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The Placid Casual · Jan 21, 2004, 04:47 PM

So for I have crunched 5 units on f@H in the last 2 days.

WU progress showed 100% totals of 250 and 500.

Just got:

p356_A21nat_273_94

A proposed 100% total of 2500... and only 51 points available for it!

Please tell me it is an error or something, I could be crunching it for weeks...

Peace,

Marc

OneMacGuy · Jan 21, 2004, 06:24 PM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
So for I have crunched 5 units on f@H in the last 2 days.

WU progress showed 100% totals of 250 and 500.

Just got:

p356_A21nat_273_94

A proposed 100% total of 2500... and only 51 points available for it!

Please tell me it is an error or something, I could be crunching it for weeks...

Peace,

Marc

What kind of Mac are you crunching it on?
Which client are you running?
What version of the MacOS are you running?

For a point of reference:
My G4/533 Duallie has a p254_p341_gnra_den it is working on (on one processor). It is very similar to the one you have in complexity and it is worth 53.7 points. It takes my Mac 42 minutes and 23 seconds per frame on average to do this type of unit. That equals almost exactly 72 hours or 3 days to complete the entire 100 frames.

On the other hand my wife's Beige G3 upgraded to a G3/466 with 1MB backside cache is choking away on a MUCH smaller WU, a p922_vpf913. It is worth only 31 points and is taking the old work horse almost a full hour per frame! I may turn it off of Folding, it will only be able to score a couple of hundred points (if I am lucky) during the entire race.

The Placid Casual · Jan 22, 2004, 03:49 AM

Originally posted by OneMacGuy:
What kind of Mac are you crunching it on?
Which client are you running?
What version of the MacOS are you running?

For a point of reference:
My G4/533 Duallie has a p254_p341_gnra_den it is working on (on one processor). It is very similar to the one you have in complexity and it is worth 53.7 points. It takes my Mac 42 minutes and 23 seconds per frame on average to do this type of unit. That equals almost exactly 72 hours or 3 days to complete the entire 100 frames.

On the other hand my wife's Beige G3 upgraded to a G3/466 with 1MB backside cache is choking away on a MUCH smaller WU, a p922_vpf913. It is worth only 31 points and is taking the old work horse almost a full hour per frame! I may turn it off of Folding, it will only be able to score a couple of hundred points (if I am lucky) during the entire race.

I'm am, I'm ashamed to say, on my new machine... a Homebrew Athlon XP box!

Specs:

Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton Core with 512 Cache)
Epox EP-RDA3+ nForce 2 dual channel Ultra 400DDR Motherboard
512MB RAM PC3500
Radeon 9600XT
Windows XP Home.

So far it has crunched it for about 3 hours, and got through 10%... so it is not as bad as I first feared.

Can't help feel it would be better on a Mac though...

Cheers for the help!

Marc

OneMacGuy · Jan 22, 2004, 08:51 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
I'm am, I'm ashamed to say, on my new machine... a Homebrew Athlon XP box!

Specs:

Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton Core with 512 Cache)
Epox EP-RDA3+ nForce 2 dual channel Ultra 400DDR Motherboard
512MB RAM PC3500
Radeon 9600XT
Windows XP Home.

So far it has crunched it for about 3 hours, and got through 10%... so it is not as bad as I first feared.

Can't help feel it would be better on a Mac though...

Cheers for the help!

Marc

Since you are running Windows, there is actually an excellent tool you can install to give you some detailed monitoring of your progress, time per frame and WU and even some pretty good forecasting of points per day and so forth. It is called FAHStats. You can get it it here:

http://fahstats.sourceforge.net/mt/

You can set it up to monitor all of the computers on your network, from one system, that are folding by sharing the directories that your folding clients are installed in. It will even monitor your Mac clients that have Windows sharing enabled if you map a drive to the directory where the folding clients are installed and running.

The Placid Casual · Jan 22, 2004, 10:19 AM

Thanks, Cool App! I'm just about getting addicted to stats!

This is my current read out for this WU:

Protein p356_A21nat_273_94
Protein Core Gromacs
Credit 51.40
Deadline 18.00
Current Frame 49 of 100 (51 left )
Time Per Frame 9 mins, 34 sec
Time Left 8 hours, 7 mins
Client Version 4.00
Core Version Version 1.55 (December 22, 2003) SSE Enabled
User Name The_Placid_Casual
Team Number Team 16
Est. PPD 77.37 (1.51 WUs)
Est. PPW 541.58 (10.54 WUs)

Zimmerman · Jan 25, 2004, 12:32 AM

I've been crunching those 2500 frame units ever since I started. Well, thats not true. My very first one was a 500 frame WU. It completes about one frame every 10 minutes or so; a full 2500 takes me nearly three days but thats because though I leave my computer on for about 18 hrs/day, I use my computer for about half of that so the client doesn't get all that many cycles.

Dignan_OCC · Feb 1, 2004, 03:29 PM

This is no big deal... These units are just like that but move in steps higher then the normal 250 or 500 step WU...
They complete in time with other gormacs in the pts/hour category and definatly better then the tinker cores.
No worries, I have done that one well over 5 times now

Zimmerman · Feb 1, 2004, 08:05 PM

Wow. I overclocked my Barton system from 1.83ghz to 2.3ghz last week. Now it finishes about one work unit every 16-18hrs, regardless how much I use the computer (gaming excepted).