[email protected] n00b who swore he'd never fold

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jam3s

Discussion Starter · Mar 16, 2009

Hi I just read megaoption's [email protected] installation guide for vista

I installed it, followed all the directions to install the latest version,

and I also read Taeric's how to install/use [email protected] thread.

Here is a screenshot of everything running:

Did I get it right?

Main Question: How can I make it so that I can fold on both my CPU and my GPU??

also Am I using full load, did I set everything correctly?

This is my first time folding (I hope I'm doing this right)

I want to help the folding project and I want this to work properly. Please help me if you see anything wrong with this screenshot.

Thanks

edit: one last question.. do I have to register anywhere for my folding to be "Valid" or "sync" with stanford, or is everything working correctly..

jam3s

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lemans81

· #2 · Mar 16, 2009

No registering.
Bring up your task manage if you want to see if your using 100% of both cores.

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jam3s

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 16, 2009

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Originally Posted by lemans81

No registering.
Bring up your task manage if you want to see if your using 100% of both cores.

it's not using 100% but I guess that would depend on the Work Unit, correct?

Some are more intensive than others?

also I guess I'm just worred because in Fahmon it's missing:

Core
Credit
Deadline

and showing 0% ppd.

all it shows is:

1 Project: 46% progress ETA: 30 mins
Project; 3798 (R92, C3, G16)
Username Shawnj0 (37776)
Downloaded March 16, 4:23

Also how can I run SMP on my GPU, just download the GPU SMP client and run it simultaneously?

jam3s

edit: sorry guys for all the questions, I've just never folded before and I wanna make sure I get this right.

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lemans81

· #4 · Mar 16, 2009

Sorry its been a long long time since I have run smp, back when I ran it 5.91/5.92 it ran smp without any extra work. If its smp it should be using very close to 100% of each core...I would say no less than 80% of both cores.

As for the gpu client yes, its much simplier to set up and should run with the cpu client just fine. Personally I use Balwolfs vmware to fold, it uses 2 cores per vmware. You have to use the 1.5 ubuntu download if you go that route. It also adds quite a bit of points per day, but is a bit more advanced over standard smp I would bet.

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jam3s

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 16, 2009

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Originally Posted by lemans81

oh no! right now it's only using low amounts ~30% cpu on avg and sometimes sporatically higher on each core and ~1.4GB even though I set it to 100% usage and 4GB for memory when I set up the [email protected] Win32.exe SMP client.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or does it depend on WU like I suggested?

jam3s

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gibsonnova74

· #6 · Mar 16, 2009

When you set up SMP, did you use the -smp flag? There is a guide in the essentials thread.

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jam3s

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 16, 2009

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Originally Posted by gibsonnova74

When you set up SMP, did you use the -smp flag? There is a guide in the essentials thread.

hmmm, no I didn't do that.

I will read the guide, if installing the [email protected] system tray doesn't help me figure this out.

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Tufelhunden

· #8 · Mar 16, 2009

TBH I would first get that GPU folding. That thing is a beast.

Setting up the GPU is fairly straight forward too. Check the essentials thread for gpu2 folding.

Thanks for starting and Fold on!

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Ictinike

· #9 · Mar 16, 2009

Make sure to do an Update Projects in FAHMon to get the details of the core(s) your missing.. Also as stated, make sure to use -smp flag to get the SMP benefits and you should have 2-4 processes running (1 each core or 2 each core depending on WU)

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The Duke

· #10 · Mar 16, 2009

Also, make sure the "Machine ID#" isnt the same for any client.

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topshooter

· #11 · Mar 17, 2009

I suspect you installed the standard client and not the smp client? im basing this on the x86 part of the filename in the window, I couldnt be wrong though

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