Folding Forum

Now I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining, or worried about points, but am just curious about this. I have 3 computers, One's a dual core Pentium at 3.0 GHz & 6 gigs of Ram, another Dual Pentium 2.2 GHz & 4 Gigs/ram, and a third Dual Pentium 2.8 GHz & 1 gig ram. The first two run 64 bit Windows 7 & the 6.23 F@H client, the third 32 bit Xubuntu 9.10 and the 6.02 F@H client..

They are all set for Big units and Yes for ADVMETHODS. However all the windows 7 machines are getting AMBER work units, while the Linux one's getting the 905 point p2498 & p2485 GROMACS work units.

Thus the question, why is the slower Linux box getting work units that take 51 minutes/frame and the faster Windows boxes getting the way faster ambers that take from 4 to 12 minutes a frame?

Like I said, just curious because I thought the slower box would most likely get the Ambers & the faster ones the GROMACS.

Because you are running the 6.02 core, it needs to be the 6.29 core. I believe it's a straight drop in aswell in *nix, like in win.

Yea on your linux box you need to download the latest client.
I recommend the finstall method
http://fahwiki.net/index.php/A_Complete ... and_Set_Up

Also you might as well download the latest windows client too.

But the 6.29 one is 64bit, and the Linux box is 32 bit. I am planning to upgrade soon to a 64 bit Linux, but as of now the 6.29 one won't run, I tried.

Then you are stuck. A3 cores only run with the 6.29 client.

Just basically gotta suck it up till you switch to x64.

Was he even asking about SMP WUs? It sounded more like he was fine with running uniprocessor WUs and was just wondering why the larger ones were being sent to his slowest computer. As to that, the answer is that WU assignment is pretty random, and the assignment servers don't pay much attention to hardware, especially not clock speed.

^Hmm, I just assumed, using big units and advmethods, he was going for smp. Which is the way to setup them.

But rereading, yha, its just unicores... So answer is as above.

Don't really have the cpus for SMP, so I do my part with the uni cores. I just thought it funny that the slowest box was getting the longer ones to fold and the faster ones the ones that take the least time to fold. I did get a few p2499's once on the two Win 7 ones, and they only took 35 minutes/frame.

As to that, the answer is that WU assignment is pretty random, and the assignment servers don't pay much attention to hardware, especially not clock speed.

That's probably it. Nothing I can do, so I'll let the machines step to it!

I wouldn't say that Pentium Dual-cores are completely unsuited for SMP WUs. My E6300 @3.6 GHz can do an a3 WU in under a day, netting somewhere in the vicinity of 2300 PPD. It's certainly not very good compared to even a low-end quad, but I personally feel that it's suitable enough. I admit that mine is running at a pretty high clock, and that even your 3.0 GHz one would do noticeably worse because of the bonus structure, so if you can't OC them, it might not be worth it. The project certainly needs to have the uniprocessor WUs done, so by all means keep crunching them.

Zagen30 wrote:so if you can't OC them, it might not be worth it. The project certainly needs to have the uniprocessor WUs done, so by all means keep crunching them.

Yep, all 3 are Dells, and there's no way to overclock them. Well if I remember right there was, I think, a piece of software that said it could slightly overclock Dell computers, but I wouldn't trust it myself.