EggXpert

Sidicas:

prophet42:

run the SMP client on the dual core. im running it on a X2 4400+ and am processing WU's every two days (they have a 4 day limit)

I noticed you passed me in the stats   Congratulations   At your current rate, in 30 days you will be the #1 contributor for our team.. Unless of course Sovet or somebody takes that crown from you

 

unfortunately for me i lost 7000 points when i ran them under my computers name instead of my own! the listed under eddy

i did cheat in that i pulled all my high CPU stuff off the X2 system. i do a lot of video stuff but im doing it on P4's and XP systems

The X2 still works as my house server without slowing down SMP much  

and its not about winning its about helping but its nice to know this old system i built is getting the job done, and the SMP client defiantly will tell you if your system isn't tuned right. mine crashed several time when i first installed it.

I get this when I ran as Admin ... =(

'smpd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'mpiexec' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'mpiexec' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Press any key to continue . . .

All I wanna do is help with research, but Nooooo my computer hates me. 

Sovet, did you try this?

2. Unpack files. Run the self-extracting installer to unpack the SMP client files.

3. Client installation. Run install.bat from within the SMP install directory to complete the installation. This will install MPI services that the client needs. If you have Windows Firewall enabled, you may get a pop-up window asking if you should give access to the smpd and mpiexec programs. Grant access. If you use an alternate firewall product, you will likely have to make a similar exception for smpd.

**NOTE** The username and password you provide for mpiexec should be your Windows login that you will run the client under. This is used for authentication on your local machine. It is cached in encrypted form in your Registry and is not transmitted to FAH servers.

At the end of the install process, you should see two lines of output:

If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working

If you do not see these lines, do not start the client. MPI is not successfully installed, and the client will not run successfully.

 

If the above doesn't work, then try posting on the Windows SMP section of the folding@home forums. 

 

Yeah, that's what I'm following, both sets of issues I posted are what I get when running the Install.bat (posting on the Folding forum as well.)

 

I think I found the solution in this thread:

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=20132&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=recognized+internal++external+command&start=0 

 

Yeah... I give up.

 

If you switch teams do your accrued points go with you or stay with the team you are leaving?  I am considering entering free agent status.

Points do not travel ..  It's to prevent people from threatening to leave a team if their demands are not met, you know, that kinda thing..

If you want to be team-less that's perfectly fine as well.. For a long time, I was teamless.  Though I'd really like to see Team EggXpert be in the top 500 teams.. 

Any workunits you donate under a team name stay under that teamname along with their point value..You can't donate $500 to the Red Cross and then decide 5 years later you want to take your $500 back and then give it to another charity..  It's the same kind of idea.. Once you complete a workunit with a teamname, it's there forever and nobody can take it away from that team.

 

well, i got it going and i figured (based on how long it takes to do so much) that my first WU will be done sat at 4:02 AM (mountain time)

What is the average wait time?  Also, it is only using up 50% of my cpu at an idle.  Is there a way to allow it the full 100%.

And, i have it set up as a service and console version. 

 

EDIT:
According to the log file, i started July 12 02:20:51
 

The regular CPU client is one thread and will only run on one core of a dual-core processor.. If you have a very fast dual-core machine running 24/7 then you could try the SMP client, but if you use the machine a lot, it won't finish the workunits before the deadlines and the workunits will be reassigned to somebody else before you get a chance to complete them..
The deadlines for the regular CPU client (the one you're running) are usually several months long, so no worries there! The SMP deadlines are only about 4 days..
Also the SMP client is Beta and requires a bit of baby-sitting..  You might want to consider running two regular CPU clients as a service running from different directories with the -local flag and a different machine ID.

 

Team EggXpert Video?

Some teams have created their own little videos for folding@home..  I'd really like to do one for Team EggXpert, but I'm just too busy.. Maybe somebody else would be interested?

Here's an example video: http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html (same video I linked to earlier).  Really impressive.. Another one that is a bit old: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/reloaded/

Team EggXpert is now ranked 1,953 of 73,239 total teams. Since we are above 2,000 we now have some stats graphs available for the team, check them out here
558 Completed Work Units!  Good job everybody!!  ( Regular Stats )

I'm still arm-wrestling my system into running it... =(

Ok, i have got my first WU done and am about half on my second.  But i looked at the log file and got this.

[06:59:09] + Attempting to send results
[07:03:53] Writing local files
[07:03:53] Completed 48750 out of 125000 steps  (39)
[07:04:09] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[07:04:09] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[07:04:09]     (171.64.122.142:8080)
[07:04:09] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed July 14) to work server.


[07:04:09] + Attempting to send results
[07:06:34] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[07:06:34]     (171.65.103.100:8080)
[07:06:34]   Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.

 

It gives me this error about every time it tries to send it.  Any ideas?

Congratulations on finishing your first work unit!

Wininet problems are because your IE settings are blocking it.. 

You need to reconfigure the client and set "USE IE SETTINGS" to NO instead of yes...

http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html

You just need to run the .exe with the -configonly flag...

1) Right click on FAH504Console.exe and choose create shortcut..

2) Right click on the new shortcut, click properties

3) Add -configonly flag to target

ex: C:\FAH\FAH504-Console.exe -configonly

4) Double-click on the shortcut and it will send you into the configuration, press ENTER to accept the current configuration until you get to the IE settings and change it to no.

That will fix your wininet problem.

wahoo, it worked.   thanks.

I've been running F@H for the last week and I'm only 3/4 done on my first WU.  Is there anyway to speed it up?

ajk2005:

I've been running F@H for the last week and I'm only 3/4 done on my first WU.  Is there anyway to speed it up?

(Looking back) You have just the P4 right? So you should run the regular OR gui client...  And yes, it should take about 2-5 days on a P4 if you don't use your computer at all and run it 24/7.. Running it 12 hours a day, should take 4-10 days...  Running 12 hours a day with heavy computer usage and gaming... Probably 8-20 days for it to finish...  It's not unusual. Some workunits are really big and you get a lot of points for them, some workunits are smaller and you get very few points for them..

 

I believe we should have a forum dedicated just for the Eggxperts team folding. Lots of other communities do, and I think It would benefit us greatly. It would allow greater exposure Instead of one just one sticky In a more generalized forum There are thousands of registered Eggxpert users, but only 30 on the folding team. A forum just for folding would Increase exposure dramatically plus offer tips and advice for getting going and help along the way.

What do you all think?

 

great idea!

Set it up!

 

Allright I'm signed up!  Funny story though... I set everything up last night, let it run overnight and throughout the next day while I was at work.  When I got home, my machine was powered off, and wouldn't power on when I pressed the power button -_-

 

So I switched off the power adapter, replugged in the power cable to the psu and booted up my baby.. luckly I made it to windows.  I checked some settings in bios and the only thing I saw was that for some reason my vdimm was .5 higher than it should've been... weird, not sure if that has anything to do with it.  Anyways, glad to have joined the newegg F@H team, let's make a new section for the F@H team!!!

Is there a package for nvidia yet?

oldsailor:

Is there a package for nvidia yet?

Answer:

mdhouston Folding@Home GPU Guru:

Talk to Nvidia. The core is vanilla dx9 code, and it is reported driver bugs preventing things from running. I should also note that the peak (tested) floating point performance of the 8800GTX and the X1900XTX is actually quite close. It will be interesting to see how things translate into real world performance and how close to peak performance is achievable. Once again, we are trying. It's in Nvidia's hands now, there isn't much we can do on our side with the current driver bugs we are hitting.

(Date from above, December 2006

 Nvidia is aware of the bugs in their drivers for over 8 months and has given the fixes needed to get folding@home running on their cards a very low priority..

If you want to complain to nvidia, here are the threads to do it in:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=19441 

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=28868 

Nvidia's official response found in the above thread:

nvidia:

I too would like to see F@H on NVIDIA GPUs, but our engineering managers have to set priorities appropriately based on many factors competing for their team members' time.

We're currently focused on CUDA for GPGPU applications, because the architecture and programming model (especially the on-chip shared memory and thread synchronization) have clear and proven benefits to performance compared to pure "streaming" approaches (aka GPGPU via OpenGL or Direct3D) for many parallel computations.

Note that CUDA sucks.. And the reason it sucks is because it is a special set of drivers that only works on nvidia cards.. Which means that what nvidia wants people to do, is switch your drivers over to CUDA, do some folding and then if you want to play games, switch your drivers back over to the regular gaming drivers..  Keep in mind, the ATI drivers work for both folding and gaming at the same time, no driver swapping nightmares there! The folding@home GPU application uses standard DirectX hooks, nothing fancy going on here, it's simple driver bugs in the regular nvidia drivers are preventing it from running on nvidia hardware. And it isn't nvidia's priority to fix it.. So if you're getting a GPU for folding, you're better off with ATI since every driver version from 7.2 and later is checked by ATI  to make sure it works properly with folding@home.. 

Keep in mind however, that the ATI HD 2000 series cards are not yet supported by the folding@home GPU client, NOT because there is anything wrong with the drivers, rather it is just that the folding@home team plans on rolling out a large number of new projects and workunits that will allow the HD 2000 series cards to do some really amazing scientific work, and they're in the process of making sure the science is mathematically and scientifically correct on the new graphics card workunits before rolling out the new GPU client... I was expecting it to be out by now, but I guess they ran into a few snags along the way.

Edit: It should be noted that both nvidia's CUDA and ATI's CTM are platform independant.. Which means once you get them working, you can then detach the GPU client from DirectX altogether.. Which means a possible GPU client on Linux and Mac OS X...  Getting them to work with the GPU client is a priority, in fact there is a CTM port for F@H already in progress that will boost the performance of ATI cards running folding@home by as much as 50% AND also possibly blow open the doors for a folding@home client running on ATI cards in Linux. (scary thought since nvidia is the choice for most Linux desktops)..

We only have 31 people that's running F@H.  Eggxpert has over 30,000 member and less than 1% is helping out with this project.  BTW, we're in 1,830th place at the moment.

ajk2005

arsonic:

Allright I'm signed up!  Funny story though... I set everything up last night, let it run overnight and throughout the next day while I was at work.  When I got home, my machine was powered off, and wouldn't power on when I pressed the power button -_-

Are you overclocked at all? This sounds a lot like overheating.. FAH is so CPU intensive that it puts most CPU stress tests to shame and even though your overclock may be stable doing everything else, it may not be stable while running folding@home because it uses SSE instructions that have been far more optimized for maximum performance than most games and other software...  Which might bump your CPU temps up a bit higher than they normally would be when gaming. So you have to watch out for that .. Same thing I suppose would be true for memory.. If you keep your temps cool, you should have no problems running a box 24 hours a day for 4 or 5 years straight...  (Which is what one of my Linux boxes have been doing)

 

yep, i had to adjust my OC to run SMP, i thought i was stable till i turned it on!