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Adding a Few More Computers

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RoundelMike

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I started folding with the [H]orde recently and I've made some headway with getting some more computers borged. I've gotten three more computers (800MHz Intels) and I've installed Linux on all three and they're ready to go. My question is: will it be optimal for each of the computers to run individual instances of F@H or should I try to link the three together? I of course want to maximize performance.
 
Run them each individually. The overhead with the linkage would kill performance, and F@H insn't set up to work multithreaded like that.

By the way, great job on the borgs. :)

-Mn Scout
 
Good job. I am not the crapper expert here, marty is the one and might be able to correct/support me on this. But i suggest like MN Scout to run it individually. I also suggest timeless tinkers. Especially if you are on a low RAM.

 
What am I the crapper king?

There is no other way to run them but individual instances. The fold server ect. still runs single cores on each CPU. I want a cluster more than anything, but from what I've read 1 millions times, can't be done.

That being said, mage let's do up the ClusterKnoppix anyways...

If dedicated folders, and >= 256 RAM, flip on large packets. They will take longer, far longer but the PPD will always be more in the end.

I hate timeless, I think it's too wussy (run timeless if not on 24/7, but then again thats wussy also shutting down your boxen.... :p )

If on more than off, used for other things, run normal WU's.

my .02

:)
 
RoundelMike said:
I of course want to maximize performance.
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I forgot.

1. WELCOME!

2. Best way to maximize performance is to add more boxen... :p
 
welcome to the [H]orde!
don't forget to add your boxen to the "D to 1000" thread! (gosh it seems like well never get there...)

 
Thanks for the welcome! I've gotten the new computers running strong (and hopefully stable), each with an individual f@H client. Their only job is folding, so they should run pretty effeciently. That puts me at 6200MHz. Not bad, but still not enough. :)
 
You will find that they take a while to get things done, but in the end it is all going for the cure, which is what matters. I am sitting on a pile of 733mhz p3's... although when they all dump 600 pointers its a sight to see!

Welcome to the team.

(run normal wu's!)
 
marty9876 said:
I hate timeless, I think it's too wussy (run timeless if not on 24/7, but then again thats wussy also shutting down your boxen.... :p )
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Hey, there's nothing wrong with timeless. They run great on a dually PII 266. I know there's no way a 600 pointer would get done on it in time, much less two of them. Besides, the system has no internet access and the caching feature for the timeless WU's comes in handy. I've got 20 WU's (10 per client) sitting on that machine that it chews through one after another. Sure, it will probabaly take it a year to finish all the WU's but it's better than nothing (about 30 PPD for the machine if not used).

Oh, that's also with the newer timeless WU's that are worth about twice what the old ones were. You will still run into the old ones occasionally and you will know them by the fact that they bring in about half has many PPD.

I agree that shutting off boxen is bad. I have no control over one of my borgs and it sits off a lot more than on plus it's on dialup. Therefore, cached timeless WUs are perfect for it. I get an occasional points boost from that machine and it gets at least a little work done over time.

Except for scenarios like those mentioned above, it's usually not a good idea to run timeless WU's and PIII 800's are plenty fast for crunching on any WU's they will be sent if they are on 24/7 and not used a whole lot. I've got a PIII 667 crapper running WinXP and PIII 600@500 running mage's "anti-fold" and both run regular WU's. I'm actually waiting for them to snag 600 pointers but they seem to be scarce lately.

And for those wondering why the system is underclocked, the board has bad caps and I can only get it stable at 500.

 
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