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[loft]

I've come to the conclusion that I am going to build a dedicated server for folding. SMP w/ bigadv WU's generates a ton more points than smp+gpu

I've priced out a 32 core G34 build and it's going to be around the same as doing a rebuild and quite frankly, my current system is fine for everything else I do.

 

[Dusty_D]

We have a new "Multi-Millionaire". Check out the Millionaire thread for details.

 

[loft]

We have a new "Multi-Millionaire". Check out the Millionaire thread for details.

Awesome!

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[Bovinia]

Congratz multi millions!!

Loft, I see you have power...how did you fair the blizzard? We are buried under 34" in Manchester. The snow plows are getting stuck LOL

 

[Throttles]

Congrats to the new Multis!

We are #52 of the top 24hr/avg point teams.....Let break that top 50 mark!

 

[loft]

Congratz multi millions!!

Loft, I see you have power...how did you fair the blizzard? We are buried under 34" in Manchester. The snow plows are getting stuck LOL

Crazy stuff. We got a little over 30 here. It's been a long day. Was up at midnight last night doing snow removal and then at 6am I picked up a couple people who work at the nursing home that my mother works at cuz their streets weren't plowed. The residents needed them though so I had no problem doing it. Then I had to work... And my street still isn't plowed. Thankfully my jeep wrangler chewed through the snow without a single issue. Power still on, rig still folding. Tomorrow more snow removal. Hope I don't have to pull anyone out of snow banks tomorrow...

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[DuaneNeveu]

First work unit has begun.

Brilliant...just brilliant. I'm going to try enlisting friends and family, and everybody at work too!

 

[sashwa]

Welcome, Duane, to the team. Thanks for joining.

 

[DuaneNeveu]

Welcome, Duane, to the team. Thanks for joining.

I only wish I'd done it sooner!

 

[loft]

Welcome aboard!! If you have any questions at all don't be afraid to ask. Make sure you set a pass key and once you successfully complete your first work unit make sure you fill out the form to have the tag placed under your username.

And on another note... I started ordering the parts for this folding rig. It's going to be an open air design... Pictures to follow in a week or three (the motherboard is $640 so I have to wait until next paycheck) but it's gonna be sweeeeet. I'm estimating 200-300k ppd.

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[hotrod3539]

Welcome Duane!! Congrats to the new multimillionaires!

Loft, are you trying to run over Dusty?? Lol!! Nice idea on the rig cant wait to see the pics!

 

[Throttles]

Loft - Wouldn't it be more advantageous to go lighter on the board and run something like a single Quad AMD CPU with 3 NVIDIA GPUs. You could save on the Mobo and CPU and go Bigger on the GPU and gain more PPD. For the price of building one server open air design you could probably build two.....just my

 

[loft]

Loft - Wouldn't it be more advantageous to go lighter on the board and run something like a single Quad AMD CPU with 3 NVIDIA GPUs. You could save on the Mobo and CPU and go Bigger on the GPU and gain more PPD. For the price of building one server open air design you could probably build two.....just my

Actually it's well documented that 2p and 4p (p meaning processor) rigs pump out more ppd over a system running a gpu setup. I'm starting with a 2p rig and will add the other two once I brush up on my Linux. But when it's done it should put out 500k ppd. It's going to cost me less than a grand, and my current rig with an nvidia gpu (gtx670 over clocked to 680 speeds) is only averaging 50k ppd. The open air case is custom built and ordered, will be here in two weeks. The cpu's were only 80 bucks each and each one has eight physical cores. The equivalent to an Intel i7 with hyperthreading enabled but the cost to run the system is less for me.

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[loft]

Also the cost of three nvidia GPUs would be around 300 each and amd cpus are not the best for folding. Power usage of that one system would be around 800–1000 watts versus 300 for the g34 system I'm building.

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[loft]

Welcome Duane!! Congrats to the new multimillionaires!

Loft, are you trying to run over Dusty?? Lol!! Nice idea on the rig cant wait to see the pics!

No no not at all. I've been dying to build a new system but I have no real need for a rebuild on the machine I use daily. I have the knowledge and I love the hobby so there's no reason why I shouldn't do this. We're all doing it for the same reasons and I just want to do it more efficiently instead of half assed like I have been.

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[Bovinia]

First work unit has begun.

Brilliant...just brilliant. I'm going to try enlisting friends and family, and everybody at work too!

Welcome aboard Duane!!

Hey Loft...I need a sugar daddy LOL! The new rig sounds great

 

[MattBott]

Anyone have any tips or settings that will generate more PPD? Right now I'm folding on my i7 960 (all 8 "cores") and Radeon HD 7950.

I remember when I was folding in '04 on a linux rig, I would run in a command prompt and use different flags to do ... something. Its been too long, haha.

For my i7 my current Estimated PPD is at 2743.30
The Radeon is at 1459.03

 

[Throttles]

Are you running? SMP:8 and GPU? With ATI cards you need to leave at least 1 core for it. From what I have read it would be better for you to do SMP on 6 and leave the other two ( one will be used by the gpu)....that is if you want to fold on the gpu. You may get better results by not folding on the gpu at all and just going straight SMP:8 .....unless I am misreading. I am folding in Mint so I am not using my gpu

 

[loft]

Throttles is right. Right now if you're using all eight threads to fold, the ATI drivers won't be able to effectively work since they rely on cpu power unlike nvidia. You can try using seven threads for CPU and one thread left for GPU but F@H recommends even numbered threads (2, 4, 6, etc). If your i7 960 is at stock clocks you should be generating about 10k-12k PPD using six threads. The 7950 will generate approximately 9k-12k. To set your affinity (thread usage) you have to modify it through the F@H client, do not use processor affinity in task manager. Drag the F@H client window or maximize it so you can see the drop down, set it to Advanced, then PAUSE the client. Click configure > Slots > "smp" > Edit > and then at the top of the window it's going to have a radio button with SMP next to it. Set it from -1 to 6. Click ok, save, and then Fold.

 

[eikon]

Ok, so.... I haven't touched seti@home since the mid 90's when all it seemed to do was crash my computer every hour, on the hour.

I am sure this will be TMI, but, I'm now up and running on my i7-3700k @ 3.9GHz, with an ancient GeForce 9600gt 512mb GPU (I don't need much GPU for Adobe Lightroom, so I didn't get a new one). I have it running basically on default (changed smp to 6 from -1) and its running my GPU at +-96% and my 8 cores between 26%-98% (cores 1 & 8 being the lowest 70% & 28% average. Core temps maintaining around boiling). Right now it's giving me an estimated PPD of 17600, but, even simple web surfing is painfully slow, I don't even want to think about actually working with this thing running, is there any way of balancing MY productivity with IT'S productivity? I remember the old version had a 'screen saver mode', I don't see anything like that in this version, but I can also be blind sometimes and I' am near knowledgeless when it comes to distributed computing and resource allocation.

also, I have an older netbook (first gen Atom, I think) that I rarely use would it be worth dedicating to the cause?

cheers,
jeff