What are you folding with?

Bleeder

Bleeder

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I've already put this in the April bragging but I think it should be in a new thread as it really didn't fit there.

It's interesting to know what others are folding with, what the PPD's are for the given rigs and so on. Maybe we have folks folding that could maybe get some additional PPD but making some simple changes?



So here is what I've got going on. How about you?

At work (all Windows server 2008/Windows 7 boxes):
Dual socket Xeon 5530 doing SMP 16 (not bigadv)that's giving about 20K-30K PPD. This one was running "bigadv" but I stopped that a couple of days ago because my WU's per day was dropping. It was giving about 40K-45K PPD. No option to use Linux.

Dual sockat Xeon 5660 doing SMP 24 (bigadv 2600 WU's) that's giving about 80k-90k PPD. This one was added about 2 weeks ago. This one was running VMware but that sucked large (about 20K PPD with 2 guest sessions) so I converted it to Windows Server 2008. No option to use Linux.

Also have 2 Lenovo S20's with single Xeon W3550 in each that I get about 12k to 15K PPD combined. These also have Quadro 4000 graphic cards that just will not run F@H properly. I do have the option to go Linux on these boxes but I'm not sure that hassle will be worth it. Would Linux actually bring a higher PPD?

At Home I have (all Windows 7 boxes):
Intel 2600K (@4.5Ghz) - PPD=~23K
Intel 2500 (stock) - PPD=~12K
AMD Phenom II 975 (@4Ghz)- PPD=~2300 - This one also has to deal with an AMD HD 5770 graphics card that is taking about 25% of the CPU cycles.
AMD HD5770 - PPD=~6000


So now that I've open my kimono how about you other folders? What do you guys and gals run? Maybe we can get some good dialogue going that could improve our teams PPD?

Like - I'm thinking about dropping Linux on my Phenom 975 box (with the HD5770) to see if the PPD gets better. Anyone with any thoughts on this?

I see that we, unlike a lot of other teams, have a very dedicated Folding team here at Rage3D. We don't really have 1 or 2 folders carrying the team. It would be great if we could find simple ways to help current folders add some extra PPD (me included). Any thoughts from the experts on ways to get more bang out of our current rigs?
 
2500k @ 4.6
560Ti

Q6600 @ something
8800GT

Haven't had much time for gaming and the like lately, so my main gaming machine has been folding pretty much non-stop giving me a boost in points lately.
 
Intel 990X
Intel 2500 (sometimes)
GTX 560 (sometimes)

I think it would be great if the cost of energy to produce numbers wasn't so high. That's why I don't fold with all my stuff anymore.
 
I've got a lot of random single thread clients running on various workstations around the biz i admin for. They don't produce hardly anything in terms of ppd, but i get a lot of WU's out of them.

My main point producers are:

Work machine
i7 860 stock @ smp6
AMD 5870

Spare work machine
i7 860 stock @ smp6

Home gaming box
i7 920 2.8ghz @ smp6 (small OC for now, but i recently got an H80 sink so i'm going to play with it some more)
AMD 6970

Home secondary box
AMD 5770

I've found that running SMP6 instead of 7 actually produces a bit more, and i never have to worry about those odd WU's that freak on odd number cores. The GPU thread can actually use a bit more CPU time at least on these older i7 CPUs, hence the SMP6. Those of you with Sandy Bridge cpus probably don't see this issue.

It also lets me work all day without slowing anything I'm doing down. I can even play certain games without issue while continuing to run both. Lol runs great while folding.

I had my domains running but they are using stock heat sinks and i was running into thermal issues even at SMP 4. I want to get new sinks for them, but taking them offline to install is a challenge sometimes, esp the one thats 250 miles away from me :) Maybe after my company's annual tradeshow i can look into new sinks for them.
 
2x xeon 3220s,
5x xeon 3450s,
5x xeon 3470s,
1x c2d e7500,
2x 2600ks,
1x 2700k.

all running smp on all cores/threads.
 
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Bleeder said:
wow... old stuff and still getting 90K PPD? That's pretty good. :D
What kind of old stuff?
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Right now 7-775 mobo's with Q9550, Q6700 & Q6600 and 6 nv gpu's

Have all the parts for a 2600, just need to finish it...:)
 
Right now just my dev server, which unfortunately is down until I replace some borked memory.

edit: looks like somewhere there be an old P3 or P4 cranking out random WUs still lol.
 
1 Q9300 + Nvidia 550Ti.
1 E4400 + Nvidia 8800GTS.
Both Machines run on average 8 hrs a day.
 
jima13 said:
Right now 7-775 mobo's with Q9550, Q6700 & Q6600 and 6 nv gpu's

Have all the parts for a 2600, just need to finish it...:)
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I have a 2600K OC to 4.5GHz running Windows 7. I was wondering about all of the claims that Linux gets you more points, so I installed VirtualBox and setup a guest VM of Ubuntu 11.10.

I did a core hack to make it look like I had 16 cores and installed the v7.1.52 release of the F@H client. Set the SMP slot with client-type=bigadv and max-packet-size=big.

It took a few WU's but I finally got a Bigadv WU 6903. I'm currently doing ~55 minute TPF which should get me ~246K in points or ~63K PPD. And that's in a VM running on a machine that I also use for other things.

If you where to get that 2600 (not sure if it the "K" version though) together and run native Linux you could be bringing in some really nice additional PPD for the team!

Just sayin... ;) :D
 
I got an i7 930 running 4 instances of the classic client
and a netbook with an atom cpu running the classic client

each running 8+ hours a day

once in a while, I'll turn on a the PS3 to fold a unit here and there
 
rulotrapax said:
Bleeder.

What have you done at 12:00 PM and 03:00 PM?
What toy has launched?

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=601270


Oh, my God

A greeting.
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LOL... The 3pm drop was mostly from a 6903 bigadv WU. Just for fun(?) I installed VirtualBox on my 2600K Windows 7 machine, installed Ubuntu, hacked Ubuntu to make it look like it had 16 CPU's and fired up F@H configured for BigAdv WU's.

Even though it took 4 days to process the 1 WU it worked out to just over 60K PPD. So my 2600K that was getting me anywhere between 15K - 30K PPD is now puling down about 60K PPD.

And I use this machine for other things too.

I'd like to know what a dedicated OC'd 2600K would do with native Linux. I would have to guess it would be closer to 65-70K PPD a day.
 
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