Nvidia Client Released

[dicecca112]

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/06 ... eased.html

We've started our open beta release. See the post here
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3188

Note that this is still a very early beta and there's lots to fix. In particular, we need to correct some issues with the visualization and the EUE handling. However, we've got that in our roadmap and should be rolling that out over the next few weeks or so (hopefully sooner, but it may be longer depending on how tricky these bugs are to handle).

If this release looks to run well for most people, we'll put it on our main download page.

[DMB2000uk]

For the sake of lack of front page news, this is newsworthy

Post it up!

Dan

[martini161]

do you by any chance know how to set up smp to only use a certain number of cores? i was thinking limiting cpu usage to 75% would that work? (i have a quad)

[Bwall]

Got it running on a 9600 GT here. It's a 720MHz core clocked card and so far I'm seeing 27 sec per step at 3.8GHz core 2 duo. Should be a big time ppd.

[martini161]

damn, this thing is bad ass. im getting ~1 hour per work unit and there all worth like 90 points or so so im getting about 2k ppd with this, plus the two smps' running

[kenc51]

I've installed this last night and it seems to be working ok.

8800GTS 640MB - old drivers (not sure which version)
XP Pro SP3
2GB Ram
E6850 @ 3.6GHz

Temps on the card were ~70C with fan @ 60%
If I can keep folding, I may pass Matt again ;)

(I have to check our first electricity bill first before I can decide on getting back to folding on this rig full time)

[KnightRid]

I am guessingwe have to download the CUDA stuff first http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

I had to download the toolkit also, then install it and copy the cudart.dll file from the installation folder to windows/system32 to stop getting the cudart.dll missing error.

I might try without to see if the driver from nvidia had it included

Mike

Can I use my CPU to do calculations too?

For now, the NVIDIA GPU2 core uses the CPU a bit in addition to heavy use of the GPU. However, we hope to off load the calculation completely to the GPU in the future.

Is it enough of a hit so that we should stop the cpu folding or is it minor? So far it seems that the gpu folding takes at least 1 full core from my quad core. I stopped the cpu folding but noticed no difference in the time remaining on the gpu folding. I am wondering if it will matter to the cpu folding program if it can only use an odd number of cores.

[dicecca112]

I've installed this last night and it seems to be working ok.

8800GTS 640MB - old drivers (not sure which version)
XP Pro SP3
2GB Ram
E6850 @ 3.6GHz

Temps on the card were ~70C with fan @ 60%
If I can keep folding, I may pass Matt again ;)

(I have to check our first electricity bill first before I can decide on getting back to folding on this rig full time)

Bring it, buddy

[KnightRid]

My client seems to fluctuate all over the place. I can look at it one time and it will say 5 hours left, then next time it has 10 minutes left..lol is that normal? maybe because I am running the cpu folding also?

How can I tell how many ppd I am getting for each of the clients?

Mike

now if only those work units were worth 1500points each

[Zertz]

It seems pretty damn fast!

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