Folding@Home

acruxksa · Posted: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:34:50 Post Subject:

Just can't give up without a fight, Got a dual Xeon LGA 1366 board, a pair of xeon E5520 quad core cpu's and 12gb of DDR3 on the way. Can you say -bigadv work units? Grin

thegrub · Rated R Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 70

acruxksa · Posted: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:26:13 Post Subject:

Not exactly sure, but everything points to finishing a -bigadv workunit in just over 2 days which is well under the 3 day bonus point cut-off.

There is more to the story than simply boosting my Folding@home output, I currently have a rack with 4 systems in my closet and figure I can replace two of them with this board, boost my F@H output, lower my power consumption and get to play with new hardware all at the same time. I'll be having a fire sale on some used hardware pretty soon Wink

The Nvidia GPU's are definitely the best bang for the buck in F@H production, but I have an overwhelming urge to build a dual cpu machine. It's been nagging at me since I sold my old Abit BP6 w/ dual celeron 300A's oc'd to 500Mhz several years ago. I always regretted selling that board and now seems like a good time to replace it. Grin

One more point of interest, for as small as the BB.com folding team is, we're putting up some very respectable numbers and I would love to see us push deep into the top 300.

thegrub · Rated R Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 70

acruxksa · Posted: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:44:55 Post Subject:

acruxksa · Posted: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:50:26 Post Subject:

thegrub · Rated R Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 70

acruxksa · Posted: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:32:02 Post Subject:

I guess a2's from other systems count, for some reason I was under the impression that they needed to be from the system folding bigadv units.

I wouldn't say you should throttle back, I pretty much shutdown my two other full time folders each with one gpu and one smp client. Currently I'm only running a gpu client part time on my main computer and the dual xeon system folding the bigadv units. I couldn't tell you what it draws, but it's running off a 500w psu and onboard graphics (linux commandline doesn't need a whole lot of gpu power). Each quad has a TDP of 80w + 6 sticks of memory, the motherboard and losses in the psu. 250W is probably pretty close to the ballpark. The 60,000 pts was from one work unit, but don't for get that work unit took about 2.25 days to complete, so it ends up averaging about 27,000 pts per day.

If you keep your system running a bit longer we can break onto the top 300. Perhaps you should look into folding bigadv units with your i920, it would give you similar pts. to me and should cut power consumption significantly when compared to the GPU's. If this is your main computer though, it would be tough to do given the requirement to have linux installed to run bigadv units.

I should also add that I flew down to Bellingham this morning and will be down here for two weeks for work + another week in Ketchikan for training, so my system is pretty much running unattended and anything can happen given how new it is. I think I can talk my wife through the command line procedure to get things going if we lose power or it spontaneously reboots, but who knows. I didn't get time to edit the config and make it start automatically:D

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:30:39 Post Subject:

Nice!

What is the current Windows SMP client? I only see expired ones. Confused