Huge WU
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Have you guys heard of EMIII? You could download it here:
http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude1/emsite/download.html
If you want info on your folding projects. It is packed with information.
# of frames
Work unit completion timer showing you how much time the work unit will take.
Frame countdown timer.
Remote function allowing you to see your other computers progress on your home network.
Jeez I sound like an advert I like it a more than KDfold.
My apologies if this is all old news to you, just thought I could help.
http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude1/emsite/download.html
If you want info on your folding projects. It is packed with information.
# of frames
Work unit completion timer showing you how much time the work unit will take.
Frame countdown timer.
Remote function allowing you to see your other computers progress on your home network.
Jeez I sound like an advert I like it a more than KDfold.
My apologies if this is all old news to you, just thought I could help.
I'm new to this, and still working on my first WU, it seems huge too. It says it has 400 frames, so far i have completed 72, and each frames seems to take half an hour! I worked out it will take 7 and half days to finish this WU! is that normal?
I'm running it on my laptop. It has a pentium III 1GHz processor speedstepped (underclocked and undervolted) down to 733MHz for silent heatpiped cooling at 100% load.
And as a sidenote, have people with "noisy" hard drives looked into using a ramdisk? It lets your harddrive sleep properly and is a great help. Otherwise i've noticed every completed frame seems to wake the harddrive even with noflushd. (thats a linux daemon to spin down disks and keep them off (even with writes) till a read cannot be filled by the cache.)
And noflushd, that another matter, cannot rave enough about it.
I'm running it on my laptop. It has a pentium III 1GHz processor speedstepped (underclocked and undervolted) down to 733MHz for silent heatpiped cooling at 100% load.
And as a sidenote, have people with "noisy" hard drives looked into using a ramdisk? It lets your harddrive sleep properly and is a great help. Otherwise i've noticed every completed frame seems to wake the harddrive even with noflushd. (thats a linux daemon to spin down disks and keep them off (even with writes) till a read cannot be filled by the cache.)
And noflushd, that another matter, cannot rave enough about it.
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Look here for project info: http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html Your project, 638, is a huge Tinker at 70.90 points. That would take days on many machines.
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When I look at newegg, the lowest Barton I see has a model number of 2800, which should be better than my 2.53 Intel. However, if we look at the EOC weekly listing, my output is ~550 this week while DryFire is 40% lower at ~330. If these totals are typical, this leaves three options: either A) you need to reevaluate your opinion of AMD Tinker performance, B) someone needs to kick csnow for being so stingy on points, or C) we need to recommend DryFire seek counseling for his computergame addiction
-advmethods does not mean Gromacs
The -advmethods flag does not request gromacs instead of tinker.
-advmethods says you are willing to run beta code, even though it may fail and crash your machine and give you no points.
Back when Gromacs was in beta test the -advmethods flag did get you gromacs work units, but that is not quite so true anymore.
-advmethods says you are willing to run beta code, even though it may fail and crash your machine and give you no points.
Back when Gromacs was in beta test the -advmethods flag did get you gromacs work units, but that is not quite so true anymore.
heros- basically, the AMDs get a huge advantage over P4s with 2 FPUs available instead of 1 on P4s. However, P4s have SSE2, a special instruction set designed to get more floating point operations without more FPUs, and a SSE2 optimized floating point intensive program can actually perform better on P4s than Athlons. Therefore, Athlons will win on Tinkers with their second FPU while Gromacs with SSE2 optimizations will go faster on P4s. Furthermore, CPU speed is hardly the only factor in the speed of WU; FSB, Memory, and other things will affect it too. And, most importantly, points for WUs can vary wildly, meaning a one week snapshot is hardly a indicator of performance, especially since dryfire may have had downtime, or used his computer for something other than folding (though that better not be true, dryfire!)
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You seem to be missing what I am saying, Zhentar. I couldn't care less about your processor war debate. Whether AMD is better at Tinker doesn't matter, its history. I was talking about Tinker versus Gromacs. It is a huge difference for Intel, so I was wondering why you thought AMD was good with Tinker. I did not know that there was little difference between the two cores for AMD users, besides, DryFire said he was tapping the vein, so chill.
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