http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/articles-1-3+gpu-environment-variables.php

you just have to try and see what works for you,seen folks reported from 64 and all the way up in the 200?s,32 incremental.
could adjust setting for cpuusage in the cfg-file a bit,desperately tried it when I had heat issues,so put it at 90 instead of 96.
and its own core for ati cards was what worked best on 4850,alternatively low/below affinity on smp and above/high for gpu, either of them didn?t worked out very good for me.
iirc a 4850 had cpu load around 5-8 % , but don?t use it anymore so it could be wrong estimates.used more ati cards so could mix them up here.

Thanks for the link and experiences.

Looks like my credit numbers are going down (Both.) and ETA is going up. (SMP ETA+6 hours.)

I'll just let them both run and hope for the best. I'll reconsider that decision after I have a few days of results to mull over.

Thanks for all the help.

about gpu clients could add -verbosity 9 -forceasm in the shortcut.

I am now getting 1min 6s per frame at best on the smaller GPU work units (384 credit). SMP with smp -7 on i860 is slower but still takes 4m40s to 5minutes per 1% frame. Both clients are running on the same system at the same time, and the SMP bonus is finally kicking in. I might break 10k PPD production on a single system. without overclocking thanks to the bonuses. I don't know what the SMP might do on this system without the GPU client stealing CPU time..

Well after the GPU client dominated my cards fan I got it fixed and running it again.

I really shouldn?t,but against better knowledgement I do
with 6 gb of ram+a cpu with 8 cores can run -bigadv and then it is goodnight to gpu folders
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=12068

my self got hardware sorted out almost,have one or two eventuall improvement left, one more card to put in and that is it,that and getting a2 instead of a1, and no,can?t run -bigadv.

Seems my issue was solved by downloading the latest core and adding -smp 3 vs -smp. This doubled the time the SMP client takes when running alone. I am tickled pink with double compared to what it was if it means I can GPU fold to.

I'll admit I was a little impatient with the 4 core test and may remove the -smp 3 flag to test. It may hang, it may slow right down but we'll see.

P.S.

I had previously tried setting affinity to 3 cores in W7 but it didn't help.

P.P.S

I went back to -smp 3. The 4 cores took 40 minutes to do 1% vs 12 with -smp 3.

random timings from a project.
amd 630 = 14 min 21 seconds 1760 points a1 project 2653
amd 940 = 10 min 37 seconds 1760 points a1 project 2653

For those of you who don't track the team charts very closely, there's been a problem with the new NV GPU servers and server code for just over a week, now. It hit me very hard, because I'm primarily a GPU folder. I was getting work, doing work, and uploading the results to a black hole. After those points started being credited, I saw the second reported proble- the completed WU wouldn't upload. I still have a few of those trying to upload for a couple days. I haven't gotten all my points, but they should show up in the next week.
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=13474

We are, briefly, at #145 again. It still looks like we'll break 140 in about 6 weeks.

Lots of milestones
Dragon32 400,000 02-20-10
Floating_Jet 6,000 02-20-10
Pjstaab 20,000 02-19-10
jaxawier 600,000 02-18-10
subparwelder 10,000 02-17-10
gigabyte 750 02-17-10
Galahaut 175,000 02-16-10
Striken7 8,000 02-16-10
Ragnalin_The_Thief 250 02-16-10
Paceline 90,000 02-14-10

No new members, but a few have become active, again. Cookies to you. :cookie:

Fold on. :goodjob:

I had to stop my GPU folding on this rig because the PSU whines. Even with my new Corsair HX850.

But I finally got my second rig up and folding at stock speeds for now. (Had poor OCing results but was not really putting much effort into it.)

So it's a q9550 @ 3.5, an e6850 @ 3.0, and I'll give the 8800 GTX a go at folding for our team. I do not remember the 8800 ever making my PSU whine, a known ATI issue even when not folding for some. (Not me thankfully, only when folding.)

P.S.

Turns out it is not ATI specific. I'll still fold on the 8800 though. It's in my Antec 900 behind a wall known as the Corsair 800D. So it kind of stops, or more specifically, redirects the sound away form me enough I can live with it. (My TV drowns out what's left.)

P.P.S

Screw it, running the 5800 GPU client as well.

Is there only a team for F@H or also for other projects, like D2OL, SoB, world grid and such?
I once joined the DPC for the TSC project, but the project is now closed. DPC still exist and also participate at folding.

Got one of those hx 850 as well, love it,may need to getting another since my other is unstable.

About that 5800, what ppd are you getting with it ? seen you score quite a bit lately

about oc, had issues with putting a third card to work,solved it but it costed a tube of artic silver,huge chip :blink:
underclocked core a little while upped shader and memory since they seems most important for folding,looks like it too,and 9800 is basically the same card anyway

It's a sweet PSU. Mine seems to not whine with the 5800 any more, but the Antec PSU still does from time to time.

3000-4000ish on the 5800. I'm running 4 clients, 2 GPU, 2 SMP for 12,000-14,000PPD.

ahh, I just stick with corsair then, btw have some old asus case, missunderstood a bit there,edited.

3000-4000 ppd, good score,and you have dx 11, darned, could live with that instead of gtx 260 which doesn?t have dx11.
and they may pick up on the ati front when the new client comes some day,hopefully in a not so distant future.

was funny,ran ati with hd 2900 and hd 4850,was 1300-1700 ppd on the 2900,2100-2600 (2800 alone) on the 4850,and here those 5xxx-cards make 4k, good show
(edited)

I may get another myself. That Antec whine, when it starts up, is really annoying. The solid mild whine is tolerable, it's the occasional beep tones that cut through me. You know those old 60's shows were the printer head is going back and forth and it makes that specific sharp beep sound? That's what it sounds like.

P.S.

I just realized I had 4 clients, but 3 machine IDs. Did I screw myself in any way?

It was like this:

Machine 1 - IDs 1 (SMP) & 2 (GPU). Machine 2 IDs 2 (SMP) & 3 (GPU).

bet it is annoying that whining, are hoplessly out of the loop regarding cabinets,should upgrade my self.

Machine-id ,since it is on two pc?s you should be fine, or if they run in vm,otherwise one gets that message about conflicts,so assuming you are fine as long you don?t get that,and get the points.
the id?s for cpu/smp are limited (seen reports about 1-8 ), but the good thing the gpu goes from 16 and down,used 15 my self just in case I missed something,meaning 15,14,13 on gpu,and smp 1,eventual cpu id-2 on one pc,use vm though.
those cpu clients takes forever,low ppd but if I?m away for a period of time it doesn?t hurt getting additional contributions with it,works better with nvidia than ati is it seems from my own try outs.
adds a challenge to the affinity settings though,for a few 100?s ppd,and with a power crisis where I?m at,guess those are at hold for now

This team is only associated with the Stanford University Folding project. Some of the members may do other projects.
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Again, we are still at #145, but it now looks like we'll move about 1 spot a week for the next month, and no one will pass us for almost 4 months.

Milestones
jaxawier 800,000 02-27-10
Pjstaab 35,000 02-27-10
Striken7 9,000 02-26-10
subparwelder 15,000 02-26-10
Floating_Jet 7,000 02-24-10
Chaul 600,000 02-24-10
(TES)_wolfpup 500,000 02-22-10

No new members, so the cookies go to jaxawier :cookie: , (TES)_wolfpup :cookie: , and Chaul :cookie: for their recent efforts whipping their hardware into line. Nice work.

Fold on! :goodjob:

Uncle Fuzzy, a question for you . I have been folding for a while with my new rig (read:laptop), and it is going perfectly fine, but I was wondering if I could also throw in a GPU client (now only running a Systray one) besides the CPU client I have. I have read through some of the forum's instructions of how to get one to work but I'm really confused on how to know the difference... I have a ATi Radeon HD4650 with an Intel Dual Core T6600 ~2.2GHz.

I use both SMP, and GPU console clients. (Trying to get away from any "install" programs.)

Just make 2 folders wherever you like. Call one F@H CPU (You'll already have this though if your currently folding.) and one F@H GPU. (Or name them whatever you prefer.)

Then just run the GPU client from that folder, set up the info for your "account" and start folding. It's really easy. Just make sure to go through the advanced settings, and when it asks for Machine ID, say 2. (CPU is 1)

P.S.

You could also run the client really quick then shut it down. Go to the folder with the CPU client, and copy the Client.cfg file and paste it into the GPU folder. Change the aforementioned Machine ID number to 2 and rerun the client. (Simpler, especially if you use a pass key. Don't worry about that for now though.)

P.P.S.

Oh, and I woke up to this this morning. (GPU)



When I tried to restart the client it did the same thing. I just dumped all the files (Minus client.cfg.) into a sub folder then extracted the F@H client from the archived download. I reinitialized the client and it's back to folding.

Thanks

One question: which GPU client should I download. I run Windows 7, and none of the clients listed say which one is capable for Windows 7. I guess just any works, but I am uncertain if the Vista client is better for my OS.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/Folding@home-Win32-GPU_Vista-623.zip is the one I use with no issues on W7.

Excellent. Although my GPU is not supported . I have an ATi Radeon HD 4650...

can use a shortcut with -configonly ,and later paste the passkey which is a hassle to do manually.
for unsendt work -send all can do,but it is much the same it does when the client restarts, for damaged work there is qfix which may work for you,or not.

after eue?s delete work,queue.dat and unitinfo and restart the client, perhaps reduce ev oc before.
-after all it takes some time with new gear before one learns how it works out,and some work is more peculiar than others.

btw use nvidia on xp,and vm for some linux based stuff so wouldn?t know,there sure was clients for ati+xp.

Oh poop, sorry.

Use these additional flags: (Find this line in the Client.cfg: extra_parms=)

-gpu 0 -forcegpu ati_r700 -verbosity 9

There should be a space after: extra_parms=

So it should be:

extra_parms= -gpu 0 -forcegpu ati_r700 -verbosity 9

P.S.

Verbosity 9 is not strictly needed for ATI, it works for both makers and is just handy.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/console-userguide.html

No problem
Thanks, though I'll explain what I did to get it to work. (Or apply tl;dr and skip to the last part)

I first searched through my computer to find the client.cfg file you were talking about. I did not find it in my gpu folder, though I did find it in my cpu folder. I copied the file and changed the machine ID and added the extra parameters section. However, it did not allow me to start up my client, maybe because it is not associated with the file, though I would not know.

I then looked at the GPU http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide#ntoc3 on the F@H website, and read that I should rename my client to "fah6.exe" to start with. Then, I should use the command prompt to configure the gpu, which did not work. Then I wanted to make a screenshot of the command prompt to show you what I have tried, but instead went on to type

fah6.exe -forcegpu_r700

Which made it work. It downloaded "FahCore_11.exe" and told me this:

Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta

I realised it did not show my name/team/machine ID which I wanted it to have, so I quit the prompt and started a new one, chdir to my directory and typed

fah6.exe -config

And entered my data. When asked for "Additional client parameters []?" I entered "-forcegpu ati_r700 -gpu 0 -verbosity 9".
And then it started

I'm happy it works, but am not sure if I did it the right way. Thanks