 11:45:22 AM

nice, we need it. have u looked at the conquest/threat list lately? its starting to swing towards us going down in rankings...

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

thx for the info on the linux smp setup, i actually already have vmware server installed on the machine so i just need to setup some vms

1/23/2008 12:42:42 PM

read this page:
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/cd.html

Quote :

"You can also run the Folding CD in a VMware Server virtual machine. Just put fold64.vmx(64bit) or fold.vmx(32bit) in the Virtual Machines directory with the downloaded fold.iso and run that with VMware Server."

generate the .iso (11MB), download the .vmx, and start the VM

it's so freaking sweet, then to check the status, in Vista you can just point your browser to http://192.168.1xx.xxx whatever the IP it says during startup

the remote admin web page allows you to view the unit info, the FAHlog, and allow you to restart the client remotely

Quote :

"its starting to swing towards us going down in rankings"

this is not always a sign we aren't doing well ourselves, it just indicates that others are stepping it up faster than we are

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 1:36:55 PM

That folding CD seems to be working successfully for my gorilla folding efforts. I think I'm going to look into talking over a whole computer lab full of E6600s over the weekend when no one will be using them. Hopefully the local sysadmin won't get angry.

1/23/2008 2:05:51 PM

Quote :

"gorilla"

1/23/2008 2:10:10 PM

all you need is 26 hours straight x # of E6600 machines = # of 1760 WU's

only problem is it's virtual memory so when the system reboots you lose any work

the nice thing is, there's no impact on the system itself and it's completely independent of the OS

[Edited on January 23, 2008 at 2:11 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2008 2:10:34 PM

Quote :

"That folding CD seems to be working successfully for my gorilla folding efforts."

gg! gl with it this weekend.

Quote :

"this is not always a sign we aren't doing well ourselves, it just indicates that others are stepping it up faster than we are"

yeah, we've been doing ok lately, but a bunch of teams below us are scaling up their production pretty quickly. hopefully this lab full of e6600's will give us a nice shot in the arm...every weekend?

and it sounds like you and I will be contributing more points in the near future. hopefully others will be able to follow suit

1/23/2008 2:28:33 PM

gs7 is the fucking man...it took about 1.5 hours to get my laptop set up but now its good to go forever...he did shit i didnt even know you could do with like shortcuts and whatnot

1/24/2008 4:03:38 PM

yes, i heard he is good with teh computer

1/24/2008 4:18:30 PM

So ... FAH doesn't not like running as a service in Vista. Actually, it's mpiexec and smpd that has issues. I shouldn't blame the FAH client.

Anyway, yea he's set up now for the SMP client, hopefully it continues to function as it should.

1/24/2008 4:28:09 PM

all in the name of science, well done!

1/24/2008 4:30:42 PM

One of my gorila folding machines won't submit its completed WU. It's not like I can just reboot the machine.

1/24/2008 9:47:13 PM

Quote :

"FAH doesn't not like running as a service in Vista. Actually, it's mpiexec and smpd that has issues. I shouldn't blame the FAH client."

did you do into the service properties, and change the "log on" to an account with admin access?

http://fahwiki.net/index.php/How_do_I_install_the_SMP_Console_client_in_Windows_Vista%3F

1/24/2008 9:56:01 PM

its ok man...i got it running pretty much the way he had it running...he just opens the program everytime he boots the computer and minimizes it....he tried a ton of shit...my account had admin access...everything is up and running...i'm at 12 percent right now

1/24/2008 10:00:41 PM

gg, keep it up!<--

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM. Reason : -->

1/24/2008 10:02:09 PM

1/25/2008 8:22:53 PM

cant wait til it updates...i went down to 98th place now...automatically move up to at least 97 if i get 720 points a day or so

1/25/2008 8:36:08 PM

i don't guess F@H works with BOINC yet does it? they were talking about it in 2005 and i never checked again

1/25/2008 9:44:34 PM

How much of a performance gain could I expect going from an AMD Turion TL-56 1.8GHz, to an Intel c2d e6750 2.66GHz oc'd to 3.4GHz?

As far as ppd.

1/25/2008 11:14:25 PM

Um, 3x increase .... roughly.



[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2008 11:45:14 PM

Okay. I might start up again with this.

1/26/2008 12:39:20 AM

sweet, your extra PPD would be most welcome!

1/26/2008 1:30:32 PM

i'm at 70 percent...cant wait til it finishes

[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM. Reason : ^^whats your name on folding?]

1/26/2008 2:39:40 PM

i just added this little beast:

1/26/2008 4:06:25 PM

damn son thats prolly what 2500 points a day or so?

1/26/2008 4:13:26 PM

no, but it's ticking off 1 frame every 12 minutes or so, and i have just begun OC'ing

1 WU every 20 hours = 2148 PPD

[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/26/2008 4:17:19 PM

I've turned in almost 20,000 points worth of workunits today. Gorilla folding FTW.

1/26/2008 10:26:29 PM

awesome!, you're daily average just made you our #2 producer!

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 1:39 AM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 1:36:41 AM

got another machine up............................

1/27/2008 4:43:42 AM

how do i get it back to folding something? its just on that...i'd rather see it back at 1%

1/27/2008 12:50:07 PM

Quote :

"awesome!, you're daily average just made you our #2 producer! "

I wish I could keep that level of production up through the week. However, the university will probabaly want their computers back.

1/27/2008 1:18:54 PM

DNL, delete your work directory and restart the program.

1/27/2008 2:02:08 PM

^don't do that unless you know is frozen... wait at least 30 min. to an hour and check back... it takes some time usually to submit the WU

1/27/2008 2:28:10 PM

Quote :

"1 WU every 20 hours = 2148 PPD"

damn, pretty much the same as my Q6600 (before linux VMs of course)

1/27/2008 5:11:37 PM

dnl:

Quote :

"wait at least 30 min. to an hour and check back... it takes some time usually to submit the WU"

1/27/2008 5:11:59 PM

i closed the fah program(the thing that looks like a command prompt)

i opened the link gs7 put on my desktop...this is what it is currently at

[21:52:58] + attempting to send results
[21:52:58]- reading fil work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[21:52:58]
[21:52:58]connecting to http:***.**.**.**:8080

above that it says some thing like "updated performance fraction: .194734



ok it just did some more stuff like just now

[22:22:33]error: attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do
waiting before retry

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:23 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 5:16:49 PM

closed it again and opened it and it worked...started back at 0 percent!

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM. Reason : crisis averted]

1/27/2008 5:42:38 PM

u just need to be patient and let is alone when its trying to submit...it takes some time

1/27/2008 6:00:50 PM

do you know what your performance fraction is synapse?

1/27/2008 6:03:01 PM

ive never heard of that

1/27/2008 6:07:58 PM

I just took the machines I commandeered for the weekend offline and put them back as standard lab machines. It's a shame I can't have ~20K ppd every day.

1/27/2008 7:20:49 PM

^It's more than most people make per week though, so not all is lost ... keep it up!

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 7:27 PM. Reason : ^]

1/27/2008 7:26:52 PM

woooooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooo

Quote :

"96 68,438 1,966 281 1,760 1,760 23,923 84 06.20.04"

got almost 2k points in the past 24 hours!!!

1/27/2008 8:55:18 PM