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Hi guys. To keep things simple since I'm going to start and try to fold on multiple computers as well as friend's computers, I'm going to be folding under a new name. That name would be geokilla. Previously, I used geokilla007. I'll be generating more PPD now that I can fold on at least two computers.


Oh, and I believe I managed to get CPU and GPU clients to run simultaneously in Windows XP. Here's what I did.

Before, I was running the CPU and GPU client by itself and everything's fine. If I run them together, the CPU client would GREATLY slow down the GPU client, according to task manager. So then I have F@H do its affinity lock after I reinstalled F@H. Still no go if I ran both the CPU and GPU client together. So I went to Task Manager, and did the following:

F@H CPU (and anything related to CPU)> Set Affinity> Check only Core 0
F@H GPU (and anything related to GPU)> Set Affinity> Check only Core 1

I didn't restart the computer yet and let it run on its own as a service. At the moment, I have the programs running as command prompt.

Oh, and I did a "min-experiment". I had just the GPU client running, and it would complete 1% approximately every 2 to 3 minutes. Now that I changed the affinity and have them both running together, the GPU client takes 2 to 3 min to complete 1% while the CPU client takes about 5 min to complete 1%.

Just tried running the CPU client by itself, and it takes just a bit over 4 min to complete 1%. This is the same as when running both the CPU and GPU client together.

I'm going to restart the computer and let the clients run as a service. I'll use F@H to monitor how long it takes to complete each percent. If anything changes, I'll report it in this thread.

Edit: As soon as I restart the computer, I can't control the Affinity anymore. Guess it's only GPU client till I can find another way to deal with the core affinity problem.

Did you run into problems folding for 2 teams under the same name?

So far, no. I think it's all good.

BTW, for the affinity setting. I'm using http://distributed.org.ua/index.php?go= ... stribredir till I can find one that works as a service for the normal CLI + GPU clients. Oh, the one I'm using is version 1.0.3.

geokilla wrote:So far, no. I think it's all good.

BTW, for the affinity setting. I'm using http://distributed.org.ua/index.php?go= ... stribredir till I can find one that works as a service for the normal CLI + GPU clients. Oh, the one I'm using is version 1.0.3.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1266909

http://ocfoldingteam.wordpress.com/2008 ... ty-changer AND http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.p ... topic=1149

Bugs fixed, version 1.0.5 is out

bmaverick wrote:

geokilla wrote:So far, no. I think it's all good.

BTW, for the affinity setting. I'm using http://distributed.org.ua/index.php?go= ... stribredir till I can find one that works as a service for the normal CLI + GPU clients. Oh, the one I'm using is version 1.0.3.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1266909

http://ocfoldingteam.wordpress.com/2008 ... ty-changer AND http://distributed.org.ua/forum/index.p ... topic=1149

Bugs fixed, version 1.0.5 is out

Apparently, version 1.0.5 only works with SMP and GPU, like I stated in my previous post. Hence, reason why I'm using 1.0.3 till I can find one that could be installed as a service.

I'm running CLI+GPU folding on my new Intel rig that can be found under the modding section.

I got CLI+GPU folding solved. Check this thread out.

This is how you control GPU affinity. It works under Windows XP.

I found (at least part of) the answer.

Any time you run a GPU cient alongside one of the CPU clients (GPU or uniprocessor) you can set a wndows system environment variable to force the GPU to use any available core instead of the one that it is assigned by default.

Right-click 'my computer' and select 'properties'
click the 'advanced' tab and you will see two windows for managing windows environment variables.
Use the system window and click on the 'create new' button
enter the name of the variable: NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY
enter the value you want for the variable:
0= use all cores
1= use core 0
2= use core 1
3= use core 0 + 1
4= use core 2
5= use core 2 + 0
6= use core 2 + 1
7= use core 2 + 1 + 0
8= use core 3
9= use core 3 + 0
10= use core 3 + 1
11= use core 3 + 2 + 0
12= use core 3 + 2
13= use core 3 + 2 + 0
14= use core 3 + 2 + 1
15= use core 3 + 2 + 1 + 0

I just put in 0 so all cores will always be available.

So far, I know on an Opty (X2) the GPU client and the CLI client both fold at rates very similar to what they would do if operating by themselves.

Also, on my Quads, I did this. They run two GPUs and one SMP. All three of those clients also fold at rates very siimilar to what they would do on their own.

I hope this helps!

-Sid

(edit: don't forget to re-start the clients for this change to take affect.)

Now I need to figure out how to do SMP+GPU with the use of Affinity settings to get the most PPD out of a Q6600 with a GTX260. This system is my friend's system, who will be folding for us shortly under the name peskylittlebum. I plan to have 3 cores for SMP and 1 core for GPU.

Geokilla, welcome to page 1 http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=38296 Fold on

Thanks. I wonder if I can overtake myself by Christmas....

I just saw that I think you can combine your totals in one name.

vbironchef wrote:I just saw that I think you can combine your totals in one name.

How?

I thought that I read somewhere you could merge points as well, but from the official FAQ

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-main#ntoc47

How can I change my username (donor name)?

The simplest way to change your username is go to the configuration panel (right click in the graphical display or click on the sys tray icon). You can change your username at any time. However, old work units will remain credited to the old username.