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Things to know before you start attempting to do -bigadv
Some ideas on Bargain builds can be found in this thread.
(A wealth of other FAQ can be found here, written by Kassen)
1) To use -bigadv flag you will need an 8CPU core or better computer.
The cores can be virtual, so running on an i7 or a dual-quad core Xeon/Opteron setup should work.
1b) It is possible to run on a 4 core box, but the CPU must be overclocked to or over 4GHz in order to make the 4 day bonus deadline.
1c) Possible speeds to make it per CPU
2) The bigadv client will need 4.5GB or more ram to run, so a system with 6GB or more is recommended.
3) The client can be run on a 64bit Linux install or through a 8 core VM using VMWare Player 3.0 with 64-bit Windows OS
3b) If your system requires virtualization to be turned on through the bios to use more than 1 core, make sure you do so.
3c) If you plan on running 16 or 32 CPU cores OR MORE, than a 64-bit Linux install will be your only option in doing so, there is no free VM that will run with this many CPU cores at this time.
#note# With 4x 8 core VM's in Windows OS, there is a potential of 45K PpD, 32 cores on a Linux install, possibility of 85k PpD. Bonus calculator
4) In order to do -bigadv a passkey is required.
4b) In order to attain a passkey, please go here
5) You will not see the bonus kick in until after you complete 10 SMP units. (This is for verification purposes from Stanford)
5b) You need to have completed 10 Core A2 based SMP units against your passkey before you can get start getting a bonus. They can be normal SMP units or they can be -bigadv units but they must be recorded against your passkey
5c) You will notice a long pause at the end before the WU uploads at completion, this is a normal process, do not reset your client.
6) -bigadv WU's have a 4 day deadline.
6b) 2.7 days to make the 50K cutoff, 4 days for the 25K cutoff.
6c) To check and see if you will make the deadline, if a normal SMP WU is faster than 6.5K PpD, you should be able to make the deadline, obviously, the higher the better.
7) The WU's have an upload size of 95MB or more, this could make an upload time of 30-40 minutes on slower connections and will take an additional couple minutes to half an hour to clean up the work files at the end of the run. So add an addition hour to the end of the WU completion before you receive your next WU.
Link to foxtrotniner's -bigadv backup script
Installing the -bigadv client with Finstall for Linux;
Installing a VM client; (This is being updated continuously over at eVGA forums, so this information may no longer be up to date, I will try and refresh it as it is updated there.)
Quoted from linuxrouter on evga.com/forums
Information added from the following threads;
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1476242
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1467934
https://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=4464
Contributors; Pocatello, Tigerbiten, nitrobass24, Tobit, Kendrak and newxperiment
*If anything is missing or incorrect, let me know I will fix it asap on this top link*
Add more as it comes my way!
Some ideas on Bargain builds can be found in this thread.
(A wealth of other FAQ can be found here, written by Kassen)
1) To use -bigadv flag you will need an 8CPU core or better computer.
The cores can be virtual, so running on an i7 or a dual-quad core Xeon/Opteron setup should work.
1b) It is possible to run on a 4 core box, but the CPU must be overclocked to or over 4GHz in order to make the 4 day bonus deadline.
1c) Possible speeds to make it per CPU
2) The bigadv client will need 4.5GB or more ram to run, so a system with 6GB or more is recommended.
3) The client can be run on a 64bit Linux install or through a 8 core VM using VMWare Player 3.0 with 64-bit Windows OS
3b) If your system requires virtualization to be turned on through the bios to use more than 1 core, make sure you do so.
3c) If you plan on running 16 or 32 CPU cores OR MORE, than a 64-bit Linux install will be your only option in doing so, there is no free VM that will run with this many CPU cores at this time.
#note# With 4x 8 core VM's in Windows OS, there is a potential of 45K PpD, 32 cores on a Linux install, possibility of 85k PpD. Bonus calculator
4) In order to do -bigadv a passkey is required.
4b) In order to attain a passkey, please go here
5) You will not see the bonus kick in until after you complete 10 SMP units. (This is for verification purposes from Stanford)
5b) You need to have completed 10 Core A2 based SMP units against your passkey before you can get start getting a bonus. They can be normal SMP units or they can be -bigadv units but they must be recorded against your passkey
5c) You will notice a long pause at the end before the WU uploads at completion, this is a normal process, do not reset your client.
6) -bigadv WU's have a 4 day deadline.
6b) 2.7 days to make the 50K cutoff, 4 days for the 25K cutoff.
6c) To check and see if you will make the deadline, if a normal SMP WU is faster than 6.5K PpD, you should be able to make the deadline, obviously, the higher the better.
7) The WU's have an upload size of 95MB or more, this could make an upload time of 30-40 minutes on slower connections and will take an additional couple minutes to half an hour to clean up the work files at the end of the run. So add an addition hour to the end of the WU completion before you receive your next WU.
Link to foxtrotniner's -bigadv backup script
Installing the -bigadv client with Finstall for Linux;
Installing the bigadv client with Finstall.
I always use Finstall to install the FaH client on Linux.
Its quick and easy.
If curl does not work try .........Code:curl -O http://ra.vendomar.ee/~ivo/finstall chmod +x finstall ./finstall smp
More Info on Finstall.Code:wget http://ra.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/finstall
Once you have configured the client, make sure to add passkey, shut it down as you need to do a clouple more tweaks.
First:- you need to ddownload and drop in the new fah6 from http://www.stanford.edu/~kasson/folding/osx/fah6
If you dont do this you get a bad argument message when you add the -bigadv flag.
Second:- You need to change the default flags the client starts with.
Open the FaH file with an editor and find the line .....
Code:FAH_default_flags="-smp -verbosity 9"
If your just running standard work-unit change it to .......
Where X is the number of cores you want it to run on.Code:FAH_default_flags="-smp X -verbosity 9"
It can either be the number of cores on your computer or the number minus one if you want to save a core for something else.
If your running bigadv then change it to ......
Code:FAH_default_flags="-smp X -bigadv -verbosity 9"
If you want to install the client as a service just run .....
Code:./installService
To start, stop and restart the client use ........
To change to the folding directory.Code:CD ~/foldingathome
Then.......
To start,stop, restart it.Code:./folding start ./folding stop ./folding restart
Luck ..................
Installing a VM client; (This is being updated continuously over at eVGA forums, so this information may no longer be up to date, I will try and refresh it as it is updated there.)
Quoted from linuxrouter on evga.com/forums
Information added from the following threads;
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1476242
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1467934
https://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=4464
Contributors; Pocatello, Tigerbiten, nitrobass24, Tobit, Kendrak and newxperiment
*If anything is missing or incorrect, let me know I will fix it asap on this top link*
Add more as it comes my way!
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