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How long should this take?

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cgrant26

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Currently folding a gromacs core. According to the display, I have completed 100/2500 frames. The time of WU completion sayd Dec. 7th. Is this a deadline or a projected completion date? Does this sound right for a system of the following specs?

NF7-S
Barton 2500+ @ 2.3 gigs
1 gig of memory @ CL2 2-4-4-7
Radeon 9800 Pro

Watercooled.
Running at 210 FSB

What should I be seeing performance wise?
 
Could say that for a few reasons... (I'm assuming you're using EMIII to project when you will finish this WU)

One being (and most likely in my case), that you were using the PC to do something CPU intensive (gaming, etc) and EMIII calculated the projected finish date based off a HUGE time frame...
EMIII works off of averages, so as the protein is crunched more and more, a long time frame (say you were playing Doom 3 while it was working on the steps between 45% and 46% and it took an hour to do that frame) wouldn't affect the projected date as much....


Give that protein some time to crunch, you'll see it go through alot faster... and your projected finish time/date will be MUCH sooner....

make sure you have all pertainent flags in use on that Barton...


Keep on Folding!!

 
I believe he is actually scrolling up to see the due date that gets transmitted with the WU download... Or looking at the link to unitinfo.txt in MyFolding.html in the working directory

I'm a severe newbie to F@H, been doing the other various Distributed Projects for years, but I 'believe' that date has something to do with the option in advanced config dealing with ignoring WUs without DUE DATES.

In other words, don't sweat it... After a week you will get a feel for how long the different types of WUs will take to complete.

On most of my boxen, I see a Due Date in Dec. Yet, I am definately completing WUs much quicker than that.
 
Cool. AFter letting it run for an hour, the estimated time of completion is now later this evening. Much better. Also, can you give me some direction as to checking pertainate flags on this CPU?

I've run SETI@home a lot, but F@H is uncharted waters for me.
Thanks for the help.
 
I'll have to let OSU field that one... I assume maybe the core program has a problem recognizing what optimizations should be set for that CPU. I'm sure someone will jump in and help you out shortly.

:p
 
Times versis points varies a bit but for a Gromac it around 1.9 Points per Hour per Ghz and fora Tinker around 3.5 PpHpG. Have not done enough Ambers to get a definate number but think it around 2.5 ish PpHpG.

The only switch you realy need is the -forceasm one for an AMD system. It just makes sure that you restart with the SSE boost on after an incorrect sutdown due to a power cut or system crash. Without the boost you will fold a Gromac at half speed.
If you use the -advmethods flag then you are slightly more likely to get protiens that are just out of beta testing. These can be worth more PpHpG but may not be as stable.
If you run 2 or more cores on the same machine then add the -local switch so that each reads its config data from the local file and not from the registry.

I just run the console version in the background so have just added the flags to the end of my shortcut target. C:\Tigger@Home\F@H1\FAH500-Console.exe -forceasm -local.
If you run it as a service then you may need to edit the registry to add the switches.

Luck......... :D
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how about a mobile PIII 500?

Might as well get everything here in on the action. ;)
 
It'll fold!! albeit slow, but it'll fold... I had a PIII 733 here at work for the first year I was here, it was a slow folder but never failed to meet a deadline.... If, for some reason your 500 doesn't meet the deadlines I think you can set it up to get "timeless tinkers" and you won't have to worry about deadlines...

Tigerbiten explained the flags well... so I won't add anything but----- If it can crunch numbers, get it to fold :D


Keep on Folding!!

 
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