Does this look right?

[mike400hp]

I just started folding and I want to make sure that I have everything setup correctly. I'm running a Pentium 4 2.0GHz with 512MB. Here is a screen shot of my EMIII.

I read a post on here from a guy that said he was get PPD from a 300MHz PC. As far as I can tell, I haven't gotten any points yet at the end of day two. Does the first run take longer? Do I have a setting wrong that is taking longer than it should? What does it mean where is says "Unknown"?

Forgive the EXTREME newbiness of my questions!! I'm just getting into this.

Excuse my poor grammer in the title, "Do this look right?" Typos suck!

 

[Ronbo]

naw, things look just fine, by the Electron Microscope screenie you posted, it will take your machine 66 hours or 2 and two-thirds days Also the screenie shows the work unit about half done, so you are doing well. Patience, young grasshopper, patience

 

[mike400hp]

So every two days or so I'll get an update on my points? How do people get PPD (points per day) on slower systems? I'm confused on how the points are updated. I understand that points are assigned by how fast you finish work units compared to a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 that the work units are benchmarked against before they are sent out.

 

[Oldbenwa]

Points are only added after completing a full work unit. As Ronbo said, you are about half done with your first work unit.


Think of PPD as a fraction:

Points the unit is worth
------------------------------------------------------------------ = PPD
How many days it takes to complete said unit


Also, the box on EM that says unknown is for displaying the speed of the processor.

Third, while this step isn’t necessary and you can do it or not, you might want this information displayed in the EM window. Find the Speed.exe file in the folder you unzipped EM into. Copy the Speed.exe file and the EMGetCPUinf.dll file to the FAH folder. Double-click the Speed program. A file will be created called "speed.emd" which will contain the type of processor you have and its speed. This program works on most CPU’s, but if it doesn’t work on yours don’t worry about it. The new AMD XP processors don’t seem to be seen correctly, and it will not identify systems with Dual CPU’s installed. Other than that it should correctly recognize your CPU and its speed. You can edit this file inside EM later so don’t worry about it now.

Oldbenwa

 

[rogue_jedi]

if you want points every day, you need to add a bunch more boxen. fairly simple way to get a consistent stream of points!

the more the merrier.

 

[Kvothe]

It also appears that you have a Tinker core unit which is known to take a fair amount of time longer on P4 processors than they do on the AMD architecture. Hang in there and you'll have that unit and more in there! Also, welcome to the team!

 

[Ronbo]

Oh yes, got so busy being technical I forgot to be friendly, welcome to the [H]orde, Fold on!

 

[Oldbenwa]

Oh yes, got so busy being technical I forgot to be friendly, welcome to the [H]orde, Fold on!

Guess I did too, Welcome Welcome Welcome!!!

Oldbenwa

 

[mike400hp]

Thanks for the help!!

 

[GwilyaGwees]

Welcome to the [H]orde!

To make calculations A LOT easier, there is a little application included in the EMIII zip file called EMCalc. Try it out - if I can figure it out, so can you. I put a shortcut on my desktop to the file. It is located in the same subdirectory that you run EMIII from.

When you run it, you choose the protein that the client is crunching, type in the framerates that your cpu is crunching, and then click on Calculate. Voila! This little application gives your PPH (hour), PPD (day) and PPW (week). Nifty. All courtesy of LPerry, aka the Weatherman.

Hope that helps!

GwilyaGwees

 

[Schmave]

Welcome to the [H]orde!

To make calculations A LOT easier, there is a little application included in the EMIII zip file called EMCalc. Try it out - if I can figure it out, so can you. I put a shortcut on my desktop to the file. It is located in the same subdirectory that you run EMIII from.

When you run it, you choose the protein that the client is crunching, type in the framerates that your cpu is crunching, and then click on Calculate. Voila! This little application gives your PPH (hour), PPD (day) and PPW (week). Nifty. All courtesy of LPerry, aka the Weatherman.

Hope that helps!

GwilyaGwees

Or, you can always just right click on the protein image in EMIII and select "calculate points". It does the same thing.

 

[Buckus]

Make sure you have "-forceasm " in your command line if you are running the no-nonsense console client.

Welcome, have fun, try not to break anything.

 

[gnewbury]

Welcome aboard!!
Please read the FAQ and stickies.
With that machine you should be able to run big units, step 7 in the DR's excellent set up guide for the console. , presently big units seem to be getting more ppd/ghz.
On rkhands excellent summary page you will see that the p638 seems to return from 51ppd/ghz on P4 to 80ppd/ghz on AMD.
Borg with permission but borg!

 

[Tigerbiten]

Welcome to the Fold.

Points = 239.
Time = 66.25 hours.
Speed = 2 Ghz.
So Points / Time / Speed = 239/66.25/2 = 1.8 PpHpG.
That is about right for a P4 running a Tinker.
If you can switch big work packets on you can double your output when you get one.
Stanford's benchmarks at 1.63 PpHpG so anything slower that that and you have a problem unless its a hyperthreaded P4 running two copies.Then you sould run at around 60% full speed on both copies.
You will only get credited the points after you finish and send it in, and it might take a few hours before it shows up under your name.

Luck.......

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Welcome.

A note about EMIII: Make sure it has run for a while before you start calculating your points. Sometimes the numbers shown at start up are slightly off.