*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[Jstn7477]

Originally Posted by theoneandonlymrk

does V7 client work with radeon 48xx, i do remember your prior posts

after looking at this guide http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGuide

it says 5xxx and above and 2xx and above for nvidia, you might want to go back to the older client

sorry if youv said are they doing x11 or x16 wu's

coincidentally has anyone tried mixed Brand folding on V7 beta ,because i want to throw an nv card in my main rig thereby giving me an extra client but with the first V7 beta it kept robbing all the Wu's off the amd cards and randomly too, id not notice for a hwile sometimes so im warey.

I ran a 6950 2GB and a GTX 550 Ti in my main rig for a while, which worked when I was using core 11 on the AMD card and core 15 on the NV card. Once I learned about the advanced flag, my AMD card changed to core 16 and one of the cards refused to fold. Now I just segregate rigs to AMD or NV, and if I have an extra one of either it goes into a single PCIe slot board.

[theoneandonlymrk]

Originally Posted by Jstn7477

I ran a 6950 2GB and a GTX 550 Ti in my main rig for a while, which worked when I was using core 11 on the AMD card and core 15 on the NV card. Once I learned about the advanced flag, my AMD card changed to core 16 and one of the cards refused to fold. Now I just segregate rigs to AMD or NV, and if I have an extra one of either it goes into a single PCIe slot board.

kinda like my experience, but i was disableing the gt240 just to fold on the better cards , now its on its own in a p4 rig folding ill leave it

[Athlonite]

I think I remember someplace on F@H forums saying that they are updating the servers to support V7 clients as the old gpu2 servers don't give out that info or it's not in a usable form for the V7 client but once they update all the servers that shouldn't be a problem anymore

if it's core_11 (gpu2 WU) then it 511 points total

[xvi]

Well, now I have a new problem. For the past few days, I haven't been able to get work for my GPU2 clients. SMP seems to work just fine, but I get this in my logs:

20:58:54:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
20:58:54:WARNING:WU02:FS02:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
20:58:54:WARNING:WU02:FS02:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
20:58:54:ERROR:WU02:FS02:Exception: Could not get an assignment

Looks like we're talking to the server and it's replying that there's no work? Any other GPU2 buddies out there getting the same thing?

(I'll add a SMP slot for this weekend, I suppose)

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm so surprised. It's Friday.

I don't mean to take pleasure in you not getting work, but this happens so much on Fridays.

[xvi]

Originally Posted by thebluebumblebee

I'm so surprised. It's Friday.

I don't mean to take pleasure in you not getting work, but this happens so much on Fridays.

This has been happening for a few weeks. I haven't been given a WU yet.

[hertz9753]

Originally Posted by xvi

This has been happening for a few weeks. I haven't been given a WU yet.

Which server are you trying to download from? Did you try restarting your rig? Also which client are you using?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/pybeta/serverstat.html

[xvi]

Originally Posted by hertz9753

Which server are you trying to download from? Did you try restarting your rig? Also which client are you using?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/pybeta/serverstat.html

According to the logs, assign-GPU.stanford.edu. I have restarted a few times and I am using the v7 client. As of Tuesday, still no luck. There is no firewall/security preventing access to the aforementioned server.

20:58:54:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
20:58:54:WARNING:WU02:FS02:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
20:58:54:WU02:FS02:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
20:58:54:WARNING:WU02:FS02:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
20:58:54:ERROR:WU02:FS02:Exception: Could not get an assignment

[thebluebumblebee]

xvi, you're not going to like this. Seems that Pande is bring to an end the work units for the AMD/ATI GPU's (GPU2, pre-5xxx series cards) like they said last year. They actually said that they would end around September 2011. This thread is confusing with some misinformation, but the good info is towards the bottom of page 2.

It would help if I put the link in, huh?
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...+an+assignment

[Jstn7477]

Darn, my 3850 AGP is sort of useless after all then. Is it just the old ATI cards that only support CAL?

[Athlonite]

It'll probably include nVidia cards that can't run CUDA and OpenCL aswell

in a way it makes sense to do away with older cards and support only those cards that can use Opencl

[T4C Fantasy]

hey guys, i would like to try something a little different here... my names are all based on my name and hardware, for example Matthew-PS3, Matthew-HD7970... but i want to make a Matthew-3770K aswel, 2 names 1 PC how can i do this?

[BUCK NASTY]

Originally Posted by T4C Fantasy

hey guys, i would like to try something a little different here... my names are all based on my name and hardware, for example Matthew-PS3, Matthew-HD7970... but i want to make a Matthew-3770K aswel, 2 names 1 PC how can i do this?

Don't think you can do it with the newer clients. The same username/team is used for each instance. With the old SMP/GPU2 clients, you could enter diff info for each instance.

[T4C Fantasy]

i think i was stupid to fold a 3770k on a P67 mobo haha, i get bsod everytime i even add smp slot now and it never gets past 0.00%

[thebluebumblebee]

Originally Posted by T4C Fantasy

i think i was stupid to fold a 3770k on a P67 mobo haha, i get bsod everytime i even add smp slot now and it never gets past 0.00%

Folding will expose unstable OC's better than anything else. Back your OC down a bit and try again. ( I don't know anything about IB on P67)

[T4C Fantasy]

i fixed the bsod problem it seems i underclocked my OC but now i can use smp... and it just stays at 0 but the gpu one increased fast (read my system specs for info)

[thebluebumblebee]

Originally Posted by T4C Fantasy

i fixed the bsod problem it seems i underclocked my OC but now i can use smp... and it just stays at 0 but the gpu one increased fast (read my system specs for info)

Since you're using an AMD GPU, which uses up to 1 thread from the CPU, you may actually get better total PPD if you decrease the thread count for SMP by 1 or 2. Keeps the clients out of each other's way.

[T4C Fantasy]

Originally Posted by thebluebumblebee

Since you're using an AMD GPU, which uses up to 1 thread from the CPU, you may actually get better total PPD if you decrease the thread count for SMP by 1 or 2. Keeps the clients out of each other's way.

i was trying with uniprocessor, i will try less threads thanks.

[T4C Fantasy]

Originally Posted by thebluebumblebee

Since you're using an AMD GPU, which uses up to 1 thread from the CPU, you may actually get better total PPD if you decrease the thread count for SMP by 1 or 2. Keeps the clients out of each other's way.

tested and works

[hertz9753]

Originally Posted by T4C Fantasy

tested and works

Good to hear. Thank you Blue.

[t_ski]

How's the 3770K folding now? Thinking about getting a similar CPU for my kids' P67 board.

[T4C Fantasy]

Originally Posted by t_ski

How's the 3770K folding now? Thinking about getting a similar CPU for my kids' P67 board.

SMP at 4 9691.96 PPD

SMP at 2 3810.44 PPD

2 different slots at the same time using 6 threads and my
HD7970 at 7549.71 PPD

my total daily PPD is estimated at 18.5 to 19k

[T4C Fantasy]

here is a screenshot i hope its visible

[hertz9753]

Originally Posted by T4C Fantasy

SMP at 4 9691.96 PPD

SMP at 2 3810.44 PPD

2 different slots at the same time using 6 threads and my
HD7970 at 7549.71 PPD

my total daily PPD is estimated at 18.5 to 19k

You should be running the Stanford V7 client. With that even if you chose not to run the 7970 you would be way over 30k ppd with your cpu alone.

[thebluebumblebee]

T4c, you'll want to run one SMP client with 6-7 cores. SMP's also comes with a bonus (you need the passkey) once you've completed 10 SMP WU's. The bonus is based on how fast you get the WU done, so, obviously, 6 cores will get a WU done much faster than 2 or 4. You should be able to get (someone correct me if I'm wrong-this is just an educated guess) 30-40,000 with your system if it is allowed to Fold 24/7.