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June 15, 2010 6:13:42 PM

Mine is old picture of AOD version 3.0 or 2.8... :lol: 

I will update it soon.
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June 15, 2010 6:33:25 PM

new avatar? Hmmmm........



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June 15, 2010 6:51:23 PM

^Yeah, but could be a photo of my daughter.
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June 15, 2010 7:32:42 PM

It could be a photo of just about anything ;) 

To bad though that statute (been nicknamed here in ohio as 'touchdown jesus') is not around any more. Got destroyed from fire last night that got started from the sever thunderstorms that rolled though the area.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/95-65-touchdown-jesus

Well maybe i should look something else....
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June 16, 2010 1:14:59 AM

jadavis1992 said:
Hello i just read through the whole thread and i really like the sound of this folding and will be setting up my p4 laptop and my sempron desktop to fold later to night, and my athlon II x3 when i get it. Hopefully i can help out a little.


Welcome to the team! :hello: 
June 16, 2010 1:15:35 AM

Hello i just read through the whole thread and i really like the sound of this folding and will be setting up my p4 laptop and my sempron desktop to fold later to night, and my athlon II x3 when i get it. Hopefully i can help out a little.
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June 16, 2010 1:30:10 AM

jadavis1992 said:
Hello i just read through the whole thread and i really like the sound of this folding and will be setting up my p4 laptop and my sempron desktop to fold later to night, and my athlon II x3 when i get it. Hopefully i can help out a little.

[:wolfen18:9] Welcome aboard.
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June 17, 2010 3:40:46 AM

http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news-0-250+the-smp2-a3-co...

For any of you running SMP2 on linux, There new client (v2.22) for you and it can give a speed boost :)  (depending on if you a 100% dedicated folder or not)

Hope this comes to windows clients soon. :D 

Reason why i say that is because this client fixes the issue SMP2 been having (or at least it sounds like it). Non-linear WU slow downs when using the computer for other things while F@H is running.

Will be nice when i can work on the laptop without having TPF just jump up drastically when checking toms, F@H, ect.
June 17, 2010 5:03:53 AM

warmon6 said:
http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news-0-250+the-smp2-a3-co...

For any of you running SMP2 on linux, There new client (v2.22) for you and it can give a speed boost :)  (depending on if you a 100% dedicated folder or not)

Hope this comes to windows clients soon. :D 

Reason why i say that is because this client fixes the issue SMP2 been having (or at least it sounds like it). Non-linear WU slow downs when using the computer for other things while F@H is running.

Will be nice when i can work on the laptop without having TPF just jump up drastically when checking toms, F@H, ect.

Thanks man... :) 

Updated 3 Linux machines. 2 of them are dedicated but it says it improves the science for them. :) 

Hope it comes to Windows soon too. ;) 
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June 17, 2010 5:16:20 AM

bholland2 said:
Thanks man... :) 

Updated 3 Linux machines. 2 of them are dedicated but it says it improves the science for them. :) 

Hope it comes to Windows soon too. ;) 


No problem.

Now there 2 things F@H needs to bring out for windows. This and Bigadv. :lol: 
June 17, 2010 1:46:35 PM

I remember to have participated to a project called "Grid" similar to this. Left it soon though due to lack of time.
June 18, 2010 12:26:17 AM

jadavis1992 said:
Hello i just read through the whole thread and i really like the sound of this folding and will be setting up my p4 laptop and my sempron desktop to fold later to night, and my athlon II x3 when i get it. Hopefully i can help out a little.


Welcome to the TEAM!!!! :bounce: 
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June 18, 2010 5:59:06 PM

hmmm... is it just me or is there a lot of very large SMP WU's lately?

I've gotten 3 of them in the past week.

First WU, 6040 (didn't complete. had issues with it),

second, 6701 (New WU and completed. although the short time frame was a headache for me. Almost didn't make the preferred dead line. )

Now im working 6040 again.

Has anyone else seen this or is it just my luck?
June 18, 2010 6:35:13 PM

warmon6 said:
hmmm... is it just me or is there a lot of very large SMP WU's lately?

I've gotten 3 of them in the past week.

First WU, 6040 (didn't complete. had issues with it),

second, 6701 (New WU and completed. although the short time frame was a headache for me. Almost didn't make the preferred dead line. )

Now im working 6040 again.

Has anyone else seen this or is it just my luck?


+1 @ (Your Luck) lol :D 
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June 18, 2010 7:53:50 PM

SHANEMARINES said:
+1 @ (Your Luck) lol :D 


:lol: 

Well at least i like the 6040 WU than 6701 WU. More points and longer preferred dead line (6 days vs 3.2 days.
June 18, 2010 8:15:12 PM

warmon6 said:
:lol: 

Well at least i like the 6040 WU than 6701 WU. More points and longer preferred dead line (6 days vs 3.2 days.


Your computer is doing this :bounce:  when working on (6701) lol...
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June 18, 2010 8:27:02 PM

SHANEMARINES said:
Your computer is doing this :bounce:  when working on (6701) lol...


Na,

My laptop on 6040 before preferred deadline [:fixitbil:7] (which i typically get done 2 days before that deadline)

My laptop with 6701 before preferred deadline [:huntluck:4] (which was only about 2 hours. Too close before for my liking)

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June 18, 2010 8:41:53 PM

warmon6 said:
hmmm... is it just me or is there a lot of very large SMP WU's lately?

I've gotten 3 of them in the past week.

First WU, 6040 (didn't complete. had issues with it),

second, 6701 (New WU and completed. although the short time frame was a headache for me. Almost didn't make the preferred dead line. )

Now im working 6040 again.

Has anyone else seen this or is it just my luck?

well not completely i got like at least 5 or 6 of those the last couple of days, and when i occationally looked at my client i was like :o  2000000 steps dang lol
June 18, 2010 9:26:42 PM

warmon6 said:
Na,

My laptop on 6040 before preferred deadline [:fixitbil:7] (which i typically get done 2 days before that deadline)

My laptop with 6701 before preferred deadline [:huntluck:4] (which was only about 2 hours. Too close before for my liking)


lol, I was GPU and CPU folding and playing Crysis Sandbox and it finally lagged on the Sandbox! :o 
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June 18, 2010 9:50:31 PM

jonnyboyC said:
well not completely i got like at least 5 or 6 of those the last couple of days, and when i occationally looked at my client i was like :o  2000000 steps dang lol


Ok. So it isn't me.


Wonder if it's has something to do with the down SMP sever.
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June 20, 2010 5:00:24 AM

This topic has been desticky in top of the forum by Randomizer

Link added to here from master sticky
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June 20, 2010 6:39:12 AM

Folding now :) 

PC runs 24/7, basically on stand by for the next 6 months.
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June 20, 2010 7:05:47 AM

welcome to the team! =]]
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June 20, 2010 12:15:25 PM

Blckhaze said:
Folding now :) 

PC runs 24/7, basically on stand by for the next 6 months.


welcome to the team!
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June 20, 2010 1:12:03 PM

Well, should we now ask to get a sub section for F@H (like other teams have) or keep this thread active as this thread has now been desticky?
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June 20, 2010 1:21:59 PM

If we get an Off Topic section any time in the not so far distant future maybe this thread could find a home over there perhaps?
June 20, 2010 1:41:35 PM

I need to start posting pictures of my F@H FUN!
June 20, 2010 1:44:33 PM

Blckhaze said:
Folding now :) 

PC runs 24/7, basically on stand by for the next 6 months.


WELCOME!! :) 
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June 20, 2010 1:48:15 PM

Mousemonkey said:
If we get an Off Topic section any time in the not so far distant future maybe this thread could find a home over there perhaps?


Perhaps. Would be better to keep this team in view to the community instead of pages back in the cpu forum.
June 20, 2010 3:10:27 PM

WHY O WHY destickied?
June 20, 2010 3:18:39 PM

Why dosn't Toms have its own F@H Section like a tab to get to F@H.
June 20, 2010 4:56:34 PM

good point. i think it ahoiuld
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June 20, 2010 7:25:12 PM

shovenose said:
WHY O WHY destickied?


EDIT: Oh i see, http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/284315-28-buyer-guide...


Just clearing up the sticky clutter and compacting it to 1 thread that leads to other threads. Man i need to be more observant. :lol:  was thinking it was the locked "Why is my CPU not showing correct speeds?" thread so i didn't bother reading what the thread was.

June 20, 2010 8:30:15 PM

cool!
June 21, 2010 4:28:41 AM

Woot! I know that was as random as the projects I'm getting right now from Folding @ Home.:) 
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June 21, 2010 10:22:49 PM

SHANEMARINES said:
Woot! I know that was as random as the projects I'm getting right now from Folding @ Home.:) 


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: 
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June 21, 2010 10:40:13 PM

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.
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June 21, 2010 10:52:30 PM

loneninja said:
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
Quote:
folding@home-win32-x86 -configonly -smp


or

when you hit the "Additional client parameters []" while configuring, you need to also add
Quote:
-smp
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.
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June 22, 2010 1:25:36 AM

I created a shortcut to the folding@home exe file, on the shortcut I added an -smp flag and now it works.
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June 22, 2010 2:23:21 AM

loneninja said:
I created a shortcut to the folding@home exe file, on the shortcut I added an -smp flag and now it works.


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.
June 22, 2010 5:50:26 AM

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.
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June 22, 2010 12:43:56 PM

Bartendalot said:
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: 
June 22, 2010 2:26:43 PM

Bartendalot said:

Im not looking for stats, just want to help.


think of stats as a benefit :) 
and welcome!
June 22, 2010 2:27:26 PM

and no i dont fold cuz it wouldnt make a dif cuz all my comps suck :( 
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June 22, 2010 3:26:00 PM

shovenose said:
and no i dont fold cuz it wouldnt make a dif cuz all my comps suck :( 


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 :o  ......



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 :D  .....)
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June 22, 2010 8:51:48 PM

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.
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June 22, 2010 9:24:19 PM

Haserath said:
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?
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June 22, 2010 9:41:08 PM

Fixed the GPU one ;)  .

Yes, I installed the MPI, told it to get advanced WUs, while using -smp flag. Don't know if I should change the "-smp" to something else?
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June 22, 2010 11:30:27 PM

Haserath said:
Fixed the GPU one ;)  .

Yes, I installed the MPI, told it to get advanced WUs, while using -smp flag. Don't know if I should change the "-smp" to something else?


Ok when you when to config. When you add

Quote:
Folding@home-win32-x86 -configonly


did you add -smp to that or when you reached

Quote:
Additional client parameters []?


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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