Bonus for A4-core based projects

Audioaficionado · Jul 23, 2012

Can I leave v6.34 alone in it's fah folder unused and unharmed if I install v7?

ChasR · Jul 23, 2012

ChasR · Jul 23, 2012

If you accepted the defaults during the v7 install, you will need to uninstall v7 before reverting v6.34, should you decide to do so.

Robert17 · Jul 23, 2012

Tell me what I'm missing; I'm running v7 but don't see anything regarding core A3 vs A4.

Code:

22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Folding@Home GPU Core
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Version                2.22 (Thu Dec 8 17:08:05 PST 2011)
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Build host             SimbiosNvdWin7
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Board Type             NVIDIA/CUDA
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Core                   15
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Window's signal control handler registered.
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Preparing to commence simulation
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:- Looking at optimizations...
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:- Files status OK
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:sizeof(CORE_PACKET_HDR) = 512 file=<>
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:- Expanded 126375 -> 507182 (decompressed 401.3 percent)
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=126375 data_size=507182, decompressed_data_size=507182 diff=0
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:- Digital signature verified
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Project: 7624 (Run 381, Clone 0, Gen 17)
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Assembly optimizations on if available.
22:56:35:WU00:FS00:0x15:Entering M.D.
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:Will resume from checkpoint file 00/wudata_01.ckp
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:Tpr hash 00/wudata_01.tpr:  2209113131 370606731 3603423949 2667288859 1686976519
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:GPU device info: vendor=0 device=0 name=<NA> match=0
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:Working on Protein
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:Client config unavailable.
22:56:37:WU00:FS00:0x15:Starting GUI Server
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Using Gromacs checkpoints
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Mapping NT from 4 to 4 
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Resuming from checkpoint
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Verified 01/wudata_01.log
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Verified 01/wudata_01.trr
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Verified 01/wudata_01.xtc
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Verified 01/wudata_01.edr
22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Completed 637620 out of 2500000 steps  (25%)

Psykoikonov · Jul 23, 2012

Project: 7624 (Run 381, Clone 0, Gen 17)

Project 7624 is a GPU project (Core15). Only SMP (CPU) projects are receiving the bonus, on top of that only CoreA4 (not CoreA3 or CoreA5) are receiving the bonus.

edit: on this page projects with GRO-A4 under the Code column will receive the 10% bonus.

HayesK · Jul 23, 2012

22:56:41:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Mapping NT from 4 to 4

Also running: an A4 wu (FS01 = slot 1, 0xa4 = A4, mapping NT from 4 to 4 = 4 cores), but not enough of the log to tell which one.

Robert17 · Jul 23, 2012

I got confused by the mention of the 6.34 client.....thanks guys.

Psykoikonov · Jul 23, 2012

HayesK said:
Also running: an A4 wu (FS01 = slot 1, 0xa4 = A4, mapping NT from 4 to 4 = 4 cores), but not enough of the log to tell which one.

I missed that one.

Edward2 · Jul 23, 2012

Edward2 said:
I just setup a new VM Ubuntu 12.04 on my Q9300 computer, so that I could install v7. I'm going to let it run for a few days and see what the PPD is with the 10% bonus. If it's better than v6.34, then I will keep running v7; otherwise, I will go back to v6.34.

With Ubuntu 10.10 and v6.34, my Q9300 rig was getting 7200-7800 PPD on the A3 core wu's.

With Ubuntu 12.04 and v7, my first A4 core wu got about 8300 PPD including the 10% bonus.

Audioaficionado · Jul 24, 2012

Interesting interface. I'll see how my PPD does with v7/A4 soon enough.

harlam357 · Jul 24, 2012

Why could they have just changed the KFactor a bit so we don't have to do math manually? Maybe I should release another HFM with an option for +10% on A4? - so users can have (semi) accurate numbers.

Edward2 · Jul 24, 2012

harlam357 said:
Why could they have just changed the KFactor a bit so we don't have to do math manually?

I agree. Why not change something, so that all of the monitoring software could report accurate PPD? Seems like it would have been an easy thing to do.

Audioaficionado · Jul 30, 2012

v6.34 a3 vs v7 a4... not too impressive so far.

I don't see any advantage yet.

Humanoid1 · Jul 30, 2012

Hmm, this last week I have been getting some new (for me) projects with rather less appealing PPD:

7904 - getting 13k PPD on this 8hour project -.-
7903 - is similar

But on the up side there are some like:

7024 - avging 39k PPD on this 3 Hour project
7025 - about the same ^

But am mostly landing :

8014 - had a Lot of these 23k PPD 1 hour projects

Luckily I only seem to rarely get the bad ones, maybe you caught a few of those this past few days?

Edward2 · Jul 30, 2012

My Q9300 doesn't produce a lot of PPD under any circumstances. Here is what I am getting.

wu 7809 = 8300 PPD
wu 8004 = 7800 PPD
wu 7646 = 7100 PPD

BrotherJohn · Jul 30, 2012

Edward2 said:
My Q9300 doesn't produce a lot of PPD under any circumstances. Here is what I am getting.

wu 7809 = 8300 PPD
wu 8004 = 7800 PPD
wu 7646 = 7100 PPD

That's better than I am seeing on a 8004 = 5100.
But I am running W7 on a FX-4100 at stock speed.
These dang 762x GPU wu's are really killing the ppd.

freeagent · Jul 30, 2012

I've been chewing thru a lot of small wu's, but they bring some points. Had to shut er down for a bit, the air coming out of my psu was almost 50c lol, and it was getting a bit cranky. I've kicked the crap out of my corsair since 07, it doesn't have the drive it did before, so I may go get a new psu today, and put this on my q9550, and retire my thermal take toughpower 650. My 775 setup is hard on that old psu, which is about 7 years old now

Edward2 · Jul 30, 2012

I haven't gotten any of the 762x GPU wu's. My GTX285 was getting only 1050x wu's (9750 PPD), and now it is getting 576x wu's (9531 PPD).

Arkaine23 · Jul 30, 2012

I need a service install to run this in the labs. Am I stuck with v6.34?

Humanoid1 · Jul 30, 2012

you can run v7 as a service, but cannot use a GPU as part of a service instal

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