Anything I need to adjust?

[KSoD]

What you can do is follow the old guide we had for manual program setup from Burn here:

http://www.techist.com/forums/f109/folding-home-guide-223396/

That is what I am using to fold with SMP. I set my flags as -smp -advmethods -verbosity 9 for my setup. This allows me to get my SMP's done within 12 hours. After checking it out more and reading my logs, Paton is right. I am getting one done in just over 10 hours. In 3 days I have completed 4 units total and have my 5th unit at 80% right now. Maybe using the manual setup will be better for you since you have more control over than just clicking a check box.

 

[Press_Corpse]

Alright I setup fah6 and let it run all day, its only at 23%. I have no idea what I am doing wrong here. It definitely is folding quicker than before with v7, but definitely not completing any WU's in 10 hours.

Launch directory: E:\
Executable: E:\fah6.exe
Arguments: -smp -verbosity 9

[17:14:31] - Ask before connecting: No
[17:14:31] - User name: Press_Corpse (Team 12864)
[17:14:31] - User ID: *********************
[17:14:31] - Machine ID: 1
[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] Loaded queue successfully.
[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] + Processing work unit
[17:14:31] - Autosending finished units... [May 4 17:14:31 UTC]
[17:14:31] A4 will attempt to use 4 threads.
[17:14:31] Trying to send all finished work units
[17:14:31] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[17:14:31] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:14:31] - Autosend completed
[17:14:31] Core found.
[17:14:31] Working on queue slot 01 [May 4 17:14:31 UTC]
[17:14:31] + Working ...
[17:14:31] - Calling '.\FahCore_a4.exe -dir work/ -nice 19 -suffix 01 -np 4 -checkpoint 10 -verbose -lifeline 3852 -version 634'

[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] *------------------------------*
[17:14:31] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:14:31] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:14:31] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:14:31] - Files status OK
[17:14:31] - Expanded 81591 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.5 percent)
[17:14:31] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81591 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:14:31] - Digital signature verified
[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 5758, Gen 2)
[17:14:31]
[17:14:31] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:14:31] Entering M.D.
[17:14:37] Using Gromacs checkpoints
[17:14:37] Mapping NT from 4 to 4
[17:14:38] Resuming from checkpoint
[17:14:38] Verified work/wudata_01.log
[17:14:38] Verified work/wudata_01.trr
[17:14:38] Verified work/wudata_01.xtc
[17:14:38] Verified work/wudata_01.edr
[17:14:39] Completed 22020 out of 7000001 steps (0%)
[17:26:51] Completed 70001 out of 7000001 steps (1%)

 

[KSoD]

It looks like it is on track to me. I mean look at the last 2 entries. You went from starting the WU to having 1% done in 12 minutes. So in theory you should be getting a WU done in the proper amount of time. Is that everything in the log? You say it got to 23% but yet I only see it go to 1%.

 

[patonb]

That's a crappy unit i think, plus you should never read the 1st couple % after a start as theyre longer. At 12:12 youre gettging 2000pts.

As you have an ati, try running -smp 3

But youre up and running

 

[KSoD]

I think the core on that one is the issue. It is running the a4 core, not the a3 core like I have on my units.

 

[-RockMan-]

Press corpse do the setup again and try it like this.

MikeFuryXP
Passkey:**********
tell the smp client to use 85% or 90% of of your cores.
When it ask for what type of work load unit want: say [BIG}
Tell it also you want to handle new scientific work units
Disable highly assembled code: no
Tell it at the bottom clock is fine, tell it to let the smp client upload without permission and download.
Now for the good stuff, since your using a core i5 2500k I presume tell it to use -smp 4 -verbosity 9
You won't need bigadvmethods if everything is correct, you will be working on a fah 78 core.
Stop the client, delete the work unit data and that core file, start up the client again and it will see no wu files and give you a a3 core for the first time.

If I am right using 3 cores it will go through that WU in under 12 hours and depending on your clock speed.
Be highly aware though there are a3 core WU will come on in big sizes most of those will take less than 1-3 days.
It takes my core i3 540 to do a big Project WU file in under 2 days with barely any interfence from me.
I would give you a list of a3 core projects to look at but I don't have my current resources available to me for the moment.

 

[-RockMan-]

Press corpse do the setup again and try it like this.

MikeFuryXP
Passkey:**********
tell the smp client to use 85% or 90% of of your cores.
When it ask for what type of work load unit want: say [BIG}
Tell it also you want to handle new scientific work units
Disable highly assembled code: no
Tell it at the bottom clock is fine, tell it to let the smp client upload without permission and download.
Now for the good stuff, since your using a core i5 2500k I presume tell it to use -smp 4 -verbosity 9
You won't need bigadvmethods if everything is correct, you will be working on a fah 78 core.
Stop the client, delete the work unit data and that core file, start up the client again and it will see no wu files and give you a a3 core for the first time.

If I am right using 3 cores it will go through that WU in under 12 hours and depending on your clock speed.
Be highly aware though there are a3 core WU will come on in big sizes most of those will take less than 1-3 days.
It takes my core i3 540 to do a big Project WU file in under 2 days with barely any interfence from me.
I would give you a list of a3 core projects to look at but I don't have my current resources available to me for the moment.

This is one example of the a3 core projects I was talking about, my mothers athlon II x2 245 regor
at 3.2ghz will handle this shortly in 22 hours
If I clocked it up to 3.5ghz while adjusting my DDR3 1333 ram it will handle it quicker than that.
Folding@Home Projects
Yes, this is pulled from F@H v7.1 still though you will get this shortly after 5 WU are completed.
When you hear your intel core i5 heatsink rev up like a jet, it's going to town for the nexy day....

Still your forunate not to have to listen to a AMD's original heatsink fan, sure it sounded much crazier than a normal funny car, but it was cool to hear that thing work and eat through some WU's early in the evening.

 

[Press_Corpse]

Mike, I reinstalled the software and followed your directions in post 16. Finally I have an a3 core. I was seriously at 43% with the original a4 core after 2.5 days. I hope a3 cores are faster, It would be a waste to let this run this much and keep missing deadlines. Mike is the man!! Thankfully I have a Xigmatek LOKI on my i5, so everything is nice and cool in my HAF 932.

 

[-RockMan-]

Sweet, just a little heads up when working a3 cores during the week, please give your cpu and a computer break after doing some WU probably about 5 or 7.
Let it cool down, defrag the hdd and clean up any temporary cache from windows and the internet junk.
I highly advise you watch how much your folding this summer, if you stay with someone and not paying the electric bill, you might be homeless if you hear a loud scream and they show you a 375+ bill.

 

[KSoD]

Why do you have to let your system take a break? I have been folding nonstop for 6 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes and completed 10 SMP units and 20 GPU units. I have yet to defrag my hard drive, clean any temp files or anything like that. My system is still running as if it was installed yesterday.

Plus the bill estimate is outrageous. My bill has yet to hit even $200 for electric at any point in the year. That is with constant folding in the summer. Just cause your area the costs for electric is higher doesnt mean that everyone will have the same amount in their bill.