You'd be better off going with the 955 instead for $30 less: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674
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The Phenom won't be able to run -bigadv even if you can magically OC it well over 4GHz. It only has four cores and unless things have changed recently, the IPC of a Phenom isn't as high as an equivalent Intel CPU. At any rate, no quad core can manage it without an unrealistic OC, and very high frequencies (even with i7) is not something I would aim for with -bigadv because of the nature of the work, which requires a stable system that can turn in WUs quickly and more importantly, reliably. The one system running these WUs in my farm has a moderate OC, and I still get the occasional lockup with a native Linux install. It's a server setup without enthusiast board OC features, so no surprise there. I'm lucky I can OC at all and it's convoluted. This is something I'm trying to overcome but it's extremely difficult since these WUs are highly sensitive as they are. If anything, I recommend people to back off the OCs a little with -bigadv just to improve the likelihood of completion within an appreciable time frame.Thanks for the heads up Apollo. I priced out a Phenom II system using this processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
And it cost me about $600. Which is a little more than what it would cost for one of those Sun servers with dual core processors put in (maybe less, who knows?). Plus being brand new components, I'm sort of feeling that route a little better, only problem is that wouldn't really be up to -bigadv folding.
Having said the above, if it's -bigadv you want to run and you have a limited budget, I still think the best setup would probably be an i7 processor with a moderate OC to frequencies which can accomplish the bonus deadline and still be very stable.
You can't. i7 CPUs cannot operate under a 2P configuration.I have a spare i7 920. If I wanted to get another one and put in a Dual 1366 MoBo, which board is recommended?
Well right now I have an i7 920 and it's at stock clock speed (heat is an issue... I need to mod my PC-A05). I'm still getting it within the timeframe to get the bonus points. I'm getting ~48K a work unit, and it's taking 3 days and change to get the work units done.
Most likely it's due to the three GPU clients you're running. A single client is just about negligible, but three clients certainly are not as I can tell you from personal experience.My frame times seem high given the OC, but it could be the VM I am using.
Hey guys linuxrouter has posted a new version of his VM on the EVGA page linked in the OP.
The 0.6 image has the Langouste Decoupler installed so you can upload and download at the same time.
This should really help those that have slow upload speeds
Hope this helps
I saw that the other day, this VM just keeps getting better and better. The setup web page has improved quite a bit too.
I made a few more changes to the image and posted an updated image in the guide. The core Linux system is still the same. The changes are mainly related to the web interface and init scripts.
MtM suggested that I add NTP support in the event there is still some clock drift. I added a checkbox to enable that. This starts up ntpd on boot. I used the following NTP servers in /etc/ntp.conf:
0.pool.ntp.org , 1.pool.ntp.org , 2.pool.ntp.org , 3.pool.ntp.org
Feel free to change them to something else if you want.
I also added an option to specify Ramdisk size and to use tmpfs in instead of a block device in RAM. The last option I added was for enabling -oneunit with the fah6 client.
I setup the shutdown script (rc.local_shutdown) to backup the data before shutting down the fah6 client. Then on boot, the init script does a restore from that backup. This only happens when either auto-startup or Ramdisk is enabled. Hopefully this will help with failed work units due to shutting down the client before completion. The backup script keeps a maximum of three backups in directories backup, backup.1, and backup.2 where backup.2 is the oldest. Also, before doing the restore, the restore script copies the existing files (queue.dat, unitinfo.txt, work) to a directory called old in case something is wrong with the backup of the files being restored.
Sorry about that. I noticed that too.
*edit* Information now updated on primary thread to show new information on eVGA page. This guy updates alot quicker than I thought (couple hours ago since last update)
It should be utilizing 100% or very close to full. How much memory do you have the VM using? I tried a -bigadv client with less than the 3600MB pre-configured in the EVGA VM, and it behaved in a similar fashion to what you described. It would process very erratically and sometimes just halt.Question about the -bigadv...noticed my cpu use hovers around the midpoint (50%) each core; is this right? I'm used to the VM of notfred or the Win SMP clients putting the cpu use at 100%... just wanted to check.
Finally got around to settling on an i7 oc last night (3.67 @ stock volts), and got the VM going (using the eVGA build). I tried getting one up using ubuntu x64 and felt pretty lost most of the way and then couldn't get the client to run anyway.
Question about the -bigadv...noticed my cpu use hovers around the midpoint (50%) each core; is this right? I'm used to the VM of notfred or the Win SMP clients putting the cpu use at 100%... just wanted to check.
TIA
so I'm good to go now.Arguments: -bigadv -smp 8
Extremely minimal, with no gui, install of Gentoo with a custom configured/compiled 2.6.32 kernel with Zen enhancements.What Linux distro are you Linus only guys using?
How does this distro compare with the EVGA VM for -bigadv folding?Extremely minimal, with no gui, install of Gentoo with a custom configured/compiled 2.6.32 kernel with Zen enhancements.