Help & Advice Please

[mgally]

Hi All

I now have 10x 4 core servers with 4 GB RAM up and running. Is 4 GB sufficient for SMP folding or will more RAM be useful?

I also have a another Dell R815 arriving soon and now that I have completed 10 work units I was hoping to run SMP with -bigadv on windows 2008 Data Centre Edition. Will I be able to ulitilse all 48 cores with the SMP client?

Thanks in Advance

 

[Grizzly]

In answer to your first question, I run SMP with 4GB of RAM and have yet to have problems.

Can't help with -bigadv, haven't familiarised myself with that yet.

 

[SieB]

I don't think RAM matters tbh, I could be wrong though. Not sure about the other questions either maybe Kup or SnW can help.

 

[mgally]

Thanks for the reply both, appreciated

 

[mgally]

I'm a plank, I just found Kup's guide

Doh

 

[yuri04]

RAM does matter, however for the regular SMP you will only need about 50Mb (atleast on this 10115) so 4GB is more than enough,

On the Bigadv however there is a much greater RAM requirement, I'm not sure what it is however (but I'm sure the Bigadv guys will report in soon

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Yes you will be able to run 48 cores/threads on the SMP client, however it won't do that natively, so you will have to tell it to use 48 threads, via the '-smp 48' flag, it's supposed to scale quite well.

 

[kup]

I find 2GB to be good for Bigadv Folding. I'm not sure if those Quads will run Bigadv as it's supposed to be 8Cores+ but it'll definitely be worth running Advmethods on them. I'd use the GPU Tracker for ease of setup and config' changes.

Cheers for the contribution dude, that's gunna pull some nice numbers.

 

[mgally]

I find 2GB to be good for Bigadv Folding. I'm not sure if those Quads will run Bigadv as it's supposed to be 8Cores+ but it'll definitely be worth running Advmethods on them. I'd use the GPU Tracker for ease of setup and config' changes.

Cheers for the contribution dude, that's gunna pull some nice numbers.

 

[mgally]

Cheers for the reply Kup, as you said I won't be able to run Bidadv on the VM Quad instances that I have at the moment as they are effectively only 4 cores on each instance. I will running my 2nd server as a physical server with 4 x 12 core CPUs so hopefully will be able to run Bigadv on this.

As you suggest I will try the tracker, at the moment I am just running SMP as a service which does work well from what I can see.

Glad to help the team in anyway I can

 

[AMD_PBz]

That's Great Mgally We Appreciate your efforts