The official SMP thread

[sbohdan]

here you can post anything considering the SMP client.

Originally Posted by screwballl

but you are looking at severely reduced points when using the single clients... about 1200+ points per SMP core versus 100-400 for even multiple "single core" clients

sorry guys, I just figured out how to run the SMP client as a service. It's funny I haven't noticed it before but it's on stanford's site in the FAQ's :

Folding@home - FAQ-SMP

Note: We do not officially support running the SMP client as a service, although people have found the following to work

• .NET 2.0 & Windows SMP Client must be installed from the same account with full administrator privileges.
• using the -configonly flag, say "yes" to services question & configure everything else as you normally would. Do not start the client yet.
• Open the services control pannel, go to the new FAH WinSMP service & open the properties and click the Log On tab. Select Log On As: This Account (instead of Local System Account), put the user name for the account under which .NET 2.0 and the SMP client were installed. Enter the password.
• Reboot. The SMP client will automatically start in service mode.

so now I will put up with having to have a password to my account for the sake of gaining on my PPD I'm really eager to see how much difference will it make compared to me running 2 regular clients before ... I will report back on this.

[sbohdan]

here is my first experience with SMP:

I installed the SMP client 3 days ago and the work unit's progress got anihilated down to zero 3 times during this time. every second or third restart of my computer (I was installing some hardware), the progress of the work unit disappeared (once from 76%, than 37% and 46%) and started over from 0%
finally I had an idea of making a copy of the F@H folder on another drive and tried it out (this time my progress was at 78%). naturally after a restart, the progress was gone and started at 0% . this time I stopped the client (it is running as a service now) and copied the backup files over the ones in the program files. than I made another restart and voila! my 78% progress was back and running
just thought you could use this trick if you run into something similar

[screwballl]

I guess I am just lucky that I have not had any problems with the SMP client (other than it refusing to start as a service).

[sbohdan]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I guess I am just lucky that I have not had any problems with the SMP client (other than it refusing to start as a service).

did you try what I quoted in the other thread? I have XP - maybe it doesn't work in vista?

reporting back after finishing finally my first SMP WU: HOLLY CRAP! this just gave me 1760 points instead of 300-400 points that I was getting with the regular client. if the rest of our team switched to SMP we could quadruple or more our output. now remember one thing with the SPM client: there is a small price for much higher points reward: shorter deadlines (compared to the regular client). for this WU I had 3 days (completed it in 1,5 day's being on 24/7). on the other hand I only have a D830 for a CPU , so anything faster should be fine even without running the client 24/7

[screwballl]

I only use XP... and nothing works in my case... oh well its no biggie
I tend to suggest the E2140 at minimum for the SMP client as using anything older may be cutting it a bit close to the deadline... but as long as it is working and finishing units then use it.

[screwballl]

Looking at the PPD (Points per day) average, my E2140 gets 826ppd and my E6600 gets 1300ppd on the p2653 SMP unit.

[sbohdan]

now that I added my new laptop (also with SMP) my PPD jumped up to over 1000p
I should of switched to SMP long before but I used to have XP SP1 on my old rig and the NEtframework couldnt install on it. without that the SMP client doesnt work. now I have XP SP2 on the rig and vista home on the lappie both running the SMP client

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I just had a WU of 2500+ points. did anyone had a biggie like this before I used to make this much in 2 weeks or so, now it took 2.5 days with the SMP client

[sbohdan]

can anyone tell me what can I do in this case?

+ Attempting to send results
[19:32:33] Working on Unit 02 [May 5 19:32:33]
[19:32:33] + Working ...
[19:32:33] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[19:33:06] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[19:33:06] (171.64.65.64:8080)
[19:33:06] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed May 4) to work server.


[19:33:06] + Attempting to send results
[19:33:12] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[19:33:12] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[19:33:12] (171.64.122.76:8080)
[19:33:12] Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.


it can't send the results over a day now and I'm afraid I will run out of the deadline and loose the WU points
is there anyway to force the WU to be sent? and why is this happening??

[screwballl]

sometimes you can restart the computer and it connects after that, otherwise it is the servers at stanford that are having problems... I have been seeing the same messages on and off for the past few days.

[sbohdan]

Originally Posted by screwballl

sometimes you can restart the computer and it connects after that, otherwise it is the servers at stanford that are having problems... I have been seeing the same messages on and off for the past few days.

damn, so if the time is up just lost 2400 points
thanks screwball.