The CALL to ARMS. What's your contribution?

[Gerbil Jedidiah]

Hey guys,

I quit folding for the summer (my AC couldn't quite keep up with it), but now that it's getting cooler, I'm going to start getting back into the game. I have a few machines to add:

P4 w/ 2600Pro GPU2
Celeron 2.66 w/ Linux Client
X2 5400 @3.0 w/ 8800 GTS (GPU2 client, I guess)

The first two are working fine, and I'll have them up soon. However, the third one (at a different house) is having some problems. Every time I start up the client, it gives the error "Error code 0 - Could not download core". This happens no matter the client I use. I have no firewall software, and the Windows firewall is disabled. As far as I know, there is nothing that should be blocking it on my router, either. Doesn't the client just use port 80 as a HTTP browser would? There's nothing helpful on the Stanford forum.

When you do figure it out, make sure to settle on using the GPU2 client. By far the most points.

I haven't had the error your describing before.

[41.60l23]

Actually-

If anybody can figure out my problem, I'll be happy to fold on the card under their name for a month.

[Flying Fox]

If anybody can figure out my problem, I'll be happy to fold on the card under their name for a month.

Did you answer "no" to "use Internet Explorer settings"? Some reported that to be the problem for connectivity issues.

[41.60l23]

This was a solution when it was included with the clients. Unfortunately, none of the new clients have that option, including SMP and GPU2 =(

[Gerbil Jedidiah]

This was a solution when it was included with the clients. Unfortunately, none of the new clients have that option, including SMP and GPU2 =(

Sure they do, just run the config command for the SMP client.

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cd ~/folding/FAH
./fah6 -configonly

And for the GPU2 client, open "notepad" and then open your "Folding@Home GPU" folder with notepad, select "all files" in the notpad open window so you can see everything in the "Folding@Home GPU" folder, then open the client.cfg file and edit as you like.

[41.60l23]

I'll take a look at it when I have access to that PC, although I do remember trying that without success. If it works, I'm assuming you'd want it for UGN..

[Gerbil Jedidiah]

I'll take a look at it when I have access to that PC, although I do remember trying that without success. If it works, I'm assuming you'd want it for UGN..

Why yes, that would be very nice. And we'd hope that you'd even stick around

[jeffry55]

Hey guys,

I quit folding for the summer (my AC couldn't quite keep up with it), but now that it's getting cooler, I'm going to start getting back into the game. I have a few machines to add:

P4 w/ 2600Pro GPU2
Celeron 2.66 w/ Linux Client
X2 5400 @3.0 w/ 8800 GTS (GPU2 client, I guess)

The first two are working fine, and I'll have them up soon. However, the third one (at a different house) is having some problems. Every time I start up the client, it gives the error "Error code 0 - Could not download core". This happens no matter the client I use. I have no firewall software, and the Windows firewall is disabled. As far as I know, there is nothing that should be blocking it on my router, either. Doesn't the client just use port 80 as a HTTP browser would? There's nothing helpful on the Stanford forum.

Does the error occur on a Vista PC? I got similar errors when first installing the SMP client because I needed to use "Administrator" priviledges to install the client. Is it the SMP client? Did you get the "MPI is working, MPI is working" message after install?

[Pegasus]

PPD is going up. TR is getting closer to Team MacOC X and AF.

680,532 ppd - Alliance Francophone
641,474 ppd - Team MacOC X
574,332 ppd - The Tech Report

[Jigar]

PPD is going up. TR is getting closer to Team MacOC X and AF.

680,532 ppd - Alliance Francophone
641,474 ppd - Team MacOC X
574,332 ppd - The Tech Report

New updates...
697,333 ppd - Alliance Francophone
658,539 ppd - Team MacOC X
590,033 ppd - TR

We are really closing PPD gap

[Pegasus]

hah I just posted too. Up already from the noon hour.

AF seems to have had a bump in the last few days on their Summary page. Although Team MacOS X looks like they are pretty steady for the past few weeks.

[jeffry55]

hah I just posted too. Up already from the noon hour.

AF seems to have had a bump in the last few days on their Summary page. Although Team MacOS X looks like they are pretty steady for the past few weeks.

We need more folders to start using the GPU2 client!

[photocopy]

I thought I'd finally join in. I'm not dedicate 24/7 yet, as I need the temperature to drop so I can stand being in my office during the day. I've added a GPU client (8800GT), and I've got my old IBM T30 laptop running (not quickly, but quicker than not running), as well.

[jeffry55]

I thought I'd finally join in. I'm not dedicate 24/7 yet, as I need the temperature to drop so I can stand being in my office during the day. I've added a GPU client (8800GT), and I've got my old IBM T30 laptop running (not quickly, but quicker than not running), as well.

Thanks for joining the fold! We appreciate every WU completed for the cause.

[Usacomp2k3]

PPD is going up. TR is getting closer to Team MacOC X and AF.

680,532 ppd - Alliance Francophone
641,474 ppd - Team MacOC X
574,332 ppd - The Tech Report

New updates...
697,333 ppd - Alliance Francophone
658,539 ppd - Team MacOC X
590,033 ppd - TR

We are really closing PPD gap

By those numbers, we're not. We went up 15,701 ppd, while they went up 16,801 and 17,065 ppd respectively. </spoil sport>

[eckslax]

I stopped folding probably about 8 months ago when my main rig's motherboard died a horrible death. I just brought a P4 3GHz Prescott online today and will be bringing my new Phenom 9850BE online tomorrow. There's a good chance I'll be able to get another P4 online as well in the next day or so. Unfortunately I don't have any folding-capable GPUs yet.

[jeffry55]

I stopped folding probably about 8 months ago when my main rig's motherboard died a horrible death. I just brought a P4 3GHz Prescott online today and will be bringing my new Phenom 9850BE online tomorrow. There's a good chance I'll be able to get another P4 online as well in the next day or so. Unfortunately I don't have any folding-capable GPUs yet.

The SMP client is still good for decent numbers. Fire them babies up!

[Pegasus]

PPD is going up. TR is getting closer to Team MacOC X and AF.

680,532 ppd - Alliance Francophone
641,474 ppd - Team MacOC X
574,332 ppd - The Tech Report

New updates...
697,333 ppd - Alliance Francophone
658,539 ppd - Team MacOC X
590,033 ppd - TR

We are really closing PPD gap

By those numbers, we're not. We went up 15,701 ppd, while they went up 16,801 and 17,065 ppd respectively. </spoil sport>

We should probably check back tomorrow to see the numbers. EOC is still using Aug 19th's numbers (big spike for all teams) to figure current average PPD. But the 18th (the big dip when stanford was offline) was dropped off yesterday and isn't included in that PPD figure now. So the avg PPD being calculated might be skewed based on the 18th's numbers alone.

[pikaporeon]

I kept my farm off for a day, and maybe it'll send now. Also my laptop has been BSODing lately, so its out of comission. That said, it should start rolling in now


1x PS3

Q9300@3.2
1 VMWare Linux Folder
1x Radeon 4850 GPU client

Q6600
1x WinSMP
1x Geforce 8800 GT GPU client

PS3.

yay increased PPD for us all

[sluggo]

Other than the next electric bill, scottybo has no threats ... is there a /flex smiley?

*does happy dance*

[eckslax]

Well I added a 2.8GHz P4 today. My Phenom didn't arrive yesterday like I had planned, but it should be online tonight assuming that UPS doesn't screw up.

[Gerbil Jedidiah]

Well I added a 2.8GHz P4 today. My Phenom didn't arrive yesterday like I had planned, but it should be online tonight assuming that UPS doesn't screw up.

Very nice. If you're not familiar with the SMP client, and want to contribute the max points, let us know and we can help you set that up. We'll do that in another thread though, should try to keep this one on the recruitment topic.

[Ttocs]

Apparently, a lot of it is discussed starting at about halfway/at the end of page 1 here: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f ... &sk=t&sd=a

I'll check it out. thanks

I can run two at once and get no slowdown right now (PPD doesn't change when I close one of my clients), because unless it's one of the new "big" workunits, I'm only using about 320 of the 800 stream processors. That's part of the reason why nVidia is beating AMD/ATI on F@H right now - fewer shaders, clocked higher.

I ran another GPU2 client on my 4850 to see if it would use the unused processors. (The core speed is OCed) PPD was split between the two. From 1800PPD on 1 client to 900 and 900 PPD on 2 clients. I'm not seeing how I could use the extra processors on 1 core by running multiple clients.

I went down to running one instance, and my PPD didn't go up at all (or very slightly went up, like less than 100 PPD). Are you sure you're not running one of those new big workunits? Both of mine were the smaller ones.

[Pegasus]

I get 3500ppd on the newer WUs on my 4850 (1 client). 1800ish on the others.

[kitsura]

I'm disappointed with the speed of the dual core G5. And the clockspeed is supposed to be high at around 2.7GHz yet it's hardly chewing through the work units. And the worse part is that there are no SMP clients for it so no max points WU for it.

[Pegasus]

Yeah, just SMP for Macs with Intel CPUs.
But it's still able to fold!

[emi25]

I think this is the best place to post my report for FahMon:

http://emi25.homeip.net/fah.html

my 8800GT at 3400 points per day plus.

[BoBzeBuilder]

I'm running my 8800GTS with an X2 CPU, but I noticed the GPU2 client is only using one of the CPU cores. Would it make much of a difference to run another FAH client on the other core, or should I just leave it?

[Ragnar Dan]

A single core can add at least a couple of hundred points or more a day. Here's what I get (highlighted) from a Barton XP-2600 overclocked a little above 2.2 GHz (stock is 1.916 GHz):


Yours will almost certainly do better, but electricity use will rise, too.

[gohan]

Hi guys need a little help here. I basically have 2 machines which i can use to run some sort of folding clients. My desktop with 8800 GTS 512 MB and xeon e3110 is running GPU2 client. Processor usage is really low right now like 5-10%. Can i run another smp client which will make use of my processor and get more points.
My other machine is a Dell inspiron laptop with C2D processor. Which client will be the best to use on my laptop. If it helps it has ati x1400 onboard chip and currently i have windows XP and ubuntu installed. Can someone help me out here or atleast point me to another thread where i can find this information.

thanks in advance.