Is 856 Points with 18 WU considered decent for 2 days work with 1 computer?

[Brutal-Force]

I have actually been 3 days, but the first day was nothing but starting and stopping. I have had my current client open for just over 1.5 days. Just wanna get an idea of if I am doing it right, or if I am not optimized.

[Brutal-Force]

Another Question. I am running a 8400GS, in order to run gpu folding I need to reinstall Nvidia Cuda Driver, correct?

If I shut down my rig to reinstall the drivers, then I restart my folding, it will start up where I left off correct?

[jonspd]

is that on the computer in your sig?


if so you should be able to get alot more then that off the smp client on that quad...

[Brutal-Force]

Well I just started, and I used one click start up for starters, as it is the easiest to understand. I will slowly get the hang of it, just wanted to know if thats a good start?

[ChasR]

18 WUs for 856 points tells me you've got a problem completing WUs or had one. Read your log and look for EARLY_UNIT_END. Not many Q6600s are folding stable at 3.6GHz. You might have one or not. If you have a bunch of EUEs while folding, it's not stable.

You're making 285 ppd on a machine capable of 5800 ppd on the SMP client. So, no you're not optimized.
You could at least run 4 standard clients.

[jonspd]

or 1 winsmp client or 2 x vmware linux 64 os with one smp client a piece.

[the_cultie]

Hi Brutal-Forcem, welcome to the addiction. Personally I've become a big fan of the Notfreds VM. I'm getting around 1600 PPD on my Opty 180 and around 4100 PPD from a PhII 810 running 2 VM's. Its very easy to setup and once its running you never really have to touch it and it can be easily monitored from Fahmon.

[Brutal-Force]

I didnt have smp up and running properly for the first day, and I was having alot of difficulties to start.

Also, I had my cpu overclocked to 3.6 but I went ahead and slowed it down because my cooling is inadequate, especially when I am away because the air conditioner turns off. So I turned my rig down to 2.8 for now, keeps my temps under 70. I was also only running one project to start. Next I bumped it up to 4 projects using the One click method. Finally just now I installed the -smp MCIH version.

I am not sure If i have to let the other processes end or if I can just run them all simultaneously. At any rate for now, I will just let them all run and see if it gives me a problem.

I am currently running 1 client from this guide http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=576516

And 4 clients from this guide.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=231247

I am at about 964 PPD at the moment. It seems that PPD and Credit Points appear to mean two different things. Some of the WU I download have as man as 775 points while some as low as 47 points. Not sure what bearing that has but I am sure I will figure it out.

I am also considering running a GPU client as well, but we will see.

[Edward2]

Once the 4 one-click clients finish their current WU's, I would suggest running 2 of the MPICH clients. Just make sure that you are using the -smp flag when you startup the client. And make sure that you change the affinity for each of the clients, assign one client to cores 0 and 1, and assign the other client to cores 2 and 3. That should get you around 4,000 PPD.

What WU is your MPICH client running right now?

[Brutal-Force]

It also seems that 10 of those WUs didn't yeild anything in points. Like you said eariler, I must have had some problems while shutting down and restarting, so technically only 8 counted.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=447676

[Jolly-Swagman]

The clients you are running in uni-processor mode (singlecore) you need just 2 x SMP clients and MUST have the -smp flag for them to work as SMP
Otherwise they default to Uni-Processor mode.

You have folded 20 WU,s so far, and if they were SMP you would be seeing over 20k in points

[Brutal-Force]

Yeah I have alot of unfinished WUs. Setting this up is such a pita.

I have SMP running, I guess we will see how successful I am.

[Outback_Jon]

18 WUs for 856 points tells me you've got a problem completing WUs or had one.
Not necessarily. (But check your logs like ChasR suggested) One of my computers has been getting a bunch of 47 point units lately. (And the math works out almost perfectly if that's all Brutal-Force got)

EDIT: Oops. I didn't see your last post Brutal-Force. You'll probably see some improvement with the SMP client.

[Jolly-Swagman]

Post up a FAHlog.txt and wrap it in code box


Also have you done - type Folding@home-Win32-x86 -smp -verbosity 9 -forceasm -> Press Enter


From the points being output to your EOC your not running SMP client

[Adak]

Yeah I have alot of unfinished WUs. Setting this up is such a pita.

I have SMP running, I guess we will see how successful I am.

Brutal-Force, you aren't running in SMP mode. You are in the much slower single processor/single core mode.

It is the same FAH client, but not the same function of that client.

As stated previously, that's somewhere around 600% slower.