Folding update

[Blade404]

Fired my machine up this morning it downloaded and rattled through a WU in an hour and a half on the GPU

[philje123]

Am i being stupid here or what!!??

Do you have to have the display open in order for it to run... byt this i mean the visualisation???

If i don't have this open it doesn't do anything and it resets it if i close it and re-open!

[mannyo]

ignore the display, try viewing the logfile to see if its updating. click on the icon in the bottom by the clock and select view log, then look again about 1hr later to see if its done anything.

[fatty5000]

I got the ps3 on the case now. But the pc seems to be throwing errors ......"attempting to get work" or something ????

[philje123]

Have checked the log after i closed it and this is what it says at the end:

[12:36:20] + Attempting to send results
[12:36:22] + Results successfully sent
[12:36:22] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[12:36:26] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[12:36:26] + Attempting to get work packet
[12:36:26] - Connecting to assignment server
[12:36:27] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.20).
[12:36:27] + News From Folding@Home: GPU folding beta
[12:36:27] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:36:28] + Closed connections
[12:36:33]
[12:36:33] + Processing work unit
[12:36:33] Core required: FahCore_11.exe
[12:36:33] Core found.
[12:36:33] Working on Unit 00 [June 20 12:36:33]
[12:36:33] + Working ...
[12:36:33]
[12:36:33] *------------------------------*
[12:36:33] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[12:36:33] Version 1.05 (Thu Jun 12 15:39:34 PDT 2008)
[12:36:33]
[12:36:33] Compiler :
[12:36:33] Build host: amoeba
[12:36:33] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:36:33] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:36:33] - Created dyn
[12:36:33] - Files status OK
[12:36:33] - Expanded 42068 -> 246249 (decompressed 585.3 percent)
[12:36:33] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=42068 data_size=246249, decompressed_data_size=246249 diff=0
[12:36:33] - Digital signature verified
[12:36:33]
[12:36:33] Project: 5002 (Run 6, Clone 130, Gen 29)
[12:36:33]
[12:36:33] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[12:36:33] Entering M.D.
[12:36:39] mdrun_gpu returned -1
[12:36:39] Going to send back what have done.
[12:36:40] logfile size: 5447 info=5447 bed=25 hdr=1
[12:36:40] - Writing 5985 bytes of core data to disk...
[12:36:40] Done: 5473 -> 1992 (compressed to 36.3 percent)
[12:36:40] ... Done.
[12:36:40]
[12:36:40] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNSTABLE_MACHINE
[12:36:44] CoreStatus = 7A (122)
[12:36:44] Sending work to server


[12:36:44] + Attempting to send results
[12:36:45] + Results successfully sent
[12:36:45] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[12:36:49] EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours.

[mannyo]

That log suggests that the folding program is not working correctly at all. Looks like either a driver problem or an incompatible graphics card. Thats what my log looks like, but my card is not cuda compatible.

[philje123]

Well i have an 8800gtx which is listed as been CUDA compatible but i'm having problems getting the CUDA drivers working with it so thats probably what it is!

Phil

[Blade404]

I'm running it on a gf8600gts with the 175 drivers.

Yesterday it wouldn't grab a WU, when I fired the box up today it grabbed one straight away and ploughed straight through it!

Half way through a second WU now.

[philje123]

Are you having to open the display window to get it to run?

[Blade404]

Nope, it's just sat in the system tray.

To monitor it's progress I've got the log file open in Tail4Win.

If I try to open the display it now makes the mouse freeze till it manages to draw the screen.

I've since fired up iTunes and I'm running the visualisation (50-60fps) on my 2nd monitor and it's not slowed the folding at all.

[Neo_VR]

The CUDA and PhysX drivers are now official and available from Nvidia...

As is the latest GPU-folding client

[wja96]

I've just changed my folding system as it was all getting a bit much on the power cost front.

1 Computer
DFI X48 T2R Motherboard (3 x16 PCIe slots)
8Gb RAM
Q9450 @4 GHz
3 BFG 8800GTX H2OC graphics cards
NVidia 177.92 CUDA drivers
3 copies of the 6.20 GPU2 client

12000ppd.

That's 1 machine doing 50% of the team's points. Fast GPUs are so the thing to have at the moment

[wja96]

All these guys with big graphics cards - where are the points? Even if an 8800GTX is only turned on for 4 hours each evening it would still do 1000ppd, and if you can bring yourself to leave it running 24/7 it'll do 5000ppd+, so I don't understand why we're not doing better?

[Blade404]

My beta ran out and I've not gotten around to updating it.

I've mainly been using the PS3 of late so I've done the odd WU on that instead.

[djswivel]

I've only got a little graphics card (8500GT) and it manages 2 WU over 24hrs.

[wja96]

Originally Posted by djswivel

I've only got a little graphics card (8500GT) and it manages 2 WU over 24hrs.

That's still 960 points per day which is quite a lot if you look at how many active users we have. I've just swapped out an 8800GTX for a BFG 280GTX H2OC which is doing almost 10,000PPD just by itself

[mannyo]

At this rate you are going to catch me in no time.

[redbaron]

ignore it.. seems to be working now.

[Neo_VR]

Originally Posted by wja96

I've just changed my folding system as it was all getting a bit much on the power cost front.

1 Computer
DFI X48 T2R Motherboard (3 x16 PCIe slots)
8Gb RAM
Q9450 @4 GHz
3 BFG 8800GTX H2OC graphics cards
NVidia 177.92 CUDA drivers
3 copies of the 6.20 GPU2 client

12000ppd.

That's 1 machine doing 50% of the team's points. Fast GPUs are so the thing to have at the moment

How did you manage to get your q9450 to 4gig? - mine seems reluctant to go above 3.2

[wja96]

Originally Posted by Neo_VR

How did you manage to get your q9450 to 4gig? - mine seems reluctant to go above 3.2

1. Lots of cooling2. Lots and Lots of volts - it will die, there is enough evidence now to prove that Electron Migration is a real phenomenon in the Q9xx0 series CPUs, but so far it's just fine.3. Very fast RAM. The DFI needs to run 1:1 so I'm running the fastest OCZ RAM I can lay my hands on.