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Able-Contention wrote:Project 2484 seems to be a single core WU. Did you remember to put "-smp" in your command line? Check the FAHlog.txt file and the command line should be in there somewhere. If you forgot the -smp switch, Ctrl-C to stop work and relaunch the folding client with the "-oneunit" switch to resume work (but don't put the -smp switch in yet) and finish the current unit. Then you relaunch with the -smp switch (or you can then use the -configonly option to add -smp in the "additional client parameters" question).I installed the DEINO beta SMP client and fahmon 2.3.4 is reporting 547.41ppd for project 2484.
Ragnar Dan wrote:FF: I'm not sure if you have to wait until the current WU is ended to re-configure the folding client to add the -SMP switch. I've never tried it as far as I can remember, but what would happen is an interesting question.
Ragnar Dan wrote:I didn't mean to reconfig while the client was running. Just to leave the old WU in there and change the command line parameters before it's completed. I expect it would just let it finish and then only download SMP WU's, though as mentioned I've never tried it.
Ragnar Dan wrote:The only thing I'd add to Flying Fox's comments is that nVidia GPUs increase output when the shader clock is sped up. It's probably the same with ATi GPUs, though your reports about the matter would help our team learn for certain.
Able-Contention wrote:
A bit unrelated. Anybody use the new ATI drivers that have a performance boost for F@H?
HurgyMcGurgyGurg wrote:Ragnar Dan wrote:The only thing I'd add to Flying Fox's comments is that nVidia GPUs increase output when the shader clock is sped up. It's probably the same with ATi GPUs, though your reports about the matter would help our team learn for certain.
I've written about the ATI side of GPU optimization a few times here.
I'll confirm that ATI clients only boost when the Core clock speed is increased (No shader setting on the ATI side). In fact, I've downclocked my memory settings to the lowest CCC allows for the 4870, 475 Mhz instead of 950 Mhz, and not a single drop in output. Of course that's probably GDDR5 working its magic and I haven't gotten anyone else to confirm this for cards not using GDDR5.
Actually, decreasing the memory speed usually allows you to hit higher stable core clock speeds. I squeezed an extra 15 MHz out of the GPU (Around 100 ppd) by lowering memory speeds, which would normally give artifacts and unstable machine errors if I tried to run at that speed with the memory speeds at stock.
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Able-Contention wrote:Thanks for the input guys. I just got back to my pc after a little vacation. Anyway. I am messing with the -smp and -deino flags but now it only loads the FahCore82.exe. It says:
Launch directory: C:\FAH
Executable: [email protected]
Arguments: -smp -deino -verbosity 9 -forceasm
Warning:
By using the -forceasm flag, you are overriding
safeguards in the program. If you did not intend to
do this, please restart the program without -forceasm.
If work units are not completing fully (and particularly
if your machine is overclocked), then please discontinue
use of the flag.
[01:19:27] - Ask before connecting: No
[01:19:27] - User name: Able-Contention (Team 2630)
[01:19:27] - User ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[01:19:27] - Machine ID: 1
[01:19:27]
[01:19:27] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:19:27]
[01:19:27] - Autosending finished units... [April 2 01:19:27 UTC]
[01:19:27] + Processing work unit
[01:19:27] Trying to send all finished work units
[01:19:27] Work type a1 not eligible for variable processors
[01:19:27] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[01:19:27] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[01:19:27] - Autosend completed
[01:19:27] Core found.
[01:19:27] Working on queue slot 03 [April 2 01:19:27 UTC]
[01:19:27] + Working ...
[01:19:27] - Calling 'mpiexec -np 4 -channel shm -env MPICH_USE_SMP_OPTIMIZATIONS 1 -host 127.0.0.1 FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 03 -priority 96 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 4120 -version 623'
[01:19:31] CoreStatus = 63 (99)
[01:19:31] + Error starting Folding@Home core.
[01:19:36]
[01:19:36] + Processing work unit
[01:19:36] Work type a1 not eligible for variable processors
[01:19:36] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[01:19:36] Core found.
[01:19:36] Working on queue slot 03 [April 2 01:19:36 UTC]
[01:19:36] + Working ...
[01:19:36] - Calling 'mpiexec -np 4 -channel shm -env MPICH_USE_SMP_OPTIMIZATIONS 1 -host 127.0.0.1 FahCore_a1.exe -dir work/ -suffix 03 -priority 96 -checkpoint 15 -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 4120 -version 623'
[01:19:41] CoreStatus = 63 (99)
[01:19:41] + Error starting Folding@Home core.
[01:19:46]
Any ideas? Then it just keeps downloaded the core A1 again, and again.
Gerbil Jedidiah wrote:Stanford uses 2 multiprocessing libraries now on the 32-bit WinSMP client: deino and mpich. The -deino is to use this mode. They are different downloads too so they are quite different.I've never seen the -deino flag. Are you sure that's a flag? Try running with -smp and take -deino out.
Able-Contention wrote:I just wanted to post that my PPD has jumped up as a result of this thread. Fahmon is now reporting my PPD as averaging between 3800-4300! The Deino SMP client being around 1505 PPD itself! Thanks for the help guys!
lou15214 wrote:Do you have the newest nvidia driver? I'm using 182.46(beta) for my 2 8800GT cards. seem OK so far. was using 182.20. and before that 182.08