Folding Benchmark CD and other diskless stuff

[marty9876]

Huh, always wondered why nobody ever did this...

Thread:
http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=43100

link:
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/benchmark.html

Crap load of goods:
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/

Folding Benchmark CD

Copyright © notfred 2006

See http://reilly.homeip.net/folding

Processor Detection
Processor 0 is an AMD Athlon(tm)64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Processor 1 is an AMD Athlon(tm)64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Found 2 processor(s)

Progress
Starting benchmark of Tinker WU
Starting benchmark of Amber WU
Finished benchmark of Tinker WU
Starting benchmark of Bonus Gromacs WU
Finished benchmark of Amber WU
Starting benchmark of Gromacs3.3 WU
Finished benchmark of Gromacs WU
Leaving Gromacs WU running to load the processor
Finished benchmark of Gromacs3.3 WU
Leaving Gromacs3.3 WU running to load the processor
Benchmarking complete. Please reboot ...

Results
Core Points Per Hour Points Per Day
Tinker 6.05866 145.408
Amber 5.96319 143.117
Gromacs 5.66038 135.849
Gromacs3.3 4.44079 106.579
Average 5.53076 132.738
Total 11.0615 265.476

See the link in my sig, there's the new Folding Benchmark CD that I promised about 2 months ago - sorry it took so long.

Here's how it works:
The CD boots up and downloads both the folding client program plus the cores required all directly from Stanford (as required by their license) so the internet connection speed will not affect the result.
It then starts folding a WU per processor until it folds 1 complete step
It then takes the measurement for that WU, stops that one and starts the next.
If there are multiple processors it will leave the last WU running to provide load on the processors until all are complete and then shut them all down.
It benchmarks 4 WU types - Tinker, Amber, Gromacs and Gromacs3.3.

Results are available on the screen and on a web page, just point your browser at the machine being benchmarked. The URL is published on the screen as the machine starts up so you can tell what it is. Individual results are produced for each WU, average results are calculated across the 4 WU types and a total is calculated by multiplying the average by the number of processors.

Enjoy, but please don't meltdown my server

FYI this uses GPL code so if you want to mirror it you also must mirror the source file as well as the .iso. Other than that, you don't need the source file and it's so big that you really don't want to try downloading it from my poor server.

This uses a lot of new stuff that I am going to now work into the Folding CD generator / Diskless HOWTO / Folding USB stick and that should fix the problem with core 82 that has been reported recently.

down with moose

WUs are on the CD so you will always fold the same WU and in fact it is the same steps on the same WU. Benchmarking completes before the WU are done so it never tries to send anything back to Stanford, even if it did they are old WUs that have already been folded and the results sent back so you wouldn't earn any points or mess up any of Stanford's results.

 

[Kvothe]

That's cool. I ever get my net back at home, I am going to give this a whirl.

 

[pageian]

Up with Moose.

 

[AtomicMoose]

Up with Moose.

Thanks.


Good stuff, Marty.

 

[marty9876]

Them there Tech Report folks tend to be on the smarter side of the things.

 

[AtomicMoose]

Them there Tech Report folks tend to be on the smarter side of the things.

Hey! What are you trying to say??

 

[marty9876]

Hey! What are you trying to say??

That Tech report can be a good place to snoop around and learnt oneself something new, and that your not.

Na, I visit many a forum and they all have pros/cons. Tech is always one I forget about but has some very dedicated, as do many, peoples.

 

[skindogg]

sweet, someone thank them guys over there

 

[pageian]

Thanks.


Good stuff, Marty.

Any time Moose. You are a pal for sure but the fact that I get to disagree with Marty at the same time just makes it that much more enjoyable.

Oh yeah, nice find and stuff Marty. I guess. Whatever.