Woohoo!
FIRST WU for TBCS from me!
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Woohoo!
FIRST WU for TBCS from me!
While I'm working on my dedicated folding machine, I've got the GPU3 client working on my main machine, which has a GTX460; may install the SMP client for my 1055T later. I'm going to run the GPU client overnight, but it is already zipping along - I've had it running for 15 minutes and it's 6% finished with its first work unit.
Lol... I just ordered a socket 1156 mobo, an 1156 waterblock, and a gtx 560 ti. Folding will commence.... next weekend when a friend of mine goes to twin cities.
We're flying and it looks like things are only going to get better. Since we hit the EO page, we're already up nearly 1000 places and over 100,000 points.....
Bit of a milestone too - we broke the 500,000 points mark earlier this morning - woot
nice! where does it say the individual member stats?
I'm not entirely sure. I was actually wondering that myself. I've had a browse around and there doesn't seem to be a certain cutoff or rank where there are individual stats before but not after. It could be that they just don't do it anymore, or maybe the team needs to have been in the chart for xx weeks - but I'm guessing.
Alright, I'll bite. Downloaded the client so we'll see what happens
gtx285 + q6700
i7 on laptop
Not sure now much it's worth, but looks like I'll find out.
Be careful of temps on the laptop. i only run the gpu client on mine, otherwise temps hit 75+C
Yea both my cards stay in the high 60s. On a side note, its still showing me with 1 work unit when there should be 8-9 now. I guess I need to check the settings again.
Check your logs too - there may be errors when returning results or errors during the processing which make the F@H server disregard what you're doing. The obvious error is the team number being absent or wrong - you would personally have the points and WU's, they just wouldnt be allocated to our team. Easy way to check that is to go to the team page, then click on your username - it'll then show you your personal score (I think) - I just tried that but the pages are being updated so I didn't get a response.
User stats
And something weird....
It seems my RAM is hotter than my CPU when folding.
on your lappy or desktop?
Lappy.
But that's just how it feels.
*I see we are in top 5000.
The individual stats can be found if you're running the GPU client by right clicking on the icon in the system tray and selecting status then either User Stats for personal stats or Team Stats to view rankings of members in the team.
lol, well, my server is still grinding away at that one core. Slowly, but surely. :P ...just give me a sec...I want to get my other systems up and running before I go to bed. :twisted:
contributing now.
Yup, not only did we fly into the top 5k, there is NO-ONE catching us, and our production rate is still accelerating - we're doing great IMO for a new team :D
Well, I got my main system working and started folding. :D 1090T and dual GTX260's (one 216, one 196). I'm not sure the the smp flag is working or that both my cards are being used..any way to check that?
use whatever card monitoring program. ATi cards you can check the usage and temps right through CCC, my 6870 is staying between 70-72ºC with 85-95% usage and no more than 32% fan speed :D
Scrap any and all folding clients that you're currently using (you MIGHT want to let them finish any part-done WU's first if you don't want to waste the time spent so far, then download FAH GPU Tracker v2. When installed, this will automatically re-download the CPU, SMP, GPU2 and GPU3 folding software, and will present you with a single interface for all of them - you can then have the program auto-detect GPU's and it SHOULD then pick them up and configure them (as GPU3 with Nvidia Fermi).Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
The GPU3 client gets the most points but it DOES use a chunk of CPU ability too - as a result you might want to do the following.
When you get back to the main screen, you simply click on Start All Clients and it'll go - it should (almost) immediately show you the clients it is running. Personally, I'd try going GPU only for an hour, then GPU and CPU to see what gets you the better results. I have a Q6700, Radeon 4870 and Nividia GTS250 in my main system and I've found that running CPU folding actually slows down the GPU folding by enough that the points I get from the CPU are less than the points I lose from the GPU, so now I only fold on the two GPUs and don't CPU fold at all.
Different systems may well produce different results but my own experience with my system (which I appreciate is substantially less powerful than yours) has resulted my setup.
I now get roughly 11k ppd on this one computer whereas it was around 9.6k when CPU was enabled...
I may have to toss my spare 4870 in with my 6870 and have it fold too....seeing how it's just collecting dust :think:
That tracker is AWESOME.Quote:
Originally Posted by slaveofconvention
It looks like my GPU setup is incompatible (unsurprisingly), but I'm getting 12,000 on the SMP alone...
whats your GPU walrus? my 6 series ATi card wasn't auto-detected, but Is et it to use ATi R800 and it works perfectly
one 4870x2 and one 4850 - i think it's the odd combination that's confusing it
Can't be any more odd than Colin's 4870 and GTS250 lol
gpuz shows my 6850 at 97% load XD @ 48.5*c
heres my stats from starting last night at about 1am: here
In the tracker, click on Setup, then Configure - in the new window which pops up, make sure GPU0 and GPU1 are ticked, then change the Force GPU Selection to ATI R800 - At this point GPU3 should tick itself. Click apply and Close. In the first main window, click on stop all clients, then start all clients and leave it for a few minutes - you should, pretty quickly, get a yellow PPD figure on the GPU's - then just do the math - see how much the CPU ppd goes down, and how much you're getting from the GPU's and make your own call on what to run or not to run to get the maximum ppd overall.Quote:
Originally Posted by dr.walrus
My 4870 picks up 511 point WU's and gets just under 3k per day - I'd imagine you'd be looking at around 3k on the 4780x2 (apparently it can't utilise the second core) and maybe slightly less, around 2500 on the 4850.
As for my setup being weird, I admit I changed a GPU out - I did have a 4350 in there so I was all Radeon before - I bought the GTS250 purely for folding heh
The thing is, it actually crashes the client with an error message, no matter what settings are being used....Quote:
Originally Posted by slaveofconvention
[16:36:16] Run: exception thrown during GuardedRun
[16:36:16] Run: exception thrown in GuardedRun -- Gromacs cannot continue further.
Hmm - no idea - I don't have the hardware to try to replicate it - the only thing that springs to mind is to disable GPU0 and enable just GPU1 - assuming the x2 is in your first PCIe slot, it may then attempt just to use the 4850 - on the off chance that it IS picking up the two cores of the 4870 as seperate GPU's, you might have to play with GPU2 as well... - trial and error and process of elimination and all that etc....
Done, done and done. No dice. Not even just the 4850.
Well - worth a shot - there's every chance the CPU load of the GPU clients would have dropped the CPU PPD by most of the 5k you'd likely get from the Radeons anyway - the benefit, if there was any at all, would probably have been just a couple of percentage points.
try not enabling the gpu3 client, uncheck it... The 4 series isnt supported by GPU3
I have tested pretty much every possible combination of settings, this problem was evident before I even downloaded this application.Quote:
Originally Posted by diluzio91
Doesn't matter anyway, I'll have 2x6950 in a few days, and I'm hitting 14,000 PPD on CPU alone when I'm not using my PC for anything else :)
When I enabled the GPU3 client on my 4870 - it still worked ok - it dropped from 2900ppd to about 2600 but it DID work.
On another note, while we may be in the mid-4000's in the rankings, we're actually in the top 400 for actual production per day AND that's still accelerating - for a new team, I think we're doing very well indeed. Once we get a couple more mid-high range nVidia's folding for us (coming soon so I've been led to believe) we'll really see some jumps....
does it matter which GPU your card is on? mine defaulted to GPU2, does it make a difference?
I have no idea - I'm new to this - did you autodetect GPUs?
nope, it did it by itself lol
If it aint broke, don't fix it :P
lol. the gpu number shouldnt make a difference, the the checkbox for GPU 3 might though
Wow, thanks. That tracker application is much easier to use. :D ...looks like I had something configured wrong before anyway, because no work units got turned in.. :think: Oh well, running with the tracker now. :D