Joined F@H 2.5 weeks ago. Do these stats sound right?

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Anderu

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I have about 45ghz (19 computers ranging from 2.5 to 3.2ghz) slamming away at F@H. My stats for the last two weeks look this way:

Last 8 Weeks

Time/Date Points Results
05-06 12,487 64
04-29 11,007 61
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I was just making sure that these computers are doing what they are supposed to, which is work their CPUs off Folding for the cause. If the numbers look low, some advice on how to squeeze more out of them would be welcome.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.



 
If you are running the console version then I would say that's about right.
 
Your stats seem a little low. I've been watching you because you're on my threat list. I only have an E6600 and PS3 folding 24/7 right now. An E6300 and Venice 3200+ turned in some results as well over the last two weeks but I disassembled the E6300 mid-week. Here are my results:

05-06 12,400 23
04-29 14,377 29

Frankly, I don't see how I could possibly best your 45 GHz with my modest setup.

 
There is something horrible wrong with those numbers. You should be getting about 2000+ ppd, even if they're single core athlon XPs, or P4s.
 
mwarps said:
There is something horrible wrong with those numbers. You should be getting about 2000+ ppd, even if they're single core athlon XPs, or P4s.
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His stats show 2,144 Points Per Day ..Looks about right ...
 
If you're running regular work units then that probably is about right. My P4 2.8 at work does around 100PPD. I just hooked up an XP1700+ to replace a dead Duron 1 Ghz system and I have no clue what it's pulling anymore. I've always used EMIII and there hasn't been a protein update file in ages and every WU I get is unrecognized.

Depending on the SMP WUs I get, my [email protected] will do anywhere from 1300-2000+ PPD.

It looks like you're crunching mostly 186 and 208 (I think) pointers which don't do very well for PPD that I've seen. However, there doesn't seem to be much we can do about it. Stanford seems to be putting all effort into SMP, GPU and PS3 projects. I doubt they'll do much if anything with the regular clients or their WUs for a while.

 
ya thats about right it will go up and down kinda based on what stanford will feed you
 
Anderu said:
I have about 45ghz (19 computers ranging from 2.5 to 3.2ghz) slamming away at F@H. My stats for the last two weeks look this way:



I was just making sure that these computers are doing what they are supposed to, which is work their CPUs off Folding for the cause. If the numbers look low, some advice on how to squeeze more out of them would be welcome.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.



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i am sure that you already know this but confirm that you have the -forceasm switch on. no SSE, long frame times and slow results. you have been here a long time and probably know this, its just a shot!

 
I recon to run at around 2 Points per Hour per Ghz with the CPU client.
If you drop below 1.6 PpHpG then somethings wrong.
Above 2.4 and your getting a nice set of bonus Work-Units.
But since swicthing my farm over to alot of SMP & GPU folding I'm not tracking the bonus WU so I'm not sure whats the PpHpG at the moment.
So you should be pulling in from 12,000 to +18,000 PpW depending on the protiens.

The SMP Client runs around 4x this PpHpG.
Depending on card & cpu the GPC can run from 1x to 4x this PpHpG.

I'm running at ~43 Ghz in 8 boxen.
5x CPU clients, 5x GPU clients & 3 SMP clients = ~ 8,000 PpD.

Luck .......... :D
 
I have anywhere between 8 and 12 PCs reporting results every week to Stanford. They are all running the standard console client and are around the same specs (P4 2.4-3.2). My points per day were around 600 until I added the SMP client to my home system. I had it on UD before. Anyway just the one SMP client has brought my average up to around 1500ppd.

Considering it takes a P4 at any speed 2-5 days to complete the average WU now, and they aren't worth crap for points, that your stats seem about right.

 
My home PC is a Core2 Duo (E6300). It runs about 18 hours a day. Right now, I am running the regular console version on it, as I wanted to check things out before diving in deep. But seeing that the SMP version would produce more pointage, do I just install the SMP version over top of the old one, or do I have to uninstall/reinstall?

I also have 1 PC at work that has a 3.2ghs P4 with HT. Does the SMP client work with HT? If so, I can put that one on the SMP client as well.
 
For the SMP client on the E6300.
You can get away with just stopping the CPU client.
If its running as a service you'll need clear all that out of the registry etc, etc.
You need a user account with a password due to part of it running as a service.
Install Net-framework 2.0 if needed.
Download the SMP client from Stamford and un-zip it.
Run the batch file and point it at the passworded account.
Start the main client and hopefully if it likes you it will run at full speed.
You should be looking around 20 mins a frame and you'll get the work back in half the final deadline time.
If its running slow try a reboot or two to see if it speeds up.
Remember that this a beta software and its been know to trash work-units on being shut down.

As for running it on a HT P4.
Its possible but the final deadlines are very tight and you probably wont get the work back before it expires.
If you can get sub-55 min frame times for p2610 then your good to go.

Luck .......... :D
 
Tigerbiten said:
You should be looking around 20 mins a frame
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Depends on the overclock. I was getting ~19 minutes a frame with an E6300 at 2940.

Tigerbiten said:
Remember that this a beta software and its been know to trash work-units on being shut down.
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I found a way to avoid that over at Folding-Community. To close SMP, use Ctrl-C. Then before re-starting SMP, always run install.bat first. I haven't had a trashed work unit once since doing this. Apparently, running install.bat ensures that your latest checkpoint is used.

 
aldamon said:
Depends on the overclock. I was getting ~19 minutes a frame with an E6300 at 2940.



I found a way to avoid that over at Folding-Community. To close SMP, use Ctrl-C. Then before re-starting SMP, always run install.bat first. I haven't had a trashed work unit once since doing this. Apparently, running install.bat ensures that your latest checkpoint is used.

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Yes, or just reboot the computer... Or bring the task manager and kill mpiexec.exe, 3x smpd.exe (it will respawn 3x before staying off) and make sure no FahCore is running before restarting.
 
Better still ........

Don't shut down or reboot .......... :p

The only time mine get rebooted is when Windozes needs to due to an update.

Luck .......... :D
 
When I said reboot, I mean only do this after doing Ctrl-C and shutdown the client properly ;)
 
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