Is folding causing my electricity bills?

[Ericson_Mar]

When runnning on a Q6600, Abit uGuru monitor reads about 20-ish Amps extra when running folding.

Here is some CPU activity SSes for reference.

No Folding


Folding

[alpha754293]

In general, yes, your electricity consumption will go up a bit.

Nature of the beast. Your CPUs/GPUs will likely heat up a bit more which would probably require more cooling (especially if you live in the temperate/tropics zones) during the summer months.

Like most people here have said, if you have a watt-meter, you can fairly easily calculate or at least estimate what your electricity cost is going to be.

If you want to be energy efficient, there are ways of doing so, but they're not necessarily going to be come cheap (especially for initial capital cost). If you want examples of "Green" machines, go to http://www.green500.org and you can see what some of the supercomputers are doing these days.

I've ran a check on all of my systems that's currently running F@H and they only average about 40-50 MFLOPS/Watt (which pales in comparison with the Green500 leader of 536.24 MFLOPS/Watt).

My next major system is targetted to be at least 100 MFLOPS/Watt in order to increase my overall computational efficiency.

[spazzychalk]

why is your folding only using 25% of your cpu? did you set it that way?

[bruce]

why is your folding only using 25% of your cpu? did you set it that way?

He's running a uniprocessor client on a Quad so it only uses one of the cores at a time.

[Karamiekos]

A better question I think would be...why are there 95 processes running....

[alpha754293]

A better question I think would be...why are there 95 processes running....

On my fileservers, the one that's running F@H as well has 110 processes running right now.

(On my other fileserver, that isn't running F@H (because there's no Solaris/x64 client), it has 75 processes running and 251 lwps.)

[spazzychalk]

MSCONFIG is your friend

[mdk777]

everything you wanted to know about power costs, but were afraid you really didn't want to know.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... 122-4.html