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[mike123abc]

Sorry guy's due to High Heat , Electrical Bill's , on and on. I will be stopping all my folding. Good luck to all on the Team and I will hopefully be back in the fall.

Fold On.!! :up

Plazz

I wonder if someone charts temperature verses folding units, it would be an interesting chart to see.

 

[Plazzman]

Yes the cart would be interesting.
On my end at home I had a 9850 AMD Quad with 2 radeon 3850 Both overclocked with 1 PS3 80GB running last month both full time except brief moments of COD4 on the PS3. My electric bill has went up $45.00 for the month. Now I realize that utility cost have risen also but Geeeeezzz!!! I atribute most of it due to the increased AC Use then would rank the PC then PS3 in that order for power consumption. I can only imagine what the cost is with the older computers at work which I had running full time 15 or more computers. My boss may have my head for that one as we try to be a green company.

 

[SatinKzo]

Can't blame ya plazz, That's why I cut out my home units until winter, at least then, the extra heat is welcome!

 

[GeorgeLV]

Yeah don't blame you Plazz.

I'm waiting to get my electric bill since I started folding with the video cards and they take more power. Thats why I shut my PS3 down a week or so ago because I new my bill was going to go up. We will see.

I've experimented with shutting of the water heater for summer and it looks like it more than offsets my folding power usage.

The municipal water supply is warm enough that showers are refreshingly cool so I think I'll stick with it until the fall.

 

[Foxbat]

Sorry guy's due to High Heat , Electrical Bill's , on and on. I will be stopping all my folding. Good luck to all on the Team and I will hopefully be back in the fall.

Fold On.!! :up

Plazz

Plazzman, can you keep Folding for another two or three days? You are soooo close to becoming SatelliteGuys.US's 7th Millionaire! A few mores days should lock you in.

Regarding power consumption and heat production, some of the Macintosh Folding teams said that the Mac Mini produces the most points per Watt since it draws somewhere around 35-40 Watts while Folding. My 1.86 GHz C2D Mini produces around 45-60 pph, depending on the protein. My 2.66 GHz Xeon Mac Pro does around 90-110 pph, again dependent on the protein being Folded, but I never measured the wattage.

I did just upgrade my internal SATA drive to one of those Western Digital "Green" 1 TB drives. It supposedly reduces power consumption by 4-5 Watts over a regular 7200rpm drive. According to the iStats widget, it runs about 1-2?C cooler than the Seagate that came with the Mac Pro.

 

[hdtvtechno]

When not using your computer and are folding..
Turn off your monitor... even unplug the power cord from the monitor from the wall socket..
if your using laptop.. turn off the monitor from the windows control panel

 

[stimpson]

My queue is full and my "display" is showing attempting to send results, could not connect to server. What could be the problem?

 

[Plazzman]

My queue is full and my "display" is showing attempting to send results, could not connect to server. What could be the problem?

Check the following page to make sure the servers is working. You should see an IP address for the server you are trying to send to.

Folding Forum • View topic - Do this first

 

[jgantert]

Whats up with the latest SMP client? My old one expired, and I upgraded. Now my processors are only at about 50% usage (24%, 11%, 7%, 5%). Used to be 100% usage (25%, 25%, 25%, 25%).

Any ideas? No point running if I'm only getting 50% utilization. I guess I could run 2 SMP clients.

 

[Plazzman]

I'm assuming you are running the new 6.22 Client. With that client you have to add the -smp and or -denio to the client command line to actually get it to use the full processor or processors.
If you just run the exe with no parameters it act's like a single processor client. This is one of the big changes from the 5.91/5.92 client. More info is available at the following link.
Folding Forum • View forum - Windows v6.22 Beta with -smp specified

 

[jgantert]

Yeah, thats what I am doing. I'm still not sure if I need to run -denio or not. I have tried with and without, and don't see any difference. I'm running Windows XP Pro, if it matters.

 

[jgantert]

Ok, so I'm trying two SMP clients now. One catch is one has to be -denio and one without. Still only at 80% CPU usage. Using a lot of memory tho (almost 2GB).

 

[Plazzman]

Ok, so I'm trying two SMP clients now. One catch is one has to be -denio and one without. Still only at 80% CPU usage. Using a lot of memory tho (almost 2GB).

Ok I see from the following thread others are having the same problem.
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Folding Forum • View topic - Not using 100% CPU usage with Deino?

Did you upgrade or do a fresh install? From my understanding -denio helps if you have network issues. There is also a drop in EXE file that you can try at the link shown above.

 

[jgantert]

I tried both ways. Actually running two clients seems ok. Both are completing 1% in about 25 minutes, which is about what I was getting with just one SMP client before. So I think the Windows Task Manager is properly reporting CPU usage.

I can try to use the other executable and see what happens.

 

[Plazzman]

Good deal. I forgot also that they have extended the 5.91/5.92 version now so if you need to you can revert back to that version.

 

[jgantert]

That seems better. Now its 18 mins per 1%, and CPU is at 100%.

So I guess I was still getting better performance running 2 SMP clients, but I can't afford to waste 2GB of memory, tho (I use this computer as my video server, and need more than that available to stream/re-encode video).

-John

 

[jgantert]

Actually after testing a little more with the new executable, running just one SMP client seems fine. I get approximately twice the slowdown when running two clients, so might as well just run one client. I'll try the -oneunit option to finish off one client then keep the other client running 24/7.

Thanks for the help plazzman!

 

[Foxbat]

Since the SMP 6.02 beta version for OSX expires today, I went and downloaded the non-beta 6.20 SMP for OSX release. One improvement is the ability to specify the number of cores available, but the biggest difference I see on my Mac Pro is an almost 100% CPU utilization! The old SMP programs ran at maybe 75-80%, which made me run two copies of the SMP client for a while. I always had reliability issues with that mode and I cut back to one SMP client late last year. Now, I'm pushing the most out of my Mac Pro with the new 2662 Project, finishing 1% of the 1920 point WU in 7m30s which works out to something like 153 points per hour, an increase of almost 50% over the old client and projects.

It looks like the -smp switch may not be picking up the number of cores on my Mac Mini, though. It's still running 4 copies of the core process which should not be as efficient as running two. We'll see...

Edit: According to the 7im at the Folding Forum, support for specifying the number of cores to use hasn't been released yet. However, the improvement in performance has certainly been welcome!

 

[Cegarrett]

Just A FYI Both of my SMP Machines stoped working today because they expired. I installed the new beta on both of my mackined and Don't forget to add "-smp" to the end of the run command.

 

[Foxbat]

Whats up with the latest SMP client? My old one expired, and I upgraded. Now my processors are only at about 50% usage (24%, 11%, 7%, 5%). Used to be 100% usage (25%, 25%, 25%, 25%).

Any ideas? No point running if I'm only getting 50% utilization. I guess I could run 2 SMP clients.

jgantert, I noticed a similar behavior on my Mac Pro until I ran the fah6 client with the -configonly switch. There are new advanced options that you may need to set on the new SMP version that was released. After I did that, I'm seeing near 100% CPU usage! Also, with the 1920 point WUs for the OSX SMP clients, I'm seeing 158pph (up from 96pph) and a 1% completion time of 7m15s! :up

I'd try it again and try the -configonly to update your config file.