TPF for p5102 Curmudgeon in water

[ihrsetrdr]

Too bad I didn't hit the "submit" button when I posted this earlier. :shrug:

Anyway, I just set up VMware Player 3.0 beta on my i7 920 rig and am running: p5102 (Run 0, Clone 155, Gen 54) with a TPF of 26 mins, 26 sec.

VMplayer has 4 cores, 1040mb of RAM, I'm thinking that it maybe 'should' have better TPF, or is such the norm for this monster WU? I have gotten some of these in the past- I don't recall them taking so long. ?

[ChasR]

Looks to me like a 2 core VM on a Q6600 @ 3.4 was doing 46:05/frame. My data is a little screwy since adopting 4 core WMs and reusing existing one's without renaming them. Then I see a Q9450 at 3.4 with 30:20/frame. The latter now has a 4 core VM on it, though I think that TPF was from 2 cores.

Edit: I completed the p5102 in on August 14, several days after adopting a 4 core VM on the Q9450. THat makes your time on the i7 look about right. p5102 is not one of the better producers.

[ChasR]

bumped for edit ^

[ihrsetrdr]

Thanks Charlie. When I get off work (@midnight) I'll install the XIGMATEK Dark Knight that arrived at home a couple hours ago. Then I'll be back on some CPU work with this rig; was running a bit hot(mid 70sC). The weather here is confused, it wants to be Fall but just can't get over the nasty habit of being Summer. :-/ I'm still getting familiar with this X58 motherboard, will have to do some more OC and system tweaking.

I've got 6 gigs of tri-channel DDR3 on this board, so in order to fully utilize the hardware assets, I should be doing -bigadv units in native Linux, or a combination of GPU/VMs in a 64 bit Windows OS. Thing is, I just have XP, but have no desire to get XP 64, Vista or Win 7. I bet running 2 SMP clients in Linux would roll pretty smooth, as compared to running 2 on a Q6600.

[NV]

should be doing -bigadv units in native Linux

No reason you can't still run the GPU client(s) along side it. Just go with Ubuntu 9.04 if you're unfamiliar (?) and Sydney's guide is great. There seem to be some issues with 9.10 still being ironed out though.

Trust me, the jump in PPD is amazing. My i7 @ 3.8GHz gets about 10k PPD with the normal client and the -smp 8 flag. -bigadv gives me about 25k PPD. And I'm pretty sure I can push this rig harder.


But I'm feeling as though I'm telling you things you already know :) Go for it - you won't be sorry.

[Bobnova]

I keep picturing this old guy saying "Bah!" in a swimming pool.

[Porvalsh]

I've been using -smp 4. I see now that perhaps I should be using -smp 8? I thought the number meant cores not threads.

[ihrsetrdr]

No reason you can't still run the GPU client(s) along side it. Just go with Ubuntu 9.04 if you're unfamiliar (?) and Sydney's guide is great. There seem to be some issues with 9.10 still being ironed out though.


Yes, I do need to focus on the GPU folding in Linux; I initially tried it several months ago, but did something incorrectly, and just hadn't taken the time to sort it out.


I've been using -smp 4. I see now that perhaps I should be using -smp 8? I thought the number meant cores not threads.

Yes, go with -smp 8 if you have 4 physical/4 hyperthread.