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steve6787
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 Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:14 am Post subject: 250 Blocker? |
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After finishing my 2500 blocker last night, I received a 250 Blocker. I have never had one of these and its taking foooorrreeevveeerrr to complete! It started around 6PM last night and as of this morning, around 6:15AM, it was only at 50/250. Looks like I got a tinker, but never received one that was 250. I have the -forceasm and -advmethods flags. I have received a few 500 blockers that take a good bit of time also....
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len444
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:33 am Post subject: Re: 250 Blocker? |
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| steve6787 wrote: | | After finishing my 2500 blocker last night, I received a 250 Blocker. I have never had one of these and its taking foooorrreeevveeerrr to complete! It started around 6PM last night and as of this morning, around 6:15AM, it was only at 50/250. Looks like I got a tinker, but never received one that was 250. I have the -forceasm and -advmethods flags. I have received a few 500 blockers that take a good bit of time also.... |
one way to tell what wu type you have, is to reference the currently running projects page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html
there are new 10XX series wu's, so it's possible you have one of these. it helps to run the verbosity 9 flag, as it will show the ip address that the wu came from, and then you can reference the server status page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/serverstat.html
if i remember correctly, you changed from an amd k62-400, to a pIII 500 (not sure on the pIII mhz). how are things going w/ the pIII? does the fahlog.txt file show "extra sse boost ok" when a wu is initiated? |
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steve6787
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | it helps to run the verbosity 9 flag |
I actually do have the verbosity 9 flag running, I forgot to include that in the list of flags Im using.
| Quote: | | if i remember correctly, you changed from an amd k62-400, to a pIII 500 (not sure on the pIII mhz). how are things going w/ the pIII? does the fahlog.txt file show "extra sse boost ok" when a wu is initiated? |
Im running a PIII 550, and its running great. Folds a lot quicker. Took 15-20 days on a 500 blocker with the K6-2 400 and 2-3 days on a 500 blocker with PIII. Yes, It does say "extra sse boost ok" in the fahlog.txt
Also, thanks for the links!
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len444
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| steve6787 wrote: | | Quote: | | it helps to run the verbosity 9 flag |
I actually do have the verbosity 9 flag running, I forgot to include that in the list of flags Im using.
| Quote: | | if i remember correctly, you changed from an amd k62-400, to a pIII 500 (not sure on the pIII mhz). how are things going w/ the pIII? does the fahlog.txt file show "extra sse boost ok" when a wu is initiated? |
Im running a PIII 550, and its running great. Folds a lot quicker. Took 15-20 days on a 500 blocker with the K6-2 400 and 2-3 days on a 500 blocker with PIII. Yes, It does say "extra sse boost ok" in the fahlog.txt
Also, thanks for the links! |
what WU are you currently working on?!?
extra sse boost ok- rock on!
is stability ok? |
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J.C.GARCIA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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just a small note . from what i've noticed the wu's that use the fahcore65 dont have any boost like the extra sse boost . has anyone noticed this 
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len444
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| J.C.GARCIA wrote: | | just a small note . from what i've noticed the wu's that use the fahcore65 dont have any boost like the extra sse boost . has anyone noticed this |
that's a good observation. this is because the tinker wu's (fahcore_65.exe) don't use "assembly code" optimizations. sse, and 3dnow! are assembly optimizations, and can only be utilized by gromacs wu's (fahcore_78.exe). this is one of the reasons (if not the main reason) why gromacs are processed that much faster than the other wu's. just an added point for reference- the GAH wu's (fahcore_ca.exe) don't use assembly code optimizations either.
rock on! fold on! to the top 100 we shall climb (raaaah!!!)!!! |
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J.C.GARCIA
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well i'm only getting tinkers at the moment . if i were to upload a finished wu , and before i download the next one i disconnected from the internet thus not receiving , would it connect to another server and maybe download a gromac on my next reconnection
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len444
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| J.C.GARCIA wrote: | | well i'm only getting tinkers at the moment . if i were to upload a finished wu , and before i download the next one i disconnected from the internet thus not receiving , would it connect to another server and maybe download a gromac on my next reconnection |
the pause configuration should allow the wu to be completed, sent in, and stopped. i haven't tried it, but this is something to try and verify. you might be able to get gromacs by deleting the fahcore_65.exe (after the completed tinker is sent in), make certain to have the -advmethods -forceasm -verbosity 9 flags in place, and then start up the client. pretty sure you're running as a service (if i remember correctly), so i wonder if you need to perform a reboot to get folding going? i haven't run folding as a service yet, so i'm not hands on experienced in that specific regard. |
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steve6787
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| Quote: | | what WU are you currently working on?!? |
p1004_ppg 10c_273
Seems to be rock solid, this is my 6th WU on the new machine, and it seems to be very stable!
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len444
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| steve6787 wrote: | | Quote: | | what WU are you currently working on?!? |
p1004_ppg 10c_273
Seems to be rock solid, this is my 6th WU on the new machine, and it seems to be very stable! |
stability is a good thing, esp. w/ the 10xx series wu's. there been a lot of discussion that they work the cpu's the hardest of all the wu's. seems that they max the cpu's to such an extent, that overclocking becomes a problem w/ them. it's good to hear that things are stable !
just curious, how much L2 cache does the PIII550 have? |
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