Welcome to team 2630!

[mph_Ragnarok]

Ahh, if you take a look at the link again, it says I have now churned out about 7k total in the past 24 hours.

I guess the earlier low numbers were just low because it took time for my units to roll in and my average production rate to wind up. Yay !

You know, if I was on UGN, I would be increasing their production like 15%

[jeffry55]

Ahh, if you take a look at the link again, it says I have now churned out about 7k total in the past 24 hours.

I guess the earlier low numbers were just low because it took time for my units to roll in and my average production rate to wind up. Yay !

You know, if I was on UGN, I would be increasing their production like 15%

Well, I think you should change your username to UnitedGerbilNation and run an experiment to see if points production does go up by 15%.

[Logan[TeamX]]

Uhm, hey fellas. *sheepish grin*

I've been a TR "regular" reader since, well, about 2000-2001. I picked up the bug through college and stayed with it after graduation. I was more active about 5-6 years ago than I have been recently (AMD64 heyday, Opteron 1xx cores and all that).

I've since come back to Folding@Home via an unlikely avenue for me - PS3 Folding. It took me until now to finally get a PS3, and what do I do within 48 hours of firing it up? Folding!

So, I've rejoined team 2630, although my previous stay on the team many years ago was short-lived (I folded for a couple of years for the old AMD corporate forums - team 34106).

Now that I'm back and active in Folding@Home, I might distract a couple of my boxen at home to join in. They're currently running S@H, CPDN and Rosetta@Home via the BOINC client.

So, I just thought I'd drop in and give a wave.

[jeffry55]

Uhm, hey fellas. *sheepish grin*

I've been a TR "regular" reader since, well, about 2000-2001. I picked up the bug through college and stayed with it after graduation. I was more active about 5-6 years ago than I have been recently (AMD64 heyday, Opteron 1xx cores and all that).

I've since come back to Folding@Home via an unlikely avenue for me - PS3 Folding. It took me until now to finally get a PS3, and what do I do within 48 hours of firing it up? Folding!

So, I've rejoined team 2630, although my previous stay on the team many years ago was short-lived (I folded for a couple of years for the old AMD corporate forums - team 34106).

Now that I'm back and active in Folding@Home, I might distract a couple of my boxen at home to join in. They're currently running S@H, CPDN and Rosetta@Home via the BOINC client.

So, I just thought I'd drop in and give a wave.

Big wave back atcha Logan! Glad that you have returned to the fold and you still feel the fever to fold. Keep us updated as you build your farm.

[Logan[TeamX]]

I'm just about to get my Opteron 170 back into "the fold" *groan*. What's the best way of doing this with both cores these days? Is there a true SMP client now? Or do I need two instances as before, each bound to a separate CPU core?

Also, do I need to track down that neat imagecfg.exe tool that allows you to hard-code which core each process runs on exclusively?

Thanks guys!

[Flying Fox]

I'm just about to get my Opteron 170 back into "the fold" *groan*. What's the best way of doing this with both cores these days? Is there a true SMP client now? Or do I need two instances as before, each bound to a separate CPU core?

Also, do I need to track down that neat imagecfg.exe tool that allows you to hard-code which core each process runs on exclusively?

Wow, that's a long time. Welcome back!

Yes, there is now a "true" SMP client and the points are better than running 2x single core clients. It still pales in comparison to GPU clients though if you have like a Nvidia 9600 and up video card. There is a Linux version of the SMP client and Windows version (slightly PITA to set up because it is ported from the Linux version). The Linux version is known to be more stable and produces more points, so a few of us here are using the magic of virtualization (think VMware, VirtualBox, etc.) to run Linux VMs on our Windows host OS. Whether you are running LinuxSMP or WinSMP, they spawn multiple worker processes that will max out all the cores, so no more affinity hacking tool.

As for downloading, LinuxSMP has been rolled into the single core client and you switch into different "modes" by the -smp switch. For WinSMP you need to click on the "High Performance Windows clients" link on the bottom of the regular download page, and the GPU and WinSMP clients will be listed.

I think the stickies have links to the respective clients and additional install/config instructions. You can also search the forum there may be additional threads discussing the stuff.