SMP only using 67%?

[stevehat1]

You could try adding another CPU slot with the core count set at 12 and see if that gets you some more PPD. The reason for 12 rather than 16 is to leave a few cores available for the 7970's.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yeah Windows sucks for SMP folding.

I think you ought to get 550k PPD on average with Linux. And that system will be pulling like only 450W from the plug. If you're a little lucky with the WUs you might even crack the 700k PPD...

Especially if you raise the BaseClock one or two MHz...

But check again in terms of CineBench. I don't know if you noticed but you used only 32 threads running CineBench too...

Linux will get tried - if it works out then Ill be chucking the other dual xeon rig together too...... (ive got 2x 2687's and 2x 2660's)

You could try adding another CPU slot with the core count set at 12 and see if that gets you some more PPD. The reason for 12 rather 16 is to leave a few cores available for the 7970's.

Tried that dude - PPD nose dived

 

[hmmblah]

Yeah Windows sucks for SMP folding.

I think you ought to get 550k PPD on average with Linux. And that system will be pulling like only 450W from the plug. If you're a little lucky with the WUs you might even crack the 700k PPD...

Especially if you raise the BaseClock one or two MHz...

But check again in terms of CineBench. I don't know if you noticed but you used only 32 threads running CineBench too...

By the way: Ubuntu Linux installation + setting it up for F@H is like 20 minutes. It's really easy, and you don't even need a fast SSD or something. The client creates a RAMdisk to run off... I'm there whenever you need me to quadruple your PPD in terms of SMP folding

Any PPD difference between the different linux distros? I run CentOS and just had a 24 thread xeon server I could do some "stress testing" on come available. It was only seeing 25-40k PPD in Windows. Is ubuntu the way to go or is there no difference?

 

[mihapiha]

The SMP folding community just happens to use Ubuntu 12.10. So if you use that OS you have the best access to easy to use tools for folding. Maybe something else is better, but I'd imagine that if it was, the folders would have moved to that OS already and the tools would be available there.

I guess if you're really good and knowledgeable about Linux you can go with something else.

 

[hmmblah]

The SMP folding community just happens to use Ubuntu 12.10. So if you use that OS you have the best access to easy to use tools for folding. Maybe something else is better, but I'd imagine that if it was, the folders would have moved to that OS already and the tools would be available there.

I guess if you're really good and knowledgeable about Linux you can go with something else.

What flags for best PPD on linux? Just client-type bigadv?

 

[mihapiha]

-smp -bigbeta -verbosity 9

you need -smp because it's better to use the V6. And you need thekraken.
There a few handy tools which can be useful. But it's a rather easy installation if you've done it once successfully. The first time it might look like it is confusing, but it's really not.

Linux will get tried - if it works out then Ill be chucking the other dual xeon rig together too...... (ive got 2x 2687's and 2x 2660's)

Gonna install Ubuntu 13.10 just to test it myself. I kinda miss Ubuntu...

Since I have the single socket version of your MB I think I will see if I run in any issues what so ever. Then it will be super easy for you, because you will know exactly what to expect

I will try the newer Ubuntu version since I have graphic cards now, I can afford the better looking one :lol:

 

[mihapiha]

Ok. I did some testing.

I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and everything runs smoothly. Installing the drivers was a bit of an ordeal but they're running nicely now. The numbers on cgminer for mining look ok.

I also installed V6 client for F@H and thekraken so I can test everything in terms of SMP folding...

if you want me to I will additionally install the V7 which would be interesting if you wish to run GPU folding along side of the SMP folding.

But setting it up for SMP folding exclusively and V6 was super easy...

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Edit:

I installed V7 just to check it out. And the Client doesn't recognize the GPUs I have installed. It says on the F@H homepage that Linux has poor OpenCL driver support and therefore AMD GPUs don't fold yet with Linux. But this can change with a newer driver.

So TTL, unless you gonna put some nVidia GPUs into your Folding farm, the V6 is pretty much the best option. I will turn of V7 as soon as that WU finishes...

And I will probably let you know tomorrow what Project I got with the V6 in which I can set my thread-count to 16 and therefore get a BigWU. I expect these WUs to fold for roughly 3 days on my slow 4930k @ 4.5 GHz though...


Here a screenshot of the CPU running on the V7:

 

[sheroo]

I'm using v6 client under Linux 12.04 for my folding rig. I used Musky's guide found in his second post on this thread.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1601608

Its super easy to follow and will download and install the Kraken and everything for you...

 

[mihapiha]

This particular guide is indeed really easy and I use it to. The problem is though if you cannot use Ubuntu 12.04 or something newer. My 48-Core Opteron Server did perform better with Ubuntu 10.10 and there this doesn't work.

It does work with Ubuntu 13.10 too though, so if TTL wants to use the newest Ubuntu it's gonna work fine. But 12.04 and never version require a graphic card. On board graphic chips are just a little too weak to work with...