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 Jun 30 2008, 01:06 PM
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 Multi Megaton Malware Munition  Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215  |
First:  Second: I very much recommend the GPU client to anyone who has one that can handle it..... You can see what adding that one client has done to my 24hr stats..... I thought it would make little difference... boy was I wrong :D Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jun 30 2008, 01:10 PM
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 Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 8,847 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
Billy?
You might explain for others here just exactly what a GPU is and how to effect such results. Some may have the means but not know how to start it up? Thanks, K //Edit: BC team sits on 1000 as of this post. Fold On! This post has been edited by KoanYorel: Jun 30 2008, 01:12 PM -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2008, 01:20 PM
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Multi Megaton Malware Munition Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
No problem, Koan.
 A GPU is the processor which is part of your graphics card. Typically, you see these with Gaming hardware, and the graphics card is used by the game to render the visuals on the screen. You can do this for ATI/AMD cards, but I've never owned an ATI card, and honestly don't know how ATI's client works. I think you can just download the client from here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther , but I haven't tried. Well, if you have an nVidia card in the 8xxx series or above, you can go to this page and download a beta driver that supports nVidia's new CUDA technology, which allows software applications to make use of the GPU's processing power. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Installation of the new driver will require a reboot. Then you can download the nVidia GPU2 Client from here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/f...stray-612b6.msi You just install it like the other installers. When you run the client, it will be using the GPU. It should be noted that the GPU client does have some drawbacks. It does basically freeze my machine while it's in use. It's not something I would run if I was actually using this machine on a day to day basis. I have been using a laptop lately .Honestly, the GPU client is still in the early beta phase... don't run it on a machine which you are actively using :D Any other questions would be much better answered here: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-ATI2 Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jun 30 2008, 01:25 PM
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Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 8,847 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
Thank You! Billy!
I don't game, but I think I have the cards in my Tosihi Lappies. Now just how to sort it all out. Thanks for the extra links too! Fold on BC crew! -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2008, 10:03 PM
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 I can see what you post! Group: Members Posts: 6,343 Joined: 14-February 05 From: Somewhere in North East Ohio Member No.: 12,053 |
As of right now we are sitting at 999th place!
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Jun 30 2008, 10:16 PM
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Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 8,847 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
Holly Molly,
Now the real fight begins. Fold on BC team. Its no longer an individual race. Just the team? I'm folding as fast as I can. -------------------- |
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Jul 1 2008, 09:45 PM
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Multi Megaton Malware Munition Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
 Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jul 2 2008, 05:41 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,106 Joined: 28-September 06 From: New York Member No.: 87,553 |
Yes, my gpu client always receives WU's that are 10,000. I let my computer run this client all night and part of a day a few days ago, and I've gotten about 7 WU's completed already. The cpu version took a lot longer then this.
I should probably let it run more, but my graphics card tends to get on the hot side, so I like to give it breaks sometimes. I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 3870. What graphics card's are people using here for the graphical client? Just curious to see. --------------------  |
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Jul 2 2008, 08:32 AM
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Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 8,847 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
996 for team BC as of this post.
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Jul 2 2008, 08:08 PM
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Multi Megaton Malware Munition Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
W00t.. finally over 10,000/week. Folding us up the rank chart :D
http://kakaostats.com/t.php?col=11&t=38444 Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jul 2 2008, 11:27 PM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 349 Joined: 28-January 07 From: Idaho Member No.: 108,886 |
 ^^^^^ My new "creation". Designed for folding, made completely out of spare stuff that was free/cheap.  Consists of 1 P4, and 3 PIIIs, and a rackmount switch that I found cheap. Right now they're running individually, but now that the new version of the client is a stable release, and now supports MPI (it does, right? I didn't misread it?), I should be able to put some Gigabit ethernet in there, and watch the thing haul.  Also have a dual core AMD Athlon X2, and 2 other P4 desktops running the client now, unfortunately ALL my video cards are NVIDIA, not ATI, and can't run the special clients. I'll post how fast this thing will crank out WUs once I have some definite results. -------------------- "Some people are just plain crazy. END OF STORY.
Don't blame the media, videogames, the USA, or movies. Blame the 40yr old dude with the knife." -- Anonymous |
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Jul 3 2008, 12:16 AM
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Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 8,847 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
Nice work there Madman6510 - Fold on!
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Jul 3 2008, 08:07 AM
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Multi Megaton Malware Munition Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
While the new version does support MPI, it only does so on one machine. I.e., to take advantage of multiple cores / CPUs.
The SMP client is REALLY buggy... won't even run on my machine. But it's worth it point wise. The GPU client supports NVidia chips in the 8xxx series or above. Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jul 3 2008, 01:10 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 349 Joined: 28-January 07 From: Idaho Member No.: 108,886 |
Oh, so it works with 8800s and such?
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Jul 3 2008, 01:24 PM
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Multi Megaton Malware Munition Group: HJT Team Posts: 3,799 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Running perfectly okay on my 8600 GTS. ;)
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