geokilla
They're added to the VMX file that you open in notepad. It's the file that you double click to open up your image.

What I can do is setup several extra VMX files to cover each processor configuration: dual, quad, and 8-core.

linuxrouter

It looks like Stanford released a new client version 6.29 today:

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=12997


It has a bug fix and support for the new SMP2 cores.

I plan to add it to the image. However, if you want to install into your existing image, these are the commands to do that:

wget http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.29-Linux.tgz
mkdir old
cp fah6 mpiexec old
tar xzf FAH6.29-Linux.tgz

I fired it up on one of my bigadv rigs and seems to be running okay so far.

LR....When do you think you will have 6.29 added to the fah image?

linuxrouter

I found an issue with the VMX file that limits some of the memory available to the VM when you set more than 3600MB. If you are setting more than 3600MB, I would recommend changing the following in the Linux64_FAH.vmx file: 

virtualHW.version = "6" 

to 

virtualHW.version = "7" 

This will make it so the full memory allocation is available to Linux.

with a shutdown now?
edit the vmx file and restart?

I start shaking and crying when I mess with a unit in midstream :)

leftygof
with a shutdown now? 
edit the vmx file and restart?

I start shaking and crying when I mess with a unit in midstream :)

I would wait until you finish up the work units first just to be safe. After finishing up the work units, you can run shutdown -h now, edit the VMX and then start up again.

linuxrouter

leftygof
with a shutdown now? 
edit the vmx file and restart?

I start shaking and crying when I mess with a unit in midstream :)

I would wait until you finish up the work units first just to be safe. After finishing up the work units, you can run shutdown -h now, edit the VMX and then start up again.

thanks dude......new dev build is running great seems more consistent in it's ppd...not as many peaks and valleys

I put up a new version that includes the new 6.29 client. There are a few other updates from 1.0:

- Updated the version info in the VMX which makes it so the full memory allocation is available when more than 3600MB is set. I also set the default memory allocation to 4600MB since VMware only uses what it needs for memory and this might help with bigadv stability.
- Switched to JFS for the file system for less delay between work units and in hopes of minimizing work unit failures from shutting down the client before finishing the work unit. JFS has been working great on my VM's so far. I have not lost a work unit since switching.
- Added options to the web interface for setting the workgroup and selecting the default kernel (Intel or AMD).
- Added support for as few as 2-cores via the web interface to cover dual-cores. SMP2 supports running 2-threads or more. 
- Updated the console and web info pages including adding HFM.NET setup instructions to the console info that appears on bootup.

If you downloaded the dev version from the last couple days, then you probably already have most if not all of these new updates. Let me know if you have any problems.

Alex2190

just started attempting bigadv on windows SMP, getting a calc of about 14k PPD...sound good? its eating my processor lol

what is your time per frame?

3 min 30 sec

Alex2190

3 min 30 sec

With that time then it cannot be a bigadv work unit (normally it's 28+ minutes on an i7)

kougar

Thanks for the continual updates Linuxrouter!   Just updated my clients and everything's folding along just fine.

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear the updated image is working out for you.

TheWolf
Thought I post that I just got my 1st -bigadv WU using the Dev Image from post #484, were I was getting only A3 WU's. 
But I just added the -bigadv flag before the last WU was done, so I'm not sure if I was able to the big WU's before now
or if Dev image was able to all along?

If you add -bigadv, this flag should override -advmethods. With the -bigadv flag the client will attempt to download the 25K work units that run via Core a2 currently. If no bigadv work is available, it should revert back to Core a3. If no Core a3 work is available, then the client should try and get Core a2 work. -advmethods enables the possibility of getting Core a3 work. If you leave out both -advmethods and -bigadv, then the client will try and get Core a2 1920-pt work units.

touche

Hey guys!

I got VMWare folding set up with BigAdv, but FahMon tells me I'm only getting 1277PPD out of it.  So far, I've finished 2 WUs with it over a span of 12 hours, and the current WU looks like it is worth 470 points... and its 7 hours in.

I've got it set up on 7 cores, affinity set to 0-6, and GPU folding on 7.


This isn't normal, is it?

I have the same problem, even the a1 1920 point wu's are only using 30% of my CPU.
It takes to long to finish any smp WU's PPD is down like 60% using -smp 8  no bigadv.
 
Any ideas?
thanks

touche

Well, I can see on the Task Manager that I have 7 cores at 100% - it's just that I'm getting very little points for them.

Those are not Bigadv WU's, there the core A3 WU, they work faster, show less PPD in Fahmon, but there is a bonus.
You can pick up HFM monitoring program here: http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/ it will show the bonus points.

TheWolf

mech581

touche

Hey guys!

I got VMWare folding set up with BigAdv, but FahMon tells me I'm only getting 1277PPD out of it.  So far, I've finished 2 WUs with it over a span of 12 hours, and the current WU looks like it is worth 470 points... and its 7 hours in.

I've got it set up on 7 cores, affinity set to 0-6, and GPU folding on 7.


This isn't normal, is it?

I have the same problem, even the a1 1920 point wu's are only using 30% of my CPU.
It takes to long to finish any smp WU's PPD is down like 60% using -smp 8  no bigadv.
 
Any ideas?
thanks

I haven't researched it, but looks like Stanford is handing our some WU's that are using like a 2 CPU core load.
Weather there bad WU's or just a flaw in the programing I don't know. I've seen quite a few of these over the past weeks.
Adding the -forceasm flag seemed to help a little, making it put a slite more load across all cores.

 
Thanks for the reply
I'll give it shot.

touche

Hey guys!

I got VMWare folding set up with BigAdv, but FahMon tells me I'm only getting 1277PPD out of it.  So far, I've finished 2 WUs with it over a span of 12 hours, and the current WU looks like it is worth 470 points... and its 7 hours in.

I've got it set up on 7 cores, affinity set to 0-6, and GPU folding on 7.


This isn't normal, is it?

 


Those are the new Core a3 work units. If you have a passkey setup and have completed 10-work units by the preferred deadline, then you should qualify for bonus points. The base point value is low on these work units, but the bonus points can be fairly high depending on processor and smp configuration. HFM will report work unit and PPD values including both the base and bonus points.


Do you know what TPF you are getting and what project # you are running?